the light green snake dream

Last night I had a dream with a light green snake, curled up in a non-threatening way. I can’t remember more about the dream, but I immediately knew that it meant something. The symbol persisted and was out of context in the dream.

The heart chakra, when closed, gives way to the emotions I saw manifest in the dementia-fueled panic of a man who didn’t understand where his wife was and didn’t trust the person caring for him. His wife was in the hospital, recovering from hip replacement surgery. Nothing was actually wrong, other than fear.

Love is stronger than fear, every time. I got off the phone and fell to my knees crying. I began to recite Hail Marys. I’m not Catholic. This is just a thing that I learned to do in my darkest of hour. It’s only then that I’ve prayed like this.

I called Silent Unity. They prayed with me. It brought me some peace. They are part of the reason I am alive today. I’ve seen some very dark days in my past. I called. They prayed with me then. I’m here now. It works.

May the light of the world shine within us all and flow freely through us in full spectrum and may body, spirit, and mind find peace in this light of love.

prayer request submitted to unity.org

Please help me achieve my goals of improved fitness and finding a job again in the computer industry so that I can stop waiting tables and working as a pharmacy tech. Please reveal to me what I need to do to update my resume so I can get my career back on track to something computer related and help me to pass current certifications in Oracle database and Linux to get my skills up to date. Please protect me from people who choose to live their lives in an unhealthy manner. Please help me to heal whatever injuries I may have from running so that I may both get faster and also be able to run marathons. Please lead the people I know who have problems with alcohol or drugs to seek treatment from their unhealthy habits. Thank you.

Thoughts in Solitude, by Thomas Merton

Thoughts in Solitude, by Thomas Merton
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My Lord God, 
I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think I am following 
your will does not mean that I am 
actually doing so.  But I believe that that
the desire to please you does in fact
please you.  And I hope I have that 
desire in all that I am doing.  
I hope that I will never do anything apart
from that desire.  And I know that if I do this,
you will lead me by the right road,
though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore, I will trust you always, 
though I may seem to be lost
and in the shadow of death.  
I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me
to face my perils alone.

Amen.