Discarded/reclaimed new leather boots

[MJ]

IRL: My mom passed away late June of this year. Due to this event and other things, I've not be on the board as much as I would have liked---if you feel led to help interpret this dream I would appreciate it very much.

I had a dream a few weeks ago. Granted, I had gone through my mom's jewelry so I know it kick started the dream but I still think the dream was significant.

In the dream I was with my girlfriend...we were just hanging out (at the ages we are now) and then I saw my mom on the fringes of people...just walking...by herself and looking lonely...kinda depressed. It was her before her strokes which took her life at 88 years old. Anyway the dream takes place in segments.

The most important point is at the end of the dream my girlfriend brings a box to me and it contained shoes, boots, and some other articles which I had originally given to her but she never used them and so she was returning them to me in case I wanted them back. I pulled out a pair of mid calf length hiking boots..brand new. I said, "Oh, now they fit" (like previously they did not fit) and I was happy about using the boots. Then it was like the Lord was speaking to me and letting me know that I would need the boots for a journey that I was taking. (The boots were calf leather, lace up with strong strings and a short stacked heel.)

The dream switches and now my mom is severly bloated----like a huge circus lady...she just sits there and can't say anything...like after her strokes. I feel such compassion for her and I don't want to see her hurting and living like this. I wrap my arms around her then go into intercession for her---it was loud and powerful (when I woke from the dream I thought I was yelling out loud). I was pledding mercy for her and cried out to God... and then the dream ends.

When I wake up I am shook up...it had such an effect upon me...anytime I pray during my dreams I am so stirred...I know the Holy Spirit has been working.

[cbutler]

Hello MJ,

So sorry for your lost. I pray that the Lord will continue to send you and your family comfort in this difficult time. As for your dream it appears that you have been given a gift of intercessory prayer for people who are on the fringes of having a stroke. Because of your experiences with your mother you have such compassion for people with this illness that you are willing to intercede for them. Powerful dream and gift. Thank you for sharing and may Gd be with you.

[MJ]

Thank you, cbulter...I appreciate your kind words.

It is funny in the sense that I have never enjoyed being in a nursing home but when my mom spent the last eight weeks of her life in a nursing facility I felt very comfortable--- I could see how God uses people to minister to the elderly through the touching and words of others. I told my mom, "You fed me when I was a baby and now I am feeding you". She could understand the significance of what that meant. I felt so used of God in that nursing home and helping my mom with every type of assistance she needed...a form of worship to God...offering up what we have to Him who has given us all things.

Maybe like one dreamer posted being taken to the edge of hell...we go to the edge of hell to intercede for others...maybe our strengths and giftings take us to that place where only intercession can be made...everything else is useless at this point...only eternity matters.

Thanks again...and blessings upon you.