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If you prefer to read this online, you will find it as "August, 2001"

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Activities for college prep are on the home stretch. This is one of the biggest events, I believe, since Shawn's birth!

I could easily allow this to consume nearly every moment of my thoughts. I discovered many years ago that a one-track mind can be damaging! It prevents us from living in and enjoying each moment. Too soon, this moment has passed. Staying in my now gives fullness of joy.

Acknowledging messages through dreams can offer solutions and assurance for our every day happenings and concerns. I did some research and wrote the following article after realizing the potency of symbolism in my dreams.

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Examining Our Dreams

Dreams are expressions of our deeper selves. Understanding our dreams can give us valuable insight that we can use in our communication with others. Interpretation includes finding the relevance of the dream in our present. We sort out our feelings, make plans for action, and rehearse skills that we need.

Whether we pay attention or not, our dreams have always been providing personal guidance to support and assist us in walking our life's path. Dreams influence choices so they can alter the course of events around us. We may choose to alter the course of our life's events because we are able to obtain wisdom through a dream.

We cannot limit our search to only those things we would like to know, or to areas of our consciousness that are pleasant and brightly lit. If we seek wisdom, we cannot limit it. Wisdom may not tell us what we want to hear. The interesting thing about wisdom is that it is always worth hearing. If we take up the challenge, the reward offers a direct doorway into a powerful and luminous dimension of self-understanding and spiritual connection.

The value of learning to listen within to interpret our dreams is an experience of personal harmony, well being and joy. When we live in step with our inner wisdom, our lives take on greater meaning and fulfillment.

By seeing how we move through dreams, we can see how we typically handle real life situations.

Are we active, confronting every challenge, or passively letting things happen around us? Are we friendly or a loner? Do we laugh, cry, or show affection? The masks we use during the day are gone, and a genuine self is revealed.

Our dreams have meaning for us in relationship to our individual experiences and in our interpretation in communication with others. They provide a map to follow upon our journey. Examining a dream may tell us about feelings we are having about an external situation in our life. The action called for by the dream has the most direct influence on our awakening to who we are. Whether we are looking at the messages that come through images in our sleep or we are viewing our waking experience as a dream, greater wisdom and understanding are available.

Proper dream interpretation offers greater understanding of ourselves, not of others. Dream work helps us know ourselves. Like a mirror, it is not only projecting who we are but it also displays what we need to do, what needs to be worked out in our lives and how we can then communicate our true selves to others.

A dream is a way we build a bridge of reason between our individual reality and the reality that we perceive around us. Dreams knit together the threads of our experience and knowledge to create the fabric of our conscious existence. Through dreaming we explore possibilities of outcome, and have the opportunity to prepare for the future based on the occurrences of the past.

Only we are qualified to interpret our dreams. We can learn much about ourselves by taking time to journal and ponder what we can learn from our dream world. - copyright Dusty Reed 2000

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To Be Sure
by Dusty Reed

To be sure
is to be positive.
To take one step
from the shadow to the light.

Belief in the affirmative
Knowing what to do
is a state of existence,
A way of life.

Mastery comes by taking action
giving no recall to contrary.
No need to define them;
concentrate only on the path.

They are dissipated to the distance
the east is from the west;
their recollection and definition
are no more.

Hesitation or looking back
may cause loss of sight
or bring even more flak
of how to find the path again.

It brings no gain
and slows the effortless advance.
When it proves to be an effort
to look back, it is waste of energy.

Only when we are positive
Can we step into the guidance
The light provides
With blessed assurance.

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Here are a few sites I find very worthwhile. I will be including those of subscribers so, if you have a site and think I might not be aware of it, let me know!

Angel Messages

Loving Angel Messages

Many goodies at OASIS TV
(You can receive a discount by going there from my Front Door - banner near bottom of page)

Spirit Quest Magazine

Metaphysical Home Page of John & Micki Baumann

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Enjoy every moment to the fullest! - Dusty

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