Do not tell me God does not give dreams to His children, He does, and I had one this morning. I have been trying to reach a friend for over a year now and it just seemed like they dropped out of existence. Phone numbers I had were no longer in service and back then I even searched for an obituary but found none. The last conversation we had via telephone just seemed to make no sense to me. I tried calling back then but no answer at the time or since then. I shared with my mom that I thought they no longer lived at their home and maybe living elsewhere now just by the conversation we had. She told me she was in a small room and that the road was outside her room ( I think maybe she thought the hallway was a road). I was led to believe that just maybe she was living at some sort of assisted living place. I can no longer share with my mom that my dear friend went to be with Jesus, just a few months before my mother did. My mother probably already knew about Terry when she went to heaven and me knowing Terry, she probably already greeted my mom with a great big southern lady hug like she was, a true southern lady.
Oh my gosh, when we would talk on the phone, we had freedom to share, and we always prayed at the close of our conversation. I would always tell her 1 day she would be getting a call from me letting her know I was getting married. When we went to church together in Lorain, OH she and I were on fire for Jesus, and she would say the church didn't know what to do with our zeal and she would refer to us as a runaway train and we had to not be the runaway train so as to be able to minister to people and not turn them off. Does that make sense?
She wrote a book or two and I think she was interviewed once by Joni Lamb of Daystar years ago. She did travel in ministry capacity. My fondest memories were the time I did not have the money to purchase my new prescription glasses and she so graciously gave me the money to get them. We were both like that we shared what we had with others in need. When she and her husband moved from Vermilion to Arkansas it was like a void was in my life. They rented a house right across from the park that was on Lake Erie. I would often stop by and visit and sometimes bring things I baked or made for them too. I mentioned fondest memories. Here is the other one. They were living in Arkansas at the time, and they were going through a rough period in their marriage. I had some money at the time and felt led to go visit her in her time of need. I flew into a Kansas City airport, and she drove to pick me up. We had to go near to Branson, and we felt led to look up the Billye Brimm Prayer Mountain retreat area. We were in the mountains somewhere looking for this and it was around dusk, and we found it. We parked the car and got out of the car, and we saw the cabin where Billye and Gloria Copeland would pray in the rocking chairs on the front porch of 1 cabin. Someone came out of a cabin to greet us and apparently there were couples on a retreat in one of the cabins and they invited us in. Since I was not married at the time, I did not feel to be a part of the married couples that circled around Terry and prayed for her marriage. Is that not God!
That was the start of our friend's weekend together. I stayed at a lovely bed n breakfast that was owned by the church in which her daughter and husband were the youth pastors at the time. I may have shared that postcard on my blog before of the bed n breakfast. I had the dream today and as soon as I woke up, I felt led to search for an obituary and this time I found one. I had tears in my eyes as I read it and viewed a family video. In the dream both her and her husband were visiting me and what stood out the most was a fish sandwich sitting on the table and I knew to cut it in 4 portions and share it. We all know fish is evangelism and a sandwich according to Dr. Barbie Breathitt's book reflects: "insert between different character and qualities; to make room or time for; pressure and stress; ability to multitask; a sandwich." In her same book the number "4-Four Dalet" "The gospel; four corners of the earth; global implications; the whole world"
One more random thought, there was me and Terry & her husband and that makes 3 so who do you think the 4th section of the fish sandwich was to be shared with?
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