"The Legacy continues..."

I got the inspiration of the title of this blog from a television show my biological dad and I both used to watch:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103460/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Recently I dug into some of my 'not so surface' archives. I was discovered I had written down some of my other dreams in areas I didn't initially remember putting them in. I was also reminded that my "high school", more specifically, the context of 'returning to high school' was also a reoccurring theme in various dreams. I believe the significance of these dreams very much to be the fact that I had "officially" accepted Christ in my high school days and God was trying to speak something through that context.

Recently I've been attempting to discern some of my recent dreams with someone. Both of us lack (some) experience in this particular area, but we are mutually finding we always have room to grow in other areas as well not just specifically related to the area of discerning how God is speaking in dreams. She also needs to realize also that as much as I appreciate heR recognizing my likeness to Christ, I can never drop the "IAN" or "-ian" as in ChristIAN from my identity.  For those who are unaware, the quick difference between "Christ" and "Christian" is that "Christ" is the genuine article and a "Christian" is an 'imitation' and can never live up to the perfection level of the 'genuine article'.

I find it is good to have friends to help discern some of your dreams, especially if some dreams involve some aspects of your life that have potentially application outside of just your own personal bubble. There have been two prevalant themes in my dreams over my 'intermission' that kept repeating themselves and as my prof DS put it, this is likely cause I wasn't able to discern what God was speaking through them, I will mention only one of the themes here:

I used to have also keep having dreams about returning to high school to improve my grades, I initially wonder which of the two, maybe 3 interpretations to apply in terms of what God was speaking through them 1. You should prayerfully consider getting a re-education in some other discipline apart from the two post high school education areas you already have... 2. You should perhaps return to (where I did my undergraduate) or another University to re-do your undergraduate and improve your grades (as some online job applications such as with IBM I know they specifically pretty much ask you for your entire transcript online when you apply) or since it was in the tech sector, to gain new updated knowledge. 3. Literally return to re-doing my high school credits to improve my Grade Point Average from highschool... But I no longer have dreams with this theme and perhaps they had less to do with my career path than I realized or initially thought or maybe God's just like it's too late to consider those doors anymore...

In today's context, I believe God wanted to "learn" or "re-learn" something from my high school days through presenting me with those dreams. One key piece of information I recall to help unpack the meaning behind this repeating theme isn't just so much "rejection from other people/parties due to my grade point average" as not all elements of dreams are literal. I have now discerned (and the theme no longer repeats) that 'returning to high school' has more to do with God telling me this can be a starting point for reflection in terms of the fact I began my relationship with Christ in high school.

Speaking of the topic of relationships (in general). I remembered today (January 26th, 2018) also there was one Christian speaker from my undergraduate days at University that I had asked how does one tell whether a relationship is "Godly" and he answered: "You can tell whether a relationship is Godly by its fruits..." And we went on to illustrate that he sees there is a strong foundation in my relationship with Christ in the way I behaved myself during his message delivery and that he can see the "fruits" in how he can see that I make listening to God a priority.

God has been helping me realize recently that at some point in my life, "it all went south" or as the cold weather we have been experiencing lately here where I live, how "cold" my heart has perhaps gotten towards God; although I also think it was more like the line from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1496025/?ref_=nv_sr_3 "My heart's not cold... it's broken..." as God also reminded me recently through Wonder Woman's character in the recent Justice League movie. I never did see the first Wonder Woman movie, but I think I can infer enough from watching this one to know what happened in her character's situation and I can relate. 

And I think it kind of all goes back to my original title of this blog in the first place, because of the name of my softball team that year and how "Superheroes" also "lost something" *wink*...

God also brought to mind two separate quotes from my Pastor's Sunday messages that both gave me a sense that God was Speaking, even if they obviously generated two different very natural emotional responses:

"Life is MISERY brother...it's coming..."

"They had to WAIT for these prophecies to come true..."