Dream?

I admit I am not a big fan of dream interpretation... in the past the novice practice of it confused me. But last night I had a very vivid dream, filled with definable imagery and feeling.

This morning, during a moment of solitude, and after a short cat nap (my cat chose to cuddle up with me on the couch) I woke to the thought of that dream and found some meaning in it to share.
Here goes....
My husband, oldest daughter and I were in a town, one slightly similar to one nearby our home. We were there to take part in an event...but this time the town was dark, dirty, polluted to the point of taking the appearance of soot laden buildings. The three of us were unshaken by this and as usual I needed to find a bathroom, which even aroused some kidding by my family to joke that I am always needing a bathroom. Hey, what can I say...I'm older now and the plumbing isn't what it use to be.

We traveled down one alley after another until we asked if there was a public restroom nearby. After arriving at one and venturing inside, I saw that it was the filthiest place on earth. Instead of the usual bathroom fixtures, all I found was deep, dark disgusting holes with caustic fumes rising above. In one of the bathrooms there was this deep pit and laying along side two stuffed and mangy critters. Tucker the elephant and Maurice the mouse...how I knew this I don't know but I was so excited to see them breathing and alive I snatched them up and ran to show the other two with me. Quickly they returned to ordinary stuffed animals. I remember feeling so disappointed to hear my daughter tell me that they had to stay in the filth of the hole to stay alive because they fed off the fumes of an underground city.
I returned the animals, and watched in silence as they began to breathe before my eyes. This dream ended up as kooky as it started with me returning to the street announcing, "I can hold it". Then I woke up.

Now...this morning I woke up, content, just as calm and content as the three of us were in this dream. My daughter has another job interview, hubby returned to work this week.

So why am I posting this?
Well, there is much of Tucker and Maurice in us.
One of biggest temptations I have been fighting this past year is to walk away from the stench and smell of things that in the past didn't effect me much; gossip, envy, desires of material things, distrust, assuming thinking, impatience, worry, etc.

I don't want to be like that elephant and mouse anymore.
I don't want to come alive only when I hear a fancy tidbit about someone else, even when it is mentioned without clear intent to harm.

Proverbs 21:2
"Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts"

We can't take that chance.

He truly is all-knowing, flawless, and omniscient!
Praise!!!!!!

PS. Flawless was the word of the day on my homepage. Odd since it seems so clearly definable and without explanation.