A Beach Full of Chicken Eggs

    I dream crazy dreams. They usually include flying, dangerous situations or wild twists on everyday objects. Last night was one of those nights. I dreamed I was at a beach surrounded by....what else? Chicken eggs! I wanted to find an egg that was about to hatch, take it home and watch the process of the young chick emerging. I remember dreaming that I picked up a big egg and put it in my bag. Well, a couple minutes later the egg was broken and a big mess in my bag. However, I went back to the beach to choose another egg. I broke this one as well. While I was in the process of choosing a third egg, some people came running towards me telling me to go somewhere else. I quickly took my bag and left. Later on, one of my friends approached me and told me that he knew I wanted to have a little chick. He then proceeded to hand me a cute, fluffy, yellow chick all for my own.

    Now I will leave you to think what you may about my dream. I personally woke up thinking, "How strange to dream about chickens!" I doubt my dream means anything more than an active night time imagination but I couldn't help but draw an object lesson from it.

    Sometimes I find myself thinking that my life needs a new start. I need to stop doing this and start doing that in order to be a new or better person. However, my attempts always fail. My resolutions to be better might stand firm for a little while, but I always find myself back where I started. When I try of my own self to be better, when I try to choose a new life for my own self, I usually end up where I began, broken and sometimes in a worse mess than before. The only Person who can really change me, who can take the broken, messy contents of myself and exchange them for a new life, is Jesus Christ. He gives me new life as a gift. It is not something I can manufacture on my own. I always end up breaking the promises I make to myself to be better. My only hope is to turn away from the 'beach' of my own wishful attempts at a new life and allow God to give me a new life which will grow to maturity with and in Him.