WAKE UP CALLS by Crystal Lyons
I travel so much that often when I’m awakened, I’m at first totally in a fog as to where I am. I have to lay there for a minute and rehearse my steps prior to going to sleep, so I can put the pieces in correct place before I have an accurate take on where I am and why. I remember one time pulling into a place late at night with my truck and trailer and collapsing into deep sleep, only to suddenly be awakened by a literal roar of sound accompanied with vibration. I jumped out of bed and out the door yelling… yes, yelling… “don’t you DARE steal MY MOTORCYCLE!!” Only THEN, to realize no one was there. I was hearing the sound of the air compressor going off underneath the gooseneck, re-filling the air bags on my trailer and I was dreaming that someone had started my motorcycle and was about to ride it off. Problem expounded by the fact that I don’t even OWN a motorcycle. So, there I am, standing barefoot in an empty gravel parking lot, in my PJ’s, somewhere in Oklahoma… yelling perfect nonsense at 3 AM! When I finally woke myself up by my own voice yelling total delusional thoughts, it was sort of humbling to recognize the incredible FOG my irrational mind had me acting on! I stumbled back into bed (after turning OFF the air compressor), chuckling to myself over the humor of it all and TOTALLY THANKFUL no one was around to bear witness to it. Lately, because of the extreme generosity of some friends, I have been given access to 20 acres I can pull into and turn Strider loose. They have provided me with a place to rest between travels. I have pulled in off the road exhausted and totally oblivious to the sinister plot that silently awaits in Strider’s mind to sabotage my sleep. Strider has LOVED being my morning alarm clock… the turd. His normal feeding time is around 8 AM but HERE he has access to my trailer so every morning at 6 AM, he’s putting into action his plan to get me up so he can eat two hours earlier. He turns over the lawn chairs, scatters anything I left out and stomps the ramp with his hooves, rocking the trailer! If that doesn’t get me out the door fast enough, he takes his nose and bumps the front door. When I’m parked there, I have a literal 1500# 6 AM alarm clock you can set your watch to. I must admit I’ve come to be thankful for my 6 AM wake up because it’s gotten me outside in the cool hours of the morning. Using this time to re-calibrate my mind by spending quality time with my Heavenly
Father has been greatly profitable. I’m realizing (again) that it clears away the mental fog we can unknowingly acquire through the daily contacts with this world, built on thinking that’s totally against Kingdom principles. Fear based thoughts that infiltrate our minds and negatively affect our emotions are quickly dispelled in the Presence of the Father. Some folks in America could use a wakeup call like that. There are those who are sleep walking, and oblivious to the fact that they are yelling absolute ignorance over things that only exist in their delusional thought processes! It seems to have become a fad these days to demand our “rights” while totally ignoring any responsibilities! Emotions often dictate actions instead of right thinking. America could use an awakening of its own. Possibly a 1500# one.
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