Welcome back.

We're so happy you're here for today's Christian Science Daily Lift.

Weldon Rutledge is from Maple City, Michigan.

He's sharing his lift, waking from the dream and staying awake.

Ever been sleeping at night and had a dream so real that when you woke up, you wanted to go back to sleep to resolve the issue?

This happens to me a lot.

It doesn't seem to matter what the issue in the dream is.

Scary or innocuous, I wake up and think, I got to get back there and sort that out.

Instead of thinking, wow, I'm awake. I'm free of that anxiety or calamity or whatever I was dreaming about.

Often this is what is happening to us when we are feeling beaten down by a malady or challenge.

We turn to prayer for healing or clarity about our spiritual identity.

And we get it.

The healing occurs.

We see ourselves as the perfect expression of God.

We see our true nature.

And this is us waking up. But sometimes we go back to the dream by still focusing on the

problem instead of seeing that it never really existed. It couldn't exist because God has always, will always be giving us every good thing we need

when we have these moments of clarity and find ourselves outside of the mortal dream we need to

celebrate it we need to recognize the freedom and be grateful for it and it becomes incumbent on us to stay awake

it makes me think of the words in the christian science hymnal o dreamer leave thy dreams for joyful waking.

O captive, rise and sing for thou art free.

This is to know that God is working in our lives daily.

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