Livin' the Dream: How Dreams in the Night Can Lead to a Set-Apart Life

 Shirley J.             Adult Non-Fiction                        Dreaming with Intention to Focus on Messages    

Livin' the DREAM: How Dreams in the Night Can Lead to a Set Apart Life by Melissa Jacobs  132 pgs.

The author, Melissa Jacob lives in St. Louis and she and her husband started the pro-life advocacy group,  BOUND4LIFE.   She is a Christian, a mother of 7 children - 6 biological, 1 adopted,  she also is very active in promoting adoption, she homeschools her children, she is an author, a blogger and a dreamer.  She is such a dreamer in fact that she recommends every one pay attention to their dreams because God often communicates to us through our dreams and if we focus on the things we would like to know or problems we would like direction and answers to that we can dream with intention and receive the answers we seek.   She cites scripture verses from the Bible where God has given warnings (ie. to Joseph to go to Egypt immediately because Herod was killing male children birth through age 2 to try to wipe out the perceived threat to his throne), prophesy of what was to come (when the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary telling her of the Savior's birth), direction (Joshua after Moses died was told to lead the children of Israel to the promised land) many more examples she also talks about her own dream to adopt a daughter that came true.   She said in her dreams about her daughter she would see her clearly and knew her when she saw her.   She formed a dream group with other like minded people from her congregation who discuss their dreams with each other in group to help decipher their meanings and symbiology.    Many times another person from the groups sees meaning the dreamer may have missed.   Thought provoking to dream with intention.   I recommend this one to mature teens on up due to discussion on abortion.