My Social Media-less Life

So I guess there’s new social media out there. Big surprise with the way the world moves anymore. I move at a significantly slower pace and have no idea how I’m managing… the Lord is the answer I suppose. Also my mom reminding me that the outside world exists.

My “political” podcasts are a lot less overwhelming without social media, that’s for sure.

Writing is easier to do… provided I’m not constantly chatting with the few friends who are in a Slack channel with me and are also doing NaNoWriMo.

It’s funny that I still run into people that give me a “deer in the headlights“ look when I tell them I don’t have social media and did NOT see that amazing or horrifying or intriguing thing… whatever the thing is.

Although it does happen more infrequently these days as I begin to have to physically tell people I am no longer on the socials.

I think I’ve had more prophetic dreams than ever before as well. Which I didn’t realize I had stopped having them… or that something like that would be a “side effect” of being obedient.
But seeing as how that was originally a way the Lord would speak to me to get the point across more poignantly, maybe I should have seen it coming.

And these aren’t the kind of prophetic dreams that are meant for other people. More often than not, they’re for me alone, but it’s fun to share them and when I feel the release to do so, I do.

For instance, when I went out of town at the end of September and beginning of October, I had a prophetic dream that ended up having to do with my bestest friend (who’s asked that I call her Grace if I needed to give her a name because she’s always liked that name I suppose), but the dream itself was just me declaring healing over unknown people.

I found out the next day, Grace had needed the prayer because she had been sick and she felt rather than heard me praying for her and she felt a lot better after that.

The one I had last night had to do with my car. I’ve been having car issues this week, so I told God if it was still having the same issue on Thursday (today at this writing) I would take it in… even if I didn’t have money.
As is always the case with me and God, all He asked me to do was trust Him.

So last night in my dream, I was with my mom and we were nowhere that’s necessary to talk about but we were cleaning. For some reason, my car had a security guard by it and I had to go back out for something. As I unlocked the car, the security guard told me someone had come by and fixed my car’s issues.

In the dream, I was furious. “You let them touch my car? What did they look like? Are you sure they didn’t break it?” Things like that. The guard kind of shrugged like it wasn’t a huge deal and so I started the car.

Immediately it started smoking so naturally (in my dream it was the natural response anyway) I revved the engine. The smoke went away and the car was fine. In fact, I decided to take it for a test drive and I felt like Vin Diesel in the Fast & Furious movies. It was CRAZY cool!

I woke up very concerned and texted my mom and told her the short version of the dream, but as the day went on the dream stuck with me and I mulled it over. At some point it was as if God finally spoke to my spirit:

I fixed your car for you. You can take it in if you like, but it will cost money. This was free.

I asked my Slack channel writing buddies what they thought and the administrator (my other best friend) said she would only take it in just to prove that it was fixed.

But either way, the car has felt different than it has the past week. So… was it fixed by the Lord? I guess it depends on where your faith level is, but mine says…

Why wouldn’t God fix something as easy as a car? He knows what the problem was and where I am with Him. I believe He fixed my car last night and it will remain until the next time I take it in for the “regular” maintenance. Whenever that is.