Dear God, how should I live my life?

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"Dear God, how should I live my life?" This was the question I woke up with from a dream I had two nights ago. I wrote down my dream, as I do every morning and, like always, it revealed itself on paper in reverse. I remember the last thing that happened before I woke up, then as I begin to write I remember the previous thing that happened and the thing before that and so on. 

I don't completely understand dreams, why we have them, why we dream about one thing or another but I do have a tattoo on my left arm that is a quote from A Course in Miracles that reads, "The dreamer of the dream is not awake, but does not know she sleeps" which is the only thing about dreams that I know for sure. 

Dreams fascinate me because they speak in symbols and the world of a dream is all coming from within my own mind but still there are things within the dream I recognize as "myself" and things that are "outside of me". When I wake up and record the dream I am able to see how I reacted to a specific situation and question what I really would have done if I had been "awake" or at least "lucid" or "aware" within the dream that I AM the Dreamer and creating it all within my own mind.

In this dream I was tired, I couldn't tell if I was on drugs or just really tired, but I was backing up and saw a truck behind me; I couldn't get my foot to the break fast enough to stop it before hitting the truck. I wasn't going very fast but it still got him pretty good. I chose to drive away without getting out to talk to the man in the truck. Later on I met up with some people for pizza and I picked up the napkin on the table and there were centipedes crawling all over the table. The other people I was with didn't seem bothered by them at all, in fact, they picked one up and started taking pictures with it. 

To dream of a centipede represents beliefs or situations that you feel are unpleasant that you'll do anything to avoid them. It may also reflect feelings about enemies that annoy you or putting up with people you really don't like. Feeling bothered by someone or something that is imposing itself on  you. 

Negatively, it may also reflect a fear or annoyance of never getting to discuss something you like ever again. Fearing conditions that are completely out of touch with your wishes. Fearing permanent choices that are out of your control.

Since this dream I've made it priority to ask, "Dear God, how should I live my life?" 

There are things I've done in the past I wish I hadn't, but the present moment is all I have, now. And I have the choice, now, to ask for guidance. A Course in Miracles shares a prayer that asks, "What would you have me do? Where would you have me go? What would you have me say? And to whom?" 

Breathing helps to wake up to this present moment, to think clearly and to ask, "Dear God, how should I live my life?" Once you've asked, listen for the answer and live your truth, so years down the road you won't have to wish you had. The point I want to make is this; You can loose yourself in the dream of life and react to the physical world as if you are not actually the dreamer, the One creating it all, or you can return to this moment, through the breath and the body, to remember you are more than what you see with your physical eyes. 

You have the choice, now, to choose a new vibrational frequency through your thoughts and the emotions you are feeling- regardless of the physical situation you find yourself in; you are the creator of the life you are living. 

If this one simple idea is digested, understood and applied in the present moment, we truly can be conscious creators instead of victims in our lives.