EthniClay
"Expressions of God's Grace"
Modelling Clay Figurines
Artwork & Photography by Grace Wiebe - © Grace Wiebe, EthniClay™, 2004
Hurricane & Rainbow Dream - symbolic - see more below
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In 2004 I had a dream about my siblings and I lying on the ground in our backyard (of one of the houses where we were raised). I'm not sure if we were sleeping outside or why we were lying on the ground, face up, but we were. Also, we were adults...about the ages we currently are. Not sure where other family members or nieces/nephew were??)
Suddenly there was a horrendous hurricane right overhead! The sound was deafening and there was debris spinning and shooting all over the place! It was horrifying and we could see right up into the funnel of the hurricane (though I don't really know how since it was also pitch black all around us because of the hurricane)!
Interestingly, although this was happening, we felt rather shielded from the debris...it was all around us and would almost hit us but not quite...I felt like Jesus was protecting us from being harmed or killed by the debris! We never even were moved from our places!
I remember at one point shouting to my siblings that I hoped they were ready to meet Jesus...
Finally, somehow the hurricane passed and left the region and we were left in the darkness of night and too tired and shocked to do anything but remain there and sleep until morning.
In the morning, before the others woke up, I felt that Jesus was asking me to get up and go to the top of a little mound of dirt in the backyard and take a look around. I hesitated in doing so because I knew all I would see was devastation, but I went. As I slowly got up and looked around as I got to my feet, all I could see for miles all around us was total devastation...our house and all of our neighbours homes and possessions were gone! No one was in sight! It was like total death! I was speechless and in shock as I slowly walked up the mound.
When I got to the top, I turned around and looked towards my siblings and where our house used to be, and as I looked I could hardly believe my eyes as I began to see the ground as a rainbow as far as the eye could see!!
I felt that God was showing me that what LOOKED to me like DEVASTATION, He was in reality turning into breath--taking RAINBOWS!!Rainbows have been something that He has encouraged me with many times along my spiritual journey! And I felt that He was letting me know that in the coming months/year/s? my family and I would be going through many 'hurricane-like' experiences/circumstances that would initially leave us feeling devastated even though we had been protected by Him in the midst of these circumstances from much of the potential destruction to us personally. I also felt like He was saying that as we would trust in Him, HE WOULD TURN THESE HURRICANE-LIKE DEVASTATIONS into breath-taking RAINBOWS in our lives!
Since then, we have indeed been going through many 'hurricanes'...and I continue to be reminded of this dream and the rainbows to come! Some of the rainbows I have already seen, and there are more to come! God LOVES to do FAR MORE than we have asked or IMAGINED and loves to turn what the enemy has meant for evil, for GOOD!