Rebuilding After the Fire
Several years ago I had a dream that my house burnt down, and in the dream I heard God’s voice say, “This is going to bless you.” The next day I went out and bought a giant fire safe, trying to ready myself because I felt something big was going to happen. A few days later, out of nowhere, I developed acute pancreatitis and had a scary hospital stay, followed by a year of illness and debilitating pain. During that time, I had to cancel everything and back out of all commitments. It was an intensely difficult year, and when I eventually regained my health, I was a different person. As it happened, the new person was someone I liked much better than my old self. And the new person was much more cautious about adding things to my life. During that season, I came across this passage in Hebrews 12 and it was imbibed with new meaning for me: “This means that all of creation will be shaken and removed, so that only unshakable things will remain. Since we are receiving a Kingdom th