What if?

So many people I know hate the "what if" questions....I do too, often. But the what if question I pose here is different. This 'what if' adjusts me; it shifts my attitude and my outlook. So perhaps it will do the same for you....and perhaps it will just show my own simplicity, idealness, and mental issues. smile.

I have always felt connected to a certain girl in the movies. She is fairly simple, seemingly a little bonkers, willing to defy the 'norm'. Her name? Alice. She dreams, and she sees things, and she follows animals simply out of curiosity. But she rises to become something. She is half crazy and yet....she is courageous and she changes her world. If you know not the Alice I speak of...it is Alice in Wonderland.

The other day, and I'm fully aware that what I'm about to tell you shows my own 'having gone round the bend' views, BUT bare with me.... The other day, I swear God told me to watch Alice in Wonderland and take notes. This was to be 'our time together' - God's and mine. Now, I love Him and I enjoy time with Him, but I can't say He has ever before requested to watch a movie with me. Nor has He asked that I 'take notes'. As I write this it makes me feel even more ridiculous but I shall embrace my weirdness. So, in some act of loopy obedience, I accepted the invitation - got out pen and paper and sat and listened and paused and wrote and chuckled...

So ~ What if then? What if I am Alice, Alice in 'Underland'? What if this is only a dream? (As a song I heard puts it: "It's only a mountain"). Don't flip out on me....Hear.... What if I have only fallen down a rabbits hole and am living on this earth as a dream? Could it be that the point of me here is to live out the dream? And perhaps there is a day designated to slay the Jabberwocky (is that how it's spelled?). I'm serious. What if I am meant to stand forward for the 'White King' and fight to redeem those lost to the 'Red Kingdom'? If it is 'just a dream' ~ I get to choose it.

Alice knew the day she was to slay the Jabberwocky, but she didn't get to see the day after on the calendrum. So she did not know if she would indeed win. She did not get to slay the Jabberwocky with someone beside her - she had to choose to do it 'alone'. (This word has taken on so much more meaning to me than ever before.) Alice turned and faced the Bandersnatch because it was 'only a dream'. She was told she was the 'wrong Alice' or 'hardly Alice' many times. She had to figure out who she was, and find courage to do what she would. She had people who loved her and supported her but still, there was an 'aloneness' to her slaying the seemingly undefeatable enemy.

So then....my what if is this: What if YOU are Alice?
          What if I am Alice? What if we are in a dream -
                    having simply 'fallen' into a hole in order to be
                              the one who slays the enemy?

IF this is only a dream. IF I am Alice and meant to be here - with the Mad Hatter and others who have lost their marbles, after all, only the best people have... IF I am here to step forward for MY KING and slay the evil and FREE the captives in the 'red kingdom'.....

                               PERHAPS I should GET TO IT.

Can you see how this 'what if' can shift my attitude? I really don't wanna wait around and mope and get stuck in my own pain. I am Alice - I have a Jabberwocky to slay. I have a dream to live. I have a Kingdom to stand for and a captive to save. I don't know the outcome. I don't get to see the day after Frabjis Day.... I do get to make MY choice....even if it means I am alone. It's only a dream - which means reality comes eventually. It means it's temporary. It means - I am not in danger, after all, if I die....? That's not so bad. smile. So then I can be brave and bold and purposeful in this dream I find myself in. It's MY dream....

I ~ am Alice, having 'gone round the bend'....and finding my way to Frabjis Day...

May you embrace 'what if I am Alice' for your own. Just to instill intention....

Get to it, my dear one.....you are not meant to waste away this dream.