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I'm so good at Spanish I can speak it in my sleep....no really...:-) / Apr 17, 12:11 PM
So I slept like a rock last night. I’m not kidding, I felt like an actual rock. Usually, when I wake up my roommates love me enough to know and respect 2 things about me: 1) I am not and never will be a morning person and 2) It is close to physically impossible for me verbally communicate within the first hour I am awake. With these 2 facts known very well, Anna, one of my beloved roommates ventured out and spoke to me, sharing with me a surprising incident.
“Last night at like 1 a.m. you were talking in your sleep Jessie, and it scared me so bad. You were talking in Spanish!” Anna explained.
I didn’t believe her at first. Who speaks in a different language in their sleep, especially one they aren’t completely fluent in?? Crazy. Then Justina, whose my bunkmate said the same thing! This is the first recorded time I have ever talked in Spanish IN MY SLEEP! And I want you all to know. Emily said it’s a sign of being borderline fluent when you dream in another language..maybe means the same for sleeptalking? Hmm…maybe I’m fluent and I don’t even know it!
Well, other than this interesting adventure, things have been rather eventful around her. I went to the doctor and found out my broken hand will be A-ok! I just need a wrap cast for a little while longer.
I say and think here a lot “there’s never a dull moment in Little Village” and I truly stand by that. God really reminds me in the everyday experiences here, that He is not a God of canned routine, go through the motions, and never try anything new. God is a God of unpredictability, answering prayers in what we see as the most unexpected moments. He is a God of adventure, where even the most ordinary moments of Sunday grocery shopping can be a time to have an amazing conversation with a roommate. He is a God that desires us to not be so focused on our own plan, our own mission and expectations in life that we walk right passed Him everyday and don’t even know it. My question I leave you with is the question God has been whispering into me lately. If you were on your way to work today, in the car, focused on not being late, and God whispered to you, He desired you to speak to someone specific during the day, or do something different than what you have planned, would you hear it? Would you follow it? Or would you be too distracted to even know He’s whispering? Lately I’ve been distracted too much by my own plans… and I’m so grateful that God has the patience to bring me back to His Attention. He is truly, truly good to all of us.
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