There was a man walking in the desert. It was hot and dry and he had been walking for a long time without anything to drink. He was exhausted and desperate for something to drink desperate for some kind of help. As he continued to walk, a car pulled up to him. Inside was a man dressed in a nice looking suit wearing a pair of sunglasses. The car stopped as the man pulled off the sunglasses and the car door opened. The man who was walking could feel the cool breeze from the air conditioning hit his face and it felt good for a brief second. The man in the car motioned for the man who was walking to get in. The man who was walking hesitated for a moment staring at the car. He didn’t look around, he just stared at the car.

At that moment, I could hear voices coming from the same direction the car came from. I turned and looked and saw a woman riding a camel. She was calling out to the man who was walking. I could see that she was carrying food and water and I could see a cross around her neck. Somehow in the dream, I knew that she was sent from God and the answer the man who was walking was looking for. She continued to call out as the man who was walking just stood there staring at the car.

The man in the car, whom I now noticed had flames in his eyes, smiled and motioned again for the man who was walking to get into the car. This time without hesitating, he got into the car. I tried to tell him about the women and that there was helping coming and that this was a mistake, but it was like the man could not see me or hear me. I am not sure if I was just observing what was happening or he was in a trance, but he just got in the car and I could not stop him. As the door closed, the man who drove the car smiled an evil smile at me and I could see snakes begin to cover the feet and legs of the man who was walking.

I turned back to the woman who was coming on the camel and tried to call out to her. She was frowning and had stopped her camel. As the car began to pull away, she just sat there as her face turned very sad.

2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,

3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:2-4

As the dream started my wife and I were all white ugly ducks swimming on a duck pond. As we tried to swim with the other ducks, all they did was make fun of us and poke at us and even pull at our feathers. It made us feel horrible. This lasted for a long time. Finally, a group of ducks got together and came at us all at once and the only way to survive was for us to fly away. As we were in the air, we saw another pond. we hesitated and we were cautious, but we eventually went to this other pond. When we landed, we immediately noticed that all the ducks here were white like we were. As we were swimming in our little corner of the pond several of the white ducks came over and began to talk to us. It was at this point we discovered that we were beautiful swans and that we were in a community of swans and accepted.