I have had a dream that has given me insight into the next step for me. To create a healing sanctuary for myself, first of all. A place where there is silence, healing, meditation and prayer. And later in the day a room where I write and on occasion people may sit with me in silence. In the evening, a meal where I am with people and I do not eat alone.

This vision was given to me by a friend one step ahead of me. For years I thought it would be in the world and I never found it. Now I see it will begin within me first and when I am succeeding, perhaps it will expand to include others.

Pain is not a deterrent for this inner home; in fact, it is part of the rafters. I am seeing how pain has led me to this insight. I remember a dream I had this morning about another friend who is ahead of me on this journey back to the inner sanctuary. He was working on my body and saying that to help me he had to know all about the pain.

This inner sanctuary is also “The house not built with hands” that Joel Goldsmith built within himself. And if you build it, they will come, according to that movie, “The Field of Dreams.”

The parts of me that suffer will minister to the parts of me that feel they cannot go on. There is food for us all on a higher level than we can but imagine. It is real; we are real, and suffering is a necessary part of the process of coming home to our true nature. And all is well. Selah.

Vicki Woodyard