train's comin'

i don't know why i have this ominous sense right now. perhaps i'm just on edge, but i get this feeling that i really need to tighten my belt right now. months ago, i was praying and i pace while i pray most of the time. in this instance, i happened to be pacing down the center dividing line of two rooms. i felt the lord saying "get to one side." get to one side? what's that supposed to mean? well, i started seeing trains like in a subway and thought of instances in movies where someone is walking around inside the system where the train tracks run such that if a train comes, at best, you're in for an unpleasant experience clinging flush to the side of the area where the train is coming through only feet away from your face. at worst, you're in for the ultimate unpleasant experience if you're anywhere on the tracks otherwise in the path of the train when it comes through. i believe this is why God was trying to tell me to "get to one side".

i don't know if the figurative train coming is literally trouble intended to mow down anybody straddling the tracks with their house in disorder, or if it's a call of the "wade in the water" variety where i'm supposed to step into the water so that when God "troubles" it, i get my much anticipated blessing. emotionally, i'm betting my nickel on it being trouble. but regardless of what it is, the point is still "get to one side". get it together, streamline, optimize, reduce, compact, whatever you gotta do so that if there's a pop quiz of sorts, you'll be ready. i'll keep you posted if anything validates the feeling.