Last night I had a dream. Of course, I seem to dream during the day too, but last night’s dream was thought provoking.

The dream was of a couple getting married in a garage. The intentions of the couple was to stay married, so they “cleaned out” the garage of stuff first.

Most garages are stuffed full of clutter and gadgets. I suppose if you don’t have a garage, but have a storage rental or jammed packed closet, the plot of the dream would be the same.

If the venue for weddings was a garage, the job of cleaning out the area would be good practice for an upcoming marriage. We can clean out of our minds old attachments. We can detach from the past and from beliefs held by one person, because in truth, we can’t hold onto outgrown, cluttering beliefs.

Fortunately, we have the ability to take on new thoughts and those thoughts can come from truth and love, the power I call God. The thoughts lead to productive communication and arguments. The thoughts lead to effective prayers.

“The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.”—Psalm 29:4, NRSV

Back in the day, a belief I unloaded, and I don’t even know how I got the belief in the first place, but a belief I unloaded was thinking that marriage was “God ordained” or a vow to my husband and God nearly.

Until I read in the Bible when Christ Jesus was quoted as saying, “For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.”—Matthew 22:30, NRSV

It was freeing to get rid of the thinking that marriage is a “heaven” thing or makes God happy. It’s not. Marriage is only a tradition helpful to humanity when it is used to express joy, faithfulness, trust and goodness. I’m still working on staying married, after thirty-three years, but the work is for myself to get closer to God, not an effort to make God happy.

God knows us as individuals. Not couples. We are God’s children and can feel right now, the attitude of heaven or harmony. We can feel unity and connection in love.

Quoting from science & religion to God: “Outgrown thought processes must be changed, otherwise “You are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.”[1]

“Godlike prayer is not defensive. If we try to defend outgrown knowledge and ideals, prayer gets twisted into useless arguments.”

“The sublime grandeur of divine law will outshine sin, sorcery, lust, hypocrisy, envy, and outgrown doctrines and theories. Love will fulfill the rule of the spiritual equation and show Spirit’s supremacy.”

[1] Rom. 2:5