A dream of the Virgin Mary

My mom has always said that God sometimes speaks to us through our dreams. She also says that he often brings his light to us in our time of greatest darkness and despair. 

There’s no darker time in my life than the twelve weeks I spent in an abusive wilderness program earlier this year nor any time when I felt more lost and helpless. Yet at that time I had a dream which I believe was a message from God.

I dreamed that I was stood looking at the cloud filled night sky. Suddenly the clouds parted and I saw standing in the sky a woman who I recognised as the Virgin Mary. She spoke to me,”Be at peace child. I am the mother of God. Just as you are now being tried in the wilderness by those who belong to Satan so was my son Jesus tried in the wilderness by Satan. The darkness that now surrounds you can never extinguish the light of God within you and the suffering you now endure will pass but it prepares you for God’s purpose for you to relieve the suffering of many “. She then receded back into the clouds and I woke up. When I woke up I had an inexplicable feeling of calm which stayed with me for the rest of the day.