Dream catcher looks beautiful in any bedroom,nursery or home. Perfect for a baby nursery or girls room bedroom. It also makes the perfect gift for a baby shower, birthday, This beautiful giant black dream catcher wall hanging is a beautiful statement of the bohemian style. The crochet part of the dream catcher took about a week to make!
Question: 'Is it wrong for a Christian to have a dream catcher?'
Answer: - When you have chosen the place for the dream catcher to reside, you may want to hold a ceremony for hanging the dream catcher in your home. This can provide a calm and peace as you know that it is hung in the best place possible for your home to receive the energy of the dream catcher.
- Dream catcher looks beautiful in any bedroom,nursery or home. Perfect for a baby nursery or girls room bedroom. It also makes the perfect gift for a baby shower, birthday, This beautiful giant black dream catcher wall hanging is a beautiful statement of the bohemian style. The crochet part of the dream catcher took about a week to make!
Dream catchers have long been a part of Native American religion, lore, and art, originating with the Ojibwe, or Chippewa, and the Lakota, a confederation of seven Sioux tribes. Dream catchers are webbed and beaded circles hung with feathers from the base of the circle. As one might suspect, the purpose of a dream catcher is to catch dreams—that is, to trap bad or evil dreams and channel good dreams to the sleeper. Dream catchers are usually placed in a window or above the bed, allowing the good dreams to drip down the feathers onto the sleeper below.
Essentially, a dream catcher is intended to manipulate the spirit world. Some people believe in the efficacy of dream catchers. Others are unsure but are superstitious enough to keep one in the bedroom. Still others see dream catchers as part of a cultural history or a piece of art that looks good dangling from a rear-view mirror.
Knowing the background of dream catchers and their talisman-like use, many Christians want nothing to do with them. Is such concern warranted? A passage in 1 Corinthians 8 may be helpful. Paul is speaking to Christians living in an extremely pagan culture ruled by superstition, magic, and sacrifices, all done in the name of various idols. The sacrifices were a particular concern, for the meat sacrificed was then sold at market. Some Christians felt eating sacrificed meat was endorsing the sacrifice and therefore inappropriate for a Christian; others believed that, since they were not worshiping the idol themselves, it was not wrong.
Paul’s guidance was this: “There may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”—yet for us there is one God. . . . However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled” (1 Corinthians 8:5–7). Ultimately, “food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do,” yet we must be careful “that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak” (1 Corinthians 8:8, 9). Just as it was with meat associated with idolatry in the 1st century, so it is with superstitious objects in the 21st.
The Christian understands that false gods are nothing and that a dream catcher has no power in itself. The believer in Christ could easily see a dream catcher as nothing more than a craft or a cultural expression. However, before he buys a dream catcher and hangs it in the window, he should consider other people’s reactions to it. Will others see it as a charm to manipulate the spirit world? Will someone assume the one in possession of a dream catcher approves of Indian religions? Keeping a dream catcher is a matter of conscience; as long as it is not used as a good luck charm, it is innocent enough. But consideration must be given to those we seek to minister to.
Where you hang your dream catcher can have a great effect on the catching of dreams. It is important that you choose a place where the dream catcher can do its work.
Walk through your house, or space that you have chosen to hang your dream catcher. Visualize how this dream catcher is going to work for you. Ask yourself some questions about the purpose of this dream catcher.
-Should it be by a window to catch sun rays?
-Do you want it to act as a filtering system, by hanging over a television, music system, or computer? This may help for only positive energy to pass through the dream catcher for your family.
-Do you want it to hang over the bed of a loved one? It can bless peace and joy to those who sleep under the dream catcher.
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When you have chosen the place for the dream catcher to reside, you may want to hold a ceremony for hanging the dream catcher in your home. This can provide a calm and peace as you know that it is hung in the best place possible for your home to receive the energy of the dream catcher.