Ever experience going back into earlier time of your life?

[Jodi]

Has anyone else ever had a dream which felt like really going back in time to an earlier phase of your life and getting to be with loved ones when they were younger? Here's what happened to me one night:

I had an experience that felt very real. It was as though I went back in time and was in my 2 sons' childhood bedroom. They were playing Legos. While dreaming, I was very aware that my two sons are grown men and that being with them like this was a gift from God - I was revisiting their childhoods and being with them again as children! It was very precious. During the expereince, I was in awe that God was doing this.

I was really in the room with my two sons. PJ, our oldest, left the room, and I was with Mitchell who kept playing. I didn't know what to say to him, so I asked him "Do you think you might want to play the guitar some day?" (IRL, now, he's very talented musically.) He responded, "Yeah!" and continued playing. As I "pulled out" of the room, I saw a glimpse of a painting on his bedroom wall. It was an immature version of a painting I've done in recent years. It's an angel in a red gown, dancing joyfully.

When I woke up, I hoped that I would have a similar experience with my other two children, getting to interact with them as children again. I fell asleep again and had an experience of visiting PJ (older son). He was outside on the road in front of the house we lived in when he was that age. All I remember from this experience is that it was a sunny day and he was very on-the go and full of purpose. He was setting off to do something he thought was cool or important. The whole time all I could think of was how wonderful it was to be with him during his childhood again. (I loved raising our kids and sometimes I miss that time of our lives. I don't live in the past though, always looking back. But wow was this a cool experience!)

Iwas excited and thought for sure I would get to visit Jacquelyn in my next dream. Instead the third dream was a symbolic one about being told to choose a preteen boy to mentor. The boys were on risers in a school sports field. We didn't want to, but the man told one blond boy we chose him, so we felt we had to in order not to hurt him by refusing. In later years, he was reflecting that we had spent minimal time with him. He wasn't angry, but was sad.

I didn't have an expereince of going back in time to be with Jacquelyn.

I don't know yet what it means, but I do treasure the experience!

[bjcollin]

The word I heard while reading through these experiences is INFLUENCE. Definately look at your positive influence to your boys from their childhood and how it has shaped them to where they are today. To me it is God's way of showing you that even what we sometimes might consider insignfigant times in our kids lives are really shaping them for their future. Neat experiences.

in Christ,

[bjcollin]

Also, apply that forward to the last symbolic dream. We need to apply what we learn from the Lord and build it into the next generation. Is there a boy whom you would considering mentoring in some way to help him along as you did your sons?

in Christ,

[Jodi]

My husband does not like to talk about God at all. He says each person's relationship with God is personal, between that person and God alone. He doesn't seem to make choices based on what God would want. Not that he wants to anger God, but he seems to not take God into consideration for his life. He would not want to mentor anyone spiritually. So us mentoring together seems odd to me with how things are now.

But, God can change that. Maybe Paul will be reborn and will want us to minister together to a young man.

For myself, the young man I pray for is my former son-in-law. I wrote to him when I knew his addresses. My family did not want me to go see him in person because they thought he might hurt me. I don't think he would have, but the family was unanimous about it. So, I pray for him instead.