Reply To ‘The Helicopter Dream’

I received a message today from Sara, the woman who had the helicopter dream. After reading my message, she wanted to share a little more about the dream and her thoughts on how God set things up. The original story can be found here.

“Sorry about the slow response, I really wanted to write how this had all gone down, I’m glad you shared it……I’m currently on a Facebook fast but when I saw this in my email I had to check it out. I could tell you held back a little, just unsure of what to share or not, so if you want, here’s the full version from my perspective.

A few months back I had a dream. I awoke in my house to find small flames everywhere. The walls, floor, etc and I was alarmed at first thinking my house is on FIRE! I quickly realized these flames were contained and not spreading. I looked out my window to see them outside too, so I went into my front yard (which as I say write these realize could represent my future? Front yard/ future? duh)

I could see these little flames all over my property and all the way to town. (we live 14 miles out of town in western Nebraska) I feel the urge to get to town as a rescue helicopter flies into the scene. I literally hear that it’s carrying a message that’s really important that I need to remember. It hovers and I see LAM 10:15 on the side of the chopper. I assume that is the message and focus intently on what that could mean for weeks. The chopper flies off and all the sudden I’m back in my house.

I see a mirror in the living room, full length and I’m hesitant to walk to it. I do anyway and see a reflection of a young girl. Pre-teen years who is crying and upset. She keeps crying and talking but I can’t understand what she’s saying. She starts to transform physically. I compare it to a meth make-over advertisement you see on the billboards but instead of going from good to worse, the reflection gets better and better.

Physically the girl is transforming but as she’s changing and the tears are leaving and the sadness and grief are too. There is a healing taking place on the inside so profound it’s affecting her physical appearance on the outside. I never do understand a word the reflection says, but as she’s changed a normalcy returns to her image and she’s at peace…..Then I wake up.

My obvious reaction was the message that I was supposed to remember whatever the helicopter was bringing. Upon my daily Facebook check I scroll across a picture of the medic chopper on PM’s sight and realize THAT”S THE CHOPPER from my dream! I focused on the LAM 10:15 for weeks thinking it was a bible verse or some coded answer to something the Holy Spirit is trying to speak to me. I prayed, I sought interpretation, all to little prevail……Until one day I see Praying Medic has a post about his life story he’s writing about and I’ll be completely transparent and honest, the title was intriguing. (Sorry PM, it was.)

I start reading about his affair. His emotions, his turmoil, his raw desires, his regret, his pain, his torture somehow spoke to a side of me I didn’t know needed spoke to. I related to his daughter who he was close to and then had her world ripped out from under her feet.

A mere week or two before I found out what my dad had done I remembered thinking how great he was, how lucky I was, how I wanted to find a guy just like him someday……Then in a blink, that pedestal you put them on is incinerated and your life flipped upside down. Somehow I could never see things from his perspective. I thought to be able to do something like that he must not of loved us at all. I thought all the times he was good, must have been a lie. All the times he pretended to care, fake. Because you certainly couldn’t run your family through a shredder like he had if you cared at all…….That’s what I thought.

Then warp speed 18 years and I’m reading a post from a person who’s done almost the same thing. But I hear his heart. Through adult lenses I realize what he did was just for himself. Not an intentional attack to crush his children and wife. I empathized with his pain, and saw his heart. He did what he did to fill something void inside him. It’s really that simple. It didn’t mean he didn’t regret it, it didn’t mean he didn’t love his kids enough, it just meant he made a mistake.

As I’m reading the post I’m bawling like a baby. Reliving my event realizing sometimes we get caught in the crossfire of other people’s mistakes, but those mistakes aren’t about us. That arrow wasn’t intended for us, it just happen to hit where it hurts. Forgiveness allows us to release OURSELVES from other people’s mistakes.

Sitting at a computer on Facebook I realized the message the Medic helicopter would bring was one I wouldn’t even know I was looking for. One of forgiveness and a realization that we have a Father, a good and perfect one. He never lets us down, He makes no mistakes, He’s safe to put on a pedestal. He comes with a message of perfect love and wants us all to experience that. When we can set our gaze upon that, somehow the actions and mistakes of the ones around us seem a little less important, seem a little more forgivable, and that’s His grace. It frees the person who made a mistake or maybe just the one caught in the crossfire. It frees us all. Amazed, humbled, and awed at the Holy Spirit’s intricate set of events, seemingly random and unconnected, that heal and transform in a way only a perfect Father can.

My deepest thanks to you and your family PM. For putting your self on the chopping block and having the courage to face whatever came. There is healing that can only come from honestly and forgiveness. I found mine and it is my sincere prayer you all have found yours. I guess He really can turn a mess into a message can’t He?

I realized there were parts of the dream I had condensed out of my email and wanted you to have the full version I’ve been intending on sending. you don’t have to change anything you wrote. It’s great. I just wanted you to know the full version of what had taken place. Feel free to share as you like or keep…..Thanks again for sharing God Bless.”