Dreaming about missions...

So - yesterday I had this really vivid dream. My therapist says it's helpful to describe it in the present tense - so here's my attempt.

I am with Jon and Noah on a short missions trip. There are doctors on our team at a medical missions post seeing patients, who are mostly kids with a certain disease that requires them to come back for multiple checkups. When we arrived, we put our stuff on bunks (I remember distinctly having Noah's diaper bag and stuff as well).

There were several kids we met that night and one of them was a 5-6 year old white kid, who was about the same age as Noah. (eh.. nm - im going to write in the past tense... too hard to write in the present). His mom had brought him to the clinic to see a doctor. The next day, he was one of the kids who didn't make it. The team was sitting around in a circle praying for the kid and his family, while I turned to Noah and had to explain to him that the kid had died. Noah was 6-7 in my dream and REALLY reminded me of my brother. At first, I thought it was my younger brother who I was talking to, but realized that didn't make sense since we had Noah's stuff with us. Folks there on the missions team included Mel and Michelle :)

Switch scenes...

I am on intervarsity staff and am staying at the Haste House again. There are several people at the door wanting to come in, but we are trying to keep them from coming in (unless they know someone or have reason to enter). I was confused at first, because I thought we had an open door policy as staff, but they explained to me that it was simply too dangerous to have ppl wander in and out of the house. It made sense to me in the dream - and I suddenly had a feeling that something dark was looming around. Not a physical entity, but that the world around us had injustices or people who were plotting evil things. Kind of scary :T but comforted by the community and ppl I was with in the dream.

THE END.

Okay - don't have the brain power to interpret, so I'm going to go back to sleep now.

Quick update on motherhood ---- loving it more and more each day. Noah is such a smiley and happy baby. He brings so many ppl joy (especially the parents) and more than we asked for - THANK YOU JESUS! :)