An Urgent Dream Message
A Family's Sorrow is Relieved Through a Stranger's Dream
Linda K. Watts
I awoke from my dream badly shaken and reached for my dream journal to write:
I am driving a pickup truck. It’s late at night and I am hurrying to the side of a friend in need. I must get there as soon as I can. Suddenly, as I speed across a small wooden bridge, I know I will not make the next turn. Helplessly, I steer the truck through thin air as the road falls away beneath me.
Then I am floating above my body. My truck crashes in the woods below. I wonder, Am I dead?
The next few days, I took extra caution as I drove, but somehow, I knew the dream wasn’t really about me. There was some other purpose to it. I even knew the name of the rural town where the accident had occurred.
A few days later, I traveled to Minnesota for the ECK Worldwide Seminar. During the seminar, I rode a shuttle bus to the Temple of ECK in Chanhassen. While waiting for the return shuttle, a Temple volunteer struck up a conversation.
When she learned I was from Colorado, she exclaimed, “Why, I was just in rural Colorado for my nephew’s funeral two days ago!” As she told the story of her nephew’s late night car crash, I got chills. The accident had taken place in the same town as in my dream. It couldn’t be a coincidence.
“I need to tell you something,” I said.
The woman trembled as she listened to my dream. I told her everything I could remember. The family’s greatest concern had been for the young man’s suffering. There had been no witnesses to the accident – no one to tell them whether he had lain injured or had died instantly.
I knew my dream had been a way for Divine Spirit to set the family’s hearts at rest.
“Will you write your dream in a letter I can share with my family?” asked the woman. Humbled by the experience. I readily agreed.
I am so grateful to the Mahanta to have been a vehicle of service to this woman and her family. I learned that divine love truly knows no bounds and will find a way to reach all in need.
Linda K. Watts lives near Colorado Springs, Colorado. She works as a university anthropology professor.