Hey you guys...lots of replies here for me to answer too.....and thank you so much for your input on this.....it has been eating at me all day.
Yes Vicky...I already know that this wasn't just a dream....I have learned thru years of experiencing these what is a dream and what isn't. The best way that I can explain the difference is for the most part, the impact....the feelings it leaves me with. They are incredibly vivid to be just dreams.
I have always been involved with kids..since I was 9 years old. (my first babysitting job!) As a teen, I started to become aware of some deep down desire to help ease the suffering of kids all over the world....if not on a professional level, at least to be able to hug and comfort these kids and let them feel that there was someone who they could trust and that they knew loved them and would help them. I would lay my own life on the line for any child...mine or not.
That is just the way I have always been.
I studied different areas of children's physical, mental and cognitive growth for years...and then got into early childhood education.....I was basically led in that area by 'a guide'.......and if you remember from my earlier posts months ago when I wrote about this....I could feel myself literally being led by the hand....and for the first few months of the university courses that I was taking, I could not explain to anyone why I was even these courses!!
About 5 years ago I branched out from preschool teaching and got involved with the Ministry for Children and Families and became a foster mom. I loved everything that I was doing for kids...
2 years ago I moved 1,000 miles north of where I had been living....and I wanted to continue fostering up here...however I found out very quickly that the social service workers up here in the toolies are just plain idiots.......kind of a clique-y bunch..............and they were not very welcoming of me at all in their territory. They made it very difficult for me....and so I decided to leave the profession and get into something else....hence now, cashier at large!
Maybe this is a sign for me that I have strayed too far from where I am supposed to be and that I should get back to where I once was.
I have always known/felt that my place in the Big Plan was to be with kids....and all my friends used to tell me at one time that they would always be able to find me in Heaven......just look to where the kids were gathered and they would find me.
As far as retrievals go, I have never done one...and I have no idea of how to do one......I am not even sure of what the goal of a retrieval is.
In a way I am hoping that I get more clarification when I sleep tonight......I seem to be more responsive when I sleep.
Thanks guys.....