I would appreciate your input into a dream I just had before I woke up this morning, but first, a little of the back story. I have been out of work for 6 months, I am 60 years old, and God has made it clear it is time for my 41 year construction career to come to an end, and that I need to do some thing else. Since God told me to leave construction, I have made several attempts to go back do to financial need, but all have failed. We have in this same season, dealt with the loss of our apartment to mold, my wife being hospitalized for 4 days form shingles, and she is currently dealing with a massive dental infection, and we have no dental insurance. We have been living in and out of hotels during this time, relying on the Lord and the generosity of others, and have had to spend two nights in a vehicle when funds were not available for a hotel.

Now to the dream. I was standing on the roof of what was between a 3 and 5 story building judging by the distance to the ground. I had lost my check out of my hands, and it was gently spinning as it slowly headed for the ground. After it had gone down about a third of the way, I began calling out to the people below, at least two of them being police officers and two being civilians, trying to get their attention and catch my check, but for some reason, the could not hear me. As it landed on the ground in front of a female police officer, I also began waving my hands over my head. She saw the check, picked it up, and started looking around, and quickly noticed me waving my hands and acknowledged that she knew it belonged to me. Though during the check's fall, the check was not attached to a piece of paper that would be the stub I would retain for my records, when she picked it up off the parking lot, it was now attached to this kind of stub, and she folded the stub portion over the back of the check, and looked at it briefly before putting it in her back pants pocket. I immediately turned to my left to run down and get it, but almost instantly, there was a woman standing in front of me who was having some body image problems, beleaving she would not be selected for something because she was not beautiful enough. Though she was not a beauty queen, she certainly was not ugly by any stretch of the imagination. This is when I woke up.

As I prayed about this dream, several things have come to mind. First, years ago, I took a job aptitude test, and the two professions that came back for me were fire fighter and law enforcement, though both of those I am too old and physically challenged to apply for at 60. That said, I tend to be very big on encouraging people to do what is right and obey both the laws of our land as well as God's word. In addition, my wife has a desire to reach out to women with low self esteem because she herself has struggled with it due to a facial deformity caused by complications from her mother's abortion attempt on her life 50 years ago, and yet knows that in God's eyes, and in my eyes, she is "wonderfully beautiful".

Anyway, I would again appreciate your prayerful input! Blessings in our wonderfully beautiful and merciful Messiah!!!