“Ok. So which did you choose?” My mind was on the straight and narrow path, but that’s not what my son’s mind was on.

“I took the really crooked path, because that’s where the light was.”

Well you know I smiled then, right? I smiled because God had given me my answer. Remember when I was busy confessing my fault, and I said God always starts pulling rabbits out of hats whenever I do that?

I said that my faith in God concerning myself was strong. I know that I know that God’s got my back, but I wasn’t sure if he had my son’s back the same way, because I don’t know where my son’s faith is.

God just answered me. He brought that dream back to my son’s memory, and showed him the next part of it. He gave him an opportunity to choose his path, and my son chose the one with the Light!

He let me know that my son will be alright, because despite the fact that he will have a rough road, he is moving towards the light; he wants to be in the light.

This is fabulous news, because my son is struggling emotionally, and it’s been a while since I’ve heard anything like that from him. Everything has been so negative, so this was great news.

I relayed this info to my bestest sista gurl at church, and she told me that the part about the 3 paths is in scripture. I’d love to know where that is.

But nevertheless, my heart has been relieved. God has already been working things out. I was blessed by a sister in a Hobby Superstore, who I got to talking to.

She informed me about a school for children with disabilities another part of the county. I went there today, but that school was for kids with severe physical and cognitive disabilities. My son is not having that sort of issue.

However, they referred me to another school for kids struggling emotionally and/or behaviorally. I went there and found out that there are 3 such schools in my county, and one of them is closer to where I live.

I also found out that his current school would have to refer him, so I called his current school counselor, who seems very willing to help, and gave her the information. She is now going to send a packet for me to fill out to initiate the paperwork for this process. Praise God.

My son is eager to leave that school and go to another one. He is miserable there, and completely shuts down, refusing to cooperate with teachers and do his work. Hopefully, we can get this process completed so he can start next year at a school that will really help him.

My understanding is that these 3 schools I was referred to, are very good schools, and have only 12 students per class, with two teachers. This will be better for my son, who has focus problems and needs more individualized attention.

So while my pastor spoke on the reasons for fear; sin, situation, and season; he was only confirming that God was working everything out for his purpose.

If a lack of faith is considered to be a sin, then I am guilty. Once I admitted that was the problem, He allowed me to continue in the situation, but it was just a seasonal thing with the purpose of growing me more, and drawing me closer to Him.

At this point was where my son stopped at the first time he related this dream to me some 3-4 years ago. He has the same dream gift I have, but he is unable at this point to see and interpret them…yet.

He and I discussed this dream again just two days ago. I remembered the dream vividly, because I had interpreted it for him at the time. I thought that was all there was to it, but apparently, that was not all.

Much like God does with me, he delivers answers to my son in slices…slivers. He reveals things in bits and pieces, even bringing a dream or vision back to mind again; repeating it for the purpose of reminding us of something He showed us is coming, or will happen; or to show us some new thing that He hadn’t revealed before…a new sliver.

I explained to my son the first time he told me about this dream and a few others, that God was sending him messages, and that he was blessed that  God was communicating with him in this manner; this clearly.

“This dream  is about letting your yay be yay, and your nay be nay. When you first walked into the park you saw 3 frogs on 3 lily pads. That tells me that this was a situation that God allowed. God was present at the beginning of this situation. The number 3 tells me that. Not only was He present in the beginning, but in the middle and at the end as well.
When you were on the hill, the 3 balls passed you, and the girl told you to get them. You agreed to get the first two, but said you would not get the other because it went past you and was too far away, down the hill.
Yet you went to look. That’s called ‘lust of the eyes.’ When you went to look, you placed yourself in a position to get into trouble, because after saying no, you basically went to look, and tempt yourself. This is why you found yourself surrounded suddenly by darkness.
When you called out to me, you saw a light and you followed it, up out of the darkness.”

Well, that was where my explanation had ended, but this time he said, “Yeah mom, but when I walked out of the darkness, there were 3 paths in front of me.”

“Wait a minute. You never told me about this part. I remember that dream clearly. I couldn’t forget it. You never mentioned it.”

“No, mom, the 3 paths were there, and I had to choose. One path was straight. One path was a little crooked or wavy, and the other was really crooked and a real hard road. I thought about going on the straight path, and I also thought about the slightly wavy path, because they didn’t look so difficult.”