Parachute Dream Comes True

When you were a child, did you ever play with a parachute? The kind where kids stand in a circle holding the edge of the parachute, then raise and lower their arms to cause waves to travel around the parachute, bouncing a ball crazily around the center?

A number of years ago, I had a dream come true. One night, I dreamt about kids playing with a parachute, having great fun bouncing the ball around. This is all that I remember about the dream itself.

I hadn't played with a parachute since I was a child. I hadn't even seen one in years. There was no reason for me to dream about it.

The next day, I went to a church picnic. When I arrived, I walked over to the picnic area. From there I could see the Sunday School kids near the playgound, standing in a circle playing with a large parachute, exactly as I had dreamed the night before. I had no idea that the church was going to get a parachute for the picnic.

I wish I could report that the dream coming true was a sign of some significant event in my life. But there was nothing. Nothing particularly special happened that day. If it was a sign of something, I missed it.

Despite the apparent lack of significance, the fact that this dream came true the very next day has stuck with me. A dream coming true so clearly doesn't happen very often. There was no need for interpretation or trying to connect something vague in the dream with something real.

Sometimes I do wonder, though, whether there was some meaning I was supposed to have grasped.