He knows when we are worried

I don't know if I told you already, but I think this event bears telling again.  God knows when we are worried.  He cares that we are worried.  He sometimes opens a window so that we can breathe, almost as though He were saying, "take a deep breath, calm down, open your eyes, look and breathe."  He did that to me several months ago.  I became so worried about my son's future that I turned my focus to that concern almost completely.  He didn't seem to be able to get on track, or maybe to find his niche.  I was ready for him to get on with it.  He was still searching.  It's as though he was searching for something so elusive that he might never find it, this path, this place where he fit.  I was getting impatient.  He was getting discouraged.  We started to worry.  He had tried jobs, he has so many gifts and talents that he could do almost anything.  He had tried college.  We ran out of money and he ran out of patience.  He wanted to be involved in something that gave him immediate satisfaction and though he was able to do the school work, it was taking too long for him.  He was dead set against going into the military, and becoming an entrepreneur was too uncertain for him.  He had tried it when he was younger.  There didn't seem to be anything left, and we felt that he needed to be able to move forward with his life.  He had begun to talk about having a family and he knew that it wouldn't happen if he didn't get it together.
     Well, one night almost a year ago, God gave me what I call a waking dream.  It's one of those dreams that you have just before you wake up.  You aren't so deep into your subconscious that you forget what's going on, so He has your attention.  God has been speaking to me in dreams and visions since I was a child, so I was accustomed to it.  I learned to recognize that it was God.  I was able to interpret them and the dreams and visions always came to pass.  Usually they were solutions to problems or messages about future things that I had no knowledge of.  Okay, back to this particular waking dream.  In my dream I saw Jamal coming up the steps to our house and he had on a uniform.  I thought to myself, what is happening? Jamal is adamantly opposed to joining the armed forces.  I hope that's not a policeman coming to tell me that something happened to him. I woke up and got busy with life, so I soon forgot the dream.  As months went on, things began to change inside Jamal.  He was starting to notice that he was going in circles and not moving forward at all.  One day, almost a year later, Jamal announced that he was going to sign up for the air force that day.  My husband and I were too stunned to be elated yet.  He got up from the table and went to the recruiters office.  I just didn't know what to say.  We had all been looking through the classifieds and asking people if they knew of a job opening anywhere.  Now, the dream came back to my husband.  Little did I know, but he had been holding onto it ever since I told him about it.
Since Jamal signed the interest form, things have been moving more smoothly.  He has a part time job.  He is walking a little taller, he is focused, and he is proud.  There are many tests and meetings before he can be called an airman, but he's hanging in there.  It's obvious that this is his niche.  We are now praying that if this is His will, God would remove all obstacles and walk with Jamal on this journey.  The Lord has done just that.  It's a long process to get into the Air Force.  Now we know why they call it 'Selective Service' because they most certainly are.
     My husband reminded me of the dream that the Lord had given me so many months ago, and we began to praise God and give Him thanks.  God is good.  Everything is going well for Jamal now.  The Lord had opened a window all those months ago to assure me about Jamal's future and to tell me that everything would be alright and that he would one day join.  This was his future and his destiny.  The Lord had given me a glimpse even before he was born.  God will take care of him.  God is good.
     Heavenly Father, glory of the heavens, we love and adore you.  We give thanks that you care even about the little things in our lives.  We know that there are wars, and famines, and cruelties going on in the world that You created.  We know that you are working on behalf of all of your children and we thank you so much that in the midst of all that, you took time to look into one mother's heart and open a window so that she could see.  I thank you so much for the love, concern, and compassion You constantly show us.  You are awesome in all your ways.  You are the alfa and the omega- the beginning and the end.  You are He who is, who was, and who always shall be.  You are my saviour, my God, my all in all.  Thank you Lord that You take time to care for me.  Please watch over Jamal as he enters the U. S. Air Force.  Please watch over all of our children as they choose to serve their country and You.  Keep them safe, help them to grow physically, emotionally, mentally, and most of all, spiritually.  Keep them on the right path.  Help them to 'see' when they cannot see.  Help them to hope when they think there is none left.  Help them to trust in you who answer prayers.  Let them know that you hear and see them and that they are not alone.  Teach them that You are aware even of the thoughts and intents of their hearts.  Help them to remember that if they turn their eyes toward heaven and lift their voices, You hear them and will reply.  You have said that you would never leave nor forsake us.  Help them to remember.  Give them hope, surround them with joy, cover them with Your love.  In Jesus name we pray.  Amen.