A Coincidental Dream?

Karianna woke up this morning extremely sad.  Her eyes were bugging her, very red and itchy and she was a slight bit warm. You could tell she wasn't feeling good, and Jared ultimately made the decision to keep her home from school.  She sounded like she was doing much better around lunchtime, which was a good thing since tomorrow is the big quadruple birthday party for the cousins (costumes and all). 

It wasn't until I got home that Karianna shared with me that the real reason she wasn't feeling good is because she had a bad dream last night.  In her dream her cousin Makayla died.  That's pretty scary in itself, especially for a 7 year old.  In her dream, Makayla had to find a light bulb and get it to light up in order to come back to life.  She wasn't able to do it though, and that made Karianna sad when she woke up.  Karianna did say that she felt a little bit better because Makayla's spirit was still with her.  Every time Karianna talked about it, she would start to cry and say something like, "I can't talk about this a lot, it makes me too sad".  She finally told me, "I would feel so much better if I could just see Makayla!"  Nearly made me cry to see my little girl so emotional.

Luckily, Makayla is coming to visit tomorrow for the cousins party, but in order to help Karianna gain some closure, I called the Hammerquists so Karianna could hear that Makayla was in fact okay.  Makayla was indeed just fine at the Hammerquist home, but I was surprised to hear that the following happened at Makayla's school:  a kid brought a gun to school.  The school was on lockdown, called the police, the student was arrested and expelled, and all the kids brought home letters about what had happened. Suzanne and Mark first heard about it via social networks, though it was exaggerated to the point where people were saying there was a shooting-that didn't happen luckily, but it was scary to think a gun was on campus. 

Everyone is fine of course, but it seemed so coincidental that Karianna had her dream the night before a *potentially* dangerous situation occured at Makayla's school.  Even more coincidental:  today marks the anniversary of the College of Nursing shooting, at which Suzanne was an eye witness and quite literally, a hostage. 

Just a strange connection in events and anniversaries today, just makes me glad everyone is okay and protected by the spirit. Also makes me grateful for my sweet, tender-spirited daughter who loves her cousin to pieces.