Hi! I don't post here much; I really just come here to look at financial posts. But I'm a Christian, and am interested in some of the Christian prophecy here--you are all a blessing to stay and post on this site!

But thought I'd share my own dream that I feel is prophetic. This is a dream that was recurring when I was very young; possibly around 8 or 10 years old.

I was grown up, and was outside in the neighborhood where I grew up. I think the weather was fairly warm; I don't remember any discomfort of being cold. The street was covered with tents, with people living in them. This was just a regular neighborhood, with asphalt streets, but the street was all tents. And I was going from tent to tent checking to make sure everyone was ok and had what they needed.

The odd thing to me about the dream at the time is that I was not in front of my own home in the neighborhood, but was WAY down the street at the other end of it, just around the bend of the only curved road. As I stood in the yard and looked to the left, the curve was there. There were tents all in front of me. Why would I be at another part of the neighborhood? I half expected to end up living in my old town and neighborhood one day!

Well, I've grown up, moved MANY times, and have lived in our present home about three years. I was looking out the front door the other day, and almost fell over when I realized that to my left was a curve in the road of my present neighborhood. As I stood on my porch, the vantage point was exactly the same as in my dream. The proper distance and everything. Really--just exactly the same!

I think that one of the reasons this dream stuck with me while I was a child was that, back in the day, you needed to stake a tent into the ground in order for it to stand. Well, you certainly can't stake a tent on concrete! So when I was a child, the dream made no sense! Today, of course, we have PVC plastic supports for tents and you only stake them for stability and to keep them from blowing. But not the tents I had used up 'til that time when a child. I had this dream over and over. I don't recall why the people were there or anything else.

I have considered recently that picking up a few cheap pop-up tents might be a good idea--provide a place of shelter for people outside of your home, like in my dream. They aren't expensive, and are often on sale. We don't talk about this scenario much on this site--that there may be safe towns or areas or neighborhoods, like in my dream, that people will go to. In my dream, I feel everyone felt safe. A tent would be a nice way for people to have shelter and privacy; their own space. Very hard to live with other families in their home in our day. A personal space, even a tent, would be a nice thing to have.

For me, this dream has been a confirmation from the Lord that I am indeed in the place where he wants me to be. I have worried and prayed about this for a couple of years, as I'm sure many of you have also.

Anyway, that's my big contribution to the thread!! Thank you all for everything you've posted here--interesting and comforting to hear your words from the Lord.