6.) Pennies from Heaven: Our First Grandchild (originally posted Nov. 23, 2010)
Last January, I had a dream of driving way up north to a gift shop located near my brother’s summer home. I was returning a small key chain, presumably purchased when previously there. While standing at the cash register with the husband and wife storeowners, I told them my interest in returning the item. I explained it had only cost me a couple of dollars and hoped it wouldn‘t be an issue to return it. The wife opened the cash register and handed me a pouch filled with shiny pennies. I said it seemed about right and thanked her. I turned to check out the store a second time and noticed it looked very much like my grandmother’s old antique shop; however, the appearance now seemed stunningly more beautiful, almost magical. I then saw a young woman in her twenties holding a baby wrapped in a blanket, and she laid the baby on an ornate chair that looked exactly like the one in my mother’s living room in real life. My mother had inherited the chair from her mother. The woman then walked away and I assumed she must work in the shop, which had a very warm, euphoric feeling (heaven) and very pleasant shopkeepers.
My mother awakened me from this dream at 6:15 AM. She rarely calls this early unless it’s very important. Oddly though, she simply asked if we still had the receipt to a sweater we had given her as one of her Christmas presents. My mother mentioned she would like to return it, so I said we would look and get back to her. After the call, I thought about the precognitive tie-in to the sweater and the key chain in the above dream. Both were items that needed to be returned, and as mentioned earlier in this thread, this type of literal, precognitive connection can sometimes be a tip-off to a symbolic/spiritual dream predicting a more significant event. For me, the connotation of “up north” and “shiny pennies” (pennies from heaven), coupled with the “euphoric feeling” while there, all had my wife and I hoping for a heavenly message of joy. Our optimistic interpretation was that my oldest son and his wife would announce her pregnancy, and our first grandchild, based on the symbolism of the baby being placed on my grandmother‘s chair (family bloodline). However, month after month passed leading us to believe that this very vivid dream was of little consequence. Then, about a month ago, we had our son and daughter-in-law over for Chinese food. After the meal, my son passed me a fortune cookie that I opened and read aloud. It stated, “Pennies from Heaven will visit you before year‘s end.” This caused my wife and I to break out into a hearty laugh, inviting the kids to ask what we were up to. I responded with, “I think God has a sense of humor,” and left it at that. So, for the last month my wife has been saying, “We’re running out of time and still no news,” and to the best of our knowledge, they weren’t even trying to conceive. Then this last weekend my son called to tell us they were coming to visit Monday night. When they arrived I was holding a camera in anticipation. When they asked about it I stated, “The camera is in case you have any special news to tell us,” prompting a, “How did you know???” This was followed by lots of hugs and tears of joy.
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