Staircase - Dreams and Visions

From time to time the Lord gives me a dream or a vision. I don’t usually share these since they’re either personal (just for me), or I just don’t feel it’s necessary or time to share. Today I feel it’s time to share this vision I had back in December of 2024.

As I sat in a hotel room, my oldest daughter was on my heart. She wasn’t in a good situation, actually it was a life threatening situation that had been going on for a long time. I was powerless to do anything about it, and had surrendered her to the Lord. It was hard for me to pray about it because I had been doing that for so long, and I honestly didn’t know how to pray for her anymore. Tears just came and I asked the Lord to show me how He wanted me to pray for her. Thats when He gave me this vision.

All of a sudden everything seemed to stop around me as I saw this spiral staircase surrounding me. My daughter was climbing this staircase slowly, one step at a time. Her face had no expression as she slowly climbed. Once she reached the top of the staircase, we stood shoulder to shoulder looking ahead. Somehow this vision gave me peace. I didn’t know exactly what it meant at the time, but it calmed my soul.

The Lord brought this vision to my mind frequently as He gave me new ways to pray for her. I would pray for God to reach out His hand to her and help her up the next step, and for her to have the strength to keep going.

That entire time I had no idea what was going on with my daughter. I knew she needed help and that she was the one who was going to have to ask for it. In our brief conversations, none of my words were getting through, and I knew I was waiting on the God of miracles.

On March 11, 2025 she called me and asked me to bring her to the emergency room. I quickly packed up my things and drove across state lines. When I picked her up I knew she wasn’t well. She could barely get into the car. The doctor said she could go into cardiac arrest at any time and quickly admitted her.

Over the course of the week long stay in the hospital, I saw the Lord at work as He transformed my daughter, mind, body, and soul. Each day as her body was being tended to and healing, the Lord revealed Himself to her and she could see Him in her story. She wanted to fight to live; to thrive.

After she got out of the hospital I told her the vision I had, and she could see herself in that vision. She sees how God helped her up each step until she was shoulder to shoulder with me.

God saved her in so many ways. He showed me how to pray for her, and those prayers and prayers of others helped her climb that staircase.

Today God made me truly understand the part where she is shoulder to shoulder with me. On her treatment plan, I am her support person, walking the journey with her toward healing. At first, I didn’t understand why we were shoulder to shoulder just looking ahead in this vision. Why weren’t we embracing and having a big party? It’s because we are still on this journey, and it may take a while. Being shoulder to shoulder with her gives me peace. There’s nowhere else I’d rather be.

God is so good. I see everyday how He is working in this story. Yes, it’s challenging, but it’s also so, so good. Going through the hard, and allowing God to mold and transform you is only the pathway to freedom. I’m thankful for the strength, power, comfort, and peace He gives as we daily walk this journey.