"New York City Trip"
There was a technology show in New York City at the Javits Center and one of the other ShareValue Executives and I decided to go. I had worked with him at the internet company, and he knew the singing waitress, too. We contacted her to let her know we would be in town. We went to see her after attending the show and the restaurant where she worked was awesome. She and her boyfriend invited us out that night to a Bavarian Restaurant which she claimed had the best beer in the world.
My partner and I played the tourist for the day and headed to catch the ferry to go see the Statue of Liberty. On our way, we walked by the World Trade Center Towers.
Once in front of the World Trade Center, I stepped off the sidewalk into the grass closer to the World Trade Center Twin Towers. At first, I was just looking at the ground level but when I got steady (I suffer from vertigo), I slowly looked all the way up the tower in front of me. About halfway up the tower, I slipped into a vision. All of a sudden, a ball of flame came out of the building. I looked at the tower to my right, and the same thing happened to it.
Amazed at what I was seeing, I walked back and forth between the two buildings. I was looking at the building in front of me when out of my peripheral vision, I saw the second building collapse. Then the building in front of me collapsed, too. They both came down in a pile of rubble.
A thought came to me that maybe other buildings around would come down, too, so I started looking at each building close by to see if anything would happen. When I looked slightly to the left of the first building, I saw in the distance another building come down. I kept looking but saw no additional buildings came down that I could see.
The feeling was that it was over, and I said to myself, “If I didn’t know better, these three buildings are all going to be destroyed and come down.”
The vision then broke and I could see the buildings standing there again. I slowly looked up and slipped into another vision. A sign was hung between the two buildings that read, “Target”. I looked down and the vision ended.
About that time my partner asked me if I wanted to go up to the top. That terrified me and I declined. We left and went to see the Statue of Liberty.
Returning from the Statue of Liberty, a man with an anarchist spirit getting off the ferry shouted out, “I want to see fire from the sky come down on this city.” We chuckled a little at him, but I caught myself and asked the Lord if there was anything I could do for the man. He responded saying, “You can tell him he will live to see the day when that will happen.” That shocked me and I just kept on going without addressing the man.
We met up with our singing waitress and her boyfriend and had an awesome dinner and the best beer in the world. I rarely drink more than half a beer and I drank two.
A few weeks before we went on our trip, I had had a dream. In the dream, I was standing at what seemed to be a train station, but the cars looked like subway cars. The waitress was there with her boyfriend, and I was saying goodbye to them getting ready to board.
I was worried about them and asked them if they were going to be ok. They assured me they would be fine, and she leaned forward and kissed me on the cheek. The dream ended. I had never shared a dream with her before but felt prompted to call her and tell her this one. It meant nothing to her though.
My partner and I knew it was going to be a late night and had checked out of our hotel planning to go directly from dinner to the airport. Our waitress friend and her boyfriend offered to see us to the subway station.
The station was above ground and saying our goodbyes, I realized I was in the place of my dream. Looking up at her, she could see what I was thinking and leaned over to kiss my cheek. I wondered if I should tell them about the World Trade Center Vision or not, but there really wasn’t enough time so we just left.