Night message

I am thinking on whether or not to tell a woman, for whom I had been in intercessory prayer for her son, about a scene that had been given to me about her son. Her son had been found to have cancer for the second time. On the evening before he was due to have surgery that would remove his cancer of find how widespread his cancer was, I was in prayer for the young man of age 23. A scene came to mind from a famous poem, "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." I have not read the poem in a number of years and there was no reason for me to associate this poem with the events of the young man for whom I was praying. Yet clearly and distinctly I could see two skeletons gambling for a person's life.

The scene is straight out of the poem because Death gambles with a woman on a ghost ship for the life of the mariner. In the poem, Death loses the roll of the dice. However, the night I was praying, the vision did not have an end. It merely had the representation of gambling for a person's life. I knew that if the roll went against the young man that I needed to pray for the stamina of the parents. If the roll went in favor of the young man, I needed to utter many phrases of thanksgiving.

3 days later I found that the die had been cast in favor of life because the doctor was able to remove all the cancer. My prayers after finding out have been for the young man to realize the gift that was given to him and for him to use his life wisely for the Creator. I am thinking that the young man needs to know about the scene from the poem in order to more fully appreciate what was done for him. Then again, we have never met. So, I'm thinking that if I tell the boy's mother, she can decide whether her son needs the information or not. She would more fully understand and appreciate what the Creator has done for her son. I have a window of time in which to tell the mother because our paths are not going to cross much at all after another week and a half. So, I am thinking that in a week I will tell her of this night scene that stuck in my mind, that the Creator made a deliberate decision for her son to live.

I am wondering why I haven't told her already. But, then, I think it may be tied to the fact that the Creator decided differently for me on one occasion. Banish that thought since my own son lived a year and 3 weeks longer than his original departure date. I better just deliver the message.