In this dream, I am making the observation that something I wanted to do didn’t work out well, but something I was led to do worked out quite well.

In the dream, I was at work but not at my current job.  I did seem to be in my office, though.  I had a project that I really wanted to do and started it.  It appeared as a white sheet of paper and as I worked on it, I would write on the paper.  But I wasn’t getting very far with it.  Not really accomplishing much.  Then my boss came in (someone I don’t actually know in real life) and told me to start a project for work.  He told me what I needed to do.  It was very similar to what I was doing already, but it covered a different subject matter. Being that it was an assignment from my boss, I started it right away.  This project appeared as a yellow sheet of paper hanging next to the white sheet of paper.  As I worked, I wrote on the yellow paper just as I had the white. Very quickly, I made great progress on it.  It looked very good and it was obvious I had done well on it.  My boss came in to check my work and looked at both.  He told me, “You would not have picked the second project to work on if you had a choice, but look at how far you came with it and how well you did. Much better than the project you wanted to do.”

Significant symbols:

Work-one’s actual work, family, a project, etc.

paper-personal talent or need to communicate.  Self-expression and communication.

white-purity/holiness/spiritual

yellow-intelligence/wisdom/creativity

The white sheet of paper represents my dream goal of what I would like to do for work.  I make the effort but never get very far with it.  Every initiative starts off well but never builds into anything.  The yellow sheet of paper represents an endeavor I was led to start by outside forces.  It utilizes the same talents and abilities I use for the dream project but it has a different goal.  I would not have dreamed of doing the second project on my own.  It was not in my vision of what I wanted to achieve.  But I do really well at it and accomplish much.  It is pointed out to me by Spirit that I did much better at the project I was led to do than the project I wanted to do.

Sometimes God must lead us to what we really should be doing.  It may not match what we see for ourselves, but if you allow God to lead you where you need to be, then you will find a very fulfilling and rewarding life. This is not to say you shouldn’t plan and work for what you want.  God cannot lead you where you need to be if you are not even trying to utilize your talents and abilities. Make a plan of what it is you want to accomplish, and then start systematically working towards your goal.  If God needs to lead you into something else, it will happen somewhere in the process of you actively working towards what you want.  For example, you decided at an early age you wanted to teach.  You work towards that goal and earn a teaching degree.  But once in the classroom, you find that you do not enjoy the work. Perhaps the students are too challenging to your patience.  But the opportunity comes up to teach adults and you try it.  You find you love it, as the skills needed to teach adults are different from those needed to teach children.  Teaching adults just works better with your personality than teaching children.  This is a situation where you actively worked towards what you thought you wanted for yourself, and had to be led to a different version of that ideal once it was apparent your original ideal wasn’t working.