The Gold Star Kid & The Dream Angel (Includes MP3 audio book)
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As Ryan slept that night upon the sofa in his Granddad’s study, the Dream Angel, as promised, returned to him.
“Wake up young man, we’ve much to do,” the Dream Angel said as it shook his shoulders to interrupt his slumber.
“You’ve come back into my dream again,” said the boy. “Of course I have, I said I would visit six times and this is the second. Maths isn’t your best subject at school is it young Ryan?”
“No, not really, in fact I’ve been trying to work out…”
“Yes I know you have,” The Dream Angel interrupted Ryan this time.
“You’ve been trying to work out how old I am because I look like I am ancient to you, don’t I? And you didn’t want to ask me my age as that would be rude of you wouldn’t it?”
“Yes, but how did you know?” the bemused boy asked. “I’m a Dream Angel boy. I live in your dreams so I know everything.
Today you went to your Dad’s grave and you and your mother put a glass of Irish whiskey on it for your dad to drink, yes? And Thumper ran off with one of the Daffodils you placed there too…”
Ryan didn’t bother to try and understand how this could be. He now just accepted the weirdness of the dream he yet again found himself in.
“If you really want to know, in dream years I am just a mere forty seven thousand, two hundred and twelve years old. I think I look rather good for my age, don’t I?”
“I thought you were about forty something,” said the boy. Laughing loudly, the Dream Angel replied. “I suppose in Earth years that’d be about right…” Then assertively, the Dream Angel now changed the subject.
“We’ve much to do and must get on. Look over there.” he commanded.
Ryan looked down. He was again high up in the sky and travelling at great speed, but this time he found himself sitting on the wing of a plane: a very big red and white jumbo jet plane. “Why are we up here?” he asked.
The Dream Angel pointed to a young girl sat inside the plane. “Her name is Ayla and she is going to Disney World. It’s over there. Can you see it in the distance? And it’s all because of you.”
“Because of me?” enquired Ryan. “Yes, because of you,” came the appreciative reply. The Dream Angel explained…
“When you gave your twenty pound note to the disabled soldier standing on the corner, you gave him so much more than just money. You gave him a Dream Bond.”
Continuing, he told Ryan, “It was a Dream Angel that had dropped that money in Copper’s End, there outside the Rayner’s shop, and it was you who was the lucky one to find it and pick it up.
After you gave that soldier the money, he awoke the next day to find he had won a holiday in Florida, and he was going to visit Disney World with his children.”
Adding more he went on to say, “But his children, having heard the story he had told them about you, asked that the prize be given away to someone who needed it more than them. This girl sat in the plane, Ayla, is a friend of the soldier’s children and she is very ill. It was her dream to meet Mickey Mouse, and now she will.”
The Dream Angel pointed toward Ayla and said, “If you look closely you will see she has your twenty pound note with her. The soldier gave it to her to spend whilst she was on holiday.” Adding; “Don’t worry, he replaced with another one for his day’s kitty!”
“But I only found the money two days ago and I gave it to the injured soldier yesterday, didn’t I?” Ryan asked, a little confused.
“What you see here and now Ryan is in Dream Time. It is what will be and what will become,” calmly smiling, the Dream Angel told him. Ryan looked blank faced as if he did not understand.
“Let me explain,” he continued. “What you see now hasn’t happened in real life yet. It is simply a premonition of what will happen in the future if you believe in it.”
“But… but what would have happened if I had kept the money, if I had not told Mrs Rayner about it, or if I had never seen the soldier on the corner, or what if I had not found the money at all…?”
Ryan had so many questions…
“Well that’s a different story for another time,” explained the Dream Angel. “But you did find the money and you used it to do good for others, and that is why you found the Dream Bond. Maybe it was always going to be the way it is or maybe not. I cannot tell you this answer, but you gave the money away because you believed in selfless kindness to others, and not because you feared the consequences should you not. That’s what matters and that’s all that matters.”
Every night that week the Dream Angel came to Ryan and showed him, time and time again, where the twenty pound note had now travelled to.
On Tuesday he saw how Ayla had given the money to a homeless man. She had been given the dream holiday of a lifetime, and she too felt that she must now pass the money on.
The homeless man then gave the money to his local church whose vicar had so kindly fed and clothed him. They exchanged it into a twenty dollar bill. Within a Dream Bond moment he had a new home, a job and a good future ahead of him.
Ryan soon began to realise that it wasn’t the money that carried the Dream Bond, it was the kindness hidden inside the hearts of the people who spent the money.
On Wednesday, he saw how the note had been returned to a bank in England and how it had then sat inside a business woman’s purse. A business woman who had that very evening realised her idea to revolutionise medical care for cancer sufferers worldwide.
By Thursday the note was now in the hands of a charity organisation that raised money for hungry children overseas, providing health care and schooling for them, and so on and so on it went…
Ryan had spent his nights watching his old twenty pound note travel everywhere, all over the world, and had seen so many good things happen with it. But he knew he was still dreaming, and on Friday, he had the best dream of all.
He dreamt of how the Dream Bond had found its way back, all the way back to Copper’s End again.
For on Friday night, the Dream Angel had whispered a secret into his ear. He told Ryan that he must never forget what he had now been told. Tonight’s dream was about his mother.
However, unlike all of the other dreams that week, tonight’s was completely different. All of the countless dreams he had seen come true in Dreamland were now passed, and now in this new dream, he saw only his mum, Tanya.
Ryan and the Dream Angel sat on a fence together and watched from a distance how Tanya now rode her own horse. She was the happiest he had ever seen her, smiling and so full of joy, laughing and joking almost like a child.
He could see several horses in a field beside a big house. It wasn’t a house he could recognise but he did seem to believe it was in Copper’s End or somewhere very close to it.
There, leaning against a gate, across the paddock where Tanya rode the horse, he could see a man. He immediately recognised him as the injured soldier, called Nathan, he had met outside Ma Baker’s restaurant.
Of this he had no doubt!
THE GOLD STAR KID
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