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"Ahh, that kind of thing only happens in movies!" How many times have you heard this, and also thought the same way? Me, my whole life! Until it happened to me, so today I basically just believe in another opposite dictum: "Life imitates art!" I am an ordinary person, I lead a normal life, but now I know that ordinary people are not immune to extraordinary events, whether they come in the form of a devastating tsunami or a wondrous Aurora Borealis. When dark secrets about the person you trusted in a decade ago and invested all your energy in a relationship that seemed to be based on love and respect, when you are faced with the other personalities of that person, when the other lives she had hidden from you come to the surface, when the veiled evil and lies accumulated for years, one day they overflow and arrive like a seaquake trying to drag you to the bottom of an ocean of tears and heartache. And you ask yourself: Why with me? I thought this kind of thing would only happen on TV! It has to be fast! Yes, survival is in the quickness with which you move your arms and legs to keep your head out of the waves, because bitterness takes root in the heart at the same velocity, and I reject this burden, because the only weight I want to carry is that of my backpack. So I resorted to the One who teaches to forgive, I prayed to the Father who is able to silence the most turbulent waters. In His Word I found that the truth sets us free (John 8:32), and that night the most beautiful dream was given to me, I dreamed that I was sailing in the calmest, warmest, clearest waters, with the most luminous green tone I had ever seen, and a feeling of peace, fullness and security invaded me, because of a hand that held my, I turned to see whose it was, he was tall, black hair and beard and looked at me sweetly, I never had seen that face. Upon waking up it was clear what to do, where to go... Said the Brazilian poet Mario Quintana: “To travel is to change the soul's clothes!” My country, Brazil, is majestic in your nature, which makes it difficult to choose between its paradises, but in the middle of the ocean there is a blessed place, The Island Grande. About an hour by sea, on a vessel where I was the only Brazilian passenger, I literally felt like a foreigner in my own country, but in a wonderful way, thankful and proud for people from all over the planet to come here to be dazzled!! As the boat approached an unusual thought occurred to me... How is it possible for reality to overcome a dream? My dream did not live up to the splendor of the mountains and peaks covered by an intense green carpet that extended to the crystalline waters and made the sky even more blue. Jungle that meets beaches and decorate the landscape with so many colors that you can't count, I didn't expect so much! Feet on land and the vision of a heaven where there are no cars or motorbikes, as soon as I arrived I made a small trail to my hostel, exactly what I needed, an immersion in nature. My birthday came, and admiring that blue immensity, I talked to God, thanked him and also asked for a gift of His choice, because even I didn't know what I wanted, I just asked it to be something that renewed me, that would make me believe again. It was then that I saw him a second time, the first was in that dream, the same height, the same black hair and beard, were there materialized, the same honey eyes that looked at me sweetly and the same hand that held mine while we walked through the sands of the island of healing. Yes, that was real... it was my Aurora Borealis! Maybe one day he will read this text and know that it was used by God to make me believe again.