What if the tree fell the other way?

In a dream the other night, I was having some friends over to my house. Being a dream, some odd people were at this party. They were both former co-workers, but one is dead, and the other moved off to another part of the state. "M" is the one who died but was alive in the dream. "P" was the one who moved away.
"M" and I were pulling on some dead branches on a living tree. The branches broke off and fell but were logs instead of branches, they fell on "P"s car. "P" was sitting on the hood of the car, so the dead logs crushed the bumper...and "P's toes. For some reason, "P" got angry and pulled a revolver out of his boot holster. His intentions were clear that he wanted both "M" and I dead.

It wasn't about old grudges or past hurts, just a crisis brought on by my impetuous and not well thought out actions.

I woke up in a cold sweat, heart pounding. What came to mind were flashes of events that started by my foolishness, but had by grace fallen the other way. The tree in the dream fell the wrong way, crunching a car and nearly killed a man. Without revealing some past antics specifically (I plead the 5th), there were a number of situations where my initiation or complicity could ... well I knew guys in prison, who had done something that resembled my loonacy, but theirs went bad enough to have a Judge give them 5-7 years.

Please understand I did not always have malicious intent, however when the snowball starts rolling, it can go beyond the first action and end up catastrophic. I won't put any specifics in this paper, because (1) in the event that it involves others, I need to go to them and resolve face to face. Also (2) the statutes of limitations may not have expired.

Psalm 103:8-14, "The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.
He will not always accuse, nor will He harbor his anger forever;
He does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him; for He knows how we are formed, He remembers that we are dust.

So many times I did not get what I deserved. Knowing this, I should make every comment, evaluation, and correction, knowing full well, I might be as guilty as any common criminal (in the thought process, if not in actuality). IT IS THE HOLY "BEER LAHAI ROI" (Gen 16) that sees our needs, and forgives our fault.

Also He has promised, Psalm 19:13, "Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression."

I know that there were times when it was Heavenly guardians, that prevented my movement toward sin, and they cut me off. I had the desire for evil, but thankfully, things were not where they were supposed to be, or that quiet place suddenly had crowds.

Some day when the saints of God surround His throne, we may find out how MANY-MANY times Jehovah comes to protect us from our foolishness, when we never knew. I was/am a foolish person that the True and Living God answered my prayers to keep me away from presumptuous sins.

I pray that you will not pursue foolishness, or if you do, God will send angels for our own good, just like Baalim riding his donkey met a flaming sword. By grace, he was allowed to see the weapon of death, before it fell on him.