In a recurring dream that leaves the dreamer feeling powerless, a giant wave surges inland as frantic parents hand their beloved children to people in a train car up on a trestle. Surely they will be safe in the train that is higher than the surrounding landscape.

Then the train, now filled with scores of children and adults — some 1,500 of them — is knocked off its tracks. It tumbles over and over by the giant wave, killing everyone on board.

The dream is based in reality: the 2004 tsunami that hit Southeast Asia took out this train in Sri Lanka. The dreamer is Sharon Eubank, global humanitarian leader for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Visiting the area five months after the tsunami hit, Eubank was overwhelmed with feelings of helplessness as she met families camping

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