She further asks: “I discuss prayer with my son, that he can pray and trust God to protect him and that I am praying for him to be safe. I feel in a bind because my partner points out that my son manipulates me and perhaps specifically in this situation, to get what he wants, to sleep in my bed. I just want to be in divine alignment in raising my son and it’s been a challenge for me to give him the right boundaries. My son is saying that something bonked him in the head last night. ‘A real monster in his room.’ I believe him that he is scared but did this happen or is he making it up to gain my sympathy so I’ll let him sleep in my bed?”

Unfortunately, we must tell you in response to a direct question that his perception was accurate. He was not in danger, this was only done to scare him, lower his vibration, and make him more vulnerable. There are other ways to create boundaries than all-or-nothing choices. So on the heels of a scare like he experienced, letting him have one night by way of giving him nurturing and loving reassurance and greater safety, with the understanding he must return to his own bed the next night can be done as well. The situation requires vigilance but there are limits to what can be done, even by the divine realm, given the free will of the interlopers.