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The evening before I was to leave, my wife had a violent dream that someone was choking her.  This dream, so intensely real and frightening caused her to struggle with the assailant while she slept.  She struggled so mightly, she woke herself up.  I myself, slept quite soundly and never heard a thing.

In the morning, she asked if I had gotten up in the night because she remembered hearing our kitchen floor creak.  I said I hadn't. 

In the kitchen of that apartment, there is a counter top that butts right up to a window.  In the morning, we went to the kitchen for breakfast and saw the window was wide open.  Right next to it, our two cell phones, sitting nicely side by side.  We had not put them there.

We took a careful look around.  The dish in our living room where we kept small amounts of change was empty.  The watch I had placed in it the night before was gone.  We had been robbed.  We were astonished that this occurred because our apartment was on the second floor and not easily accessible from the building's exterior. 

Because there was no air conditioning and the apartment was very stuffy, I had left the window cracked open about 2 inches the night before.  Apparently that was enough invitation for an enterprising thief.  

Jai Li's nightmare event, must have alarmed and frightened the thief, causing him to leave in a hurry and forget our cell phones as he rushed to escape through the window.

We felt very grateful to God for his intervention during the night.  As we have felt through our entire lives, His protection of us never waivers.  We've each had dreams come to us that have triggered events in our favor.  We see them as intentionally sent from our Lord.  We saw this dream as such a gift.  Our Lord's unwaivering vigulence, is a grace and fortune to have, particularly so for me as I would rely on Him all through my journey to Chengdu.