cliffhanger
This real life story starts out with a dream that came true. footsteps thudded behind me as the sound ricocheted in my ears. All that was heard on this dark and deserted street was heavy breathing, and the continuous pounding of his feet behind me.
Glancing over my shoulder to gauge how close he was to me, sweat poured off my face in rivulets. I pumped my arms and legs faster, hearing my heart thundering in my ears. My limbs pained me horrifically for they were protesting the sudden onslaught of imposed exercise. My breath came in short wailing gasps and sobs of terror. I looked behind me and tried to see his face, but it was covered by a black ski mask. His footsteps gained on me with every step I took. Still he made no sound. I, Katrina ran for my life.
I frantically searched around me, my legs trembling as terror gripped my insides, searching for any place of refuge. Seeing none I forged ahead. My eyes were suddenly drawn to a yellow sign by the side of the road. The sign depicted a man falling down a steep cliff indicating danger the road ended. I continued running past it, thinking I could slow down before reaching the edge of the cliff, but I was running too fast to stop, and downwards I fell.
I plunged towards the earth screaming the name of Jesus as I fell. I dragged out his name in one long wail, hoping that He would save me. Falling faster towards the ground, my life flashed before me, all the good times, bad times, and regrets that my life was about to end so abruptly.
As I reached the bottom of the cliff my body suddenly righted itself, as if a giant hand turned me right side up, and I landed on my feet. Looking down at my body, I realized I was alive and whole, not a scratch on me.
Shaking all over I fell to my knees, as tears of gratitude streamed down my face, thanking God that He had saved me from death
With a shout my body jerked, and I woke up, sitting straight up in bed, the sweat pouring down my face, my nightgown soaked. It was just a dream. I lay shaking, trying to make sense of the dream. My other experiences taught me to pay attention to my dreams, but I could not apply it to anything current in my life at the time. The dream warned me of approaching danger, to heed the signs to whatever situation would develop. There would be scary moments throughout the ordeal, but I would land on my feet. Since danger did not seem to be knocking at my door at the time, I put it out of my mind a few days later.
A few months later I became involved in a home-based business opportunity on the Internet. This person was looking for facilitators to handle financial transactions between his organization and potential sponsors. Raising funds for life support systems in third world countries was their goal. Life support systems are important and are much needed equipment in poor countries.
We corresponded for a few months, and finally he emailed me to inform me a sponsor would be sending a cheque. He instructed me to cash the cheque at a certain bank, take out my fee for handling the transaction and send the rest on to him.
From the beginning of the correspondence each email had been carefully scrutinized, looking for anything that didnt look right. They never asked me for money.
So when the cheque came that day in the mail made out to me, my thought right away was, Wow! This is a real cheque; they did just what they said they would do!
My daughter informed me that cash stores have machines that verify the authenticity of cheques. So with that assurance I took the unsigned cheque to a cash store instead of the bank they suggested, thinking this would speed up the process.
While I waited for them to verify the legitimacy of the cheque, they made me wait a long time, telling me it would take some time to get all the money together. The next thing I knew I saw a policeman come into the store and approach me. He asked me several questions concerning the cheque, and my job position. I answered his questions and then he told me the cheque number that I had presented to the cash store had already been used and the cheque was a fraud. I was arrested for uttering a forged document, and spent an uncomfortable night in jail.
While I lay on the cold bench that night in jail, the Lord reminded me about the dream that I had months before. I recognized I was in the middle of the dream, and that it came to warn me trouble was coming my way, and its warning signs would not be heeded, thus the fall from the cliff. I had failed the test!
My day in court came and I was found not guilty, an incident that should never have happened. If the dream had come back to me when I received the cheque I would have recognized it as a sign, and tore the check up. I would have recognized that it was a trap and I was in for a fall if I did not heed the dream.
When I am facing problems in my life, I have learned to look at every sign I see. The smallest details can mean something and contributes to the whole. Even if signs, or dreams do not make sense to me, or I tell myself, it was just a dreamthey are Gods way of getting a message to me that I am heading for trouble and had better heed the warning signs in my life, for these signs are sent by the Creator to guide us.
Story shared: 09/06/2007 19:10:13
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I read your story and the dream sounded so scary, I know the exact feelings you described. I feel sorry that you had to go through the ordeal with the police and a night in the cells with the trial all because you were a decent person trying to do something nice. Evil people try take advantage of us kinder lot because they must feel we are easy targets. All the evil people who try this will all be found out one day and be put away behind bars for a long time.
I am a catholic and believe purely in my faith, I have never questioned it once in my 17 years, I never will. Except things like terrorism and evil people committing their bad sins, I think everything happens for some reason or another.
I never thought of it as God sending messages through dreams but you have opened my eyes!!!! When I think about it now, you are right!!! It all makes so much sense now!! :D
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