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As we walked toward the parking garage, I told him about the accident. He was horrified to see the condition of the car and the little piles of shattered glass by the driver's door that had fallen off my lap when I had exited the car.

As soon as we arrived home, I phoned Tom.

"Son, you'll never believe what happened to me on the way to the airport … "

As I related my story, all I could hear was a grand silence. Tom was literally speechless.

"Tom, I believe you were God's messenger today," I told him. "The Lord most certainly sent me a warning through your dream."

The next day, when the auto-shop repairman looked at the car, his jaw dropped in disbelief.

"Lady, you were very lucky," he said. "From the look of this impact, you should have lost control of this car."

He explained that whatever hit my car had slammed into the windshield frame first, bounced off the windshield just above my forehead, and then hit the roof.

"If it had hit the windshield first," he added, "it would have penetrated directly into your head and you wouldn't be here today."

I smiled and said, "Luck had nothing to do with it."

In my heart I knew it was all about a loving, gracious Lord. God protected me. But I believe He also wanted to strengthen the faith of my son, who at that time saw no need for God in his life. The irony was that, in order to wake him up from his own self-sufficiency, God gave him a nightmare. A nightmare that not only helped save my life, but that gave my son a new vision of reality and brought him back to the Lord. Sometimes dreams do come true.

Doris J. Grace is a writer living in California.

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