Last night at 1 am I had a rude awakening. I was in a deep sleep but ever since Kate came into our life it doesn't take much noise to wake me up. I heard the window opening and someone forcefully pulling the curtain aside. It was very dark but because of the moon outside I could see the silhouette of a man standing outside my window. In these sort of situations, different people do different things, I chose to yell out in a loud voice, "Hey!", and then I lunged up from the bed towards the window (what was I going to do once I got there?). All of a sudden the man puts a bright light in my face and I hear him talking to another person outside, though I'm not sure what he said or which language it was. Dave is still out of town and so my heart was beating fast and I wasn't sure what to do.
I had let the speaker of our SOFM borrow my cell phone this week so that he could keep in touch with his wife and so I didn't have any numbers or a phone nearby. We have a land line phone but it was quite far and I wasn't sure if I should wake up Kate and bring her with me, or just run and call Dave. I ended up calling Dave and he called a couple of our staff and Kumar, who is the chowkidar for the house. Within a few minutes there were about 9 people outside on our terrace, where the men had been. Everyone searched high and low, but no one could be found. We figured that they had climbed up our wall and along a ledge, up onto the terrace. They had opened the door of a house just next to ours and gone through a room, but were obviously not interested in what was there.
The funny thing is that there are bars on our windows so they couldn't actually get into our room. From what I hear, there have been many similar incidences in our area and in surrounding localities and what the thieves do is bring long sticks with them in order to fish things out of peoples homes. Our house owner just warned us a few days ago to be careful as there have been increasing reports of break-ins in our area. Needless to say, I'm looking forward to my husband coming home. But Kate slept all the way through the whole situation and is happy and well. I'm so thankful for the friends that I have here that came to help me in the middle of the night. Another good thing is that I have a guest coming today named Sylvia, and she will be staying here with me for a few days. Plus last night I went through and wired shut all of our windows that had the iron clasp broken off and so we are safe and sound. I decided that there are a lot scarier things in the world, like this huge tornado...
One of my favorite verses these days is Isaiah 26:3: "You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is fixed on you because he trusts in You." I was thinking about that verse last night after the incident and asking God for that perfect peace because we trust in Him and hope in His mercy. I am so thankful that nothing bad happened and nothing was stolen.
