Break in

Late last night Seth and I decided to watch a movie:) About halfway through the movie, we both started to hear strange noises coming form the other side of our house. For those of you who don't know, Seth and I live on campus at Western Mennonite School in the old boys dorm building, which has now been turned into some classrooms and an apartment. The kitchen sits directly below us. Knowing that this building is very very old, we passed it off as creaking and kept watching the movie. A few moments later we heard what sounded like someone opening and closing our door! Remember we had a movie on so we weren't sure if we were just hearing something else. The movie ended around midnight. Seth went to go check to make sure all the doors were locked. To his surprise our door was slightly open...odd. He called to me to ask what was wrong with the door because the handle was sticking. I checked the other side and found the handle had 'fallen' off. You would think at this point I would put two and two together...but this is an old building and the door handle was getting kind of old. So we locked the chain lock and went to bed.

The next morning I went down to the kitchen to get some milk, the school chef Andrew asked me if I had heard any weird noises. I said that yes, I had--around midnight. Andrew then proceeded to tell me that someone had broken into the kitchen the night before and stolen his knives! They had then proceeded up to our apartment and broken off the door handle in an attempt to break in! My guess is that they must have heard Seth and I awake and ran. Praise the Lord we did not go check...we were not thinking break in and would not have been prepared for knives and/or whatever else they had. Later looking at our door we realized that the door knob had been mangled up and the handle had teeth marks on it from a big pipe wrench! Wow. A few months ago seth wrote Bible verses over the doorway and anointed the doors with olive oil. I know that the Lord was protecting us, and because of His mighty power those people could not walk through our door! Praise God!