I was in "my" home, large room facing steep incline (ampitheater-like), about ten feet to left of a woman who was reading quietly. Two children (9ish) came up behind us, to try to rob and attack us. The boy attacked her, the girl attacked me. We were too busy dealing with them to notice each others' progress.

I didn't have any way of defending myself, so I wrapped my arms around her (swaddling to contain) and loudly led her in a prayer. It wasn't so much a spiritual "please God," but a way of teaching her if she didn't know, and distracting her mind. Walking her though it.

She continued to wrestle and try to rob, so I struggled with her through rooms of the house.

People started to arrive and walk through, but none thought to call the police, or help.

One suggested I lock her in a room, but I knew she'd just climb out and feel bitter, retaliate.

I overheard someone say they only needed $1000, but the girl and boy didn't say it.

We brushed past black pathers, tigers, lions who wanted to attack us; I had to maneuver to protect my attacker from them while protecting myself.

The girl got older and taller during the process, so she was taller than me. She was somewhat calmer and more trusting, but I still couldn't let her go.

Someone approached me with a paper and key to safe deposit box, saying it was incriminating evidence that I'd killed my spouse in a certain location. She relished the thought of catching me in crime. I knew I hadn't, but it brought back guilt of a prior dream where I'd hidden spouse's crime.

I asked a librarian to open the box; it was packed with small booklets, as though people standing in checkout line had stuffed their random leftovers or returns in it. I was absolved. It also had a stack of neatly-folded wax paper bags, printed from eras of McDonald's fries (reflecting the last decades society lived through.)

The dream continued. It might have been just for me about a few people I pray for; but I thought it was useful in approaching troubles and trib that we know will come up. We tend to fear what will come up, then scurry to make ourselves as safe as possible; but God is with us in unexpected troubles, and has things He wants to accomplish through them.

‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the Lord of hosts.

Zechariah 4:6

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 6:12

I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.

I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

Philippians 4:12-15

He keeps the feet of His godly ones, But the wicked ones are silenced in darkness; For not by might shall a man prevail.

1 Samuel 2:9