From Charli:

My father in law was terminally ill with cancer and my husband and I knew it was just a matter of a few weeks or months before he would be gone.  One morning just before daylight I awoke to the sound of my husband crying in his sleep.  I rolled over, touched him, and woke him up.  He told me he had just dreamt that his dad was standing at the foot of our bed looking strong and healthy again with a suitcase in his hand.  His dad told him that he just wanted to stop by and tell him good-bye and he left.  We laid there for a little while and eventually fell back to sleep.  A couple of hours later the phone rang and the news was that his father had passed away sometime during the night sooner than we had expected.