Afternoon of September 23, I checked my e-mails to get notified with the next lessons we shall be tackling in SAD and then I received a notification from our Prof. about a seminar to be conducted by JPCS in Manila on September 25 that was for free. Upon reading so, I really wanted to go but then, 24 has been my birthday and I scheduled a small party with friends to celebrate my birthday. Also, I don't have enough means to travel by then. If only I was informed earlier about it, I should have attended the seminar.
September 26, I was not able to come to work because we had an online conference with one of my subjects.The scenario was that, Now it's raining so hard and after a while it stops and then it rained harder. I was in front of my computer for half a day and decided to go out around 1 in the afternoon to visit a friend but my mother refused to let me go out so I didn't went out. While doing nothing, I opted to watch tv and so right then and there, I have seen how the typhoon had a massive destruction. Every person in Manila was busy saving their lives, their families. The flood is unstoppable of flowing in the streets until such time that the water has risen so fast and covered most of the houses that you could barely see nothing but people crying for help and people carried by flowing water but still seaking for hel at the very last moment.
That then on, i realized, God has saved me from the tragedy. If I was there, might be that I am one of those people thinking how to save my life.
For now, while watching the television, i can help myself by cry thinking if I were in their shoes, I should have also suffered the same thing, not knowing where to go, not knowing how to start all over again. But what had happened is a total awakening of what God wants to tell us, that we should know how to seek refuge to Him and not in material things.
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