A MESSAGE SENT BY AN "ANGEL"

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…The Typhoon Sendong simply brought that strong command through an extraordinary being whom I call an Angel stating “Do not come back in this place”… an account shared by one of the survivors.

It has been days since I last touched my blog site not until yesterday’s encounter with a particular flood victim. She recalled going home from work amidst the heavy rain. She was then forewarned by someone in the house where she lived that they may be vacating the house the soonest.

Since the water had risen faster than she thought compared to the usual little flooding (she lived beside the river dike) in their place, she took some things with her including a bag containing some valuables. She braced herself hurriedly outside of her room locking her door followed by a power interruption.

That time she already felt the intense fear and anxiety of what might happen next. Her attention was called by someone in the house to locate and prod her to join them in their attempt to move away from where they were.

While she was promised by someone she called “kuya” in the house that he would come back for her, she struggled to stay on the dike (where they passed by everyday to the highway) beside heavy running water of Cagayan river.

That time, she already felt close to breaking down as she found the water level rising up her knees as she kept herself on top amidst the flowing current. She recalled with tears how she managed to stay with herself intact amidst the challenge of staying on the dike and not to be carried away by the strong current of the water ( That was such a life and death thing for her).

She said further that she stood faithful to the promise of “kuya” that he would come back for her. She was already trembling and while she made a loud cry begging for help, a kind gentleman that she was not able to identify offered help and grabbed her by the hand and silently swam bringing her and another person to a dry land. She was not able to see his face nor thank him for his help because she couldn’t just stop crying.

Before this gentleman bade goodbye, he warned them saying “Do not come back in this place…”. And paved his way back to the flooded place which to her assumption, he was going to rescue some more people.

Well at my end, I was wondering how such a man could carry 2 individuals swimming such a long distance holding them both tight through their arms using his left and right hand on a deep heavy flowing water.

You know why I am sharing this? This is something extraordinary among those I heard and accounted by those that survived. During the sharing, I was seeing beyond what was there. I felt a strong warning “not to go back” by Someone up there through an extraordinary being sent on a mission to save those who are meant to live.

I am not certain if you could resonate with what I “saw” and “felt” in the story. But something just popped up inside me while I listened to that account.

Firstly, that man is no ordinary man. I felt also that he was not alone doing the thing he did. If the heavens allowed such tragedy to happen, there were many of these “men” dispersed as commanded by the Highest Power to set aside those who are not meant to crossover yet. (With the many accounts of those that survived, there were always “avenue” where helps were made available leading them to a realization that they were still meant to live and may still have that mission to fulfill.

Secondly, at my end, I felt that those who have passed away, painful as it was , had to respond also to the call to be in the next life. Life ends in there… in that flood but does not mean they are damned and condemned to be in pain forever.

Thirdly, I still see God’s mercy in everything. Those who may have survived may feel “lucky” to still have kept their lives (hahahhaha as if we can keep our lives as easy as that…so sorry for that…but Someone up there is in control). But I see more of a challenge and a call “not to go back” as commanded by that “stranger” that saved my friend. That command can be a strong and direct instruction from the heavens not to go back to an old life and start anew. For those that survived, that “stranger” whom I now call an Angel of God is at His strong command to send a message to all of us to start afresh and not to mess up anymore with life.

This Christmas season, we have the message from the heavens to “make a straight path for the Lord” and “not to go back” with that old life that may have put our humanity down – bathed in sin and insensitivity to our brethren.

Fourthly, the reality of God’s messenger sent on purpose to warn man. The warning “not to go back” may mean (or perhaps mean) another flood can happen. From this I see a God protecting us through His messenger/s. We cannot allow anymore lives wasted through our stubbornness by going back and build up our homes again in those places affected by the flash flood (Though some families opted to go back for reasons that they have no place to stay and so they are rebuilding their homes from the debris and remnants of the typhoon. I do hope the government would remain true to its promise for relocation …not beside some hilly parts of a plateau land area…as I heard it).

Lastly, I feel right now that angels are everywhere and that one extraordinary being may have represented a MESSAGE strongly sent to all of us to simply live our lives well so that at the end, we will not anymore ask or beg for second chance at life.

One day in the future, we can just smile and say… "we have done what we had to do as His servant and have done it well for His glory"….with eagerness of seeing Him regardless of the circumstance of our death or wherever our material body would go or be placed (sadly a lot of bodies were “initially” placed at a landfill…). And so we could care less about our body (what do you think?).

The heavens has dispensed its true message through that “Angel” that would want all of us to simply prepare and look forward to… going HOME by “not going back…” to our old life.

Let us all start together :-)…by God’s grace and strength…YES WE CAN:-)

PS : To Cindy (Cinderella Tafalla) ...thanks for entrusting to me your story of survival...God bless you!...you led me to write this piece..:-) Again... Thank you...