JUST TO UPDATE MY BLOG, I COPIED THIS ONE FROM MY FACEBOOK ACCOUNT: Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 1:17am
Finally, it’s been a week after typhoon Ondoy hit Manila. But many of my fellow Filipinos are still suffering from what had happened. It was a very traumatic experience for everybody, I believe.
The picture above was our front gate after the heavy downpour from typhoon Ondoy. The flood outside had a very strong current due to the creek nearby. Good thing the front part of our house is elevated, but unfortunately, not the back part. I was told that two inches more and the back part of our house will be flooded already.Whew! I’m pretty sure my family was hoping at that time for the heavy rain to stop pouring.
Even Peegee, my niece, started crying when she felt that everybody’s getting worried and started doing their own thing — like putting important things in high places; disassembling the computer and other stuff in Kuya’s mini recording studio; etc and etc…
And while all these things were happening — guess where am I and what am I doing??!
I’m inside my room — sleeping like a baby… hehehe Zzzzzzzzzzz 
Nobody wanted to wake me up because they all knew I needed some sleep. However, that gave Mama the idea to remind Peegee, who’s crying then, about the story where Jesus calms a storm.
“And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but Jesus was asleep. And they went and woke him, saying, ‘Save us, Lord; we are perishing.’ And he said to them, ‘ Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?’ Then he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. And the men marveled, saying, ‘What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?’”
Matthew 8:23-27 ESV
Mama then told her –”Look at Tita (that’s me), she’s sleeping while a storm is going on. Because she believes Jesus will take care of us.” That’s when Peegee stopped crying…
Eventually, I did wake up because of the strong winds and the heavy downpour of rain. But I already missed the action. But I was so saddened by the news I’ve heard from the radio and on TV. It was really devastating! So, before I went to bed — I prayed, “God, please calm the storm. But if You will not calm it for some reasons — please calm Your child and all my fellow Filipinos. In Jesus’ name, AMEN.”
Indeed, peace is not the absence of problems and pains in life. It is something that only Jesus can give us even in the midst of storms in life. Sometimes He calms the storm. But many times He calms His child instead. And that is peace….
May all Filipinos find peace in Jesus today.
This is my prayer.
