TO GOD BE THE GLORY

Let me just divert from my moaning about this country for a second and share a testimony with you guyz about my near death experience on the Easter of 2005.Even thinking of it still gives me shivers and it acts as constant reminder of GOD'S kindness to me and my family.

The incident happened one night in our house in Nigeria when i just finished gisting with my brothers and was about to go to bed.My younger brother who then was 9yrs old wanted to come and sleep with me in my room cos he was scared of sleeping alone ,but i refused cos me myself was scared of sleeping alone in my own room cos i had a nightmare the day before about two women with a something that looked like a bowl and wearing nothing but wrappers tied to their chests, standing in the middle of my room and screaming at me.So i decided it was best we go and sleep in my older sister's room but when we got there i realised that us 3 sleeping on the bed would be uncomfortable since my brother was a rough sleeper(he kicks and hits when he's asleep)and it would be real foolish to put him on the same bed as my sister who was ill with malaria,instead i took him to my other brother's room.I was half asleep when my eldest sister came and asked me where i kept my sick sister's mp3 ,i ignored her cos my tired mind was still trying to understand the question,then she asked me if i kept it in her wardrobe and i said 'yes' though i left it at her bedside table(thinking about it i just realised that GOD made give the wrong answer)she went and opened the door cos the light in the room was switched off and she didn't want to disturb my other sister,then proceeded towards the wardrobe.Next thing i knew she tells us to quickly go out of the room in a panicky voice,i woke my other sister up then ran out of the room thinking it was a rat(they scare the shit out of me),i was at the sitting room telling my mum that we needed to get them pest extinguisher people that comes and sprays chemicals that drive away pestes like rat and cockroaches when my eldest sister ran into the room and screamed that IT WAS A SNAKE,honestly that day i run pass Marion Jones anyway GOD used our security men that day because it was only through a miracle that they found the snake. Imagine they later found the snake in one of the open suitcases in my eldest sister's room which is in the other side of the house,so the snake had to pass my room,my brothers rooms,the kitchen and the laundry room to get to her room.After killing the snake the men told us that it wasn't normal for a snake to be in an area where there are many human beings moving around and there is not a single bush or like a cluster of trees or overgrown grass and most of all enter someone's room that the snake was sent by someone.Later we found out that it was sent for my eldest sister and it was her first trip to Naija since getting her Master's degree,anyway we also later found out that it was sent to us by a member of my father's immediate family.

It was a near death experience for me because no-one knows how long the snake had been there for ,it could have bitten my sister was had been lying there all day then maybe me when i was sleeping,it was GOD that moved my sister when she came near the wardrobe because she said it looked like a rope and that she only moved out of instinct,we believe that when it fell it was probably diving at her.

I'm totally grateful to GOD for how we survived that night and i ask you guyz to share your own experiences if you have any