fire

i was just telling my parents that we saw a fire near the u.p. bliss area. imagine our surprise when we saw another fire, this time, right behind our house.

our house has a vast, grassy field behind it. during the summer, it's prone to catch fire because of irresponsible people (who leave cigarette butts behind) and the summer heat. the field would catch fire almost every year.

mama got to work right away. she made us dump water over the fence to wet the area around our cement wall. before we knew it, the fire was a few feet from the wall. i prayed for a miracle - the fire department or rain. instead, the fire blazed higher, almost reaching a palm tree which just happens to be right next to my room.

then, neighbors and security guards rushed inside to lend us a hand. they brought more buckets and another hose, and tried to help us prevent the fire from reaching the wall. i was told to watch the door just in case someone tried to get in. i couldn't see what happened, but when i checked about 15 minutes later, the fire was gone. i thought the fire department (who took ages to get here) did it, but mik told me the fire shrank even before he saw the truck coming.

daddy explained that as the fire neared the wall, it ran out of dry things to consume because the grass around the wall was so wet from all the water we poured, so it grew smaller and smaller until it died. i still find it hard to believe.

anyone who was there would have thought the house was a goner. the fire came from three directions. the water from our buckets couldn't even reach it. all we could do was wet the area around the wall and PRAY that it would work.

i asked for miracle, God gave me two. He sent our neighbors to help, and He protected our house from a fire which was just inches away. we should have lost our house last night, but we didn't. praise God!


verse for the day:
"because he loves Me," says the Lord, "I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges My name. he will call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him." [psalm 91:14-15]

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