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Sunday, 30 March 2008

Wonderful Grace

Wonderful Grace...

As usual, after church and go eat and eat !!! After that, me and another bro. due to some hotz sun ... we decided to for a little cooler area which is Chammang Waterfall.

We start our journey at 5pm ... which is after a heavy rain! And the skies were smiling at us with a cheerful rainbow! So we head our journey into the waterfall... along the road, we experience something tat hardly being experienced by many people. The wind were blowing superb strongly against us, and me driving motor in... and even the steering was shaken and some part i struggle to control it but really thank God for nothing had happen and we really enjoy and thank God for tat journey! Tat journey ... the wind keep blowing harshly, follow by some heaven's kind of atmosphere with clouds chilling environment!

Reaching that area was another big surprise to me! After the rain, that area normally shudnt be crowded with people and cars, but its really lots! So we parked the motor in front of a drink shop and we tripled locked down the motor! Walking down the stream, heading to a place where Patrick which is one of my brother who baptize in tat area last year! Wondering and wondering we reach the area, and my brother was taking camera snapping some scenery while me and later on my brother preparing the fire to heat up and boil a Nescafe Gold Aroma 3 in 1 instant coffee, but sadly, we running out of matches as well as dry leaf since is after the rain! And the wind blow hit against the tree and we saw many branches is falling down. So, during that minutes, we decided to leave and complete our main objective which is collecting some smooth river stone for sunday school and beautify the church with all these stones and minerals. Heading up walking at the riverside hitting against the river and we reach a place where many nice stone were found.

We started to collects stone and rocks around that area! And after few minutes collecting enough stones, me and my brother in Christ were enjoying photographing! We took many great pictures and "model" posting near the reiverside... whr the river is not harsh and is not deep... Its smooth, clean and really amazing clear... We took my great shots...

After awhile... here's come the disaster, we hear suddenly no thunder with no rain, the flow of the river is from shhhii.... to swash swash sound, and my brother was telling me the river flow getting faster and faster !!! I was at the eyes shooting the flow of the stream, when my head was rise to see the river flow claims by my brother, I was SHOCKED!!! Guess what, the river turning yellow and my experience telling me is FLASH FLOOD!!! I was telling my bro to run and run for life!!! We head bac to a rock took all our belonging and we rsh to the land, but everything is happen way to fast, the stream is getting faste and faster as well as deeper! We thought we were trapped in the center of the river! And I was so scare that my brother will hurt or wat! I personally know how to swim well even in the dangerous situation coz of last time training! So, we both rush and head to a nearer rock to the land, and we threw our bags and slippers to the lands, and we trying to go across a deep stream, yellowish and fast flow. But The riverside which is 1meter btw the stream and the land we standing! We were trapped and we realize we are facing the corner of death whereby there's is no time for prayer and we so scare of stepping into a slipply ground that d stream may push us away!

When it happen, there's a tree falling down, block the stream awhile, me and my brother holds hand to hand and helping each other to cross the river. And when we reach the riverside ... there's a Ranger rush down and ask all the people get off the ground and the river. When we reach the ground, we realize our mission had fail us! We forget to threw another bag of stone that we collect. And my brother told me this... Stone or rocks is not important, the important is we had each other and what can we get from just now was all about Teamwork and Life in Christ! We thank the Lord ... when we reach the waterfall where we parked our motor! We saw ever the first time in my whole entire life until now... The Waterfall was superb dangerous and is one of the biggest fall and flow of water i ever see in Chammang Waterfall!!! Hanging Bridge was disabled tat time! The people opposite had to camp d... Heading back to church for prayers, and make a cup of coffee, clean ourself and head back home.

We are glad coz we are safe! We are happy too... because God is Great! We are not sad and not swearing that we will nvr come bac, because we know He is a merciful gracious Lord! In th end, we all laugh at each other ... 1st time for him to gain a survive living in this flash flood situation, and its my 4th time running safely away from flash flood and the death trap. We thank the Lord really ...

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