Hi guys, happy new month🏄, we have already seen "part to what" the month holds for us(yesterday Liverpool finally lost a game after going 44 games unbeaten), today is also Sunday an ample day to worship and reverence God Almighty, today also happens to be the birthday of one of my beautiful cousin 😎, happy birthday Ozichi Okoronkwo. This blog post is serving as a remembrance of what the Lord did for me 5 years ago and to say I am still grateful to him for the love that he has shown to me and my family.
The second week in the month of August in the year 2015 was a week of big events, my birthday was on the first day of the week, Monday 10th, two days later my elderest sister was going to write her post utme exams @ the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka(UNN) so it was a week full of promise.
My birthday went as normal, no much fuss, we had a trip planned for the next day, my dad as the early bird he is insisted we travel a day before the exam(very smart idea) so we could have time to see my other sister in Akwa as well as some friends and family over in Enugu and so my other sister writing her post utme would be acclimatized with the environment, we prepared for the journey, cooked coconut rice and fried chicken for my sister, bought drinks and table water, my dad also added 50litres of petrol in the trunk for our travels.
By 6:15 we began the journey from Warri to Nsukka(my dad likes traveling early set awon first bus geng), it was a cool morning, drizzling a bit more as we progressed until we reached Ozoro, we were on the highway heading towards the Niger Bridge, for some reason best known to my dad had earlier asked me to check his speed on the speedometer as we drove on the bridge, so still on the Ozoro highway suddenly my dad needed his phone, he did a quick body search and he could not find it(we don go half the journey to turn back go be yawa), so he asked me to help him look for it, I took off my seatbeat(I was riding shot-gun, been riding there all my life) and searched every possible that hands can reach in a moving vehicle but I do not see it. Normally my dad hates when no one knows the location of things he needs, so he joined the search for the phone, one hand on the steering wheel and another searching for the phone(not the smartest idea though).
My sister called his attention with panic in her voice that we were swerving off the road, we stopped the search (p.s the search was very short, lasted10sec) and My dad tried swerving back to the highway(wet road+speed+and instant change in direction=
As God would have it, the food items and some of the drinks in the trunk were damaged and littered on the highway but the 50litres of petrol was still secured, obviously such a scene would attract people so they flipped the car back to its normal position and lo and behold, the phone laying undisturbed under my dad's seat(a place that was checked 😡), a good Samaritan(I legit saved his number with that) put us in his car, drove us to his house to wash up and dropped us in the nearest park going to Awka.
My sister @ Awka was happy to see us, we spent some time with her and then continued to Nsukka, to cut long story short, my elderest sister pasted the post utme, matriculated(we attended it with the car, it had been fixed by that time) and now by the grace of God is a certified Microbiologist for UNN.
Any time I think about the incident I am convinced that no matter how prepared we were are for any thing, life would still be life, but it is different when you have God Almighty watching you, as we move on with our daily activities in this new month, I hope we show appreciation to God for the things he has done no matter how little we think it is, because the more we appreciate, the more he would do for us. Ciao👋
My guy
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