I thought God has erased me from His To-Bless checklist...
After so long that I've kinda drifted apart from Him yet again,
I thought He must have been so disappointed in me that He chose to somehow forget me...
I believe He can-
but He didn't.
This evening I drove to Mid Valley to meet up with with my friends
...and knowing how horrendous searching for a parking space in that forsaken shopping mall can be especially during dinner time,
I thought I was running into a little luck when I got the perfect spot almost immediately after I enter the basement parking.
We had a wonderful time hanging out in a high end cafe and camwhoring on a Bufori...
My friends went on watching a midnight show and I decided to head back home...
Wait!
Where's my ticket?
I remember placing it inside the mini compartment in my bag...
or was it my pocket?
could it be in my purse?
I searched every single nook and cranny but found nothing.
I told myself "Don't worry. Check the dashboard. Maybe I didn't brought it down with me."
No. It wasn't there too.
I turned over the carpets, unloaded my bag, checked through every damned receipts and ATM slips hoping that the ticket might be stuck in between...
Nothing.
The last resort would be paying the penalty for lost tickets
and I was willing (well, not quite actually...) to pay 50 bucks to get out from the eerie parking lot...
Oh crap! Even the cashier counters were closed!
When all things failed...I uttered a silent prayer- "Lord, please help me!"
Still in doubt, I drove to another section hoping to find a security guard or someone who can help me with this situation...
No one came by...
Engulfed with sheer disappointment and fear, I found myself walking towards an autopay machine...
"Geez, what's that sticking out from the ticket feeder? OHEMGEE! It's a ticket!"
I tried to slot the ticket in and the screen read "Ticket paid. Please proceed to exit."
I still didn't believe it so tried it on other machines and the same thing happened.
No one came by to search for the ticket...
My heart shouted with joy! "Thank you Lord! This is a miracle!"
Just when I was happily drove towards the exit, fear struck me again.
This time I took a look at the ticket and the exit time printed on it was 18:37...
I doubted Him again...
My heart was racing, screaming "Help! How am I supposed to get out with an expired ticket? The time is 23:15 and the ticket was checked out 5 hours ago! Dammit! I'm sure the exit feeder will reject my ticket and I'll cause a massive traffic jam with my stupidity!"
I was so scared but there was no turning back...
All the roads were blocked and there was only one exit...
I prayed.
HARD!
When I reached the exit point, I sloted in the ticket with mumbles of prayers in my heart and miraculously the bar gate opened and I was free to go!
All along the journey home I was in disbelief-
Even now, while I'm writing this, part of me still fail to make sense of the miracle that had just happened to me.
God really works in mysterious ways...
and often He left us in such an awestruck condition that all we could do is just praise His mercy and grace upon us!
Although I have such little faith in Him-
He had great faith in me that I'll make it through.
It's like the story of how Peter walked on water with Jesus!
He believes in me and all He asked for was my believe in Him in return.
But I chose to doubt Him...
thrice, in fact.
And when I started to sink into the deep waters of fear,
He reached out His hands and pulled me to safety!
Praise God for He is good!
In fact good is such an understatement-
He is AWESOME!
