The sun was already high, people went rushing to catch a bus, the terminal was not covered, the sun was directed towards us and all other people around.

I was yet a kid, a little 6-year-old at that time. It was December and we were going to General Santos for a Vacation. We're going to see my Grannies, Aunts, Uncles and Cousins there. Twas a regular Xmas vacation to my Mama's family.

From Digos City we have to take a bus to reach General Santos. That was a whole family trip. In the terminal, we were waiting for a bus to come. While sitted there, i noticed that there were so any people roaming around. It was very hot, i can still picture out the crooked foreheads of the people while walking under the heat of Mr. Sun.

Finally, the next bus came. It was still full of passengers from GenSan. We have to wait for those passengers to come down out of the bus so that we can get inside and find our seats. But others people are already coming up, pushing themselves inside in order to get seats. Because there are lots of passengers that time, mmm,,peak season you know.

What my father did, in order for us to catch at least 2 seats (1 for him and another for Mother), he pushed my brother and 2 sisters inside the bus through the window because the entrance door was really congested with passengers coming up and down. So there inside the bus, my 3 siblings have already secured seats for my parents. And they were waiting for us to penetrate that crowd through the door.

With my parents were my other sister and me. We're heading to the bus entrance that time, we're about to go up when i saw right at the first step of the bus entrance was sitting a huge, white Dog facing us, mouth wide open, deep breathing due to the heat of the sun. I saw people coming up just passing by next to the dog.

I 'm not afraid of dogs. We have lots of dogs at home, in fact they are wild dogs compared to that tame-looking white dogs sitting at the entrance. But that white dog scared me. Pondering why I felt afraid of that dog was out of my little mind. All I did was refuse to come up to the bus because I know we will be stepping right next to that dog. My parent were wondering why I wont go up, I told them im afraid of that big dog, let that dog away first. I can still recall myself crying when they forced me to come up, I was pulling myself back.

That time, my parent did not tell me that they didnt see a dog there. What they did, after minutes of forcing me, when I really refused, they called the attention of my 3 siblings up there to come down instead. And we waited for another bus to come.

On the next bus, we seated at the seats in line with the driver, that means were in the danger side of the vehicle. Were at the middle portion of the bus. As we ascend to that scary, zigzag, hilly-cliff part of Baluyan, we saw the first bus there beside the road, empty of passengers, windows were broken. My father told me, look, if we were able to ride that bus, we could be one of those passengers hurt.

After that day, I havent have time recalling that dog thing. For me twas just a normal event in life. Mu poor mind did not have the ability yet to analyze things out. I never mind whats behind that event. I never care. Not until I reached high school. When i was fond of collecting ideas, events, people and places. I started to write stories and biographies. I started to recall things and events that happened to my life.

That time was my first time to ask my parents about that dog thing. That was my first time to seek meanings behind events. And that was the first time they told me that they didnt see any dog of any color and size there in the entrance of the bus. I immediately felt uneasy. I felt like my hairs were standing, sweat coming our, I felt a rush of blood through my veins. I ask them, does it mean that it was my angel making his way to keep us from the accident? EXACTLY!!!

From then on, i realized that God had been caring for me and my whole family. He brought us out of that bus accident. It could have been the while family but God made His way in order to keep us safe. He has HIs own miracle to save us. He used my innocent eyes to see a dog and executed a sign to my parents that danger might occur with that bus. I cant just imagine how my parents reacted that time when I told them I saw a dog and they saw nothing. Maybe they know the sign and right away summoned my siblings to come down.

In our every day travel, we should never forget to tell God that, Lord, im going to a trip, I don't know what might happen, only You who knows, so please be with me and to keep me safe. Because in travelling, there are really possible and unavoidable harms that might meet us along the way. Only God knows it. We must not forget that God is the source of everything. For God will lead us not to a smooth, glittering road, but to a thorny, little, narrow path that will lead us to the Heavenly Home.

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