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Yeah! I am a born arachnophobic through and through or rather an ‘insectophobic’ would be more appropriate, because just any insect for that
matter can spill the gut out of me!! Creepy, crawling poly-legged-hairy creatures, dreadful eyes and scary fang, writhing about…Eeek! Just enough to send a chill down through my spine and make my hair stand up and render me sleepless for nights….Eeeek!
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A beautiful Sunday morning worship at church…Melodious songs fill the whole place...The church is not a typical church in the strict sense, it’s just a small hall, in a small nook of our ‘kattangal metropolis’ where 50-60 odd people gather every week for the service.
What a friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and pains to bear,
What a privilege to carry,
Everything to God in prayer......
All our sins and pains to bear,
What a privilege to carry,
Everything to God in prayer......
God: This is another week that you’ve got in your life Neethu, are you gonna testify the blessings in your life today at least? Don’t you remember all those things that I’ve done for you? Don’t you know that the testimonies you give encourages your disheartened brothers just as how you have been uplifted a number of times by their testimonies?
Me: Uh..hmm…ya Lord...but, those were big things…things which you can clearly label as real miracles….
God: Wasn’t scoring 19/20 for that subject in which, you weren’t even sure to scrape through, a miracle? Wasn’t the retrieval of your lost precious Fast Track watch from a total stranger a miracle? Wasn’t the healing of the sickness, the day before your exam, a miracle enough? Wasn’t it a miracle when the centipede that bumped against your foot went away harmlessly?
Me: hmm..yeah…but they can have other logical explanations too…cant they?? I mean I’m not trying to belittle you…but will they be good enough for the people to increase their faith? Wouldn’t it be nice to tell them about something, where only divine intervention, be the only possible explanation? When I come across such a one in my life, I’ll surely testify your goodness, Lord![I thus try to shy away giving all sorts of lame excuses]
God: [shakes his head and sighs at my chickening out ]: Do you want to wait till that?............…
Me: [just shrugs off and continues singing… ]
After a little while, I feel something brushing against my leg. Was it the wind? Dismissing it as just the play of mind, I continue singing…quite uneasily though –all sorts of weird possibilities were cropping up in my head. But soon, I could feel the distinct crawling up…up of definitely something. Could it be an ant? Eek! I get freaked out by ants as well! But when did ants become so big and heavy? And did it have more than 6 appendages? Now I could feel it going up through my leg, above my knees…the picture of a scurrying centipede flashed across my mind (only a few weeks before, a centi had come and ‘kissed’ my feet and(thankfully)went away harmlessly) …Heck no! it can’t be a centi! It shouldn’t be that!
Whatever it was, it had now reached my waist –I was struggling to keep myself calm. I have watched enough of animal planet and discovery channel, to be careful not to agitate the whatever-thingy inside my clothes. I just loosened my pant-belt so that it won’t have any obstruction, and thus find a reason to sting me. Now I could feel it go up my body, my back. It was now scaling my spine. Just out of curiosity(read fear), I felt it against my body, with my hand over my shirt! Eek! It was something really gigantic…omg! Somebody do something! God???
Then all of a sudden the commotion stopped. God! Where’s it now? I stood still, barely breathing…Now I could sense a big lump near my shoulders. Fighting back fear and panic, I just peeped inside my shirt over my shoulders…and what I saw makes me jump up in fright and disgust now, even though I didn’t, then! One of the most dreadful sights an ‘insectophobic’ like me could ever have –100s of twitching legs of a big-fat-fully-grown centipede, snuggling ‘cozily’ against my shoulders!!!
MaSaJo assessed the situation and declared that I should take off my shirt, if the thing was still inside. I too felt that it was the only possible thing for me to do. We went to an adjacent room in the church building. As soon as MaSaJo shut the door of the room, I threw away my shirt, and THUD! MaSaJo jumped up and let out a silent scream, as the 10-15 cms long big-fat-ugly-poly-legged creature hit the floor with a thud! It then quickly slithered away to the darkness, underneath a cupboard…
We both stood speechless for a while…then praise just began to flow from our lips and hearts…I couldn’t thank God enough…That was the scariest moment of my life, and I came out of it unscathed. Well, I asked for it…sort of…I was waiting for a tangible-divine-intervention-involving-miracle…and it seemed as if dear God went to this extent to give me what I had asked for. That’s the inference that I made out of this small drama. Otherwise why in the world did that yucky centi chose to make an expedition up my body, when there were scores of other people around me?
Anything could have happened. It could have given me a real painful if not a fatal sting! Or its 101 sharp legs would have been enough to hurt me! Or even if it did nothing, out of sheer panic, I could have freaked out and hurt myself or disrupted the wonderful service. But God miraculously helped me keep a level head and maintain my calm...:D
overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.’' John 2:22
PS2: Entomophobia –that’s the term for fear of insects…but I guess each encounter with various poly-legged-freaks is making me less entomophobic by and by;)
38 comments:
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ROTFL!! You actually had a centipede make its way through your body and you couldn't feel it? Is your skin of the 'Indian-politician' variety or what? OMG!!
"But soon, I could feel the distinct crawling up…up of definitely something."
If I were you, I'd definitely have crushed it then and there!
"That was the scariest moment of my life, and I came out of it unscathed. Well, I asked for it…sort of…I was waiting for a tangible-divine-intervention-involving-miracle…and it looked as if dear God went to this extent to give me what I had asked for."
Ah. 'Divine intervension'! Doesn't the word ring a bell? :P
Quick question
Is this pic a 'live' snapshot of the 'centi' on your shoulder? Reading through, I felt so... :D (Just kidding)
T'was a great read. :-) Way to go!
Eww! Eww! Eww! Period.
Just when I was thinking ants were intolerable encroachers on private property, this happens.
@lotto ticket
not that am not trying...unfortunately am on the low creativity side...and to write about isuues of the world outside...am a lil low on gk as well:P
ll try though:)
thnx for dropping by:)
@lee
i know chinky...poor me:(
:O it CRAWLED UP YOUR BODY?
And you didn't scream?
You're a hero to all entomophobic people out there :D
@hari
No rey…I was wearing a loose salwar(contrary to what I had mentioned in d blog)..so probably it might have first climbed through my pant…so didn’t feel it until it was em...abov ma knees…
Yuck no!i dun hav the guts to do that. Remember?i’m an er..what was it?..yeah..entomophobic;)
Oh yeah!it does ring a bell…have been using dat ever since I borrowed it from Mr Shakespeare(lol..my dad calls him kuntham-kulukki):P
quick answer
Ahem!no…unfortunately my centi was too shy to pose for any phtoto… “it quickly slithered away to the darkness….”
So this is the closest resemblance of ‘my centi’ that google found for me;)
@mallady
gee...8)
well, i kinda hate spiders too, but that was because of a scary incident when i was a kid. centipedes, i just don't let them come too near me coz i've heard they're poisonous. i've had cockroaches come and sit on me lotsa times tho :D they're really tickly!
phew...
nice..presence of mind... :P
shite!! that was a shocking read! yea i did feel the 'divine intervention' feeling after the post was over..
if it was me, the first thing id do if i felt something over me was to jump like my life depended on it (it probably would :-) ), but then like u said remaining calm probably helped u out by not making that creature bite..
eww.. y'd u put a foto of that on ur post!.. makes me quiver..
@g-man
i run away when i see a roach..eew!
@anony
eee:D..PTL!
NITC campus is a place where u come across all these types of insects..So , better overcome that phobia..
And yeah, thx for installing blogpane :)
@hv
u quiver at the pic of the centi...rembr it was all over my body! thot of giving ya a taste of what i xperienced[evil grin]..na just kidding...it was for the 'effect'.else the post would eb incomplete;)
@ajith
ha if i list down the various creatures in the campus, the list ll never end..sometimes i wonder whether they are yet-to-be-discovered species;)
btw this was outside the campus.
hey, first i should thank whoever added me to the blog-pane :)
lol...I am usually not freaked out by insects unless they are on me;).. and kudos to you for not yelling and screaming out in front of everyone.. if I couldnt have yelled there.. I would have gotten out and screamed.. lol..
I am wondering why werent u bitten? :D
My God !!
You are seriously so brave !!!
How come didn't scream in such a situation ??
@la
have no idea how i cud shut my mouth..call it divine intervention;)
@viajero
hmm me too..like i said ..call it divine intervention...:)
@vinitha
no ideaaa...:D
thnx for dropping by...:)
@ vinitha again
tried visiting ya blog..but it seems only invited readers can read it?:(
mind if i butt in?;)
Ofcourse .. have sent you an invitation .. it's my pleasure .. Btw, you are my senior !!
@vinitha
ah!no wonder u pic looked damn familiar!!!;)
how come i never knew despite of occasionally watching discovery channel dat centipedes r fatal[:D]..there was me thinking theyre harmless though no doubt ugly looking freaks[:P]
yo blog s stil elementary?????
and chek ur labels for ths post??
god's garce ??!
wers teh new post ??
Yes, Thank God for being able to stay calm. I would've panicked and hurt myself if this'd happened to me. :-)
the centipede made you speak.. praise be ye to god.. many cases when we keep our mouth shut, he makes us speak.. he wants to hear it from us.. glad that you spoke.. good one..
@ziddi..
okay mister...but a lil exaggeration wont hurt na:P
@tutu
hey, do i know you?
m nt sure of the elementary part...would have checked it now..but net is bulbing...:(
ya and what about the labels?y not God's grace?
new post is on its way;)
@bindhu
yap!praise be to Him!:D
@chriz
:)
funny n thought provoking
i guess i shouldn't b repeating very well narrated ,brilliant n all those stuff.....hop its understood unless i mention u dint meet d high standards u v e set 4 yoself
@alex
gee thnx:D
btw...the earlier posts arent all that good...so u mite have to say sthg;)
Ah, love this one! =)
@sid
:D thanks!
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