What Typhoon FRANK left behind

it's been 2 weeks since Frank (the typhoon) visited our city and has left a great devastation not only for the properties and things we,i mean THEY lost, but as well as the health and convenience of the people in the city. When I heard that we were not going to have a cLass for 2 weeks, my heart was overwhelmed and it's as if it wants to jump out and shout to the world "hurray!finally, a long vacation, a reLaxing vacation(since we didn't experience much of the typhoon and the flood) i guess i was reaLLy reaching the utopia of my egocentric personality. but i regret that.so, our two, long, grueling vacation is over, we went back to school just this morning, shocked and surprised for what the flood left, the very very thick mud at the fieLd, broken computers, wet papers and files, and we didn't really had a very formal class and, deadlines for the submission of lab reports were postponed(wherein I am very greatfuL and thankfuL to our Chemistry Lab teacher) I was unfortunately not in the mood to listen, although I really tried my best not to sLeep.teehee! Then English Class at 12 noon, I was quite hungry. We talked about nothing but the flood experiences we had. Our English teacher asked what we have learned from the flood. I mean I was really having a hard time thinking, I failed to notice and realize a lot of things. Yesterday, I went to church and the message was about GOD'S MESSAGE IN THE STORM, it was nice. A time to reflect about the past. I like the line which says: "we MAY have faith during the sunshine, but we MUST have faith during the storm." For a couple of weeks I spent inside the house, all I did was complain because there was no electricity, no water, I can't play the computer games which i usually do during my spare time, i cant edit my pictures(photoshop!) i can't watch my favorite tv shows either and worst, i can't charge my cellphone! But then I realized, what I was complaining and worried about were nothing compared to those people who were greatly affected by the typhoon. They were frustrated not for the material things they lost, but for the lives of their loved ones, which Frank took from them in the blink of an eye, lives- which no one can ever bring back again. i heard many flood stories and experiences, and our city wasn't and isn't prepared for this kind of catastrophe. it's good to see unified organizations, companies and people in authority, who's main goal is to reach out and help our fellow citizens. God tests us with major problems because sometimes, most of us would like to learn the hard way, God uses these circumstances to make us realize, to change us and be more like Him, to not just pray when we need something, to not just be united when devastations come, to not just settle on complaining, as if something will happen.

i realized that there are so so many many things I should be thankful for, for sparing our lives and the things we have at home, for not staying at the roof of our house and get soaked under the rain(just like what others have experienced) and for not having an anguish moment in cleaning the house! As what God has promised, "never again will He send flood to wash away all the creatures of the earth". i learned a lot and i don't wish to experience this again, although i have to admit that i love the rain!,but not too much of it.