Watching Over You

A story was told to me by my father about a soldier captured by the forces of the occupying Japanese Imperial Army in the Philippines during the second world war. Upon his capture he and his companions where brought into a wide open field where they were going to be executed by beheading. He shivered as he saw the heads being chopped off from the bodies of his fellow guerilla soldiers that preceded him. When it was his turn he prayed to the Almighty to miraculously spare his life and within a span of seconds after he prayed he felt a blade slightly touch the surface of the flesh of his neck but not really cutting through. He felt a mysterious force, so strong obstructing the executioner's blade from killing him. Unbeknownst to the Japanese soldiers that he was still alive, they threw him along with the other dead patriots in what looked like a pile of dead people and started stabbing each one with a bayonet, not having been content with the brutality they had just commited against these soldiers. Stabbing what looked like a lifeless body the blade did go through this time right around his stomach area and piercing through his back. Soon after they threw all the bodies in a ditch. Sensing that the enemy soldiers had left the vicinity where the ditch was, this Valiant Filipino Soldier waited until it was dark, injured and wounded once again he miraculously survived and travelled by foot until he could reach the Signal Corps Station where my Father (a 2nd Lieutenant in the Signal Corps) was assigned. It was there where he recieved medical attention. A few days after recovery he was able to live to tell of a story so complex for some of his listeners to comprehend. This story is indeed nothing else but a phenomenon explained only in Biblical proportions.

Psalm 34:7