One of the scariest days of my life... a true miracle

well, i know if you guys are reading still... this blog has been untouched for almost a year! haha, sorry, but i've been too busy and neglecting this blog. Well, i guess now is the time to take it out and once again tell my random, maybe pointless stories.

Yesterday was a day that I will never forget. I'm currently teaching a high school in Toronto. I am starting to get used to being called "Miss Kwan" and have started coaching the girls volleyball team. It's amazing to see how some of the students have so much potential to become something great in the future. i can just see it in them. And as always, there will be those students who you just want to give a BIG wedgie for being brats (but that's another story :D).

This may sound cliche, but do you ever get any deja vues or "gut feelings" that something bad is going to happen? Well, on that morning, I was walking through the crowded halls of the school. And i thought to myself: "I wonder what I would do if there was ever a school shooting or hostage situation at this school?" I had this gut feeling that something was going to happen. But i just pushed it to the back of my head.

Anyways, there are 6 other Queen's teaching students that are teaching at the school with me. Usually we pick a day (Fridays) to meet up and have coffee at a nearby Second Cup. Well, this week, we had a meeting with the principal, so we decided to make our meeting on Wednesday and at an earlier time. As we were leaving the school for Second Cup, I had a sudden craving to try the new Tim Horton's Breakfast sandwich. So i told the rest of the gang that I would meet up with them at Second Cup.

I drove to Tim Hortons and bought the sandwich. Then i proceeded to the Second Cup. Well, 2 hours went by for our coffee date and we all got in our cars to drive back to school. As we were driving back, we found honestly DOZENS of police cars blocking off Yonge Street at every entrance to the sidestreets. I honestly thought that someone had died or gotten hit by a car. Well, it took 15 minutes to get back to school (what was supposed to be a 5 minute drive). When we got back to the school, I automatically went to the principals office for our meeting.

As we stepped into the office, I found a chaotic environent of students and phones ringing off the hook. Within a couple of minutes, we were informed that there had just been a Code Red in our school. Of course, I had never been through a Code Red before and asked what it was. Apparently there had been a bank robbery and bomb threat in the nearby plaza and the burglar was on the loose surrounding the school with a weapon. The school went into Code Red, which meant lights off, doors locked, windows closed, blinds closed and students hiding in a corner or under desks. This was scary stuff!! Some of the students were from war-torn countries and had to go through counselling after this procedure. But all that I could do was pray thankfully to God over and over again "Lord, thank you so much for protecting me and saving me!!!"

Later as I was talking with a teacher about the incident, she said that the bank that was robbed was right next to the Tim Hortons. The bank had been robbed about 10 minutes after I was there buying my sandwich. Wow. God really has his own plan for protecting his children. I was soo amazed and the perfect timing and miracle! God had really shown me his grace and mercy in protecting me from being in a possibly dangerous situation.
All I can say is that if you think situations like these are coincidences, they're definitely not. These are glimpses of God's miracles that ensure us that there is something greater than ourselves. Something Divine and All-Knowing.