SULADS STORIES

CRY FOR HELP

By Marivic Damiles

Dao Mission School

Help! I heard a shout.  After breakfast, I went out.  People were shouting and running.  I didn’t go immediately thinking that there’s “ Tinigbasay” (bolo fight) again.

 

Early in the morning, everything was ready.  Time to leave for MVC.  But a pregnant mother with two small children collapsed.  I do not know what to do.  Since people depended everything on us.  Ma’am Prima hold her at the back and I put her in a comfortable position.  She was trembling in fear and speechless.  I hugged her and cry to the Lord.  We cannot do anything.  All we did was ask the Lord to help us.

While my partner was applying massage, I ran to the cottage to get some medicine.  Good! We have boiled water bark of medicinal plants.  Preparation for stomach ache, since stomach ache is very common there.  I took a glass and add sugar & soybeans to make the taste not bitter.  But we have a hard time letting her drink.  She was screaming 7 murmuring.  Some men held her arms and chin to her drink.  We forced her to drink because we knew that she was nervous.  When she’d taken some, she felt better.

 

All of a sudden she stoop up and wanted to fight.  I thought that she was controlled by the other spirit.  I talked to God in a silent prayer “Lord, you’re powerful, please help her to possess spirit from you”.  With the help of some big men, we were able to carry her inside the house. She was murmuring again with words which we cannot understand.  At this time she was weak. 

I asked the people not to gather around.  Asking her husband to get their Bible and open it in Psalms 91 and have a series of prayers.  Tears flowed from her eyes and still she was speechless.  But she was starting to feel better.  When she can talk we asked her to express what she had worried about.  She told us that she was afraid if killing might happen again.  She’d recalled the person killed by an “ugpit” (bolo) before.  We listened and let her talk.

After she had expressed what she has been worrying about, we started to give words of comfort.  We told her the love of God to all of us.  And nothing we should worry about.  Problems will be solved if we let god control our lives.

Yes, we cry for help from the Lord, sure God hears our sincere prayers.  Through giving assurance to these who have lost hope and downhearted. 

Help us pray that the Spirit of the Lord will be manifested to the people in Da-o who need the love of God.