I thank God for how good He’s been to me. I work in a boarding secondary school, as the student affairs officer for senior school. On one Thursday, my senior students were to finish their Economics exams, so I worked so late that I got home after 11 p.m. and I lived alone at the time.

I had brought home some food from the office, but I could not eat because I needed to rest. However, I had to warm the food. I lit the gas cooker because there was no power. In order not to sleep, I decided to read a novel, but I slept off. This was about 11:30 p.m.

Then I had this urgent tap and I woke up but I was not in my body. I knew I was not in my body because I was not breathing. Somehow I got back to myself and when I looked around, the whole room was white with smoke. Then I realized I was coughing trying to breathe and just then I remembered that I had something on fire and I checked the time and it was 1:30 a.m. I ran out to the kitchen and turned off the gas and had to stay outside because I could not breathe inside. I opened all the doors and windows to air the house. When I went inside and checked the pot, the rice was so burnt that it no longer stuck to the pot. It was ash.

I just want to thank God for giving my life back to me. God must have sent His angel to wake me up because somebody actually gave me an urgent tap hard enough to wake me up. I just want to praise Him.