Scare of My Life!

Each Saturday Morning I get up around 5:00am and I leave the house by 5:30am to go and catch a bus to Bible Study Fellowship. This past Saturday at 5:20am I was all ready to go, except I needed to get a bowl of cereal for breakfast. So, I turned on the light and went into my kitchen. I opened the cabinet and took out a bowl and a spoon, turned around to walk out of the kitchen, and a HUGE Lizard hurriedly crossed the top of the kitchen wall into the hole in the corner. Now I am not kidding, this Lizard was approximately ONE Foot LONG and FIVE INCHES Thick! And when it went into the hole, its whole body moved in a creepy lizard way of body rolling!! Of course I screamed and then quickly ran out of the kitchen to eat my cereal. As I ate, I kept an eye on the door to make sure that the lizard did not come out of the hole...out of the kitchen...and towards me. Thank goodness He did not, I would have been MORE terrified (If that is possible).

To help me describe what this lizard thing looked like--some say it could be a Dookehh, I tried to find an image on the Internet. However, I could not find exactly what I saw. So I found three pictures that will help me visually explain.

The first shows you how the lizard was placed as it ran across the top of the wall into the corner hole.










The Second shows you how the body was movable-so it could do that creepy body rolling as it hurriedly went into the hole.












The third picture shows the bumps, color, and texture.




After I finished eating I stood up to go back into the kitchen (I had to wash my bowl and spoon). When I reached the door this loud sound, "OOHHHAA, OOHHHAA, OOHHAA..." came from the hole until I left the doorway. So, now I am SUPER Terrified. So, I rinsed my bowl and spoon in the bathroom nearby and left it on the table.

Later on Saturday I told Tang about my scary experience and she said (in all seriousness) that she would kill it for me and we can eat it tonight (YUCK!). Then Kieow entered the conversation and said that we cannot kill it because it eats the Cockroaches and I quote "That is good for our house."...I don't know, I think that having Cockroaches is better than this lizard type of thing.

When I got home Saturday evening, I would not step into the kitchen. And this fear of going into the kitchen lasted until Last Night. Now, I have not overcome this fear...Remember when I was preparing to come out here to Thailand, I shared with you that I was scared of the big bugs...well, this is a big reptile and I was scared...in fact I know that if I see it again, I would be even more scared.

I have to remember that David, in God's Word says, "I sought the LORD and He answered me; HE delivered me from all my fears."-Psalm 34:4. I pray this each day now, "Lord Help me over come this fear of this scary lizard. I cannot live in fear, I have to trust You and I am asking you for courage. Please give me strength and courage in the future months, as there most likely will be more, maybe even larger reptiles and bugs that will come across my path. Thank you for taking care of me-Amen."