Mom Uses Music To Calm Kids During Shooting Or Was It Divine Intervention? (2622 hits)
..."My daughter was praying very loudly and she was saying: 'Jehovah, Jehovah, please protect us'."...
Music has long been used to help ease stress and calm the nerves. We see the coercive power of music if it is of excessive volume, or has an overwhelming beat, at rock concerts where thousands of people may be taken over, engulfed or entranced by the music. Even now, there is a whole genre of modern dance music called ‘Trance,’ designed to have such an effect. ....
(But a force other than music was at work that day...Jehovah God)...
The family’s terror began when a group of gunmen charged into Nairobi’s Westgate Mall last September, opening fire on unsuspecting shoppers. Faith, who had been shopping with her young son and daughter, grabbed the children and hurried to a corner, where they lay face down on the ground and tried not to move. “We were just lying there — there would be shooting going on, then it would stop,” she told NBC News last year of the terrifying experience. “There were times I could hear the bullet casing dropping on the floor near us. We could smell the gunpowder and we would really be scared.”
In an interview on NPR, Faith revealed her and her kids hid for five hours before they managed to escape the mall. “The music that plays in the shopping mall — just kind of this tranquil music — was still playing throughout this whole thing, so amidst the gunfire and all the action that was happening, you had this kind of mall music that played throughout the entire attack,” award-winning photographer Tyler Hicks (who took the stunning photo) said. “[The mom] actually was singing along with those songs to her children to keep them calm and quiet — especially the young boy who she said rarely can sit still for five minutes and she had to keep him calm and quiet for five hours.”
But nothing of the sort. It seemed like something worse than I thought. My daughter was praying very loudly and she was saying: 'Jehovah, Jehovah, please protect us'.
I was also praying but quietly and I felt my daughter was too loud and perhaps she would give away our position and so I just asked her to lower her volume.
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That's the point when I started singing a song about the resurrection because I thought we were all going to die”
I didn't know what was happening but I knew at that point I was to direct my children to just stay still.
"I was worried about my son because he is only 21 months. We had had breakfast at about nine o'clock. I knew he must be hungry.
I started thinking: 'Oh, my goodness Jehovah, this boy will wake up and he will start crying. I put my fingers in his mouth, he comforted himself and he just kept quiet.
I remember once they came very near because there was a lady lying about two meters from us. I could hear them walking.
They had a conversation and at that point they actually called out: 'Mama, mama.' I didn't know if they were talking to me but I knew I was not going to raise my head. ...
'Mama, Mama' - I could hear this lady answering and less than five seconds later, two shots and then she was quiet. We lay there and she kept on groaning: 'I'm dying, I'm dying' and we were helpless, we couldn't do anything.
'We couldn't even look at her. At that point terror just gripped me because I knew I was next.
It really was a miracle. I cannot explain how they could not see us and we were lying so close to her. We were terrified in there.
