# @udohcharles on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DSE3bGkCMkc
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- **Posted:** 2025-12-10T08:21:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Charles Sebastian Udoh (@udohcharles) — https://gondola.cc/udohcharles

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🙏🏾Nine Years Today… Grateful Beyond Words 🙏🏾

🚩Nine years ago today — December 10, 2016 — my life was split into before and after.

🚩I walked into Reigners’ Chapel that morning as a public servant, barely ten days into a new season of responsibility, purpose, and service. I walked out hours later bruised, bleeding, broken… yet unmistakably alive. What should have been an ordinary day became the day death passed me by.

🚩The roof collapsed. Time stood still. Lives were lost. Families were changed forever. And in that chaos, God’s mercy located me.

🚩I survived a deep head injury that required more than eight stitches without anaesthesia or painkillers, endured fractured ribs on my left side, and escaped paralysis from a hairline fracture in my right hip bone — a 50/50 medical gamble the doctors advised against operating on. That hip still reminds me occasionally of how close the edge truly was.

🚩The scar on my head healed into the shape of a “C.” My wife calls it “a tattoo of God’s love.” I carry it proudly — a permanent signature of grace.

🚩Today, my heart is heavy with compassion for the families who lost loved ones that day. Your pain is not forgotten. I pray that God continues to comfort you in ways only He can.

🚩As for me, I am here — not by strength, not by wisdom, not by luck — but by mercy.

🚩Nine years later, I live more intentionally. I love more deeply. I serve more humbly. And I remain forever grateful for every breath.

🙏🏾From the depths of my soul…

🙏🏾Thank You, Lord.
It could only have been You.

🙏🏾

#Grateful #NineYearsAfter #StillHereByGrace #December10 #ItCouldOnlyHaveBeenGod #PurposePreserved #AndGodMadeMeLaugh

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