SEATTLE -- The 34-year-old window washer who survived an eight-story plunge on the job says what happened to him was a miracle.

"I don't think it's luck. I know it's God (who) saved my life," said Eduardo Lozada, who spoke about last week's accident for the first time in an interview with KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Gary Horcher.

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Lozada said he's still not sure how it happened, but while he was washing windows at a downtown Seattle highrise Thursday morning, he suddenly started to fall. He said time seemed to slow down but that he was certain he was about to die on impact.

"I have to accept that it was my last moments, and when I let go of the ropes, I know I'm going to die. So in my mind and in my heart, I die for a minute, for seconds," he said. I say, 'OK, this is the end.' I say, 'God, forgive me, and take me.'"

Lozada said he closed his eyes, and his entire life appeared like a single vision.

"Everything, all your life just came through your mind, and you're able to see everything at once."

Somehow, the ropes clipped to Eduardo's harness broke his fall just before he hit the sidewalk.

"I said, 'I'm alive. I feel pain. Oh my God, if I feel pain, it's because I'm alive! That's when I realized that God saved my life."

Lozada suffered a badly sprained ankle and a swollen knee. The only bone he broke is in the tip of his pinky finger.

He said he's never been a religious man, but his brush with death has awakened a new part of him and that every day is Thanksgiving.

"For me, it's a new day every morning. I feel blessed every morning, from now on."

He said his gift is knowing that there is hope in every second.

"Nobody's able to give you a new life except God, and he give me a new life. And I just hope that I do better in this one."

Lozada said he can't talk about the investigation into the incident but he said that he's always felt safe on the job. He said if he were physically able, he wouldn't be afraid to go back to work.