We also see each other on Sundays, to serve our Master and Lover, Jesus Christ. We also meet on Mondays to learn from our co-servant in the Lord, Pastor Erwin and Tita Amy.
I met Val in her peak. She was a positive, learning, maturing, rationalizing and happy-to-be-with gang-mate. Really there are times I get tired of simply listening to her because she everything to say on things and she never gets tired…of talking. I love to tease her though because she knows how to get on with every throw.
Before 2007, ends I went suddenly alienated from Val, I kept it to myself not knowing that I am not alone. The gang is beginning to “gang up” on her, because we “don’t know her anymore.
As gang mates we desire to know whatever she is going through. She had counseling sessions around. I myself even poured out my heart on her because I can’t accept the feeling of not telling her what I actually feel.
We prayed for her at the same time we devoted much time discussing on her condition. Until such time we all got tired and ceased talking/minding about her.
Simultaneously, Val retired from her usual “she”. The merry and talkative Val was missed by everyone. For some time we had a Val who is defensive, moving away and living in silence.
March 23, 2007 I had the chance to be with my gang mate again after two long months of not fellowshipping together. At first, I was hesitant to ask her of anything; honestly I reached the point of becoming uncomfortable whenever I am with her. But, thank God for opening my mouth and letting me speak and listen to her once again. What a wonderful and glorious time it is. i saw that Val that I used to know. The vigor went back; the merry, talkative Val was back. She shared her lessons from the Lord; she narrated how much she struggled during those times that she doesn’t understand what she was going through.
Indeed, there are times that we long to understand people not knowing that these people we want to understand are also themselves don’t understand what they are going through. God really has His way of forcing us to focus upon Him. He will detach us to the point of shoving us away from our earthly treasures simply to put us back in His arms again making us know that He alone is the source of our joy.
In this age, where education and knowledge are both most held God in His mercy and grace puts His hedge of protection upon us not to be swayed from earthly materialism. Instead He will put us into a vacuum where in the final sense we will never doubt His authenticity in our lives. Indeed we can never understand all these things. It is only our sinful nature supported by evil’s doings that blinds us to keep on explaining the unexplained.
The experience of Teacher Val made a warning sign on my part. I don’t need to understand and explain things. I should let God open my mind and heart to understand His works upon all things putting forward in reverence His sovereignty over al things.
Praise God, I had the honor to be the first to embrace Val on her birthday. Also I had the honor to ask forgiveness to her for I have uttered words during her times of trial instead of asking God to open my heart and mind in understanding her.
