Untold Journey 1: Chapter 3 - A LOST TREASURE
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The young woman was a student library assistant in her college years, and during her hard times, the only thing she did was to focus on her work in the library. She did all kinds of library chores and even talked to other librarians and other student assistants just to free herself from stress in her school works and terror adviser in her course.
She has a best friend whom she can rely on. It was Charm. She was pretty, kind, humble, and very thoughtful. Charm was always by her side in terms of problems, happiness, and crazy moments. During that time, her best friend knew that she’s not quite fine in their school.
It was one sunny morning when Charm noticed that her best friend was sad and quite uncomfortable. At that time, Charm didn’t hesitate to ask her what was wrong. She found out that her best friend was suffering from stress.
The young woman told her best friend about her problems in one of their major subjects. She talked about how difficult it was to make something that she has never done before. It might seem easy for those experts and tech-savvy students, but for her it's difficult. She even doesn't have any basic foundation in videography nor editing. So, it seems stressful plus the expectations from her professors that are beyond her capabilities.
Charm felt sorry about her situation but she couldn’t do anything to help her because she was from a different college department. All she did was advised her friend to be strong enough to face every challenge in her course. She also reminded her about the reason why she started and should continue until the end.
They talked about a lot of different things at that time, then their conversation went too far. They started to discuss their faith and their beliefs. Charm shared her life and how God was good to her life; that even in her hard times, she managed to smile and always glows from within.
The young woman became interested in the kind of fellowship she was in and asked details about it. She was shocked when her best friend’s church and fellowship was just two blocks away from their house.
The young woman was enlightened with her best friend’s words, she wanted to see how good her fellowship was. She wanted to experience the blessings and miracles of God in her life. She wanted to free herself from all those negative thoughts she had.
She wanted to be stronger, she wanted to be more understanding, she wanted to succeed in every task she would encounter, she wanted to be happy and a little faith could give her all she wanted.
The big question puzzled her, "Does GOD really exist?" All this time, she thought, that God was just a fictional character made by the elders, but who knows, God might be real, and that's what she needs to know. Since she was a child, she was already aware of some miraculous things around her but she treated them as coincidences. For her, "to see is to believe". If GOD does exist, she promised herself that she would have her FAITH once more.
It was February 8, 2017, Wednesday, when the young woman decided to go to her best friend’s church that could be located in their subdivision. She was overwhelmed by how people treated and welcomed her as she stepped on the entrance of the church. The people were all smiling and were possessed with positive energies, she didn’t know why, but, she felt comfortable with the place.
All things were new to her. She didn’t expect that there was this kind of worship and fellowship in their place. The beginning was lively and joyful. In front of the altar, she could see a complete definition of a band but the only difference she noticed was that their songs were all about worshiping God.
The lead singers were all good-looking, but what she really noticed was that; the singers sang wholeheartedly. They even had tears in their eyes as they worshiped God.
She then felt sudden joy and excitement as she sang along with the worship team. She felt happy, amazed, and fulfilled. After the worship, they continued with the words of God. At that time, she heard a word of God from one of the leaders in the church, and also, she was able to accept Jesus Christ as her Savior and God through a prayer conducted by the preacher at that moment.
The young woman felt blessed and overwhelmed with happiness as she went home. She told her mother about it. Her mother became more comfortable and happier when she heard her daughter talking about Jesus. Her mother was relieved that she was now in a good condition and recovering from her stressful environment at school.
After that moment, she felt changes within her. She became more aware of her surroundings. She became open-minded to all the things that she knew. She even had the courage to attend her class in their terror adviser. She managed to endure all those harsh words she could hear from her teacher. She became optimistic and begun to look at the bright side of everything.
She begun to learn new things from her own and with the help of her friends, she begun to humbly ask things from her adviser, she then became more determined in her studies. She was eager to learn new things from her course. She also prayed for her adviser to be kind to them and she never expected that what she wanted would really happen.
For the following weeks, they began to develop a good relationship with their adviser. Her adviser even smiled at her when they see each other in the hallways unlike before. She was very happy at that thought.
She began to realize that from then on, she had found a valuable treasure, a treasure that was priceless, a treasure that can save her from the darkness, a treasure that can forever change her life, and that was JESUS. She was now enlightened that no one can beat people that have God within them. *She now knows how to make her FAITH bigger than her FEARS. *
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