Her Life Had Just Begun
November 15th 2006 23:55
Her Life Had Just Begun
By: The Old Man 28/11/2005.
Lei Lin Martin saw her self as never before and knew her life was almost over, or so she had thought, because her school friends had recently found out that she had been telling lies about most of the people in her neighbourhood. Her mother Shu Lin Martin was Chinese and her father Ralph was Australian, and she was going through puberty and in to womanhood and having a very hard time of it. For the past three years she had been telling one little white lie after another, to try to gain friendships that she thought she needed to have, and she lived with her mother and younger brother and her grand parents, who were also Chines and life just seemed to be getting worse and worse for her. She was very worried now about all of these internal things happening to her and making her cranky and her fears and doubts were reaching new heights. Who could she turn too, was her biggest dilemma? Her mother did not seem to be listening, although the opposite was true, and she was wrapped up in her own little fantasy world of felt hurts slights and sensitivities. How could she measure up to this woman hood thing, that every one was telling her that she was soon becoming? And telling her how wonderful it really is. She felt like a big bag or running nerves and tensions and mal adjustments and it scared her to death, on top of the shame she had to now endure along with her parents punishments for her lies. That night as she had finished her shower and walked before her bed room mirror naked and afraid to look at her self. Her eyes slowly focussed and beheld a medium height, slim dark and beautiful Asian Australian girt with the blossoming figure of a woman. How she wondered could this ever be happening to her? And when would it stop? And why could she not stop it from happening to her? And how can she be so stupid as to get caught by her friends and found out to be a liar. She thought she had been very clever and guarded. Her mind focussed once more on her neighbour, and of how she will have to get back at them for fronting her in front of her parents and friends. Now as she stared at her image she began planning how to do just that. They will never get away with it, she told her self so very seriously, and then she cried again.
Actually her neighbours on one side were two middle aged single Australian men, sharing the one house to save money for better things for them selves. They had two separate lives and to different social groups, while one was in to dancing and romancing and his work the other worked hard at being a Christian author and a journalist and respecting each others journey and spent every other hour helping others as often as he could. On the other side was a Greek family who seldom ever said hello to any of their neighbours. But to her she was angry and afraid because she had been found out to be a liar. Her world had suddenly come undone. All her dreams and fantasies were shattered and in pieces in front of her. But a look of evil swept over her heart and soul and the taste of murder was in her throat and she nearly chocked. Slowly she got dressed hardly daring to feel her hands on her on skin as she dressed her self. Her mind was a whirl of confusion and her emotions were running rampant with in her. How could she ever cope with the rest of her life with these uncontrollable things happening to her.
At the dinner table, no one could get a word out of her, and she kept her eyes down on her food. Her mother was worried because she knew that silence for what it was. She had experienced it her self, it was the turning point in her life, when she was fourteen. It was to be the time when she would either have a good life or a bad one, and her mother was very worried. Could her daughter really go through the night and still be able to make the right decision at the end of it. Shu Lin and Ralph both doubted very much if her daughter could endure the night out and went to bed fretting for her.
That night after dinner, she went to bed early and cried her eyes and heart out all night. The time was five thirty in the morning and the sun was just coming over the horizon and she had just ahd a glimmer of an idea as to what she should be doing next. But she was too weak, from all of the crying. Her eyes were darker than ever and her skin paler than ever before, and her bed was a mess, from her urinating of her self in her bed and it stank bitterly of fear, and impending doom.
She was just about to shout out to heaven, - There is no such thing as GOD, nor of salvation nor of Jesus, and I hate my life, when just then, a voice came booming down from heaven – Who are you to say there is no GOD and no heaven and no salvation? Suddenly her room lit up with an amazing shining wonderfully warm light which wrapped it self all around her like a beautiful warm blanket, which could never grow cold. Just then she heard her heart cry out, to her soul and toward heaven - If there is such a one God, then let me hear his voice, for I am lost, and need his help. She collapsed in to a warm and most comfortably warm sleep and slept right through the day, and not even her parents could wake her. Then suddenly at seven am the next day she was awake and feeling wonderfully free, light, self assured and totally clean on the inside as well as on the out side and every one knew that from then on she was going to be alright. Her mother and father and grand parents were witnessing a miracle before their very eyes and were unable to stop them selves from worrying and smiling at the same time.
It was two days before Christmas and their neighbour was whistling to him self and playing Christmas songs on his cassette player such as Silent Night, Oh Come all ye faithful and Onward Christian Soldier and many more and they listened to them all with close intent, especially their daughter.
The next day was Saturday and the whole family came over and asked to speak with him, about their daughter’s experience, so he got up and went to his wooden book shelf across from them and took down his family Bible and opened it up to them and explained it to them, of God as our one and only creator, and of humanities totally fallen human nature and of Jesus Christ and of salvation And of how it is in his name only can any one be filled, blessed, saved and come to believe in him as their sole justifier and mediator before God and it was after midnight, and no body wanted to go home.
So good was the whole of that year for Lei Lin that she hardly noticed it had gone by and her heart and soul lifted up to heaven with joy and her soul was more and more at peace with in her when she met a complete stranger as she walked home from school. Their paths crossed as she walked out from the old Lutheran Church grounds and he was walking past the opening to the Church grounds, when their eyes met and they both smiled warmly to each other and as he walked by her she called out rather sheepishly to him, can you please help me, I am a bit lost I think? As he stopped and turned she noticed for the first time just how incredibly old he was, and yet he was alive and young looking as well with an unmistakeable firm stride and his eyes were bright blue, and just for a moment she wondered where he had come from and then he seemed to tower over every thing around him, and yet he was only small, at his five foot tall lean frame, and a wonderful warm and gentle smile. He stood there for a moment longer and said - if you are lost I will meet you at the corner of High Street and Rufus Streets in Epping tomorrow at ten am, and I will show you the way you must go. She had started walking away with a warm, calm feeling spreading through her once more and after just three steps, she turned to ask him another question but he was gone. That Sunday her whole family went with her and what they found was God’s Church and they went in and there she heard and met her Lord Jesus.
She was fifteen and seeing for the first time that her life had just begun. Amen.
The end…
By: The Old Man 28/11/2005.
Lei Lin Martin saw her self as never before and knew her life was almost over, or so she had thought, because her school friends had recently found out that she had been telling lies about most of the people in her neighbourhood. Her mother Shu Lin Martin was Chinese and her father Ralph was Australian, and she was going through puberty and in to womanhood and having a very hard time of it. For the past three years she had been telling one little white lie after another, to try to gain friendships that she thought she needed to have, and she lived with her mother and younger brother and her grand parents, who were also Chines and life just seemed to be getting worse and worse for her. She was very worried now about all of these internal things happening to her and making her cranky and her fears and doubts were reaching new heights. Who could she turn too, was her biggest dilemma? Her mother did not seem to be listening, although the opposite was true, and she was wrapped up in her own little fantasy world of felt hurts slights and sensitivities. How could she measure up to this woman hood thing, that every one was telling her that she was soon becoming? And telling her how wonderful it really is. She felt like a big bag or running nerves and tensions and mal adjustments and it scared her to death, on top of the shame she had to now endure along with her parents punishments for her lies. That night as she had finished her shower and walked before her bed room mirror naked and afraid to look at her self. Her eyes slowly focussed and beheld a medium height, slim dark and beautiful Asian Australian girt with the blossoming figure of a woman. How she wondered could this ever be happening to her? And when would it stop? And why could she not stop it from happening to her? And how can she be so stupid as to get caught by her friends and found out to be a liar. She thought she had been very clever and guarded. Her mind focussed once more on her neighbour, and of how she will have to get back at them for fronting her in front of her parents and friends. Now as she stared at her image she began planning how to do just that. They will never get away with it, she told her self so very seriously, and then she cried again.
Actually her neighbours on one side were two middle aged single Australian men, sharing the one house to save money for better things for them selves. They had two separate lives and to different social groups, while one was in to dancing and romancing and his work the other worked hard at being a Christian author and a journalist and respecting each others journey and spent every other hour helping others as often as he could. On the other side was a Greek family who seldom ever said hello to any of their neighbours. But to her she was angry and afraid because she had been found out to be a liar. Her world had suddenly come undone. All her dreams and fantasies were shattered and in pieces in front of her. But a look of evil swept over her heart and soul and the taste of murder was in her throat and she nearly chocked. Slowly she got dressed hardly daring to feel her hands on her on skin as she dressed her self. Her mind was a whirl of confusion and her emotions were running rampant with in her. How could she ever cope with the rest of her life with these uncontrollable things happening to her.
At the dinner table, no one could get a word out of her, and she kept her eyes down on her food. Her mother was worried because she knew that silence for what it was. She had experienced it her self, it was the turning point in her life, when she was fourteen. It was to be the time when she would either have a good life or a bad one, and her mother was very worried. Could her daughter really go through the night and still be able to make the right decision at the end of it. Shu Lin and Ralph both doubted very much if her daughter could endure the night out and went to bed fretting for her.
That night after dinner, she went to bed early and cried her eyes and heart out all night. The time was five thirty in the morning and the sun was just coming over the horizon and she had just ahd a glimmer of an idea as to what she should be doing next. But she was too weak, from all of the crying. Her eyes were darker than ever and her skin paler than ever before, and her bed was a mess, from her urinating of her self in her bed and it stank bitterly of fear, and impending doom.
She was just about to shout out to heaven, - There is no such thing as GOD, nor of salvation nor of Jesus, and I hate my life, when just then, a voice came booming down from heaven – Who are you to say there is no GOD and no heaven and no salvation? Suddenly her room lit up with an amazing shining wonderfully warm light which wrapped it self all around her like a beautiful warm blanket, which could never grow cold. Just then she heard her heart cry out, to her soul and toward heaven - If there is such a one God, then let me hear his voice, for I am lost, and need his help. She collapsed in to a warm and most comfortably warm sleep and slept right through the day, and not even her parents could wake her. Then suddenly at seven am the next day she was awake and feeling wonderfully free, light, self assured and totally clean on the inside as well as on the out side and every one knew that from then on she was going to be alright. Her mother and father and grand parents were witnessing a miracle before their very eyes and were unable to stop them selves from worrying and smiling at the same time.
It was two days before Christmas and their neighbour was whistling to him self and playing Christmas songs on his cassette player such as Silent Night, Oh Come all ye faithful and Onward Christian Soldier and many more and they listened to them all with close intent, especially their daughter.
The next day was Saturday and the whole family came over and asked to speak with him, about their daughter’s experience, so he got up and went to his wooden book shelf across from them and took down his family Bible and opened it up to them and explained it to them, of God as our one and only creator, and of humanities totally fallen human nature and of Jesus Christ and of salvation And of how it is in his name only can any one be filled, blessed, saved and come to believe in him as their sole justifier and mediator before God and it was after midnight, and no body wanted to go home.
So good was the whole of that year for Lei Lin that she hardly noticed it had gone by and her heart and soul lifted up to heaven with joy and her soul was more and more at peace with in her when she met a complete stranger as she walked home from school. Their paths crossed as she walked out from the old Lutheran Church grounds and he was walking past the opening to the Church grounds, when their eyes met and they both smiled warmly to each other and as he walked by her she called out rather sheepishly to him, can you please help me, I am a bit lost I think? As he stopped and turned she noticed for the first time just how incredibly old he was, and yet he was alive and young looking as well with an unmistakeable firm stride and his eyes were bright blue, and just for a moment she wondered where he had come from and then he seemed to tower over every thing around him, and yet he was only small, at his five foot tall lean frame, and a wonderful warm and gentle smile. He stood there for a moment longer and said - if you are lost I will meet you at the corner of High Street and Rufus Streets in Epping tomorrow at ten am, and I will show you the way you must go. She had started walking away with a warm, calm feeling spreading through her once more and after just three steps, she turned to ask him another question but he was gone. That Sunday her whole family went with her and what they found was God’s Church and they went in and there she heard and met her Lord Jesus.
She was fifteen and seeing for the first time that her life had just begun. Amen.
The end…
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