Jesus' Lover

            It was already 3:00 in the morning, Selena was sitting at the edge of the bed when the man finally stood up to prepare to leave, “Hey, here’s your 1000 as agreed,” the man threw the money on the bed then left. Selena picked them up, counted the money and shove them to her purse. She lighted a cigarette while staring blankly on the lights outside the window of the motel. “Next time, give me a fresh young girl, not this one ok? Anyway, I’ll call before I get here,” Selena could hear the man while talking to Paula, the gay manager of young girls in that prostitute den as they exchange their laughs, Selena bit her lips then went to the comfort room to shower.        She stood motionless while the water streams down over her body, as the water washes her face so does her tears flow from her eyes. She grabs the soap and scrubs her whole body with it as if it can wash all the filthiness brought about by the...

             I was a Christian for twenty years; together with my husband we've done service for the Lord and committed ourselves to the ministry. My husband, Tom and I were church workers, and for ten years of marriage, we were not given a child to complete the family. My husband has accepted our fate for he always say that the Lord knows what He’s doing, but for me, I am finding it hard to accept this, I always thought that we deserve all good things from God for we were His good servants after all, we did everything we can to serve Him and make ourselves available for the work of the Lord, so I am fully convince that we deserve better than this…yes better than all of these!             I was feeling a little bit of perturbed with my life lately, my husband was assigned to pioneer a church in Laos and I decided to stay not because I don’t want to go but I’m beginning to lose inter...

Teacher Sarah was our Sunday school teacher, she’s fun, approachable, caring and loving. Among all the people in the church, she is someone I will never forget. One of the things that I will never forget is the way she taught us in our Sunday school class, she comes in prepared, and bringing all the stuff she needs for the class. Her eyes were always beaming with excitement as she starts the lesson with singing, dancing, storytelling and games. However, despite of her efforts, her students failed to notice her sacrifice, love and commitment in bringing them in relationship with God. Sad to say, I was once participated in pranks we kids played on her: one Sunday morning, she was discussing a topic about the faith of Abraham, she was happy and energetic as usual, when she gave out a question, no one was answering, that was the time we start to giggle. She seemed not to notice that we were wearing earphones and we are not paying attention to her all the time until she called me, I...