Christian East Asian Fiction

These days there are many arguments how people can succeed in life. For many they strive put all their efforts in one goal and if they fail it seems to them it is the end of their world. Others will continue even if they failed many times until they succeed. To be ambitious is like a spinning wheel that working for that goal is unstoppable. How about a person who is stricken with an illness will she have a chance to become successful? Even her relatives are doubtful withdrawing all their support. Only his father is the one who is giving all his efforts to help her. Marta when she is a little girl helped her mother in their grocery store. Living in the slum area many children come to eat at their food stall no money to pay for their food but her mother will add an amount to their family list not knowing when they are able to pay them. Her mother is used to this supplying food and groceries in their neighborhood. Marta feels sorry why her mother and father are doing this. Added to their hardship is the mental illness she is going through. Marta has just finished her high school when his father lost his job and it took a toll to her losing her sleep for three months and the doctor said it was insomnia. When her relatives visited her their comment is not encouraging but discouraging saying it runs in the family so it is a hopeless case. Her parents follow some lead to try folk medicine they call Spiritista (Faith Healer) who required offerings to the unknown. Boiled herbs to bathe Marta. After a week of drinking medicinal herbs Marta have a spiritual dream where the heaven opened to her and rose flowers showered to her and something was picked feeling its her heart was changed. Alongside her herbal treatment are pills for her insomia. The time another aunt visited her, Marta told her she is St. Mary and the more her relatives lost hope of her recovery. His father gets another job and both parents agreed to send her back to school. Marta foregoes her primary ambition to become a nurse having been in the honor roll reaching only third place being slow in mathematics but excelled in English She wonders why no one wants to befriend her even her neighbors who owes money to them in their store as if she became a social outcast. Because she knows she is being healed according to her spiritual belief that God is the master planner for all humans he has created. The same her mother introduce her to the Christian Faith not missing her weekly attendance to Sunday Mass. She is developing a strong Faith that God is going to help her succeed in her life goal. She decides to excel in her studies as a means to thank God healing her. While pursuing her studies to become a teacher she is not sure why this course she is asking to herself if it really suits her because this maybe an easier course for her. It is not clear to her if she decided to take it. She knows in their neighborhood talking at her back , her relatives no friends yet wonders if she can finish her studies blocking her ambition to finish it maybe a lost of time and money if her former illness attacks her. The only Marta wants to do is to finish her studies to help her parents especially her mother who wakes up early everyday to buy all the ingredients of the eat-in and take out food in their foodstall. She even added chicken feet , innards barbecue sold in the evening. Her strong Faith and her unceasingly prayers to God are the driving force for her to succeed in her studies and learning from an outside church she connected from the internet led her to join this new church who centers their belief of worshipping God the creator of Heaven and Earth. Marta calls this applied learning since she only needs to apply what she heard as the Word of God. She shuns to communicate with the opposite reminding the neigborhood she has grown up. The barefoot children wearing tattered clothes squeeze her heart and sympatize with them. Are they so hopeless like their parents? With her applied learning about sprituality she can worship God alone in side her room. Reading the Holy Bible she learns the meaning of body and soul. Humans are both physical and spiritual. When God created Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden both are called opposite sex but they are composed of body and soul. The body is the physical matter and their life is the spiritual matter when God infused breath to their nostril we call it hte living soul. Then God promise them eternal life if they follow his commandments. Unfortunately a third party meddled their affairs with God with a deadly penalty until today because of sin which is the transgression of God's law. This is the new knowledge Marta learned in reading the Holy Bible they also called the Book of Life Added to that is the teachings about God's character to develop self discipline self control, Hate and anger is poison to the soul. Marta is already taking her senior level of her teaching career. She no longer attend the Sunday Mass but observe the Sabbath which is the Day of Rest. She has learned many things even on financial matters like following to spend what is needed for the extra is allotted to help others. One can live a simple life following this to be kind and considerate to others. How many divorced women are struggling to raise their family and men doesn't seem to care. God's command is to keep the sanctity of marriage and their is no divorce for the sake of the children. She didn't mind to have a boyfriend being afraid that her children will suffer like the illness she went through and besides men when they are not committed with their marriage they will leave the household and find another woman. A man might be looking someone to work for him and the family breaks. Children are blameless and deserves to be loved, That's why everyone must asks forgiveness from God and forgive other and possess a blameless soul. On her graduation many of their neighbors cannot believe she has been successful in her studies Not only that she graduated with honors. The more her neighborhood and her relatives stood in awe when a banner is flying and waving informing she topped the Bar Examination for teachers. To garner the highest rank automatically a permanent position is waiting for her upon the opening of the next schoolyear in a prestigious elementary school in the city. After one year she decided to close the foodstall of her mother and buy a three bedroom detached home near her school. Hindrances, struggles happens and individual plans may falter losing hopes but seek God He is the Master Planner in our lifeGP

Posted Sep 29, 2025
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