Lenie Rose is a fourth year high school student in Lourdes Academy, San Miguel, Zamboanga del Sur.

Everyone was given life for some individual and powerful mission to accomplish in this world.  We’re given life to cultivate and handle the creation of God for every living thing.  The human which He created in His image, different from everything, is placed in a higher rank among all His creation.  But the question is, does every human think that we are created in God’s image and that therefore we should follow Him?  Are we worthy to be the highest among all God’s creation?  Is our faithfulness enough to worship Him?

Why not?  As the highest one, we are capable of doing something which can make us stable with God’s presence within us.  But sometimes we forget and disobey God to provide our own interest and happiness, and that’s through our selfishness.  We can recognize our wrong deeds if ever there’s something negative that happens, but we go through to fight this part of our self which may carry us away from our Father.

We wouldn’t be here now if there’s no God present in every individual’s spirit.  He created our parents to be his instruments for us to be born for some important mission, and that’s to worship him.  Let’s be his good instruments to guide those who are in the wrong path towards his kingdom. Perhaps some are not totally in God because of their cravenness towards modern things around them.  But the truth is:  God is the essential among all we have, for He never leaves us. Whereas the things we have may be gone and be destroyed any time.  God is very powerful.  He gives to those who follow and obey Him.  He is the life and light which shines through us in the dark.  He is our everything. 

In every man’s experience, it might be good or bad, He is there accompanying us … We should be faithful to Him for He never gives us trials if He knows we can’t survive.  Every difficulty is a just challenge to strive and develop our life as well as our hidden skills.  All we have to do is to be faithful to Him,  because He is just here beside us.  My experience makes me realize that God is really here, therefore I should be faithful.

Since before, three days after I born, I was already here in my grandma’s hands.  My parents left me for the reason that they couldn’t support my needs and my mother was still studying.  Actually they tried to abort me.  My Mom always drank strong medicines for me to die.  She deeply bound her stomach but still nothing happened.  They then hired somebody to do the process which is commonly known as ‘ipamukot’ in order to abort the baby.  But I was still alive, strongly holding on and lying in my mother’s womb.  My grandma prayed many times that I would be born healthy and normal as other babies.  My face and head were not shaped normally (in Visayan, ‘phing’).  But all of this wasn’t a hindrance to my developing life.  We very much lacked money because my grandma was not employed full-time. She could find money if someone asked her to repair their clothes. But if not, we had nothing also.  We planted some vegetables and fruits to help us survive.  Grandma found a lot of sidelines to let me finish school.  Sometimes she went to our neighbors to care for their babies to earn money.  I stood as the mother of my two young cousins. I’m the one who took care of them, putting aside my books for studying my lessons.

We carried these difficulties until I was now in high school.  I studied my lessons very well to maintain my position as an honor student to make my grandma happy even in a simple way … This was the beginning of my another journey in life.  I am very thankful that God made me strong to survive from my mother’s womb until now.  He used my grandma as His instrument to help me to go through.  I am very faithful to Him because despite those medicines which my Mom took to abort me, still I hold on… I believe God purposely strengthens me to be His good instrument towards others.

We should praise and worship Him for He never forgets us despite all the wrong things we’ve done. We should value life, for it’s fragile.  We are very much thankful for we’re chosen this life to enjoy the greatness of the world as well as His creation.

We are here to worship Him … And His peace lives in us …