Redemption

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March 2019
(Names changed for privacy)
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“Get out of here!”, Kelania shrieked. “I NEVER want to see you again!!”

Her husband, Tomas, abandoned the room with a violent slam of the door. Kelania crumpled onto the ground, weeping. She had just been diagnosed with a fatal STD. Tomas had been unfaithful. And his infidelity was going to take her life.

Rage consumed her. In the days that followed, suicidal thoughts tormented her. She was going to die anyway, she reasoned. Why not choose the moment?

Her neighbor, Teresa, noticed the change in her. It just so happens that Teresa got saved not so long ago through the outreach of our church. She is the spiritual great-granddaughter, so to speak, of one of the main discipleship leaders at our church, Olga. Olga won Tania for the Lord and discipled her. Tania won and discipled Astrid. Astrid won and is discipling Teresa.

And now it was Teresa’s turn. She sensed the nudge of the Holy Spirit. With quiet urgency, she walked over to Kelania’s home. “Amiga!”, she called out at the open door. “Are you home?”

All she heard was Continue reading His Infidelity, Her Illness, and How God Turned it All Around