CHAPTER NINE

The New Life

I had the almost perfect life when I returned at our place. My family’s great, school’s great, I found new friends, and everything’s turning out really fine. It seems to me that my relationship with this priest is making my life even more wonderful. He helped me in so many ways, in terms of my vices, my family problems, and my personality development, almost everything. He truly is God’s instrument for making me realize all the things that I have done wrong in the past.

It was going so well when something came up quite shocking at that time. The priest who is also my friend had a terrible accident. While he was playing his past time sport, he had a heart attack and died a couple of hours after. It was so shocking that I was at school back then and I still couldn’t believe it that time although it was one of my closest friends who break the news to me.

A friend once told me after that incident that he died for a good cause, he knew that he’s time is nearly to its end, so he did what he must do. He helped me and lots of people to realize that God is there, He loves us no matter what, whatever situation we are into, and the priest truly helped us in realizing that is the truth.

The day before his burial, the priest’s body was transferred to another place, a parish where he also served well and was loved by the people there. We all went there for a mass and a gathering for his death. And before the mass started, me and my friends went walking and looking for some of our friends who were not with us when we came there. While walking and strolling around the area, I saw a very beautiful lady. She had this glow on her face, and a smile so breathtaking. I would never forget the first day that I saw her face. I even wrote a story about me and that lady when I was still studying, and I posted most of them in the bulletin board of Friendster. It’s like my heart was filled with awe that time and I was overwhelmed by the feeling. God took away my friend who helped me in my battles in life, but He gave me a new inspiration the day before I said goodbye to my friend, and she was so breathtaking that I almost forgot why I even went to that place.

It was the end of my old life, and the start of a new one.