My life's testimony is somewhat like a web of events and circumstances which finally led me to what I have become of.
I would say then that I have no regrets having had experienced all the travails and avenues that life has given me because they brought me where I am now. They were indeed blessings in disguise!
I would want to start by saying that the twist of my fate was a result from a journey to an arid land that seemed like a "walk across Egypt" but that I have eventually gotten over such long dry walk and now I am happily living with my life in the midst of happiness and peace.
If I remember it right, I started my discernment for a change of life in year 1998 after having led to an abominable exploitation from the hands of a group of people which caused me so much pain and suffering in life.
As a result of such misfortune, the blemish on my dignified life seemed like an indelible ink that would not just go away that easy. I would say, it was horrible to regain one's dignity and reputation once boxed, labeled and locked-up in an image that people created. It would absolutely take such effort of raw courage and determination to be able to make a shift.
This experience made me feel the dryness of uncertainty and this "walk-across-Egypt" experience led me to struggle for a change of heart from being an ordinary human to becoming Religious in the confines of a contemplative monastery. I sought God's refuge.
In year 2002, I found God's mercy. I found myself in a new environment which was extremely opposite from the outside world: the monastery!
God liberated me from such a long "walk-across-Egypt" and led me to live the kind of life that I was longing for. The way of life inside the monastery was a 360 degree angle shift from the secular way of life that I lived in the past.
My years of living monastic life inside the monastery changed my ways of looking at life tremendously. While inside the monastery for nine years, God led me to a total conversion of life.
But.....In year 2010, I found myself back in the world of man.
Yet, the knowledge that I learned inside the monastery for such a long period of time assured me that I was ready to face the world again because I was able to acquire and thus, equip myself with substantial tools in facing the adversities of life in the world again.
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finding the right way is indeed a hard way, but you have found your way back to the Lord by the experiences you had and now Albert, you have redeemed yourself and in the eyes of God, you are His most precious gift and a treasured one. keep up the good work you have been doing for the greater glory of God through the midst of the elders... --Bro Cyprian
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