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Chapter XVIII: AMINA
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The Gossiper's Prayer Chapter 1: AMINA
In life, there are times you have been challenged to identify the mysteries of how people spread the message and how it significantly affects the way they live because of what they hear and how they believe in. No one knew exactly why each of us has the perception that varies from one another and to the point this becomes the reason of agreement or misunderstanding. No one knew exactly why each of us has the perception created inside about how we embrace the belief that either break us or make us. Let me tell you my story and how my life has changed in the way how gossip ruled the progress in the narrative arc of my journey and how my choice leads me to where I would be and I will never forget the pain who becomes the reason of becoming a nun.&nbs
The Gossiper's Prayer Chapter II: ELIANA
4:30 A.M. Reaching towards the clamoring alarm clock to snooze, I stretch my arms upward in a yawning manner. I stood and went near the window, staring at the dimly lit street with an echoing silence in its every corner. It is Monday, and we have to prepare for the whole-day chores waiting, and wake up my 17-year old daughter, Amina, to help me cook viands that serve as our daily small-scale business. In the kitchen, a lizard rapidly puts out its tongue to catch the diminutive swirling buzz of flies. The ignited fire slowly lick and heat the pile of woods inserted inside the made-up cemented compartment where the concave metal container can sit upon the reigning ember, glowing wildly. Onions, garlic, and a string of vegetables are evenly cut into pieces before mama place them in the different recipes; some sautéed, and some simply drowned into the boiling water. Different meats like chicken, por
The Gossiper's Prayer Chapter III: ELIANA
Two months after. My tears had kept falling in the middle of the night as I vividly recalled the incident I had encountered with Abdul. Shame and fear became my constant companions to the memory I had lost my innocence. I noticed I had missed my monthly period for months now. Mom and dad would really condemn me for what had happened. My hands were now trembling and my sobbing insisted to flow out from my mouth. “Eliana, are you crying,” my mom in the room must have heard my cry. “Nothing, Ma, I am just reading this book which made feel the tragic in the story,” I lied as not to make her know what the real tragic happened to their daughter. “Don’t be too melodramatic. You might become insane by reading too much,”
The Gossiper's Prayer Chapter IV: MIGUEL
It had been three years since I was sent by my parents to study Bible school and I knew it would be a great opportunity for me to take the footprints of my dad to become a pastor in our congregation and I would be having my internship this semester which one of the requirements was to immerse ourselves to the community. This was a boarding school where students were taught the fundamentals of Christianity and would love our lives in selfless availability on the mission to serve Christ to His people. Here I was serving the purpose and dream of my parents. Obedience to their words had become the guiding rule which I needed to follow. I had met a lot of challenges to be here and I had to finish this course so I could proceed to my secular education which I dreamed to become a nurse.&n
The Gossiper's Prayer Chapter V: MIGUEL
My conscience made my heart feel dragging and I could not concentrate doing my Sunday sermon tomorrow morning. My thoughts still lingered on that night I confronted Elianna that I was not single but a married person. I would be liable to God the things I had done to her especially to her family which I had already established relationship since I was assigned as intern pastor in their community a year ago. I did not expect that I was able to meet Eliana and her family again since I was transferred to another high school. After my graduation in theology, I was assigned to be the youth pastor in one of the local churches in the city. Eliana and her family members were devoted Catholics yet I was able to invite them in the church. Though his father was firm to remain to his faith, Eliana and her mother became regular attendees in the
The Gossiper's Prayer Chapter VI: ELIANA
How would I tell Miguel that I am conceiving to our child? I asked. I bought this pregnancy test which turned out to be positive. I was so supposed to tell him that day he confessed me that he was not single where in fact he was a married person. How could he ever keep such lies to me and even to the people he was dealing with. No one knew about this except my sister Aileen whom she was surprised but I was happy that she could be trusted. It’s Sunday and for sure Miguel would be having his preaching today. Wait, I smelled something. “Eliana!” my Mudra had called me, “the rice you cook on the pot smelled burning!” Without responding to my mother, I hu
The Gossiper's Prayer Chapter VII: AMINA
Hi, Amina—the name given by my mother who loves me and sees me like an angel to her eyes. I am now seven years old and I loved playing alone along with the tons of toys bought by Uncle Martin who treated me like her real daughter and I appreciated his efforts to make my mother happy. I remembered how Uncle Martin taught my mother how to drive a truck loaded with logs to be delivered to different areas in Sandakan, Malaysia. I was just in the backseat and enjoying the views of moving cotton clouds, the synchrony of birds flying above the sky, the scenery of each mountain we passed by from the windows of the truck. I felt how bumpy the roads were, and I was just trying to be in sync with the motions. The smile sketched on my face was priceless. I did not know why I felt the joy but I just went with the flow of time.
The Gossiper's Prayer Chapter VIII: AMINA
It had been three months ago since I was turned over by my mother to her elder sister who told her to grab the opportunity to work abroad in Middle East. Every night, the moon witnessed my tears falling behind the window of my room and I asked back in silence when I would see my mother again. I badly missed my mother—her smile, her voice that made me experience the safety of her presence. I also recalled my playmates in Malaysia and I remembered what my friend told me to look up the sky where the moon brightly shone to manifest that we saw the same moon despite the long distance we had. I hoped my friend would not forget to take a glimpse to the moon. “Are you okay?” asked Jessy, my first cousin, eldest daughter of my aunt Aileen and I was just two years older than her. I quickly wiped my eyes with my right arm and long deep sigh was the only response my cousin heard.
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