Dear friends, Its really been such a long time since I have written. I had been just to busy. The past few days I had been very excited on my new job. ( I am now working in a psychiatric hospital-In a beautiful place, with even beautiful people). Being in a arab country,, when I first joined here a few months ago, I had been strictly warned against speaking about religion or God-especially christianity to anybody. And of course, I had been following it too. But recently, something nice happened. We had a nice patient, a kuwaiti national, educated in the united states, a case of addiction.
And her american background had given her a little exposure of christianity. One fine day suddenly she came upto me and in front of everybody asked me, “Sister, who do you think killed Christ Jesus?” I was really shocked at her question, and my heartbeat increased as I saw all the other kuwaiti patients and my eygptian colleagues looking at me expecting for a reply. I just kept my mouth shut and tried to walk off from there when she again said, “why sister, don’t you want to tell me about it?” It was a real challenge, and I was definetely not prepared to risk my job, by accepting her challenge. But my guilty conscience wouldn’t just leave me alone. Slowly in a very soft voice I told her “You know, it was my sins that he was bearing on that cross that finally killed him—my sins and the sins of the whole world” As I was talking, I took her to her room and told her very briefly about our faith, our beliefs etc Just then another kuwaiti patient who had been over hearing our conversation interupted in between, ‘You know sister, before coming to this hospital I have come across only 3 christians in my entire life. And, they are also the best 3 people I have ever known. And because of my association with them, I knew when I saw you, that you were a christian too. Christians are really different, I really like them. As she was saying this, I was getting even more nervous and kept on looking in every direction, to see if anybody else was listening to us. I t is really considered as a crime to speak about christianity here, and here I was with my patients discussing it. I just thanked my Lord for giving me the oppurtunity to speak about it ; and wen icame home from duty that day I was really feeling very much relaxed.; All the fears of consequences had suddenly left me and I was peaceful withen. love, anita Yahoo! Sports - sign up for Fantasy Baseball http://sports.yahoo.com **************************************************************** This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to this mailing list, visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet For automatic help, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ****************************************************************
