[Life Stories] >> [Testimony]

Topic: Out of Darkness
Contributor: Dian
Date: September 2007

Seven years ago, my employer opened their doors to a total stranger. It took tremendous courage for them to let me in. I didn’t have anything to offer. I was a sad and confused 21 year old who was trying to find a firm ground beneath my feet.

It turned out to be the most significant years of my entire life. My employer did not only open their doors but also their hearts, their family and their home to me.

Their home was the place where I decided to make the most important decision in my life as to where I wanted to spend eternity. I took the huge leap of leaving my former faith to becoming a child of God through Jesus Christ.

I was a timid and insecure person. However through the years, I have come to realize that God has another purpose why He put me into a completely opposite home to the one I grew up in.

I was alone most of my life and I learnt to fend for myself at a very early age. As young as six years old, I used to return home from school to an empty house. Growing up was a very hard time. My escape from reality was denial: pretending that nothing had happened so that someday, somehow, everything will turn out alright.

My employer’s home was God’s way of helping me to come to terms with my past hurts and to find healing. I experienced God’s love through their daily example. Their effortless warm, overflowing kindness, thoughtfulness and generosity have encouraged me deeply. I have enjoyed and continue to enjoy countless meals around the table, countless hours of conversation and prayers together. They trust me completely with their home and everything in it. They even share their joys and sorrows, problems and difficulties with me like one of the family.

I have learnt many things and have changed in many ways. I have come to trust God more and to see things from His perspective. He has provided me with a loving home. He took me from the pit of bitterness and darkness, and has given me a home, a family and friends that I have never had before. Praise be to God!