Words of the Cayme Family
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Words of the Cayme Family |
With all my past dreams with significant meanings, I do believe, God had been preparing to join the church as soon as I would enter University. However this time I would like to share how heaven attempted to bring me into the church in 1985 but wasn't able to.
Because I missed the NCEE test during my 4th year of high school, I landed in the Geodetic Engineering department by force since this course didn't require NCEE during registration and enrolment. Actually, I wished then to take up BS Psychology or AB Political Science. Despite my limitation to enroll for that, I used the AGE course to start my college years.
I was too ambitious maybe during those times because I wished to be president of the Supreme Student Council and achieve great things. So what I did? I took up all the necessary subjects I needed for my desired course from different College Departments so I could gain access to all areas that would serve my purpose in the future. I just took the 2 major subjects in GE and the rest are from Civil Engineering, AB, Education, Architecture and Criminology departments. I didn't have the chance to enter the Accountancy department at that time.
During my first semester as a freshman in the university, I was too busy joining different Academic clubs. And during my second semester I penetrated our school newspaper. It was very unusual for an AGE student to do what I did since almost all the students there were not focused on extra-curricular activities and academic clubs. That lifestyle of mine drew a lot of attention to almost all my professors. I became close with them and I greatly deal with them too until such time that 2 of GE Dept professors did encourage me to pursue the course even though I got my NCEE test already.
My classmates and the entire department were almost all boys. There were only 4 of us ladies in the first year and 7 in second year, 5 in third year and no girls at all in 4th and 5th year. It was known to be MEN's place. It wasn't difficult for me to deal with boys. Our major activities involved climbing the mountains, going to rice paddies, highways and streets, climbing the top of the buildings etc. because we need to measure land areas and subdivide some lots. Unlike Civil and Industrial engineering, my course was not really meant for ladies in the field.
During 2nd semester, I had one major subject about GE Laws 1 and I happened to have one classmate who was a 5th yr CE student then. She was graduating that time and GE Laws 1 was a required subject for her graduation so she took it up in our class.
Since she was older than all of us, she was always occupying the front seat next to mine. I was so curious with her since she was always falling asleep in our class. At that time I was really wondering and thinking, what kind of student she was... I couldn't imagine how tired she was in her daily schedule to be sleeping most of the time in our class.
Our professor was a lawyer and at the same time City Police Chief Superintendent who used to share jokes that would crack your chair in laughter. In one instance, my Unification Church classmate who was always sleeping dropped off her things on the floor as she was awaken by our loud noise. I helped her picked her things up. I saw HSA-UWC written in her notebook and a lot of Christian songs in it when I picked it up for her. Of course at that time I didn't know about the church.
My impression with her changed since that time. I was thinking "oh she's religious" though it didn't appear to be so. It triggered something inside me. MY FAITH, which I almost forgot due to secular lifestyle of being a college student who was involved in many activities.
That 2nd semester I joined the student council by election. I got many friends who were so close to me from Communist leaning student groups (of course I didn't know that too). I joined some of their activities and support their cause. basically it appeared that I was one with them....
Every time my Unification Church classmate arrived in the class, I always asked her to lend me her notebook with Christian songs and even asked her to sing with me since our professor was many times late comer. She was talkative actually but when I started asking her about her church and religion, she didn't answer me clearly. She explained a lot of things to avoid my question. I asked her about the name HSA-UWC since there was Holy Spirit and Christianity words in there but she didn't even answered me properly about it.
I was searching for my faith's path and the spirit world had been guiding me through dreams for many years but the person who could have led me to True Parents during that time didn't have the desire to witness to me. I learned later through her testimony when we became classmate during a 21-day Divine Principle workshop in Antipolo under Rev. Gary Fleishman in 1988 that she never thought I would be joining the church.
Judging my lifestyle and life views, I was very far to be joining Unification Church. At that same time, she said, she thought I was one with those leftist student groups that gave her a big doubt of bringing me to the church. She even thought that I was spying since I asked her a lot of questions. Heheheeh hmmmmmm. If only she tried MAYBE she became my spiritual mother....
Because of this case, I've learned some points in witnessing. People come not by our invitation but by the preparation from spirit world. We are just being used by spirit world to bring them in. Keeping them is our MAIN and VERY IMPORTANT responsibility as spiritual parent.
Later in 2003, Dr Julia Kim shared with us True Parents views about spiritual parenthood, I could easily relate with it since I believed the idea of spirit world preparing our ways to join the church and meet the messiah. The message she shared regarding True Father's guidance during their continental directors meeting appeared to be revolutionary since it went against our traditional belief about claiming who is our spiritual parent or who is our spiritual children. It was spoken after True Parents were crowned as the King and Queen of Tribal Messiahs in 2003 February.
Somehow my case helped me a lot in developing my witnessing approach and pastoral strategy.
Monday May 17, 2010 (4th day of the 4th month of Heaven's 1st yr) 12:56 AM Ulsan City
Till next memories of faith...