Words of the Cayme Family
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Words of the Cayme Family |
As I mentioned previously, I was almost hooked by the Mormons faith believing it was the church I was looking for....
After I saw and heard Jesus directly speaking, "No religion can save you except yourself," I never thought anymore that religion was the only way to salvation... BUT it's "ME", "my way of life". From that time on I looked not only for religious denominations but even groups which would say to me that it didn't matter what religion you belonged.
During the first semester of my 3rd year in the university, 2 students joined our school newspaper. They were both members of the Supreme Student Council (SSC) and Honor society and at the same time both CARP members.
Upon knowing their membership in CARP, my views about CARP changed too dramatically from nothing to a special organization. "Kuya Ric" (Gregorio) as many of the students fondly called him was a graduating student from Accountancy Department and a candidate for Magna Cum Laude who at that time was the Vice President of organization. It was because of him that I joined the group and saw CARP in a different view. (Note: Kuya is a Filipino word for elder brother and ate is for elder sister)
He introduced to me all the different activities the group was conducting inside the campus and only at that time I discovered how great the group was...
It was when our SSC weekly meeting was postponed that I first attended the meeting of CARP and from there I met Kuya Jun De Leon as the CARP president. Also I met Kuya Cesar Pacada, the president of Wonhwa Do with Ate Juliet Concepcion who was a student from the College of Law. I was surprised to see too that my friend from Civil Engineering dept and member of AUSSC (Marizel Soro) was a new member too. So when I saw great people in the campus being CARP members automatically I got the strong desire to be part of the group. Really my impression about CARP had changed 180 degrees.
From that time on I actively supported every activity they had inside the campus and was considered as an associate member.
There was a scheduled 4-day BKKB seminar that semestral break in October of 1987 and since I was a new member, I had to join this. I immediately paid the registration fee of 40.00 pesos to make sure that I was attending. However, a week after, they announced that the BKKB was converted into a 4-day Divine Principle seminar which absolutely required a 1-day introductory lecture before its schedule.
I had a difficulty attending this one day weekend activity since my grandma wouldn't allow me. I tried to escape from Kuya Jun every Friday so I would have an excuse to say to him the following Monday we would meet. However, they told me that I really couldn't join the 4-day Divine Principle seminar without this one day introductory lecture. I was struggling a lot and felt hopeless that both me and Kuya Jun thought, better join the next schedule.
It was already settled, I wouldn't be attending that time so I planned just to refund my 40.00 pesos. However that evening, I dreamed again. In my dream a voice told me that I couldn't be a great leader without knowing the 9 chapters and then I woke up.
I was thinking what was that. I never heard nor had any idea about that point. Really I was floating in the air of where those 9 chapters would come from. I never thought of leadership position when I woke up. I was so interested to know what were those 9 chapters all about and where would they come from.
The next day I met Kuya Jun, I asked him about his idea of salvation and I was so surprised and shocked to hear from him telling me that "its not religion which can save you but how you follow God's will." Honestly, I was captured by him SIMPLY because of that statement. Kuya Jun was just a simple young student who had carried always a smile in his face. You couldn't see any special thing from him. At that time, from his fashion and appearance, there was nothing special that could capture me EXCEPT for that statement of our Lord Jesus which Kuya Jun had exactly told me.
I got interested to be with him always from that time on and began to ask him his views about all my dreams. I always looked for him because I wished to know many explanations about those revelations I had received.
Since his explanations were somewhat logical I suspected that the Divine Principle seminar might be the answer to the mystery of the 9 chapters. However, when I asked him about what were the contents of the Divine Principle seminar, he told me that it was about the 16 chapters of the CARP principle. At the height of my hope to know where I could learn the 9 chapters, suddenly my enthusiasm was lessen a bit and had a thought that maybe it was not the Divine Principle seminar and CARP principle. I didn't ask for more since I wouldn't be joining the workshop anyway.
Nevertheless, I asked Kuya Jun to give me basic orientation on what they said CARP Principles so even though it was already a settled agreement that I wouldn't be joining the seminar, at least as a requirement to become a regular CARP member, I had to have that basic knowledge of the principle the group adhered.
Semestral break would be in 2 weeks time so I insisted to Kuya Jun to give me an orientation and finally, one afternoon in the library at 4 pm, he started his lecture by introducing True Father as the founder of CARP who received revelations from Jesus when he was 16y/o. He also mentioned about the several organizations and aspects of the organizations. Mormons faith has expanded to different field too like the Unification Movement. Then, unintentionally, I interrupted him by saying.... "Oh he must be similar to Joseph Smith who claimed to be the last prophet". I had said it in an unfavorable way even.
I like to questions things. My personality was so arrogant and feeling proud of myself that I believed disturbed him a lot. So instead of giving the introductory topic he jokingly said that if I could answer the 3 questions, I would be considered a regular member even though I didn't have any seminar yet.
Actually he was so shocked to hear my answers to those 3 questions which made him said, "You are very much qualified to attend the 4-days Divine Principle." I was very shocked too because the Divine Principle seminar was scheduled 2 weeks after that and my mind was already settled not attending.
He asked me where did I learn those ideas (answers to his 3 questions)... I just told him I got those revelations from dreams... well ACTUALLY, it wasn't.
And he told me that that was basically part of chapter 1 of CARP principle. In addition to that, I was shocked to hear from him that during the 4-days seminar, only 9 chapters would be presented because the whole 16 chapters were scheduled for a 7-day workshop.
"This is it!!!!!!!!!" I exclaimed, I looked at heaven with a grateful heart during that very moment knowing that that was the place Heaven had prepared for me discover what was in the 9 chapters, and maybe for Kuya Jun, he thought, I was so excited to be a CARP member since during those times witnessing for church membership was very difficult.
What were his 3 questions? "What is an ideal man, what is an ideal family, what is an ideal society....so have you seen an ideal society now a days?"
What he forgot was (or didn't know), there was one MMU pageant rehearsal in the campus auditorium where I happened to be at and I heard these questions during the Q/A practice. heheheheh exactly as what I had explained to him.
I BELIEVE, it was heaven's intervention that I had known those things prior to that situation so I would be allowed to attend the 4-day Divine Principle seminar. .... Actually, I wasn't after the group, it was God's will and He planned me to be in CARP and He led my every step to be there. I strongly believed that it was God and heavenly destiny that called me to be where I am now...My faith didn't come because of the Divine Principle. My faith started from these revelations through dreams and it was just solidified and strengthened through my understanding of the Divine Principle.
Till next memories of faith..
Tuesday, June 1 2010 (19th day of the 4th month of heaven's 1st yr) 1:44 pm Ulsan City