Desiring True Love (A Christian Fiction)

Chapter 1 Part 3: Family

A talk with my Grandfather.

As I was just about to go home, I wanted to meet my grandfather in his nursing home. I didn't know why but it just hit me suddenly.

We ought to lose our family whether we like it or not, as we should've heard "value the moment, until it becomes a memory." However, we shouldn't fear losing them, in fact, we should help them live abundantly as they are still breathing, we shouldn't leave them on their own. We ought to help them know the Lord, for if we love them we would help them live fruitfully even as they grow frail.

I expected him to want my company but that wasn't the case.

"Are you eating well?"

"Have you found your meaning for living?"

"Are you humble and kind?"

All of these things he asked me.

"Are you pursuing the life I've always wanted to pursue?"

Being a Basketball athlete?

"Yes, how is it." He said

I've left it, this world isn't the means for living.

He smiled at me.

"So you've understood it now?"

Understood what?

"That no matter what you do, nothing will be more valuable than God?"

As he said those words the bright yellow sunset shined across his face as he petted his pet Shih Tzu.

Quite like it.

It's as if I'm talking to dad, every single word of his mirrors each word of my dad.

"It's as if you're a mirror for me." He gleefully says.

"At first we'd think money is the way for a great life, that sex is what marriage is all about. Not quite, marriage is so that we may glorify God in our roles, to depict his love in our connection."

He has found freedom, the freedom I long for.

Although he's frail and old he's very glad.

"The truth shall set you free. All those things majority of your generation is focused on are just chains to lock them up in Hell, they are lost and they ought to suffer from it."

"It may sound boastful, but as you're growing older you'll lose a lot, and if you're ungrateful enough you're bound to break. And if you've found the truth like I have, you ought to live gladly even in your darkest moments."

I've known the truth but why do I feel like I'm still chained up?

"Maybe because you're getting ahold of something you aren't supposed to. Romans 3:23 tells us to lay aside every weight and sin so that we may run the race ahead of us with endurance. And if you haven't let go of the things you are supposed to let go of, you'll feel stuck; and you wouldn't be able to carry the name of Jesus Christ."