THE FOUR ELEMENTS AT PLAY

THE BODY:
...it is either used or mis-used.
it is either purified or defiled
It can house satanic hosts or the Holy Spirit, depending on the choices made by another organ
Its appearance can be made to look GLAMOROUS, or GANGRENOUS
by use of beauty products it can be clothed in STYLE ar adorned in AMOROUS SLOTH.

THE EYES
.....they work as a pair
they see either the purified or the defiled
they open doors to the satanic host or the Holy Spirit

THE FEET
...they too work as a pair
they walk into the purified or defiled
the step on thorns or walk in paths of righteousness

THE MIND
...Its the feeding center
it is the C.E.O.
It is the commander in chief
it dictates whatever the other three do.


so above all else gaurd your heart(mind)
for out of it flow the issues of life
(wise saying)

DILA'S DILLEMA

Dila could't believe this....the man she loved was HI POSITIVE....what a joke.
She laughed hysterically...
she was a VCT counsellor and peer educator all rolled in one.
Yet she had unprotected sex with Samson. She suddenly became scared....she knew that she needed to go for a test, but the thought bothered here severely. Most of the VCT sites were manned by people that she was well aquainted with. what to do? Dila needed someone to confide in, she thought of her friend and mentor; Mery shege. mery was a very inspiring friend, though opinionated, and perhaps in the wrong proffession, she was loving, caring and veery helpful..Dila could think of no-one else, so she ambled along to the CJCC community center sat in the lobby and drew her breath. she opened the door to Mery's office and waited...
"Hiiii girl"
Mery said with her characteristic enthusiastic hug and double kiss on the cheek..
."you look goood" (the words oozing out in elongated exaggeration)
"welcome and have a cup of tea!!!!" she said excitedly.

As Dila settled she thought to herself...Am I really going to tell Mery about this situation? her thoughts were a twitter!! and she could not make a decision; as Mery prattled on about this and that, the clothes she was wearing, the shoes, the cutex, Dila thought to herself...How we take the little things for granted. Dila was tired about the prattle, Mery noted that and asked
" What is wrooong dear?" Dila just told her..
."please test me" and mery asked her
"why?"Dila responded "
" I will tell you everything after the test is done. so please just do the test for me, skip all the official procedures please."
Mery complied.
Dila was found to be HI positive. Strangely she did not react at all, she said to herself, well its here with me, let me deal with it. ..perhaps it hadn't fully dawned on her, or she was acustomed to the myriad reactions to the news, and was well educated about the condition and its management possibilities. Whatever it was she was calm. she told Mery in crisp news copy fashion what had transpired. how she ran out of the pastors office when she heard the news of Samsons HI condition. She asked Mery to have a counselling session with her.
Mery obliged, and the did a two hour session. Dila spoke of all her fears, how her folks would react,she was now not even sure of the wedding, she did not know whether she was affected by Samson, or whether Samson affected her, who was to blame. she talked about the distant God of the bible, and if he would hear her pleas for help healing and comfort, she talked of her plans to become a doctor, and whether that was the direction to go, she worried about the group that she facilitated in life skills once a month, and what this revelation would do to them, she thought of her little sister who looked up to her, lucca........Dila broke down. At the conclusion of the session, she felt better, she left with a promise to come back in a months time. meanwhile she needed to know what she would tell her folks, as she walked home...she knew that this day and probably for many days, she would not disclose this shameful news to her folks. as she reached the gate to her home, she heard the young men/ boys of the hood whilstling and cat calling her, she did not respond, she was not in the mood. she entered the house, met her Mum, she hugged her and wept.

SAMSONS WORD

Well Samson; I want us to read a chapter of the bible and see where it will take us...open your bible in Jeremiah chapter 30 verses 12: this is what it says: "This is what the Lord says: ""your wound is incurable. your injury beyond healing. there is no-one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sore, no healing for you."" "do you feel like this Samson, are these the thoughts that have run through your mind?" "Yes pastor, they are exactly what I felt....I believed that my life was over" "well lets go on...verses 14" ""All your allies have forgotten you: they care nothing for you. I have struck you as an enemy would and punished you as would the cruel, because your guilt is so great and your sins so many. 15 why do you cry out over your wound, your pain that has no cure? because of your great guilt and many sins I have done these things to you."" " Just now your fiancee has run away, you may expect more of this in the days to come, because people normally judge the decease holder, even when they are innocent ." "Yes pastor I saw that, I am even afraid to confront my parents...I am actually guilty pastor. I have had sex with several girls, and it was unprotected...so I cannot blame anyone but myself for this!!!!" "Yes Samson, that is why God says, HE has struck you, because of your many sins" "But Pastor; is there any hope for me??? " " why dont we read on?" "17 I will restore your health and heal your wound," declares the Lord, because you are called an outcast, for whom no-one cares." "18 ....I will restore the fortunes of Jacob's tents and have compassion on his dwellings" "God promises to 1. heal you; 2. restore the fortunes of your tent which is the temple which is your body, 3. he will have compassion on where you dwell which again is your body Samson. this is a covenant promise to you if you turn away from you sin and turn to God, whole heartedly" "thank you pastor, please help me to pray...." "first write down the names of all the girls that you have slept with" then make the following prayer... "I confess having unlawful sex with........ I break the soul tie formed between me and .... and I command every supervising spirit that entered me as a result of this sin to go and never return in Jesus name..." "I speak the healing blood of Jesus Christ over my whole body, and speak the cleansing power of the blood over HIV AIDS, and I decree that fortunes shall be restored to my body in Jesus name...." " do this prayerfully from the midnight hour with fasting and lets meet after 1 week." " thanks pastor I will do that...and I will be back next week same time with feedback ...."

THE AFTERMATH

So, there are three characters introduced into this fictional play, and they are all linked to HIV AIDS...There is Samson, Dila, and the Pastor. we have seen them go through some of the EMOTIONAL PHASES that characterize the realization that one is HIV +VE. shock, anger, wonder, reckless behaviour, desperation, fear, shame....denial, and so on. The question I wish to ask you is this if you were the pastor, and you were left with Samson; what would you do after praying for Samson to recieve Christ? I am eager to hear your comments..

THE SHOCK 3

Dila was so apprehensive....she hadn't seen Samson for all of a month; his phone had gone black, and none of his friends knew where he was...he had even skipped work and the policy of the company he was working for stipulated that anyone who absconds work for a week without any explanation was automatically dismissed. last night he called using a strange number, and asked to see her for he had something he wanted to share with her...and he wanted to do it at the Church where their pastor who was mentoring them into marriage was located. the time ticked on and she wondered what all this was about. There he was right on time...he looked sick, as though he had not slept in days, she made an attempt to hug him but he pulled away...."when I am done explaining everything hug me if you want to" he said sadly They entered the pastors office , sat down and waited for Samson to explain where he was all this time... Samson just told them he was HI Positive and that he had to deal with it first before comming out with it. He sat back and regarded his fiancee, she looked pale, ashen even, shock registered on her face...she couldn't talk...her legs just upped and she was out of there like a caged animal seeing a window to escape through Samson stayed back, looked down then to the pastor and asked Him to pray for his soul......

SHOCK 2

Samson needed to do something else he would explode...he was cut off from everyone who was his friend...he was at that place where he just had nowhere to go... he couldnt call his girlfriend...he couldnt call his mother, he couldnt call his closest so called friend...shaaaaame ate him up shaaaame almost destroyed him...he bowed down kneeling on his feet, and cried out with heart rending sobs to the the skies, and cried out..."OH GOD!!!!!" As the rain beat on him and as he sat in the mud coagulating around him, thoughts like rays of hope shot into his mind...reminding him that "there is a God!" he stood away from the mud, and let the rain wash it all away, and though he was drenched in water, he felt abit better...now he neede to visit his fiance.....