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knew about it and warned Patrick. He told him he would receive<br />
a call to meet with my sister somewhere, and that is where some<br />
policemen would finish him off.<br />
The policeman told Patrick not to dare go alone. When it<br />
happened as the policeman had warned, Patrick was wise<br />
enough not to go. He waited for the policeman who had warned<br />
him, and when he arrived after work, they went together to the<br />
police station. He then urged the other policemen at the station<br />
to finish with Patrick quickly, as he had to go somewhere else<br />
with him. That is when they realized that they could not go on<br />
with their plot, and that is how Patrick’s life was saved. Having<br />
left my fathering-law's spiteful treatment, I fell from the frying<br />
pan right into the fire of my own people’s rejection. It was more<br />
or less the cruelest treatment I have ever received on this earth.<br />
I would understand Patrick’s family hating me because, well, I<br />
was from a different ethnic group, a group they abhorred like it<br />
was an abomination to get along with them. Secondly, I was not<br />
of their flesh and blood. However, for my own family to take the<br />
same route was agonizing. I faced so much rejection that I kept<br />
away from most family events. I was shut out, only attending my<br />
father’s re-burial ceremony.<br />
Since I was not wanted, segregated against and distrusted by<br />
everyone, I resorted to only one thing – silence. I had only one<br />
person to confide in, and that was God. I did not know that by<br />
victimizing myself, I was hurting myself more. I thought I was<br />
the only one suffering these injustices. I did not know that this<br />
was only turning me into a selfish person. With each passing<br />
day, my heart became as sensitive as a fresh wound and as hard<br />
as a stone.<br />
What the Bible says about humans is indeed true. If a mother<br />
can forget the baby nursing at her breast, and if a father can<br />
reject his own son, we understand why Jeremiah 17:5-6 states<br />
that, “Cursed is anyone who puts their trust in man…”. In this<br />
verse, God shows us that we are all made of the same material;<br />
therefore, if there should be any trust, it should be directed to a<br />
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