Hey… I’m Solomon… and this is my world…I never knew the love of a father… Though I loved him dearly, all I got in return was abuse... He would scold me for no reason and beat me till I blacked out… he even burned me with cigarette butts…I always wished I could hug and kiss my father like I had seen other kids do… but I couldn’t… All this affected me emotionally… so I lost interest in studies and I kept failing at school… Not able to take it anymore, I tried committing suicide twice… but both times my mother stopped me… At 14 I ran away from home because I was so scared that my father would kill me… I travelled to other cities and began working in shops to earn a living…But finally my Mom found me and brought me back… only to face more abuse…! I tried hard to impress my father in order to win his love… but nothing changed… So I began looking for love elsewhere… began drinking, smoking, chewing ghutka… Then one night I had a dream… everyone had gone to heaven and only I was left behind…Although this really scared me, soon I was back to my old lifestyle…I was studying in a Govt. High school I took Baptism at the age of18 in 1998 and after 3 years time I was going through some dark sides in my life Finally one day as I listened to a Christian devotional song, something touched my heart… I felt so guilty about my past… and I asked Jesus to forgive me and to give me a new life… He brought me so much joy and peace… and He helped me get over my past and move on…Jesus is now a father to me… and with Him in my life, I have all the love that I need.
