"PARALLEL ROADS"

“PARALLEL ROADS” (A nightmare)

The Christian’s road is lonely and with a lot of thorns, Jesus leads, and all of us believers, follow Him with our cross on our shoulders. Right next to this road there is another one, parallel and completely opposite of Christ’s. The road of perdition!
A man with two or more women, a woman with many men, a man with a man,
a woman with a woman, mutually showing their lust for each other.

Some walking, others running, and very happy jumping with pleasure and
forbidden “Love”. Wine, Drugs, Perdition!

I looked myself walking slow with my head down whispering some prayers
while following Christ.
The noise they were making on the other road, was so great that I was not able to concentrate in what I was doing. Suddenly, somebody stretched his hands, and pulled me to the other road and said:
What are you doing over there? Can you see how lonesome that place is?
There is no happiness, no love, no fun in that road! Look here!
There is pleasure! There is happiness! There is love!
Hey! Drink some of this mixture I am going to give you, its name is:
“Extasy of love” You’re going to feel like a king of the world!
Nothing else will exist for you! Look! Look how many women they are!
Choose all the ones you like, they are yours!
I started to feel attracted by sin, wine and pleasure, how ever, I was curious and wanted to see what was ahead,and I started to walk a lot faster than the others and I began to see how the people were aging
really fast.
I was looking at those men and women how their features were changing!
Their expressions instead of smiles and happiness they showed faces with
pain and scars in their faces and their bodies.
Men and women weak and wasted away because of the effect of drugs, alcohol and prostitution!
They were people laying down on the floors because death stopped their run!
They did not want to stop at all!
All they wanted to do,was to get to the end!
The end of the road of corruption and sin!
They were all kinds of ill people!
Happiness has already vanished, it is gone!
I was telling them: Please stop! There is still time!
Lets return to the other road! Christ’s road!
But nobody was listening, they were shouting me to shut up! That with
their pain, they already had more than enough!

We were getting close to the bridge! The bridge of no return!
I was scared thinking that I was not going to be able to go back
and I said:
Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ! Where is my Christ?
The people that Jesus was leading were very far away already!
I lost a lot of time and the opportunity of return was expiring!
I ran like crazy against the people, pushing them and making room to pass,
and I ran and ran, as I was running back, the people started to look younger and younger, they were men and women so young, just kids that
they already started to rot, and they began to tell me to stay with them!
And I kept telling them: Please! Open up your eyes! Stop!
This is the road of perdition! Go back! But,they kept going away!
As I could, I jumped over the fence that was dividing the roads and I
kept running until I’ve got close to Jesus who had his eyes full of tears
for what was happening in the other road.
I went on my knees next to Christ and I begged Him to forgive me!
To forgive me the big error of abandon Him!

And He told me:
Son: I forgive you!
I forgive you, because I offered my life on the cross for all that believe
in my forgiveness!

Take your cross! And follow me!
It won’t be much longer!
We’re almost there!
And very happy I replied to Him:
Thank You Lord!
You will always be blessed!

Praise the Lord!

José Salazar
S. de C. For a Spanish version go to:
sopadepescadoparaelpecador.blogspot.com