The past doesn't matter

RESUMEN: Rosa was a believer in her youth but later professed disbelief in Cuba when scientific atheism was established. She married an unbelieving man and even mistreated and discriminated against Christians in her role as principal of a high school. However, after her husband's death, she realized her attack on Christians was a kind of hidden pain and resentment because she admired and loved them. She returned to God in repentance and enjoyed precious moments in her life as she returned to church and experienced communion with fellow believers. The difference between Rosa's story and others was that she made a decision in time and was able to openly enjoy the Christian life. God's forgiveness is broad and receives everyone who seeks him, no matter when in their life they do so.

Rosa believed in God in her youth and was one of the many people who later professed disbelief in Cuba when the teaching of scientific atheism was established after the 1960s. The difference between her story and that of my father and José that I narrated in previous meditations, is that Rosa did not wait for the last moments of her life to take the road back. Her decision was costly and difficult, but it allowed her to express her faith and enjoy not only a renewed and vital communion with his God, but of the Christian fellowship that he so badly needed.

She was a very active believer during her teens. As he later recounted, those were the happiest and most beautiful years of his life. By falling in love with an unbelieving man and marrying him, she turned away from the faith and was introduced into an atmosphere of total disbelief, rejection of religion and especially Christians.