Kelvin Chifulumo's Story

A Lost Sense of Love

 

While I might not be dealing with the loss of a person such as many of the other stories found here, I am dealing with a different kind of loss that is very real and substantial to me. It is a loss of love. Even from the day I was born, November 25th, 1979, love was being lost around me. The day of my birth was marred by the fact that my parents were in the midst of divorcing. To make matters worse, my biological father denied me at birth because I was a sickly baby. I struggled through my youth as a needy child and a loner and eventually found myself on the streets. I worked for scraps of food and felt almost unnoticed by others around me. The worst part was that I was shunned by close relatives for no clear and understandable reason.

I started to seek self-worth by helping people with any task for no reward for myself other than feeling loved and appreciated. I was drawn to and loved the unlovable, such as the poor and the elitists. I loved just about anyone and everyone and I finally came to love God and I started feeling that He loved me back.

I have tried to overcome all of these challenges in my life by struggling to finish school. Finally, after many years of dealing with school struggles and hard work, I at last have a job in a bank.

What I have dealt with in my life is a loss of love. I thank God for helping me to overcome it. My goal would be to start a church with people who feel the same things and who have had some of the same life experiences that I have.

Kelvin.

 

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