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ALL INDIA

ASPIRING WRITER's

AWARD

DAVID TUDU

REGISTRATION ID

C2349

YOUR FINAL SCORE IS IN BETWEEN

9.21 - 9.75

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Written By

DAVID TUDU

THE PRAYER


Why am I like this?

What made me like this?

This wasn’t what I am?

This wasn’t what I used to be!

Are you hearing me father?

Are you hearing my voice?

I am crying out to you my Lord, with my hands held high, my head bowed in shame and my heart crying out for mercy. I need you please listen to my prayer.

I need please listen to my prayer.

“I need you!” I mumbeled as I fell on my knees crying my heart out with nothing to else to do just cry out. I was hurt and was ready to end it all you know. I was just praying to God if there is no way that my situation can be turned around that he should just end me. That there was no other way.

Funny how that goes. I was telling……begging even to the one person who could turn any situation around and loves me more than anything by telling him that my situation could not be salvaged and to kill me.

We’ve all been there though.

In a situation that seems like it could end you and destroy you and you become ready to end it all then and there but we aren’t thinking straight and we are just looking for a sign.

There always signs.

But sometimes the most obvious thing to do is to pray.

So that’s what I did. I went on my knees, bowed my head, lifted my hands up and called out to the one person who has never left my side and I started praying.

And when I started praying.

I couldn’t even speak.

I blanked out, I was just…….

My voice was not coming out. I was completely and utterly lost and I wanted answers and I was just completely broken, and so I did that. I laid my broken heart out and let my tears flow because I couldn’t even pray properly.

I wanted to ask.

Was I that bad of a guy?

Was I so evil?

Was my sin so big?

And then I heard a knock.

It was a calm knock. And I was surprised. Nobody should know where I was, nobody ought to know where I would be. So how come there was a knock on my door.

“Dewey.” It was a calm voice that came. “It’s me Dewey, you can open the door.”

It’s weird.

That voice. It was calming. But something. I’ve heard the voice before at the same time I’ve not. That voice was very familiar. I knew who the owner of that voice was…... But he was, not, how come…… there were a lot other people, better people than me out there. So why was he here?

“Because you called out to me.” Was a calm and serene answer. “You cannot just call me and have your door close, Dewey. You have to let me in.” I wanted to, I really do but I was a mess. This place was a mess, I looked around and the whole of the place was a complete mess.

“I am not……” I trailed off again almost sobbing through the words.

“Hey, don’t.” The voice said. “You are hurt and you called for help so I am here, now let me in Dewey.”

“It’s a mess!” I bawled. ‘I am a mess!’ I thought.

“And I will help you clean that so just open the door.”

And somehow I got the strength to stand up from the floor and open the door and stood there in a very normal looking plain clothes the person I thought I would never see. He smiled at me and that was not the smile that was making fun of me, it was the smile filled with kindness and love it was full of patience and serenity and I pulled the door open to let him see how the whole place was.

“You weren’t kidding when you said it is a mess.” He said as he entered through the door, closing it behind him. “So before we make supper why don’t we clean this place a bit.”
The only thing in that moment that I could do was sniffle and nod my head in affirmation.

“Hey, it’s ok.” He said and I looked at him as he pulled in things to help clean up the place. “I know it feels like you messed up really big time and there’s nothing you can do, because there’s nothing you can do that can turn my heart away from you.” He picked up a broom and guided me towards the couch. “Now why don’t you organize things here and I will clean this place up.”

And clean he did after a long time and a long while he cleaned the whole place as I organized the things in there.

“What do you want to do with these pictures?” He asked as brought out a lot of pictures out for me to see. They were all the pictures of the people I have met throughout my life, ups and downs included.

“I don’t know?” I answered.

“Why don’t I help you?” He pulled out the pictures and began showing them one by one to me. “We will keep the pictures of only them who will be your loved ones, someone who both you and I never want to let go off.” And then he did he started separating the pictures one by one. There were times when I didn’t want to let go off.

“You need to let go of them Dewey, if you don’t both you and them will be hurt in the longer run, I don’t want to see you hurt again.”

And there were times when I didn’t want to keep them around but he insisted.

“They are your friends, I know right now they are farther from you but they will come back and they will be a support to you when everything seems bleak and dark.”

And he went through various pictures including my family, people I knew, and some random, and then he pulled one final picture.

It was of a girl.

Not just any but someone I cared about a lot.

“Now what about her?” He asked.

“I don’t know JC.” I finally called the man by his name.

“She is the only one left.” JC says. “And I want genuine answer in regards to her Dewey. What do you feel about her, what are your intention for Sherlyn?”

“I love her.” I answered. “And I don’t want to let go of her.”

“But you are about to.”

“And why should someone like her should be stuck with someone like me?”

“Stuck?”

“Come on!” I exclaimed. “Look at me. I am a mess, Lord. I am someone who is in the swamp, and she is clean, if she is with someone like me, she will be in the same swamp I am in, that clean would be taken away from her.”

“And then what you will stop loving her?”

“No.” Was my firm reply. “I will love her even if the whole world is against her, I will love her even if the whole world call her wrong, I love her in the same way as you loved me and all of us, I love her in the same way that you loved the world so much that you gave your life for us and took all our sins.” I paused as I said those words. “No matter what happens I will keep on loving her.”

“And that’s why she would stay right here.” JC says placing the picture in a frame and putting it on a shelf. “She is someone who is right for you.”

“But I am not the right one for her.” I lashed out. “I am not, I am mess.”

“You were a mess.” JC put an emphasis on the word were and mess. “Right now you are my beautiful creation.” He looked over all of the pictures we framed and put on display. “I know the mess that was there, I knew your mistakes and I forgave you, you are having trouble with that part because you don’t understand how you could even though you answered it yourself.” He looked at me with such eyes that I broke. “I love you kiddo, I do, that’s the reason I took all of the sins and death away from you, my love and grace for you far surpasses my anger, you made mistakes and I forgave you keep that in mind.”

“What should I do now then?”

“What you’ve already been doing.” He answered. “And just like today I will answer your prayers always.”

My father even when I didn’t see you, you were there.

Even at my worst you were by my side, right here.

I know I made mistakes

But you never left me.

So my father who is in heaven I pray to you

To protect your wayward son and help me.

You whose reign and glory is forever.

I call out to you,

Make me whole, clean and holy.

Just like you.

You who has filled me with new joy.

Fill me with your love.

Give me the spirit and strength from above.

For my family I pray.

Give them peace, strength and spirit.

And glorify them in their day.

So that they shall testify about your holy name.

For my friends I ask

Don’t leave them.

They are your children

Show them your ways

So that they won’ be hindered.

Now for the one I love.

Give her your peace and keep her safe.

Keep her always in your ways.

Your most beautiful creation

That you have made

I’ll always cherish her and keep her in my prayer.

For myself I pray that you do let me be led astray.

That I will be righteous and in your grace.

My mistakes that tried to cover me be rebuked away.

And I shall keep on praising you, what I pray.

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