Getting A Person To Change Their Life
Rarity was outside taking a jog since she had taken up jogging after a realization that she should exercise more. She didn't want to stay outside to long however so she decided to do a a few more minutes of jogging before she went back home.
She decided to leave and headed back to Carousel Boutique. When she got back to her place she saw that the light was off so she went and turned it on. She heard noise coming from her room so she went to go see what was going on.
When she entered her room she saw that her window had been open and her stuff had been messed with. She put all her stuff away and decided to figure out what had happened. She saw that her study bible had been ripped apart and some dresses of hers had been stolen.
She went and examined the mess and concluded that a vandal had snuck and robbed some of her things. The only thing that didn't make sense to her was the bible. She couldn't understand why someone would just sneak into her place and do some thing so heartless. She was saddened as she had that bible since she was a little girl.
She was also upset about the newly made dresses. Those were new orders that she was going to do. She decided to go and tell Twilight about it since she just wanted to see what Twilight thought and find out what she should do. When she got to Twilight's she knocked on Twilight's door and Twilight answered.
"Hello? Oh hey Rarity what's up?" Twilight asked. Rarity pulled out the bible.
"Hi Twilight. I came to talk to you. Someone vandalized my place. I don't know who it was but all that I know is that someone had ripped my dresses and trashed this." Rarity said as she held up the bible.
"Why would someone do that? Did they leave any fingerprints or anything like that?" Twilight asked. Rarity shrugged. Twilight looked at her with a confused look.
"What I don't get is is that why would someone spend the time committing that sort of trouble. Was it a thief?" Twilight asked. Rarity shook her head to side to side. Twilight pondered on the situation and then spoke.
"Well whoever ripped the bible up is in some need of spiritual help. They must hate Jesus so much they would go do something petty. Maybe you should lock your doors from now on." Twilight said.
"I guess I should. I have never needed to lock my doors before because Ponyville doesn't have this kind of stuff happening until now. I'll do that from now on. Thanks Twilight." Rarity said. Twilight said goodbye and then Rarity went back home and cleaned up her things. She then worked replacements for all the dresses that were ripped up.
After she worked on them she heard something in the kitchen. She figured that it might be the invader from before. She slowly made her way into the kitchen and came face to face with the intruder and realized that it was a girl. The girl stopped and pointed a gun at Rarity. Rarity froze and put her hands in the air.
"Are you Rarity?!" The girl screamed. Rarity nodded slowly.
"Yes I'm Rarity. Who are you and what are you doing in my house? Are the vandal from earlier?" Rarity asked.
"Yes I am! I'm the one who asks questions not you! Now where's your fucking money!?" The woman screamed. Rarity examined her and she had a feeling in her gut that calling the cops wouldn't be the correct thing to do so she changed her strategy.
"Look lady I don't think you want to be doing this. It's not worth it. This sort of life is no good for anybody. You look young. Just put the gun down and calm down and then we can talk. Look what's your name?" Rarity asked.
"It...its Catherine!" The lady said. Rarity nodded.
"Nice to meet you Catherine. My name is Rarity. I'm a dress maker. That is my special interest. What's yours?" Rarity asked. The thief was very confused. Why was Rarity being so nice to her all of a sudden.
"I....l would like to paint art but I never got to do any classes because my mother was a bitch. I never got help from anybody especially that worthless savior of yours! Yeah that's right I'm the one who ripped up your bible earlier. I got so mad reading that shit I ripped it up! God never did shit for me!" Catherine yelled. Rarity shook her head.
"That's not true Catherine. God is looking out for everybody in Equestria. He's done great things for all of us. Do you want to know what the most significant thing he's done?" Rarity asked.
"I don't care!" Catherine yelled.
"He sent his only son to die for our sins on the cross so that our so that our sins could be atoned for. That was his greatest sacrifice. I bet if you turned your life around Catherine you could have your sins forgiven." Rarity calmly said.
"How do you know that I've sinned!?" Catherine yelled.
"Well first of all your robbing me and expressing violent behavior. Stealing isn't only a crime it's a sin in the eyes of our creator. He doesn't like sin. I want you to know that if you turn to Jesus and ask for forgiveness for your sins your sins could be forgiven just like how my sins were forgiven by him. Nobody is perfect Catherine. Now just put the gun down and relax. Rarity explained.
"How do you know that God is real though? What if I do lower the gun and you have me arrested which will betray me after your false promises." Catherine said.
"I know he's real because I've seen miracles Catherine I've seen stuff like that happen. I'm not making false promises Catherine. My promises are true. I want you to seek God. If you can promise to turn over a new leaf and follow God and never commit another crime again I won't have you arrested. That is my promise. Now just lower the gun." Rarity stated.
"You...really mean it? But how can I follow God now? It's to late for me." Catherine said.
"It's not to late to turn to Jesus Catherine. You aren't dead yet. Do you want to follow his word?" Rarity asked. Catherine nodded slowly. She lowered the gun and set it on the floor and started to sob.
"Catherine it's okay. All will be well. You just have to make amends with your God. Rarity said.
"But...but how do I do that?! I don't want to go to hell. I want to be good I really do! I'm so sorry Rarity! I never meant to hurt you! I was just so confused!" Catherine said. Rarity smiled responded.
"It's alright Catherine. You can be good, you just have to make admit that your a sinner." Rarity explained.
"I know...I am one....I want to ask for forgiveness but I don't know how. Can you help me?" Catherine said.
"Of coarse I will. Come here." Rarity said. Catherine walked up to her and then Rarity grasped her hands and spoke.
"Dear God please forgive Catherine here for she has committed sin against a fellow human being. May you guide her through life as her new guardian and protect her from dangers and sin. May you give her the knowledge she needs to do good for this world and may you guide her to your truth. In Jesus name we pray amen." Rarity said. She then let go of Catherine's hands. Catherine was feeling a lot better.
"Thanks Rarity. I appreciate you helping me. I'll never commit a crime ever again and I promise that I will study Gods word more. The problem though is that I don't have the resources to do that." Catherine said. Once Catherine said that Rarity went over to a book shelf and got a bible and then handed Catherine the spare bible.
"This should help you with that. I hope you receive eternal life Catherine. Here is my mailing address. I hope you try art like what you wanted to do when you were younger." Rarity said. Catherine smiled and thanked Rarity and gave Rariy her mailing address as well as and then she left with the bible and Rarity's mailing address in her possession. Rarity sighed with relief as she was glad that had worked for her. She went back to her regular daily schedule.
A few months later Rarity got a letter from Catherine saying that she stopped committing crimes. She wrote that she started doing art like she always wanted to and she had become a believer in Christ and had joined a church and had been baptized. Rarity wrote a letter back to her saying that she was proud of her and sent it to her.
Rarity was so glad that Catherine had changed her ways. They stayed in touch ever since the incident.
