Sunday, February 19, 2012

today is a miracle.

today:
- i hugged my mom for the first time in a long time
- shared with my sister over the phone about my future plans, lack of family communities, mom
- prayed with/for my mom
- hugged my maid/helper (they fought :/ )

i feel so blessed becos none of the above would be possible without God's strength, nagging and pure promptness in unfolding the events. im growing by leaps and bounds day by day, and God's faithfulness through it all is amazing.

von.
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upsssss :D

By Anonymous mel, February 20, 2012 12:07 AM  

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Friday, February 17, 2012

Day is done, but Love unfailing
Dwells ever here;
Shadows fall, but hope, prevailing,
Calms every fear.

Loving Father, none forsaking,
Take out hearts, of Love's own making.
Watch our sleeping, guard our waking,
Be always near

Dark descends, but Light unending
Shines through our night;
You are with us, ever lending
New strength to sight;
One in love, your truth confessing
One in hope, of heaven's blessing
May we see, in love's possessing,
Love's endless light!

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Sound's like a divine office hymn!
-Andrew

By Blogger LoG, February 18, 2012 2:35 PM  

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

hullo,

There often comes a time when you can an experience which you want to deny. Often it's because it was painful, boring, confusing or tiring. To actually grow from an experience, in my opinion, is to fully embrace its entirety. This is to allow the lesson or bit of growth to become a part of you even if you had forgotten it.

If you feel unable to take its entire weight, there are ways to make it more bearable. Go figure. Even if you don't want to take it in whole, at least take a bite out of it.

Maybe you can learn to grow this way.

not that i actually do any of that

dom

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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Community

I thank God for this evening. Something about meeting up to pray or to worship on a weekday night that just uplifts my spirit. The most blessed thing about this evening however, was how I felt in communion with MSC. That no matter what has happened in the past, in the end I still know that they are still around cause of that love of Christ. To that, I must affirm them.

Don't know how many of you felt this way, but to me, you can feel it. You can feel it during worship, whether people are at peace at each other. Which brings me to the question, "Why does YMC not feel like this?" Why does everything feel forced at times? Do people not want to worship together? Is it not the same God that we are praising? Is it not the same spirit which is driving our every being?

I had this awesome teacher once in CJ, who converted from a Methodist to Catholism. She shared with us her own conversion experience, and the burning question prompted her to be a Catholic. If it is one spirit which moves us, why are Christians so divided.

I do pray that all communities grow more and more in communion with Jesus, and in that we may grow into that communion of communities. For now however, I guess I can only work on myself to be more in communion with God.

Swee
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Swee, I affirm how you felt at worship because I felt it too. Regardless of what struggles I had with P&W, yesterday night was a fantastic time of prayer. No doubts in my mind, just a nice time of prayer.

It was nice to hang around with MSC again, and not sure whether you felt this, but I felt we were the young ones in church again, with big brothers and sisters around, no longer holding that burden of responsibility walking around church.

By Blogger mark.tang, February 08, 2012 1:06 PM  

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Saturday, February 04, 2012

morning y'all,

I was thinking about the cutting off of emotions or feeling less. Most people would think that feeling less emotions or certain particular emotions helps us function better.
But i think that it might make us less aware of certain things like our person and most notably creates a void (an emptiness) that makes us hungry. Hungry such that we seek pleasure(often ending up in addictions) and noise to satiate this void.
It is not about feeling less or more, but holding off the excess or lacking. Of course, situational.
Have a nice day.
dom
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i agree with you, actually that's what led to my sharing on how I've become different. It's in feeling and stuff that I feel more alive.

These thoughts are also the result of my heart versus head battle (how one thing in my head doesn't translate to how I'm truly feeling) So what ignatian spirituality was saying is to embrace the feelings and really use those desires to see where God is leading you to. Not to see the emotion as a negative, weakling kinda of thing but that something innate and fundamental is being affected, and God is using emotion to get through.

By Anonymous jes, February 04, 2012 8:00 PM  

btw, thanks dom for the reminder :D

By Blogger jes, February 04, 2012 8:02 PM  

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in COMMUNITY

since a short time ago