Ah.. How Relaxing.. I’m half way done with my Master’s.. or at least I think I
might finish in another year. But it has been a success so far. I shouldn't be talking before I get my grades, but let me just
say it when I still can. ;)
So I think one might guess why I am happy today.. If you can’t guess then go back to paragraph 1 of this blog
post J !
What a relaxing feeling to take away your burden of project
work, exam(I still have an exam next week but I feel relaxed anyway),
presentation, reporting to your Professor.. ah.. I feel like I’m in a spa (although
I’ve never been in one before, but I guess it should be something like this).
How relaxing to finish two semesters (almost), and how very
nice to listen to this song. I love listening to this song ‘What wondrous love
is this O my soul , O my soul’ and I’m listening to it right now.. It totally
makes me feel God’s presence, that in turn makes me feel at peace. I think ya’ll should listen to it too ..
What a beauuutiful feeling when you are going to be home in
13 days, after 9 months. Ooooo.. I feel like I’m floating on water.
“What wondrous love
is this
that caused the Lord
of bliss
to send such perfect
peace to my soul.”
What a great feeling when you have things in place, just the
way you wanted (or needed). Well I wanted and needed a summer internship, I
also needed a major professor for my MS. The pressing needs of the recent
future resolved. Whooopiee..
“When we’re from
sorrow free we’ll sing on, we’ll sing on
When we’re from
sorrow free we’ll rise and joyful be
And through eternity
we’ll sing on”
What a nice feeling to see the new grass and the springing buds; the showers from the sky that pour the blessing of life to the earth..
and also thunder storms, that’s also needed… becaaauuse… uh.. so that I can
sing with the thunder and I’ll sing thunderous praises to God because I wouldn't
be writing this blog I weren't so relaxed and I wouldn't be so relaxed if God
didn't take care of me well. I’m now convinced this is why there is thunder J
"Fresh and green are the pastures, He give me repose." - Psalm 23
The image on the left, is the path is take everyday and you see a tree with new leaves sprouting. Literally fresh and green are these pastures that I trod , how sweet Lord to have spring time.
I cleaned my room J
I do that when am relaxed! And I like a clean place to pray in J Hope God also gives me
a clean heart.
Now.. I’m just gonna sit back and
relax more and let God work in my life, and sing the rest of that song. Isn’t
this what is called Perfect Peace?
Join me ! La la la la la la..
“To God and to the
Lamb I will sing, I will sing,
Jehovah, Great ‘I AM’
and to the Son of Man, I will sing”
I recently read in “The Black Book” (It’s a book that was
distributed in my church and it includes some form of preparation for each day
in lent) a question which went,
“What is lent about?”
Option a: Fasting and Abstinence
Option b: Baptism
Option c: The passion of Christ
I was shocked to read the answer as Option b: Baptism.
Aren’t options a and c more relevant? But coming to a consensus, I realized
that option b is most suitable because during Easter we renew our Baptismal
Vows. But then came upon me the realization that Baptism is the sacrament of
initiation, that means we are just getting started. We are preparing for a life
in Christ.
Which means reading “The Black Book” daily is not gonna end
with Lent, its gonna continue as reading “The Bible” for the rest ov oour
laivesss. This is gonna be so tiring.
In fact I’m already tired, that I almost gave up
‘unabstaining’ from what I had tried to abstain from during this lent. But then
the day came that I was sad about this and I was in church.
I was early to church as the bus service on that day (during
Spring Break) required that I either come 35 minutes early to church for mass
or go 20 minutes late. Having arrived early, I was asked to carry the cross in
procession at the beginning of that mass. I was super excited about
participating in the liturgy in this new Church. The last time I had a chance
to do this was few months ago where I took the offertory up to the priest. I
get excited about such things J
T minus 2 minutes and I was standing next to the priest with
a heavy wooden cross in hand that supposedly costs 14000$ and I dare not drop
it, ready to walk in procession. But then I wanted a photo of me carrying the
cross and I expressed the same to Father R who was right next to me. He who is
the kindest of people looked around to see if anyone had a camera. I suggested we
use my phone camera in my pocket.
T minus 1 minute and Father R was holding the cross from my
hand and I took out the phone and handed it over to another kind soul and I
took back the cross and the photo was taken.
T minus 0 minutes and the procession went on smoothly led by
the girl firmly carrying the cross upto the alter and the mass began. And her
prayer was,
“Lord
help me carry the cross
Tonight
and always.”
Well it was a fun experience carrying the cross, so even if
lent is only a preparation to carry the cross the rest of our lives, I’m sure
God will make a way and make it an exciting way. Now I am all motivated :) God knows how to keep me going... I feel Rejuvenated to make this lent a fruitful one !
