to summarise e week
What a week. A record no. of times i went to church this week. Went 4 times this week. Went on Mon for evening Mass coz i didnt go on sunday, den i found out tt there was no evening mass. Took the church bulletin and found out that there's All Saints Day and All Souls Day and Parish Holy Hour for this week. All Saints and All Souls are days of obligations, while Holy Hour..ahh, its been such a long time since i went for it lah. Coz Holy Hour USED to be on Thurs 8pm. Yah..self explanatory huh?
Now they changed the time slot to Fri 8pm, and i felt tt it was a gd chance to go and to just spend tt 1hr in quiet meditation and prayer.
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Yea, its really nice to go back to God. I saved this particular sms tt Jul sent to me the last time we went Pac Cafe, aft which we departed. 'i know it can b daunting but u hv all our support [...]just give ur best n god will do the rest. gd luck :)'
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b4 the silent meditation, this reading was being read:
Jesus got into a boat, and his disciples went with him. Suddenly a fierce storm hit the lake, and the boat was in danger of sinking. But Jesus was asleep. The disciples went to him and woke him up. "Save us, Lord!" they said. "We are about to die!"
"Why are you so frightened?" Jesus answered. "what little faith you have!" Then he got up and ordered the winds and the waves to stop, and there was a great calm.
Everyone was amazed. "What kind of man is this?" they said. "Even the winds and waves obey him!"
Matthew 8:23
Where did my faith go? Or was it intact all these while..
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Somehow this week there were many instances of me displaying 'Mind over Body', or maybe juz 2 instances. Dun really need to display but i guess its innate? hahaha. Nah, its just plain hillarious come to think of it. Like there was this pyschology experiment where i had to immerse my hand into this tub of cold water. The experimenter's instructions were clear. "dip your right hand into the water till ur elbow. At any point tt u feel u cannot take the cold, take ur hand outta e water, but put ur hand back in shortly aft. Stop when u feel tt u cannot continue any longer."
And so i did. Initially for the 1st 10 sec, the cold was bearable. Somehow it began to get freaking cold. I dunnoe what kinda gadget they placed into the water[its not cold water coz of ice, but its some electronic gadget tt was inside e water which made e water cold]. Then the cold began to get really painful to bear. A numbing pain. Still in my head was this voice, 'Mind over body..'
I took my hand out. Then i placed it back in again aft like 2 sec. It was at least e 4th or 5th time dat i dipped my hand in[each time my hand stayed in for shorter duration], dat i told e experimenter, "I can't do it anymore" Like seriously, there wasnt a need to act hero lah. Walau. As Mr Lee Hee Fok frm JJC wld say, "Hero always die first!" Seriously..
today for the holy hour, i just wanted to kneel all e way for e 1hr session. Some pple had ald sat down aft kneeling for quite a while, but i told myself, 'just a while longer' At the end of it, i was thankful i had arm power left to push myself up to regain standing position. Ka1 neng4[leg suan] like mad..knees wobbly.
Now they changed the time slot to Fri 8pm, and i felt tt it was a gd chance to go and to just spend tt 1hr in quiet meditation and prayer.
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Yea, its really nice to go back to God. I saved this particular sms tt Jul sent to me the last time we went Pac Cafe, aft which we departed. 'i know it can b daunting but u hv all our support [...]just give ur best n god will do the rest. gd luck :)'
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b4 the silent meditation, this reading was being read:
Jesus got into a boat, and his disciples went with him. Suddenly a fierce storm hit the lake, and the boat was in danger of sinking. But Jesus was asleep. The disciples went to him and woke him up. "Save us, Lord!" they said. "We are about to die!"
"Why are you so frightened?" Jesus answered. "what little faith you have!" Then he got up and ordered the winds and the waves to stop, and there was a great calm.
Everyone was amazed. "What kind of man is this?" they said. "Even the winds and waves obey him!"
Matthew 8:23
Where did my faith go? Or was it intact all these while..
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Somehow this week there were many instances of me displaying 'Mind over Body', or maybe juz 2 instances. Dun really need to display but i guess its innate? hahaha. Nah, its just plain hillarious come to think of it. Like there was this pyschology experiment where i had to immerse my hand into this tub of cold water. The experimenter's instructions were clear. "dip your right hand into the water till ur elbow. At any point tt u feel u cannot take the cold, take ur hand outta e water, but put ur hand back in shortly aft. Stop when u feel tt u cannot continue any longer."
And so i did. Initially for the 1st 10 sec, the cold was bearable. Somehow it began to get freaking cold. I dunnoe what kinda gadget they placed into the water[its not cold water coz of ice, but its some electronic gadget tt was inside e water which made e water cold]. Then the cold began to get really painful to bear. A numbing pain. Still in my head was this voice, 'Mind over body..'
I took my hand out. Then i placed it back in again aft like 2 sec. It was at least e 4th or 5th time dat i dipped my hand in[each time my hand stayed in for shorter duration], dat i told e experimenter, "I can't do it anymore" Like seriously, there wasnt a need to act hero lah. Walau. As Mr Lee Hee Fok frm JJC wld say, "Hero always die first!" Seriously..
today for the holy hour, i just wanted to kneel all e way for e 1hr session. Some pple had ald sat down aft kneeling for quite a while, but i told myself, 'just a while longer' At the end of it, i was thankful i had arm power left to push myself up to regain standing position. Ka1 neng4[leg suan] like mad..knees wobbly.
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