Thursday, February 23, 2012

Freebie Green Mug

My Formator Fr. Brendan Kelly SSC, with my co-formands 
 Note: Weekly Spiritual Entry Journal dated July 23, 2011.You can find this entry in my Facebook account

As the 10th week will now ended in my spiritual year journey..
I want to share to you a personal reflection that I done in one of our friday classes

Hope you're inspired with this reflection

Last Wednesday, Fr. Brendan Kelly goes to Greenhills to buy groceries accompanied by Ate Joy for our food this week and a Freebie Green Mug attract me, Tavite also there to help Fr. Brendan in arranging and putting up stuff in a proper place. I said to Fr. Brendan “Can I have that Green Mug?” and I thought in that moment Tavite wants also that small green Mug that is a freebie from a chocolate powder brand. I smiled when father gave me that small mug and I go to my room stared at the mug and feel overwhelmed. I remember 5 years ago, April 5, 2006 before my graduation rites in our university my grandmother secretly gives me 500 pesos and said “That’s yours keep it, understand your Dad I think he has no money” I feel the same way that the mug given me and it been a half decade when I experience the same feelings. In my life history my parents and grandmother always tell me to understand and to give priority to my brother and sisters. I remember when I want a cellphone and my Dad will say give priority first to your brother so that he will motivate to go to school another same situations when my Dad decided to treat my half-sisters an expensive birthday party and even though I want also an expensive party but he said to understand the situation because he has no money left and he just bring a bilao of Pansit Guisado to my birthday. I live with my life that my parents did not give me a thing to make it my own. A thing that make me happy and makes me feel overwhelmed. When I look at back my life history I cry because in my life they put it in my mind that I must to understand. Give priority to others, show your love to our brother and half-sisters but they never asked if I need love and attention to them. But God is my absolute father and mother he provides me all that I need. He let me feel that I am special. He gives me a Job, He let me passed the Licensure Examination for Teacher, He granted my wishes, my aspirations in life. He always gives me graces and gifts that are more personal and grateful and like a Freebie Green Mug. God gives me a free chance of life in this seminary. I know there are times of failures and sorrow but God has a better plan for us and I quote from one verse from the Book of Jeremiah chapter 28:11 for surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you future with hope. And I know and believe that I am here to fix and mold me to better me and for a brand new REGGIE.