Sunday after sunday

Just back from church not long ago...

Today's homily is about what the church meant. As the Father mentioned, the church meant us, ordinary people who make up the numbers. As such we should not be mentioning the church as some distant object, but as something that is really close to us.

What is most awesome about this week's homily is about how Jesus entrusted to Peter the keys to the gates of heaven. Not literally the keys to heaven's gates but the powers to act on Jesus' behalf whilst on earth. As christians, we should believe in God and Jesus, not through our own set of rules and beliefs but through the universal church's truth, which Jesus has revealed to us through the popes and the clergy. While many will dispute about how the church has not been perfect and that the men who govern the church are not sinless, the point is that they have been selected to lead the church, and are placed in those positions, through no coincidence, by the hand of God. How shallow are we to question the decision of God when we cannot even fathom his infinite wisdom. That is not to say we should allow men to hoodwink us or ride roughshod over us in the name of God, but that God has given us enough wisdom for us to recognise how authentic a message is through another person's words.

Enough said, I think I'm not making sense anymore ... Today's homily is awesome! All thanks to Father Richards Ambrose.

Reality check

There is still one year more.

One more year ... so another one year more to do a stock take on my life ...

The figures are quite depressing... I'm already 30. Can't even make a major financial decision without troubling my parents ... am I on the right track? My dad has been having problems accepting that his son has got to serve people onboard, well ... till recently, he still harbours hope that I will apply to become a pilot... Think will give that a miss... another missed opportunity ...

I harbour desires to live in melbourne, so i can't do 2 things at one time, i have to let the pilot decision go. I must convince myself that I am not abandoning everything here, in order to live my life in melbourne .. am I that selfish that I have to leave my parents here in singapore?

Well we all have but one life, and there is no time to deliberate too long on things ... sometimes we have to do what we have to do, to get to where we are right now. I admit i do harbour selfish thoughts of protecting myself in any decision. I dun think anyone will do that for me. Who will take care of me better than myself? Of course that is not to say that i will do everything at the expense of all others for myself.. I don't think i would be terribly wrong cos only if I am able to care for myself, do I have the ability to care for others ..