January 2012
1 post
“Where do I come from?
Where am I going?
What is happening in my life now?
...”
– Questions which need to be asked, and answered, more than anything else.
December 2011
2 posts
New paradox found!
Comprehension of God’s love is the inability to comprehend it.
(:
“Come to me, all you that are weary and carrying heavy burdens, and I will give...”
– Matthew 11:28-30
Most of the time I would associate this passage with Jesus being one who can sustain me in my struggles. However, Fr. Brian gave an interesting take on why Jesus made this statement - it was because of the Pharisees who implemented many rules and regulations before the Jews could...
November 2011
1 post
Cavetime.
Cavetime: Time alone, in solitude.
Notice it’s solitude and not in loneliness. Many people equate being alone as a sign that you’re lonely. But I enjoy being alone - it allows you to muse, to think, to savour, to enjoy, to be fully present without distractions. For me this is done by going out alone, maybe to go for mass, to shop, to run errands. But there’s a paradox,...
September 2011
2 posts
“But, as a man dedicated to God, you must avoid all that. You must aim to be...”
– 1 Timothy 6:11-12
Was preparing slides for CSS mass this Friday when this really hit me.
Embracing Difference
Decided to stop procrastinating and do this post when I’m relatively free this Friday morning, lol.
Anyway, Mel asked all of us a question when we were having our final sharing in Madrid, “What are the fruits of your experience here in MAGIS and WYD?”. I’ll share my first one - that of learning how to embrace difference.
For those who know me (well), you should know that...
August 2011
1 post
back in black
Hai guys, it’s been long time since I’ve updated this place! Obviously I have been away for a loooong while (3 weeks in Spain for MAGiS and World Youth Day) and coming back to school after term has started has left me swamped with many things to do, so blogging has taken a backseat. I know I owe many of you a complete recount and reflections of my experience in MAGiS (I have no idea...
July 2011
3 posts
Constantine.
I sometimes wonder if angels are actually jealous, or a little envious of us. Them existing as spiritual beings without bodies, while we (humans) on the other hand are incarnate spiritual beings; body and soul entwined till death.
We humans view our bodies as a limitations to the greatness we can achieve; it can be diseased, sickened, cut, wounded, maimed, and ultimately is a stumbling block in...
June 2011
3 posts
“The unthinking Christian does not realize it, but he is dangerously absorbed...”
– Gordon MacDonald, Ordering Your Private World
Fides
Hallo everbuddy, long time no see! Just wanted to share something I found interesting while reading the bible. Many times we use the phrase “blind faith” to describe that leap of faith we need to acknowledge Jesus as our Christ.. but on reflection I guess that’s not an accurate term to use.
Galatians 5:6 says that “… The only thing that counts is faith expressing...
April 2011
4 posts
“But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities;...”
– Isaiah 53.5
Lord Jesus, thank you for loving me enough to carry that heavy weight for me through this season of Easter. I am sorry for being unable to give myself fully to you during this Holy Week and for my sins which I have piled upon you. May your blood continue to wash me clean, and give me...
Hope, what is hope?
Have you ever asked yourself if the phrase “false hope” makes sense?
I asked myself that question today and realised that “false hope” is an oxymoron. Dictionary.com defines hope as “the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best”. How can hope be false when it is merely a feeling? False hope is hope that is unrealised...
LOGBLOG ROCKS.
Sorry guys for the serious spam on this tumblr, but this has to be said!
Been reading our old entries on the LOG blog (leavenofgod.blogspot.com - shameless plug! YAY.) and really, it gives me so much joy to see how we were so passionate and in love with God when we were younger. I guess after growing up we do lose some of that innocence, that raw unbridled passion, that unshaking sense of...
To do list after moots.
In approximately 12 hours time I’ll be done with my moots, and then the party starts!
To do list:
1. Buy a freaking cajon! (and learn how to play it properly) I would love to learn drums but I don’t have the time nor capacity so this is the alternative. AND I can actually jam along in PnW and I really think percussions make a lot of difference.
2. Study. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Yea with...
March 2011
5 posts
Stand up and be counted.
Guys, take a look at this article http://protectthepope.com/?p=2785. It’s a report about how:
‘[On March 10] a mob of 70 young people, the majority female, entered the chapel, gathered around the altar, and shouted blasphemies. Some of the young women took their clothes off, while others made lesbian manifestations.’
This happened at a university chapel in Spain. Sigh, I am sickened and...
“Why are you so frightened? Have you still no faith?”
– Mark 4:40
His words ring true again.
Random (oh you mean they weren't before?)...
Hello! This is in a bad need of an update. Just a few random thoughts off the top of my head:
The mystery of the Eucharist
This struck me in mass today (at IHM, pretty cool to visit other parishes for weekday mass, we’re doing that as part of a Mass Movement [pun intended] initiated by James, check the event out on FB!). It’s a funny thought really, have you ever thought what’s...
Mark 11:15-17
They came to Jerusalem, and on entering the temple area he began to drive out those selling and buying there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. He did not permit anyone to carry anything through the temple area. Then he taught them saying, “Is it not written:
My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples? But you have...
February 2011
2 posts
“Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
but those...”
– Isaiah 40:30-31
Overused passage, but the reality and truth of it really hit me today. I’m stumbling and falling, and I need to place all my hope in the Lord for His strength.
And so we continue running the race that the Lord has planned for us, with our eyes set on the goal…
...
January 2011
4 posts
December 2010
3 posts
Only Through Heaven's Eyes
A single thread in a tapestry Through its color brightly shine Can never see its purpose In the pattern of the grand design And the stone that sits on the very top Of the mountain’s mighty face Does it think it’s more important Than the stones that form the base? So how can you see what your life is worth Or where your value lies? You can never see through the eyes of man You must look...
Who's coming again?
Santa Claus is coming to town… is he really? While all of us have stopped believing in this magical jolly man who supposedly comes down the chimney (Singapore how? :/) to grant us our heart’s desires through pretty wrapped presents brought on his sleigh pulled by reindeers, have we started to believe in who really comes on Christmas day, Jesus Christ who grants us even more than our...
“The angel Gabriel was sent from God
to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,
to a...”
– Luke 1:26-38
Ever wondered why God doesn’t send an angel to tell us what He wants us to do? It seems pretty unfair; afterall, Mary had angel Gabriel to lay out God’s plan for her life - all she had to do was to say yes.
I asked myself the same question today at mass when the gospel was...
November 2010
3 posts
“There’s this one scene that sticks: the father hugs his son but the boy starts...”
– 6: Autism, www.melvynfoo.wordpress.com
One of the entries from mel’s 100 words project, it being the one that spoke the most to me. Never hurts to remind ourselves of what our God feels each day - afterall, His pain is always greater than ours.
On a happier note, advent is here! Time to...
“God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to...”
– The Serenity Prayer, Reinhold Niebuhr
I guess we all need reminding sometimes.
For those who are struggling - know that I am struggling too, and that each and every one of you are in my prayers.
“Chains be broken
Lives be healed
Eyes be opened
Christ is revealed”
– You’ll Come, Hillsong United
May God’s wonderful love be poured out upon the sec2s for the upcoming camp (:
October 2010
5 posts
“I am the Way
Follow Me
And take My hand
And I am the Truth
Embrace Me and...”
– Jon Foreman of Switchfoot singing, as the voice of Jesus at the last part of the song “Deathbed” by Relient K
Awesome awesome 10 minute song, chronicling the life story of one who turns to Jesus just before he passes away. Go listen to it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhf-BO_2wGw
“Your haunches (golden) glisten,
even in the darkness.
Hovering, hunching...”
– A poem to the Lion so close beside me, by Audrey Assad
She’s a Christian/Possibly Catholic (not sure yet, she doesn’t have a wiki page!) artist who posted this poem on her fb page, thought I’d share it since I love how she portrays God as a protector, comforter and companion....
Table of Plenty
If you are a Catholic ask yourself this question, what do you look at during mass? No, I’m not talking about the pretty girl two pews in front (or beside you if you’re lucky. hahahaha); but rather what’s your point of focus? For me it would be either the priest (for obvious reasons) or the large crucifix hanging behind the priest at SFX. Just dawned onto me today during mass that...
The lifelong struggle - Being versus Doing.
Hey guys, do take the time to read this reflection by Fr. William Goh on this Tuesday’s Gospel (based on the story of Mary and Martha), it’s something very basic but it struck a chord within me in the midst of all the rush and stress of uni:
We are by nature apostles, rather than contemplatives. We like to ‘do’, rather than to simply ‘be’. Why? Because ‘doing’ makes us feel that we...
September 2010
7 posts
Thy Will Be Done.
Today I was reminded that there is a thin line between what I want God’s Will to be and what is His actual will for me. The struggle remains - to hear His voice over my own, to seek His will over my own, to seek His pleasure over my own.
Lead me to the cross Where Your love poured out Bring me to my knees Lord I lay me down Rid me of myself I belong to You Lead me, lead me to the cross
...
We will be alright.
Friend, it’s getting late, we should be going We have sat here beneath these flickering neons for hours. While I am cracking their code, you are deciphering me For I am a mystery, I am a locked room in a tall tower. Oh can you feel the gravity falling, calling us home? Oh did you see the stars colliding? Shining just to show, We belong. We belong.
Brooke Fraser’s voice is...
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old...”
– Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Just reminded of how bloody awesome LOTR is after catching a bit of it on tv (yes I actually have a life) last night. EPIC.
J.R.R. Tolkien is a genius.. and a Catholic (:
I’m quite certain that I do, but is it the idea of it,
…or something much more important?
To quote Estelle, ellipses are used when a person is lingering in his thoughts. Haha.
Handmade Crosses.
“And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple”
- Luke 14:27
The cost of discipleship - Each of us has our own cross to carry. We are not called just to follow Jesus, but first to pick up our cross, AND THEN to follow Him. The cost of discipleship is lifelong, and is definitely more than what most people are willing to pay.
The beautiful thing is that...
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet...”
– 2 Cor 4:16-18
As I stay in the study room of my campus listening to Hillsong on my ipod, I am once again reminded of the greater things we are called to look for.
Greater things are yet to come, friends.
August 2010
3 posts
Random Musing No.1
The Hospital.
It is bleak, dreary, depressing. Pale muted colours, hurried movement, the smell of sanitiser. Faces which show no emotion nor read any expression. Hopelessness hangs thick in the air. Patients in their beds with empty chairs beside them. Patients eating alone, possbily contemplating when they will be wheeled out of this prison, or when they will be wheeled into the operating room.
...
July 2010
5 posts
random musings regarding faith.
Matthew 13:44-46
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls; on finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.”
So what happens if the treasure is found and dug...