Blessed

Sometimes you grow so close to God..you think you've known Him.

And then He surprises you. Again. And again and again.

These few days have taught me many things. Especially through new people i met from the CSS Camp and encountering Him in faces and nature. I'm glad for all the affirmation. Who am i, without everyone else?

Yesterday's Gospel reading was on the Good Samaritan. And from that, i learnt that sometimes, i'm the man lying down on the road, robbed of everything. And i watch in pain and hurt as the priest and Levites in my life seem to walk away. Then i'm surprised by the compassion of a Samaritan. God has touched my life and picked me up with the company of people i never expected to have in my life.

And sometimes, i see myself as the priest or Levite who walked by people who're so down-trodden.

Then i realise life boils down to 2 questions.

Love.
How much are you willing to reach out to others?

And more importantly,
How much, like the man who was half-dead, do you trust and allow someone else to pick up and bandage your wounds?

We are all robbed. And as we lie down and cry out for help and watch people walk by, we are crushed by the truth..

But let's not let that poison us and when a Samaritan does come along, let us abandon our pride and let ourselves be picked up...for once.


So happened that it was the feast of St Francis de Assisi.

Make us a channel of your peace.
O Master grant that i may never seek...

In the spirit of St Francis, who heard the Lord speaking to him and to everyone of us in these words "Go repair my house, for which you see, is falling into ruin," let's all journey on in faith and strengthen one another along the way.


God bless.

"Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name."