1st session of CAFE

So, every Tuesday, starting today, I am attending a course called CaFE which stands for Catholic Faith Exploration. It is initiated by the Catholic Evangelization Services (CES) in US. Basically, what we are doing is watching video presentation comprises of talks and followed by group discussion/sharing session.

I enjoyed the 1st session very much. The talk is presented by DaVid Payne, the Director of CES. Some points from his talk :
- what makes you a Christian is not the outside, but inside. It is true that outside is easier to be seen, but it is also important to make sure that the inside is fulfilled.
- our head and heart are only inches away but yet they are like thousand miles apart. Maybe we know God by our knowledge, but that does not mean He is inside our heart as well.
- everybody needs a time to rest from all the busyness of life. Let the spirit catches up with our body and mind.
- there is a void in the heart which only God can fulfill. In fact, He should be the centre of our whole life, which means we need to let him take over and reign in our life. and That's when the fullness of life comes into place
- We need to give God more space and time.

Then he talked about the whole salvation history from the beginning of creation, how human beings fell into sins, how God the Father worked in Old Testament time through all His prophets, how God himself came down to earth to bear the sins of mankind from the past, present, and future, the fact that we are buried with all our sinful nature and be born again with jesus' ressurection through baptism, how He sends His Holy Spirit, the divine person to be our Helper, and how we are now at nearly the end of this salvation mystery, when we are waiting with expectant faith and hope for the second coming of Jesus in glory, to judge all the living and the dead with love, and to invite and unite us once again with our creator in heaven, in our Father's mansion which is already prepared for us.

It is kinda interesting how He talked about the whole bible in only 6.5 minutes. haha. So for the next 6 sessions we will go through these topics :
1. Knowing God better (today)
2. Knowing God's Love
3. Knowing God;s forgiveness
4. Knowing God's Help
5. Knowing God's Word
6. Knowing God's Spirit
7. Knowing God's Hope

Hopefully, I can attend all these sessions, it is time for me to be reminded, explore more, and come back home :) Thanks God for calling me BACK HOME...

lagi pengen pulang

as the title says

lagi pengen pulang

kangen rumah!

Lost

I finished reading A Place Called Here.
I wish I could go to that place, whew lost things/people are found.
So many things I lost as far as I can remember. Ones I am longing to find are my excitement of life, my dreams, my companions on this journey, my huge faith, my sound of laughters, my feels-like-home, and my beloved bestfriends (nope they are not lost, but the feeling of being close to then was lost..)

~ Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes. Sometimes, people discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention. We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learns, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found ~ A Place Called Here by Cecelia Ahern

Last Quiz

some moments in life need to be celebrated or at least well-recorded.

So, today 7 April 2009, I am having my last quiz. It is Coastal Engineering course. I should do well since the previous quiz was a mess. I better should!

And this week also the last week of school before my last exam period which I will record later on :)

Nothing more than an overwhelming excitement.. ^^

Palm Sunday

Hari ini dimulai Holy Week. Hari ini Tuhan datang ke Jerusalem diiringi sorak sorai dan disambut dengan meriah. Kadang saya ngerasa bersalah, welcome Him into my heart cuma untuk Dia menjalani sengsaranya later on.

Hari ini saya nyanyi Psalm di St Mary. Moga2 saya bisa nyanyi to bless not to impress :)

static?steady?

I watched Gossip Girls last night, episode 20. There is a line between Serena and her old-time friend, Poppy which made me think a lot afterward. Poppy said to Serena : "wow, everything looks like the same since the last time I met you". I heard that million times as well. Be it in family, high-school friends, even elementary-school friends. My ex once told me I am from ICE_AGE era.

If you ask me, there is not a huge difference in myself. I am not rollercoaster-type of person anyway. I like to be simple and steady. Keep thing just the way it is if it is good enough and nothing to be changed. At least, until last night, I was okay with my life.

But maybe according to some people, this kind of life would be boring. I might think that my life has become a static one rather than a steady one. I should have gone wild, maybe. LOL. I dunno. Maybe if I took the Erasmus Mundus scholarship, it would make a difference and variety but I decided not to. I am not sure working life will allow me to do extraordinary, oops, not extraordinary but not-usually activities.

I have griends, girls mostly, who change drastically since the last time I met them. Is the change good? I am not sure. But they look fabulous, they enjoy life. It's not that I don't enjoy life. I am happy with who I am and what I am doing right now. Just wondering if I should do more to live it up.

However, I am different from what I was. At least I am better in terms of personality.

the subtle expression

It's no coincidence. I play that song around you so maybe you'll actually listen to the lyrics for once and know how I feel.

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