I have given you a model to follow,
so that as I have done for you, you should also do.”
Why does this sound like something my class teacher would say ?! Jokes apart– I am trying very hard to follow this , but I feel a lot of fellow humans , dnt want me to follow it so they test me constantly …. work, home, random people, traffic and worse the lady who sings off key at church!
Life gives us so many chances like lent to revisit our models to follow and re vamp our life back on track – spiritually and fight temptations! But I have been struggling a lot this lent especially when I was making a sincere effort at abstaining meats and food is my weakness!
This Lent has been a roller coaster in a new state and more time to focus on the liturgy and following a morning app routine, somedays in my half sleep but forcing myself to pray and surrender to God on a daily basis – I am working and studying and trying to live alone in a new city with very few to no friends, attending mass between attending to patients and struggling to keep my sanity intact but the only light at end of the tunnel is the fact I can get to home while you read this reflection and spend the holy weekend with My family !! in my home with my people around me!
This Lent, I learnt love is an extremely hard commandment to live with and even harder when it does not work the way I want it. I a struggling to push my dislike away and forgive someone who hurt me and I would rather just wish them bad !
I learnt i need to eat my food of choice as I can get very difficult to work with hunger and lack of patience at lunch hour! This weekend as we renew our faith with candles at easter vigil , Let us work hard on attaining the higher goal and work in progress…
Unto you I surrender my stress and worries Lord! AMEN
