When I was young, my parents trained me to become a God-loving child. They taught me the prayers and the right manners. Consequently, I had a very nice childhood. I was the favorite of my parents as well as my grandparents simply because I was cute and good. Furthermore, I could never forget when my grandmother told me that she wanted me to become a priest in the future so that someone will pray for her dear soul when God will withdraw her borrowed life. Right then, I had always wanted to become a priest. But when I was in high school where I was introduced to the marvelous world of computers, my dream of becoming a priest seemed to subside because I yearned to know more about computers. So instead of going inside the seminary to study, I took up Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering at the University of Bohol.
As I go over my college days, I found out that I just ventured into this new frontier hoping to discover broader and brighter horizons. Discover, I did but it seems to be that I don’t know where my life was heading.
My college life has been a mess. I have learned a lot of bad things including skipping classes and drinking liquors among other things. I was afraid that one day I’ll be seeing myself all filled up with mundane happiness and my soul will be malnourished as I go with the trend. Moreover driven by circumstances such as problems in financial matters, I was pushed to reflection about my life. I was thinking what things really matters and what are those things that can really make me happy. Gradually, I found out that I should use my God-given faculties for the greater glory of God and not for bad things so that I may able to attain peace of mind which I consider to be utmost essential. I also found out that what really makes me happy is to make other people happy most especially my dear family and God. So I decided to pursue my childhood dream of becoming a priest. As a result, I am already 25 years of age and still a third year philosophy student of IHMS. Somehow there is a room for regrets on my part. Had I entered the seminary directly after my high school, I might be an ordained priest next year.
These things make me realize the value of reflection in ones life. It seems to be that I lacked the proper reflection that turned me to be a rolling stone who gathered no moss. When we are so much occupied with mundane concerns, we fail to appreciate the things that really matters. As a result, we’re heading to an unknown path, without future and direction. Thus it is essential to reflect in some points of our lives so that we will be guided and we could keep ourselves tracked with the passing of time.
We should also consider that God has his own way of telling us what his message is for us. We only need to be sensitive enough to distinguish these messages in form of signs so that we will be able to live our lives well. We need to reflect on every pages of our history so that all the opportunities are grabbed and feelings of regrets are lessened. Moreover, we need to pray to God to open up our understanding regarding the things that happens in our life.
Life is indeed a mystery. We will never exhaust the reality of life even if we will encounter death. But what really matters is that we did to our best in pondering the messages of God through reflection wherein we love and we have loved and we spend most of our time in doing things that brought more meaning to our lives.
As I go over my college days, I found out that I just ventured into this new frontier hoping to discover broader and brighter horizons. Discover, I did but it seems to be that I don’t know where my life was heading.
My college life has been a mess. I have learned a lot of bad things including skipping classes and drinking liquors among other things. I was afraid that one day I’ll be seeing myself all filled up with mundane happiness and my soul will be malnourished as I go with the trend. Moreover driven by circumstances such as problems in financial matters, I was pushed to reflection about my life. I was thinking what things really matters and what are those things that can really make me happy. Gradually, I found out that I should use my God-given faculties for the greater glory of God and not for bad things so that I may able to attain peace of mind which I consider to be utmost essential. I also found out that what really makes me happy is to make other people happy most especially my dear family and God. So I decided to pursue my childhood dream of becoming a priest. As a result, I am already 25 years of age and still a third year philosophy student of IHMS. Somehow there is a room for regrets on my part. Had I entered the seminary directly after my high school, I might be an ordained priest next year.
These things make me realize the value of reflection in ones life. It seems to be that I lacked the proper reflection that turned me to be a rolling stone who gathered no moss. When we are so much occupied with mundane concerns, we fail to appreciate the things that really matters. As a result, we’re heading to an unknown path, without future and direction. Thus it is essential to reflect in some points of our lives so that we will be guided and we could keep ourselves tracked with the passing of time.
We should also consider that God has his own way of telling us what his message is for us. We only need to be sensitive enough to distinguish these messages in form of signs so that we will be able to live our lives well. We need to reflect on every pages of our history so that all the opportunities are grabbed and feelings of regrets are lessened. Moreover, we need to pray to God to open up our understanding regarding the things that happens in our life.
Life is indeed a mystery. We will never exhaust the reality of life even if we will encounter death. But what really matters is that we did to our best in pondering the messages of God through reflection wherein we love and we have loved and we spend most of our time in doing things that brought more meaning to our lives.
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