The need for healing & desiring renewal

The need for healing - The feelings and experiences we felt when we were growing up.. in a way, they make us. Whatever feelings we’ve felt of hurt, rejection, insecurity... they do stick, even till our adult ages.

And that’s the unfortunate part – we can grow up and develop more skills, even successes in our lives. But we need to also be aware of any false facades that we have developed - or protective walls, where inside, the old us… remains – or gets buried.

An example, just the other day – an “old” feeling just popped up out of the blue. Reacting to the conversations and things happening around me, I realised I was feeling something that had stuck, from somewhere along the way, long ago. A very particular nostalgic unhappy feeling of not being "involved". That caused me a few minutes of fretting.

See how we are sometimes like dirt balls rolling along accumulating dirt along the way, while along the way, we forget about the stuff deeper inside?

But we also know that with Jesus’s death (as we focus on it this LENT) for us, brings us life – washes us clean – redeems us from sin and death.

How then can we move on into the “New Life” that Jesus so talks about? When he says we are a new creation in Christ in 1 Corinthians 5:17.

Read: http://www.gnmagazine.org/bsc/09/newcreation.htm

We need to desire. Seek. Ask. Search.

God gives those who are hungry. Are you hungry? Or Thirsty?

Like last week’s Mass (we had a wonderful youth mass last Saturday at OLPS)… Fr. Sigurd, a visiting priest from Norway, gave the homily – related to Living Water. He also shared how he became a priest – a wonderful sharing.

So let’s “fast” now.. by praying more... doing all the things you wanted to do for God (your Lenten sacrifices) – and at the end of this, we will be renewed.

I encourage all – that since you know God's eternal plan for us (for life, not death), it should inspire us to purify our hearts and motives. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God," said Jesus (Matthew 5:8) [Remember our Session 3 on More Love through Purity?],
and James wrote, "But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy" (James 3:17).

Be fruitful...!