Notebook of DREAMS

three cheers for me.

this blog belongs to DESIREE tan zhi ying.
desiree will be turning 21 on the 24th december 2009. she will love anything you give her, including your hugs and kisses.

you can add desiree on msn at crushgirl_18@hotmail.com or add her on facebook.
desiree studied in st. anthony's canossian primary and secondary school and later moved on to tampines junior college.
she is currently in SMU, doing her bachelors in business management and hopes to graduate by 2011.
right now, she doesn't need anything except an INTERNSHIP.

desiree is a CATHOLIC and she attends the 11am mass in the Church of the Holy Trinity every sunday with the SERAPHIM choir.
desiree is attached to the FIDES family in SMU. her life would be so different if she didn't have her Faith.

she loves to eat any kind of ICE CREAM and wouldn't mind chocolates as well.
she loves to shop and has a soft spot for shoes and dresses.

9:07 AM

Friday, June 26, 2009

Decided to make a short blog entry after Sheila commented that my blog has been dead for so long.

So far all of you guys out there who has been in constant contact with me, yes, I am fine. Doing well actually, but not too well in my internship. I dread having the thought of waking up early and coming all the way to Buona Vista, to sit in front of my computer and do research.

But well, I’m in the last one and a half weeks of my internship and after I deliver my report, which is not done at all, I’ll be done with working for at least the next year.

Anyway, this entry is not suppose to whine about my work. it’s more to comment about the reflection on today’s Gospel.

In today’s Gospel, Jesus healed a leper with the touch of his hand. It showed how important the sense of touch is. I saw a reflection question that says “who are the lepers in your life? The people who need your healing touch but who repulse you?” This question made me think a long time about my personal actions and thoughts I develop when I meet people and build my first impression of them.

Who are we to judge?
Who are we to say that the person looks arrogant, or proud, or boastful?
Who are we to think that the person is ‘inferior’ to us?

Maybe these people are the ones that we should be reaching out to the most, the people who need our touch, our love and our concern. The reflection mentioned that the primary symptom is that they are difficult to love because they never try hard enough to change. But what if we are the ones not trying hard enough to change them, or maybe we are not dealing with the situation in the right way. Maybe we are trying to change them so that they can become who we like, but not who they are.

At the very end of the day, Jesus wants us to be messengers of His love to them. And we need to be the ones who reach out to these people for him. We have to put ourselves on the line to always forgive and forget the things that the person has done to harm and hurt us, but forgive like how Jesus would want us to forgive.

I’m not reflecting about individual people I need to administer forgiveness unto. It’s just a general reflection. A reflection that I have not had for a long time.