I must learn to say no more often.
Then, I don’t have to torture myself unnecessary.
But I think I am too kind to say no.
Why say no when it is something I can easily do for someone who doesn’t know how to?
Tomorrow morning, I am going to meet someone to make her a website.
And I have a ton of photos to resize for CG.
I should have done the CG pics but the broadband is always so slow whenever I put my mind to sit down and do it.
I only managed one batch.
Feel bad that I didn’t do things as fast as Fr EP hopes.
Not that he complains but I am not the kind who puts people waiting.
Then, there is the interviews to be done for UCAN.
I am so glad FC called me from Bangkok today about the videos.
I actually hate writing about godly stuffs because it is so uptight writing for churchie matters.
Now, FC said I can do videos. I like! No need to think of words to use, just whack what comes to my mind when I am interviewing.

This Saturday, it is my turn to teach catechism class. It is about prophets and I better start working on the materials.
Then, there is the CCC which means two days of church lessons.
I hope I find my eagerness to learn churchie stuffs again.
My last experience with Fr what’s his name about liturgy has made me very disillusioned.
I haven’t brought this up with Fr Fab yet.
I think I must.
It is unhealthy to think that my church is mengkongkong or tie me into an institution.
But that’s how I feel.
I cannot get over the reference of all the articles with all the numbers.
Arrggh…I get nightmare with all those numbers.
Life is hard enough.
Now they made it harder because we are expected to follow a set rules of doing things.

I skipped church when I was in KL. I intended to go back to SFX for the Sunday morning mass.
But I didn’t because I cannot find a reason to go.
It is so early, I need to take a taxi and I don’t know if I can get a taxi back to my hotel.
Ok, I also don’t look forward to go to a new place with new strange faces and new priest.

Maybe it is high time I go for another one of those highly rechargeable session to find God again.
It is like batteries plugged into those rechargeable gadget to get the energy again.
Maybe I am plain tired of being me, being Catholic and being me.
Yes, there is this confusion in me that me is not Catholic-ky enough and being not Catholic-ky enough means I am not being me. Sigh…what a stupid confusion I am having now.

I also didn’t bother to make a trip to St. Anne this year because hubby works till late and I don’t know my way there.
I am also not into one of those ‘let’s take a bus and make a merry group from church to church’.
I am feeling utterly, utterly confused with who I am.
I cannot connect when people told me they went for the 9-day novena.
I cannot understand why I need to ask St. Anne for favours.
I got no favours to ask from St. Anne or even God.
God is supposed to know what’s good for me because I don’t know myself, you know?

This is getting lengthy.
This is getting silly.
This is just being plain tired of life at the moment.
Not the physically tired kind of tired but the ‘been there, done that, now what else can I do?’ kind of deflated feelings.
I think I am one of those mountain-top feelings seeker.

Hmmm…maybe I should make a pilgrimage to Tibet for some Catholic meditation.
But hey, I won’t be able to grow a beard and come back looking darn cool like a swami.
Or a wacky but coolest Catholic priest.
So, I have nothing to prove if I have sit on some mountain top to find God.
Therefore, no deal.

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3 Responses to “I really, really must learn to say no, even to godly stuffs”

  1. Hey, you attend the catholic church in green lane one is it? with blue light on the cross one? Anyway, I’m not a Catholic but a baptist or protestant. I attend Fettes Park Baptist Church around Jalan Gajah, opposite Chinese Swimming Club… To me evercy church is the same, be it small or big, powerful ppl or not.. God is always there. It is our spirit that connects to God rather than through people we only can connect with God. Humans are not our bridge, Jesus is. Oops…Just want you to know something, not trying to offend you k. Have a nice day Lilian

  2. Catholis and protestants arent the same as Danny claims….but that’s another story. I’m wonderng, are the bibles the same? I always wondered how the Catholic and protestant bible differed and on what areas. Anyone care to enlighten?

  3. Dear Veron,

    The New Testament canons for both Catholics and Protestants are the same. The earliest document that attests to this canon was drawn up by St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria in 367 AD. In 382 AD, Pope Damasus I convoked the Council of Rome which confirmed all the books listed in Athanasius’ document as well as the books that would constitute the Christian Old Testament.

    This list remained untouched in the Western Church till the advent of Protestantism. It wasn’t until the appearance of Martin Luther that tinkering with the canon of scripture was seriously undertaken. Luther actually wanted to remove certain New Testament books that he thought at odds with his heresy. These books were Hebrews, James, Jude and Revelation. Luckily for Protestants, this idea was quashed by his co-religionists of later times. Can you imagine what fire and brimstone, send me $2,000,000, end of the world, take me up in rapture, second coming of Jesus is tomorrow, megachurch Evangelicals would do without the book of Revelation?

    Anyways, the Old Testament didn’t fare as well I’m afraid. The heretics managed to remove Tobit, Judith, portions of the Book of Esther, the Wisdom of Solomon, the Letter of Jeremiah, portions of the Book of Daniel and 1 and 2 Maccabees. This didn’t happen immediately for Protestants but over a few hundred years. While older Protestant Bibles like the 1611 version of the King James Bible had these books, modern Protestant Bibles don’t. That’s essentially the difference between Catholic and Protestant Bibles.

    As an exercise, you should undertake to ask at least 5 different Protestant pastors why there are more Old Testament books in Catholic Bibles. I would not be surprised if you got 5 different stories. In any case, let me know what you’re told and I’ll address what they say if you care to hear more from me.

    All the best and God bless,

    Celine

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