MY
EXPERIENCE IN ANUGRAHA
“To
look at the past with gratitude, to live the present with passion and to
embrace the future with hope” (Pope Francis)
Thankfulness
is a prominent Bible theme. First Thessalonians 5:16-18 says, “Be joyful
always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s
will for you in Christ Jesus.” Give thanks in all circumstances. Thankfulness
should be a way of life for me, naturally flowing from my heart and mouth.
From
2 of October to 3rd of November, I was attending the Counselling
training program in Dindugal, In India.
Every experience is actually an experience of the whole person. Because, I learned with different activity,
experiences, accompaniments, Yoga, and learning all the Skills for the
counselling, it is help me lots. All the experiences helped me to understand
the differences of the human existence. This
is an important lesson to remember the situations and events and the learning
process. Things will change: we won’t feel this way forever. And anyway,
sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones our soul needs most. I
believe we can't feel real joy unless we've felt sorrow. We can't have a sense
of victory unless we know what it means to fail.
I
am deeply grateful for all the experience of being a joyful Claretian
Missionary”. For this I have realized
the need to “start from my faith and to encounter with Jesus”. I have
to encourage myself to look from
the perspective of my faith like our
Lord on how he was leading his life, and to revive the moments on that day
I felt “loved and called” in order to
follow Him with trust. I need to deepen
in the importance of feelings for two reasons: one is the co-responsibility,
and the other is that a service of charity and simplicity. The Faith is born of
an encounter with the living God who calls us and reveals his love, a love that
precedes us.
There
were 65 Religious and lay people from different Congregations, especially being
together and experiencing with them as a one family, made me to realized that
God has a purpose for each one of us. We are all called, whether we know it or
not, to share in the mission of his church in the world in a particular way.
This is what we mean by ‘vocation’ or ‘calling’. ‘Discernment’ is the task of
trying to understand what God wants of us, in order to do it. It is a life-long
task, as we try to determine God’s will for us in every individual moment of
our lives. The way to discern our unique vocation is prayer – and specifically
prayer that listen attentively to God. Being attentive to God’s Word means
spending time with the scriptures and sharing in the liturgical and sacramental
life of the church.
As
our constitutions says: The true faithfulness to our Vocation is an everyday
task, because every day we must choose the Lord anew by a fidelity that
sometimes can be difficult, but we that neither anything nor anybody can
separate us from the love of Christ.
Thank
you very much
Resilda Edwin
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