tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853204965986587589.post4882306556378054054..comments2024-03-17T22:48:00.427+08:00Comments on Reflections and Ruminations: Missing the point about where spiritual maturity brings us.Fr Luke Fonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03079016104331055895noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853204965986587589.post-63007801110014940522015-09-11T16:39:50.433+08:002015-09-11T16:39:50.433+08:00Dear fr Luke-thanks another sharing and reflecting...Dear fr Luke-thanks another sharing and reflecting on ways to help us on our Spiritual journey. You wouldn't believe how timely your article was. When my teenage boy told me that he was not going to attend mass that often anymore, I felt so helpless and asked God why this tragedy had to happened to me especially when his dad and I have been exemplary in our faith, if I may say so. We have an active church life and I attend mass every day. After reading n reflecting on your article, I now realize that it's ok and normal to have setbacks in our lives even if we have 'behaved' our best. I know that God will eventually answer my prayer for my son to appreciate and love the mass like I do but I shouldn't expect a quick-fix. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853204965986587589.post-71068137407615431222015-09-11T01:27:33.948+08:002015-09-11T01:27:33.948+08:00“Spiritual disciplines develop the ‘eye’ that is a...“Spiritual disciplines develop the ‘eye’ that is able to adjust itself to the vicissitudes of life ……………………to see life as one continuum of joys and sorrows, calmness and anxieties, successes and failures, ………………….”<br /><br />The words of a song at tonight’s Holy Hour touched me in a profound way as I realized that it could actually be speaking about the substance or aim of the spiritual life that most of us are striving for. It’s about ..............letting God lead us to live our everyday life within the ambit of His Love. It dawned on me that notwithstanding the observances of spiritual disciplines like fasting, prayer and faithful abstinence, (which are good in and of themselves) what seems to be the crux of the spiritual - is to be able to enjoy fully and live effectively in God’s love, sharing this joy with our Neighbours – all this done- in the daily rounds of our normal existence where we are placed.<br /><br /> Sometimes, life seems to be made of crests and troughs caught in an ever flowing motion………....caught in the carousel of time ............... night following day. However, this is only the surface of life as it presents itself….…..each crest ending in a trough and each trough ascending to be a crest, just to die again in a trough. And so joy replaces sorrow, success, disillusionment or pain – the vicissitudes of life.<br /><br /> But underneath this surface flow is a sturdy evenness that is undisturbed and calm, the spiritual eye – developed through the taming or disciplining of one’s base instincts where now the in-dwelling spirit abides. With this present, there is no need to try to control the waves of our lives.<br /><br />God bless you, Fr<br /><br />tessa<br />Tessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04211998984286520369noreply@blogger.com