World Youth Day :)

‘kay.. it’s been almost a month after WYD but here I am talking about it just now. Anyway, we, Janella, Anna and Leo, attended only the weekend part since we didn’t think we had enough time to join the whole week without sacrificing the days which are initially allotted for us to prepare for our JTA in France. So, the experience, for me, was blahh. I personally didn’t felt that I was immersed into the WYD experience per se. Maybe it was since we only attended the weekend part of it and haven’t really met and got to know anyone. We met a lot of pilgrims from all over the world but never really got the chance to know them well as persons who share the same beliefs and faiths as I have. I actually never spent much time reflecting or PRAYING 😦 or thinking about my faith since we didn’t know where the catechisms and such talks are and, well, we were running short in time. But then again, the week was still filled with blessings as we saw the pope in person, twice! And I’m also thankful for the opportunity to sacrifice and endure the heat during the super sunny and hot Saturday day at Cuatro Vientos to end with a night of prayer with the Pope – mind you, we walked around 15 kilometers that very day under the sun! Overall it was a very nice experience, especially seeing a lot, and I mean a lot, of youth gathered to celebrate their faith. But it was not, uhm, “life changing” as I would put it. What I secretly wished was that it could have been more meaningful if I attended the whole week and spent it with YFC (okay, maybe I just missed them. WYD was sorta kinda like ILC anyway haha). I really really really hope we can go to the next one – at Rio – not just as a group or as an org but as a family! goshhhhhh.. I miss you all 😦

more pictures here: http://cherrypiesinthesky.tumblr.com/

 

 

Heartwork♥

I am so happy I led my first worship today during YFC-A’s Heartwork Digital Design Workshop. Though I feel so unworthy to do so, it was a great pleasure for me 🙂 It felt really good and, despite feeling very VERY nervous, the joy I felt for having to do the whole thing was what probably gave me most of the goosebumps I had, HAHA. But then again I doubted if I talked sensibly about Him or if I gave and let out what was truly due to Him. All those doubts and questions.. Hmmm. Who knows?

But something inside me is saying that maybe, He made a way for me to be able to reach out to the people in that room and spread God’s grace to them. 🙂 Maybe that’s what we call trust and faith. For there is no wrong or right when it comes to worshiping Him, right? Of course, as long as we maintain its intimacy, meaning and sanctity.

(designed by Clarissa)

We were also very lucky to have the awesome Ms. Sheena Sy as our guest speaker. Visit her tumblr site and you’ll see what I mean. She is an inspiration and a cutie :> (Im serious! :D). I’m officially a fan of hers and though I live in a different portal as hers (tumblr and wordpress) and won’t be able to follow or reblog her cool stuff, it would still probably stick on me to visit her site regularly. Just for a dose of inspiration. Thank God for great persons like her as a role model and, once again, an inspiration. My redundancy just shows how much she is truly an INSPIRATION. Did I say inspiration? Oh. 🙂

Here she is tumblr-ing about the t-shirt we gave her: http://sheenalovessunsets.tumblr.com/post/1114886494

And wait! Kudos to Clarissa for doing a great job! We pulled it off, nyahahaha. Thanks to Ate Kisses and Ate Roxy for the opportunity to be of help and for being a great help, themselves. MWAH!