Silence

It's so silent in cyberspace, especially on this blog...

I'm at a loss of what to say myself.

recently, i was reading 'The Pilgrimage' by Paulo Coelho. he's a Spanish writer who writes beautifully. i wonder though, if the eloquence came from the translation to English or if much of the beauty has been lost in this same translation. references to our faith are plenty though and the best part is how he relates it to our life. Book Review, anybody?

recently, i've met up with an old friend who's a Protestant. he used to cause me so much grief (in the sense that i want to throttle him) by criticising Catholics and failing to open his mind just a little bit to our faith. but he's grown more open over the last few years and just last night, i ventured to ask him, "doesn't it matter to you that the Protestants broke away from the Church that Jesus founded?" he was genuinely surprised to the point where he conceded and asked, "is it? i thought it was the Catholics who broke away?" strange.

recently also, i feel like i've lost touch with our RCIA ministry. i wonder why.

and not so recently, i realised that i'm only a one and a half-year old Catholic! when i came to CatholicNews and they asked me how long i've been baptised, i said, "i can't remember... but probably 2-3 years ago." then only when i was pondering on something about the neophytes and did my simple math did it occur to me that i was only baptised last year! it seemed so long ago... quite a daunting realisation, i'll like to add.
is it because the good times fly fast which is why time has sped up in my mind?
or is it because so much has happened in the last one and a half years that it feels like ages have gone by?

my godma did this for 15 years. where will we be in 15 years?
still moving chairs and setting up rooms?
the music ministry will be croaking, haha...
we'll watch the new, young people and reminisce about our better days in RCIA? ;)

sometimes silence frightens me. but other times, silence rejuvenates me.
i've also come to notice that quiet times require more effort and discipline to maintain and retain. hustle and bustle, on the other hand, is easy to achieve.

so much for not having anything to write. i just wish i had the discipline to organise my thoughts and to verbalize my many thoughts.

joyce