My Personal Reflection about Repentance (make up session with Liz and Maggy)

Annyeong~~

Friends, first of all, I’m sorry that I couldn’t come to the last session about repentance yesterday. But Thanks to God, He gave me chance through Liz and Maggy to do a make up class this Sunday afternoon. Before Maggy began to talk, I ask her the meaning of repentance and she said that it is a way for us that were given by God to let us realize our sins and comeback to Him. Sometimes people think that when they commit sin, God will give them punishment. That’s why sometimes people are too afraid to comeback to God. Thus, after they commit one sin and not repent, they broke their relationship with God. It’s like you lock their heart from God’s forgiveness God’s mercy is not with them anymore because they just close and lock their heart. Actually, it is not what the bible said. From Luke, we can read the story about the lost son. Sometimes, I feel like I am the lost son in the story. (Anyway, I’m a girl, so maybe the story changed into the lost girl :P). I fell to sin again and again, run away from God and close my heart from His love. I think by repentance, we can go back to God’s way and let Him works in me. By reading this story, I realized that God is forgiven to us and His love is unlimited ^_^. He always there, smiling and wait for us with open arms until we comeback again to Him, even though we fell to sin again and again. 

O yeah, I remembered that I asked Liz about “karma”. I’m a person who believed in karma. But then, Liz made it clearer for me that the bad things that happened are the result from what we’ve done, after we committed a sin. For example, the person who used to smoke suffered from lung cancer as a result for his action and a woman who commit adultery then born unwanted baby as a result of her sin. Those things are not either karma or God’s punishment. God never punishes His children and that all the bad things that happened to us are the consequence of any sin that we’ve made. Thus, because of his kindness, he sent his only son to the earth to live and died for our sins.

I also interested in one the article in today’s bulletin about St. Margaret of Cortona.  She was not a saint who born in a perfect family. Her mother died when she still a young girl and her father remarried. She and her step mother did not get along and after that she run from home to live with a wealthy man who gave her a son. Her live was filled with sins until she accept God and repent. She began to serve the sick poor and living in alms. She also formed the Third Order who later called the Poverelle, “Poor Ones”. It is written that she is the patron saint of people who struggled with sexual temptation, prostitution, homelessness, single-mother and those falsely accused. Even though she was committed sins, she was forgiven by God. Even Hitler, the most heartless people who ever lived, can also be forgiven if he repented. So, of course all of us can be forgiven. I pray through the YISS sessions we may be born new in Christ and to be filled with God’s abundance of Grace, anywhere and anytime.

At the end of the session, Maggy saw that there was a Blessed Sacrament placed in that room. Then, by facing the Blessed Sacrament, we pray and close the session. Thank you so much for sharing a wonderful session this evening. Miss you all guys.. I can’t wait until the next session~~ :D

For God is merciful and forgiving,

Pey-pey
(sorry for some grammatical errors)