“What have I gotten myself into?”
I often hear this question when people, or their lives, are in a mess. But as for me, this question does not pose any negativity.
At an early age, I had such a deep love for the Eucharist. I was really curious about those people who wore white clothes and assist the priest during the Holy Mass. That curiosity led me to become an altar server. As years went on and my love for the Eucharist grew, I decided to be a lector for the Mass and still, my love for the Eucharist grew and grew, that somehow it transcended to a longing.
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Growing up without a father might be a hindrance for others, but for me it wasn’t. It was a part of the perfect plan of God to intervene in my life. Recalling that one faithful night in May, 2 years ago, I met Someone who was always there in place of my biological father. It was Christ Himself.
I realized through a youth camp of a Catholic lay organization, that Jesus Christ in not only God, but someone who completes your life. He was the one who made me curious about what it takes to be an altar server. He was the one who made me long to be a lector and He was even the one who made me join the youth camp, through my mother.
I remember, during a community’s international conference i joined in Surigao, one of the speakers instructed us to write on our I.D. cards our convictions. I wrote something seemingly great and easy, but then I realized, I had to live out what I wrote:
“I surrender to Your will, my God.”
What have I gotten myself into? Jesus’ Fatherly love to me made me yearn to be a Father to His people. I am now in my second month of being an aspirant in the Canossian Sons of Charity. It seems that my love for the Eucharist and longing for fatherly love will only be shown and quenched once I offer myself to follow Him.
