Friday, May 26, 2006
well! two rather interesting things happened today! at least something to blog about anyway. i'll start with school, considering the fact that it supposedly the last day of school for the term. it's also founder's day! so our school celebrated both occasions by holding... mass. that's not all though, the MGD girls from India also put up a farewell performance for us by dancing 3 kinds of traditional Indian dances. it was pretty cool. But before that we had a half hour history lesson on our founder Father Nicholas Barre, and Cheryl and a few girls played some christian songs to worship God.
Right, better not get carried away. I mentioned Cheryl and her friends because a mini spiritual lesson while I was sitting there watching Cheryl. A group of girls sitting beside my class were actually mocking the miniture praise and worship! (3 songs, so i guess it's miniture) I probably would have been able to tolerate a couple of comments, but they kinda didn't stop making fun of them. I guess it was righteous anger, after all, it was a praise and worship unto God.
So yeah, I was thinking of speaking up for Cheryl and the rest... except God held my tongue. Each and every time I had the urge to say something, i just didn't. I don't know why. But in a sense, i'm kind of thankful God stopped me from saying anything. To begin with, they probably don't realise what they are doing - kind of like the pharisees and the people in Jesus' time. If I did say something, there would've been a chance i would appear as a hoity-toity religous person. Moreover, I was a teensy miffed at the time so I could have said something sarcastic and hurt their feelings. Therefore, it was good that I didn't say anything.
I also realised another thing, that as I sat there and took it, I learned humility, patience, self-control, even to love. Okay, so maybe it wasn't that much of each of those qualities, but it did build up a teensy weensy bit- I think. Humility, as I was being persecuted - in a sense. Patience and self-control, to not blow up or smack 'em or say something (that might turn out not nice). And love (I tried to anyway), because God still loves them and they probably don't realise that what they said hurt.
It's amazing how such a simple thing can be such a big lesson. It's amazing how God teaches us these things in the smallest of ways and in our everyday lives. It's just amazing.
Another highlight would be that I just watched 'Grease' the musical. It wasn't too bad i suppose. It was different from the movie though, there were added songs and the way the story flows is slightly different. I still prefer the dance moves in the movie though, but the singing was pretty good. Most of the characters looked like those in the movie, so I didn't get too lost. All in all, it was enjoyable, with the same crude/ dirty jokes. I wonder if the little kids that went understood any of the jokes. Hmm...
Haa.. anyway, it's late, I better go. Ben's birthday party tommorow! Night!
