“Today is the day, I will rejoice and be glad in it”

Yesterday, I just had a test for one of the subject I’m taking this semester. I’ve spent a few days to study for that test because I really hope that I could score well for this subject. However, what I hoped turned out to be the other way round. In the test, there were two questions that I had to answer. And yet, after that one hour test, I was very disappointed with myself that I couldn’t manage to get the right answer for BOTH questions. >.<

He made a whip out of cords
and drove them all out of the temple area…

“Take these out of here,
and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.”

(John 2:13-25)

On last Sunday, the Gospel reading was about Jesus who was angry because there were many people who disrespected the Temple in Jerusalem by turning it into a marketplace.

And in the daily reflection that I read from Word Among Us, it quoted a very powerful sentence by St. Thomas Aquinas,

Dear my siblings in Christ,

I realized that I have raised a controversial issue during my talk today. Apparently the holy word “God” and imperfect “fallen human nature” do not go well when they were put near to each other :-D

I was too focused on content preparation that I skip preparing myself for a clear delivery of the message during my talk today. A lesson learnt from me, but Praise God for the experience and the people that approach me for clarification today.

Let me explain what I meant through this article.