Apology for skipping 2 weeks in a row—jet lag is real, and so is joining work after a 5-month break!
As I browsed through the last post’s comments, I noticed how everyone mentioned being a terrorist nation and women being oppressed! I would like to say, “Yeah, so I have read on the internet, and narratives have been told.” The US is, however, having collateral damage to civilians and children too!
I am not the best proponent of violence and living as a minority religion in a country with its own oppression of women and Christianity—I have seen and heard a fair share of trouble! I do realize how tough it is to live in a world like that where freedom is measured and dependent on others—I am fortunate I get to work and pray with zero fear of being caught or killed or arrested, although nuns and priests have faced the brunt often in many parts of my country!
Today’s Gospel has Jesus being asked the existential question
Who do you make yourself out to be?”
I am a girl who has a desire to be loved and live in peace. Do the work I love, perform surgeries on cancer-ridden women and make them better, spread health awareness, and just be happy with my family and friends.
I bow my head and pray at the Blessed Sacrament, surrendering my petty issues of work, family, and then all my sick patients! My ultimate goal is to end my life with immense love and remember I have been a source of love to everyone around me through Christ!
This Lent has been chaotic with my travel and work thrown across everything, so much so I even have a very dear colleague and flatmate getting married (Hindu) on Easter weekend!
It has not been the typical fasting but a test in my patience! But as I held those candles, lit at the shrine of Our Lady of Fatima … I had this peace in my heart, and I knew all will be okay—my family, my return to Goa, and even my workplace. I prayed hard and realized it’s just the fact that I am at the best place in my life with the best people around me.
Today, as we are almost ending the Lenten season, I hope we all just pray for a better world for you and me! Surrender our issues health, money, family and others unto His feet hold onto the Lord’s robe for a touch to be cleansed, and he figures out “who we make ourselves to be.” — humans first — lessen the judgment and focus on being better! every day with Christ walking by our side!
AMEN.
