Simple but Happy

My parents brought me up, innocent, pure and kept me close only to them. I slept near them and they took care of me so much that I felt trapped, alone and dependent on them. I seldom go out with friends, Papa is so strict that I can’t get out or party without a chaperon or a friend accompanying me to anywhere. That’s silly but I accepted that fact that I am precious and my parents are just doing this to protect me since they love me. My brothers are good about this but I know and feel that they are jealous of how our Papa treats me. We are not poor and we are not rich either but Papa makes sure that I get what I want almost all of the time and I get them even if they’re impossible. And that’s what I did with my life, getting what I want no matter how hard or impossible a goal seems I will make it happen and I did.

When Papa lost his job, my brother and I worked and helped him with house expenses. And then he got sick and we needed to stop going to college and universities because we needed money for his medicines and hospitalization. I am the eldest and I lost it. I mean I thought I was doing fine, having a fiancé abroad who wanted to marry me and have our own family in the future,, my brother working abroad as a waiter/ bar tender and Papa regaining his health back, with Mama taking care of our rice stalls in a market near our place, what more could I ever ask for. Yet, things changed and I felt that God has a different plan for my life and there, a community I wanted to join in came to me like a thief in the night. But not as a thief to ruin my life but transform it to who I will become in the future… In love with life, love and romance?!

 A life consecrated to God  is what I have always wanted to do for the rest of my life and maybe this community will be the one He has showed me to join in so I can serve Jesus as he wanted me to in the duration of my stay at St. Clare’s.

I was watching television late that night when a news flash popped up on the screen that if one wanted to join their community they can do that by calling a certain telephone number. And that’s what I did and spoke with someone and there I was admitted to the said congregation. I always wanted to become a nun but the dream God sent me when he or maybe an angel asked me “Sino si Kristo?” when I was very young, or when I saw statues of saints and God, Mama Mary like they were talking to me and or wanted to tell me something, can explain to me what they wanted to tell me then, but nope, I still couldn’t figure out the reason for those weird and scary dreams.

Mama and Papa were sad when I left home. I felt the pain of leaving them too and it’s a blessing for when I was working as a community organizer for our church, the priest who was very kind to me and wanted to be very weirdly close to me that he gave me gift after gifts that I felt like it was wrong since he was a servant of God and all. I realized that maybe God is saving me from what could have happened and the said priest was rumored to have impregnated a girl who have been serving him in the rectory at church several years after.

Anyway, I prayed for him and that may his soul be at peace and with God since I heard that he died because of cancer years after I joined the community.

So now I am with my sisters in the community and decided to serve the Lord with everything I have. Since I have been good inside the cloister and followed orders without question, my superior, Sister Loreta advised me that I will be transferred to a community of sisters in Brazil. I have been posted to several countries for the last seven years now and I have never imagined that I would be thrown to a place where I have always wanted to visit, Rio de Janeiro.

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