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So what do I do apart from being a
practicing RC? Practicing?!!! Actually I was out of practice for more than a
decade until I got a 'tapping' - an invitation of sort, to re-join the rite.
That's 2 years ago, and man, how thankful I am for that 'tap' especially when
life is about 5.00 o'clock. Coming back to the question of what I do:
nothing much, actually. What much can a retired man do, anyway, apart from
looking at the gyration of the stock market graphics and fiddling around with
the pc? I do meet people who seem intent in their pursuit for some words of
wisdom. You see, I was a member of the Sabah State Administration for more
than a decade and a half. It's a public office, where you run for election to
qualify. And when you are retired, people, kind of, take it that you have
those experience and wisdom that came with retirement....(wink). Just to regress, during my decade or so
of wandering in the spiritual desert, and being caught up with the stark
awareness of a very real possibility of a very bleak hereafter, given
my situation, it got me to think real hard regarding my relationship with
God. My short note, "As
I ponder" was an attempt to "seek" aloud in that
direction. I prayed, and am still praying for a closer walk with God. I pray
that what little could be accomplished in the twilight of my life, could
glorify God in some little way. And you know what? I have yet more time
than what that other thief, you know the one who was hung beside Jesus? had. Go ye in peace...believe in Christ and go claim your right to be a child of God. |
Except
for one sibling who couldn't quite get a hang on the idea, all of us are now
called Catholics of the Roman persuasion, or as the natives call it - RC. So
are members of my immediate family - my wife and 8 children.