Easter Posting

This is a very late posting but as the saying goes, it's better late than never.

As I wrote on my "A Terrible Week" blog entry, my Holy Week didn't went as I expected. I expected more but got less. I tried and I failed.

As my usual self when bad things happen to me, on that fateful Black Saturday, I wallowed on self-pity and kept remembering the bad decisions and mistakes I made in my life and I replayed it over and over and over again. I also blamed this past mistakes for what I am now. This is me and this is how I react when something bad happens to me.

However in the evening of Black Saturday, a thought shook me. Someone or something told me that I can go on wallowing on my self-pity, blaming myself, and putting all these negative thoughts in me, I should just simply ask forgiveness or to be more appropriate repentance. Which means changing your direction. Your future will be different from your past. You accept that you have done wrong but at the same time make sure that the same thing would not happen again. It also means changing from the inside out. How did I do that? Through God's mercy.

To make it a lot more simple, I admitted that I made a mistake and asked for forgiveness, did not dwell on it and moved on.

The next day, Easter Sunday, before attending The Feast, I went to confession. After maybe 10 or more years, I went to a priest to confess my sins (I don't normally confess because what I do is to confess directly to God through prayer). I told the priest that I broke my promise of the Lent fasting and in the process also told the priest about a more deadly sins, which was what I was to write about, but since I was not able to complete the Lenten fast, I wouldn't be writing about it. Sorry. I probably will write about it since I was able to confess it already to a priest and to a lesser extent to a friend. But that's another story.

After going to the confession, I made a promise that the next Lenten fast I would do, I will be making sure that I will complete it.

No matter how bad your Good Friday is or your Holy Week for that matter, you can be sure that Easter Sunday will come to your life.

A very late Happy Easter to all! =)