REFLECTION PAPER

        When I heard that there was going to be a recollection I

thought that it was going to be like any other recollection
boring and big words. But I was happy, saddened and touched.  And
the best of all it gave me hope. The first activity that we did
was Miss rose let us think of an adjective that can best describe
to our first letter of our name, in that name code I never knew
that we can reflect our name in a simple adjective. We made a lot
of activities during our recollection. She let us made a symbol
in a clear short bond paper that can represent to the best
experience that happened to our life. It was mostly about what I
think of myself or what others think about me that’s what I
thought at first but while our discussion continued I realized
that it was more than that. All of us shared about our
experienced and I was amazed that time because all of my
classmates had the courage to open up with the truth and shared
with us their experienced. I realized that without the
recollection I could not her their own story of life and I will
never find out who I really am until I trust God to tell me who I
am in his eyes and who I will be if I just let it all go,
surrender to God. During the recollection I was really in a dark
part of my life, I accepted the labels that they have given me
accepted the me who has changed drastically from a God loving
little girl to a girl who’s lost her way to God, I was really
ashamed at myself at that time because I didn’t really know who I
was anymore. After our break Kuya Ivan introduce the activity of
our recollection which is the “INTERIORITY” in that activity he
read a bible and share some story about his life. Afterwards,
Kuya Ivan wrote 4 question that we need to answer some of us
answered the question, but in the shortened of time not all of as
given the chance to share. But when I attended the recollection
for the first time I felt warmth and comfort from my friends and
not my family members, when I was assigned at my group I really
felt happy because they supported me and I tried to support them
back, in the end we were really like a team because we comforted
each other, we listened to each other and we had each other’s
back. When we were halfway the recollection I was feeling a
little happy but I knew there was still something missing I knew
because I can feel that somewhere in my heart an empty space was
still not full, I knew that I had to accept something but I still
did not know what. I realized I have been looking at it all wrong
all this time, it does not matter what people think or might
think about you, what matters is who you really are and no one
can give you an answer, because the answer has always been and
always will be with God, and he is just waiting for you to come
back to him so that you can find out the answer for yourself. And
in God’s eyes I am his beautiful daughter, I am his masterpiece
that is created within his likeness, and I am loved and forgiven
by the Lord, even if I had committed sins that aren’t worth
forgiving God will forgive I know because God is merciful and
loving and all he wants is for his creations to come back to him
again. And I will come back to him once again. We end our
recollection by having some confession and mass, afterwards, we
also collect some memories or moments by taking some pictures
because the place was so amazing and beautiful.