Yesterday, I was finally able to confess my sins with a priest. I, together with my co-SFC participant Bhie, and our facilitator Rhona was supposed to do it last Thursday night, but the priest had other appointments. Yesterday, we feared the priest would leave right after the mass, but he gave us some time to hear our confessions.

I decided to go first, and it was really hard confessing in front of a priest - there was a confession booth, but since we were just three people confessing that day, he just sat at the back of the church. I said quite a lot of sins (I may look nice and all, but I got so many sins, believe me), but he concentrated on one confession I said. He scolded me a little bit, but he and Dee-Jay pretty much said the same thing. No need to elaborate much because I am not really proud of those sins I committed. The priest asked me to pray the rosary in Sorrowful Mysteries, so after the three of us confessed, we prayed the rosary before leaving the church.

I understood now why it came to this. The gospel / homily talked about changing until there is still time. What a timely gospel to do a confession! Actually, I am happy to be able to go to church two times this week (Thursday and Friday) because I was also able to say a prayer for Dee-Jay's sister, Rianne.

I am thankful to start on a clean slate. I feel much better now because the burdens are all exhaled, so to speak. Now, I am even thankful to be joining Singles for Christ because I was able to draw myself near to God. Before, I just wanted to join because I wanted to travel, now I realized there is a much deeper reason to that. Thank you, Lord for tapping me to join the community.

*** Jenn ***