Ariel D.

Tolentino September 13, 2018

Gr. 11 HUMSS 6 Mrs. Melannie June S.
Balacuit

MY REFLECTION ABOUT THE RECOLLECTION

My reflection about the recently held recollection last September 9,2018.

It

was Sunday morning at 7am when we met the one who facilated, I had glad to see
them and she joyfully welcomed us with her malicious smile then she asked what
is our expectation to this kind of gathering. A Recollection, as understood in
respect to the spiritual life, means attention to the presence of God in the soul. It
includes the withdrawal of the mind from external and earthly affairs in order to
attend to God and Divine things. or recollecting those past specific memories that
you had. The first talk or the first session that I could really relate to in the
recollection was entitled “Valuing Friendship with Others” where our facilitator
give us papers and she wanted us to identify what is our feelings, emotions and our
expectations. And she also let us to have a letter to our friends that have a greatest
impact in our lives. After that We prayed at the chapel and we asked the God
Almighty to guide us through the whole day and give us strength to face our
problems. While praying I noticed that my two goody-goody friends, was really
silent which never happened for the entire year no matter how much our teacher
tell us to be. Its quite fascinating really to see another side of my classmates that I
know was hidden from most of the time.won’t dictate here what did happen on our
recollection since I would be spoiling all the things that most of us still need to
explore. Instead I would be writing about everything that I had learn on the whole
recollection. I learn that while we are still here at the world, living. We should
always be thankful on what we have and be contented. We shouldn’t ask for things
that we don’t have and have no capacity on having or else we might succumb on
doing things that we would later regret. For most of the times and even on the time
of hardship we should always be optimistic and look at the whole situation as a
kind of challenge that we shouldn’t back out to.I also learned that as a child we
should love our parents no matter how nagging and how they treat us because even
though we jumble and mix the world they are still our parent that we need to
treasure. We should always remember to say sorry to them whenever we do
something wrong for they are the one who gave us life and made many sacrifices
just to make us happy and comfortable with our lives thus we shouldn’t be selfish
and insensitive about their feelings. Let us not take our parents for granted, we do
not know what will happen tomorrow.