Birthday Present for Jesus!

We definitely had fun cleaning up and packing House of David today (and there's more to do tmr!) Guess what i read in next Sunday's first reading?! King David was thinking..“Here I am living in a house of cedar,while the ark of God dwells in a tent!” and God replied him..‘Then should you build me a house to dwell in?’ (2 Sm 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16). Then now here I am thinking...cool...now that David built Jesus a house, here we are helping him keep it clean! I hope you like it Jesus...caz We sure built lots of muscles flipping those tables and fixing them and cleaning them. =p

I would just like to share with u some tots I had when I cleaned those tables. Some tables had my small dots and stains on them. Every time I managed to clean off one stain by using some cleaning agent and some of my might, I felt so happy and contented with myself. It might sound lame but I'm sure some of you felt the same way too haha! Then suddenly I thought of confession...imagine if cleaning a table could make a person happy, what joy it would be to clean a soul! Similar to the table with many stains, we are filled with many sins. Cleaning one stain off wouldn't make much difference to the whole table but if we put enough effort to clean off each small stain, the whole table would be sparkling clean! It would also be a much greater present to Jesus if we concentrated on cleaning our soul compared to cleaning a table. (though cleaning tables is a gd start =p )

Now we get to the fixing of the table leg! Yay there was at least one spoilt table leg that we got to have our fun on haha! Fixing table legs are definitely much tougher than cleaning table stains. It's a gd analogy to how some of our sins are quite major that it causes us to be broken. Such sins are tough to "fix". It was so tough to fix that Priscilla and I had to ask Marcus for help. Fortunately Marcus being a gd handy man taught us a skill of using a screwdriver and a mallet tgt haha! Guess wad..we girls can fix tables legs now too =p Anw my point is, some sins are tough to get out of and we need the help of others, and some times it needs to be a particular other person who has that skill or personality. Do not be afraid to ask for help esp if u think the person is up for it. =) We were made to help each other, no man is an island.

Lastly, I would like to thank everyone who came to help make this birthday present for Jesus, although its not fully done yet, I'm quite sure its going to be presentable to Jesus by tmr =p Charlene, Charlotte, Priscilla, Stephanie, Marcus and Chris...THANK YOU! Let's think of a special personal present (only u and u alone have this present)u can give to Jesus this Christmas =) if u need a clue...its bout preparing urself =p

Love,

Francesca