Our 2nd Household

This post is actually long overdue. I was waiting for our household pictures to be uploaded in Facebook so I can include it together with this post. Oh well better post this now. I'll just add some pictures when it’s available.

I am glad that our second household finally pushed through especially after being postponed for so long, since Febuary when we last held one, and from being cancelled just this Sunday June 30, 2013 supposedly at Sis Shiloh's place. Again, it was at my place which was very good because it favored us in prepping up for a surprise belated birthday celebration for sis Shiloh who just turned 29. There were only four of us present though Siz Dorothy, Maet, Shiloh and myself. Unfortunately Siz Sheila was not able to make it because she had to run some errands at home since her mom wasn’t around. As for Siz B, Emilou, Kat I haven’t heard from them.

Since the household venue was at my place, I had some general cleaning going on earlier that day. Siz Dor and I were wondering how we should go about having the surprise thing. Our call time was 5:30pm. She was out from work by then so we met at SBG Gold and decided to buy some cupcakes, kremstix and nips mini just to be innovative and deviate from the usual red ribbon cake.

After taking siz Dor to the boarding house, I went out again to buy some food for dinner and luckily on my way home I bump into siz Shiloh. We walked home together. I was able to warn Siz Dor that Shiloh was with me by then. I was apparently shouting "WE have arrived", so she can hide whatever she is still doing for the surprise. Haha!

As always, our household took more than 3 hours even though there were only 4 of us. At that rate, we already simultaneously uttered our thanksgiving. However, what took so long was the petitions part - so many prayers for other people, healing, other concerns, family, and, of course, one's self; then, followed the scripture readings for each one, the gospel for that day and the sharing while eating part. Hehe!

These household meetings are very important for spiritual growth. It somehow provides us support and encouragement to be more patient, loving and caring. It serves as a reminder of what "ought to be". That is the reason, it is always emphasized by SFC teachings to attend as much as possible not just to these household meetings but to many other activities as well. We are teaching ourselves to become more compassionate and be "a person for others" by making friends and building relationships with one another through these various activities. So I hope, by God's grace, if you are one of us, an SFC, you will be able to attend your next household meeting despite the many hindrances of not being able to. But if you're not, then, I hope you'll be in the next round of our "Christian Life Program" better known as CLP. We usually have it twice a year. 

I already gave them their assignments. Our next stop is at siz Sheila's place. Hmm.. We have to schedule the next round of household. I hope our schedules meet so we can all be available for it. Again, I forgot to give them my “pasalubong" from Manila during the ICON in Feb. The gift was so overdue because I kept on forgetting. I hope I’d be able to remember to finally give it to them the next time we meet.

God is so great! Bless you! ;p