beingbeaple

April has always been a hectic month for our family. My grandmother’s birthday was on April 9, mine’s on April 19 and my dad’s is this 29th. Add to that my grandmother’s death day - April 22nd and we get a jam-packed schedule for the first month of summer. But instead of commemorating my grandma’s third death anniv the usual way ‘they’ decided to go pinoy water rafting.

Well I had something to contribute to that, too. See my thrill-seeking, adventure-loving Uncle Aping invited me to go rafting as his sort of birthday/grad gift for me but my father didn’t let him take me with him the first time. Then my aunt and uncle from Calamba came over for my grandma’s death anniv and when they heard about Uncle Aping’s proposed trip (cause we asked permission from my dad again) they wanted to go, too. Since there were a lot of us who wanted to go my father gave in! Nyahahahaha!!!!

After hearing mass at UCCP that morning (Pastor Cal is a v v v good preacher by the way - he really gets to you AS IN gets to your heart) we went to the starting point of the rafting ‘trail’. There was a bridge there and there was this option to jump off that bridge. I swear jumping off that thing was the most liberating thing I’ve done in my life so far. It’s as if you’ve left the world for a few minutes or something and your mind clicks itself off and….. and…

Although we didn’t flip over (my cousin and I were hoping we would) the whole ride was v enjoyable. The view was v calming and the water was really cool! Literally. It’s truly an awesome exp so if you haven’t gone pinoy water rafting yet I think you should give it a shot!

After that the real commemoration ceremony started. We gathered at Greenhills and had a short service led by Pastor Cal (yup, the really good preacher) and a Filipinista priest whose name I didn’t catch. And actually, I have just come to realize that UCCP is a v tight fellowship. I mean, they’re basically this huge family bound by their faith in God. Somehow, I wish the Roman Catholic church would be like that.

Anyhow I listened to Pastor Cal and got really struck by the fact that he didn’t seem to be scared of death. He was very casual about it… saying stuff like ‘Diha man gihapon atong pa-ingnan’… His speech was both creepy and amazing for me…. Perhaps it’s just as Dumbledore said in HP and the Philosopher’s Stone… "To the well [insert appropriate word here] mind death is just like sleeping after after a very long day"

Can’t remember the exact words so I’m reciting it from the top of my head.

Either way I’m going to follow Pastor Cal’s advice: to prepare. Just in case. :D

NEWS FLASH, btw:
Is Jas really in Cebu?????

Poof!

Brilla Uriarte Bergado - Caballero

April 9 [ ] - April 22, 2002

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