You Make a Good First Impression

You probably are making a much better impression than you realize. Social situations can be a bit awkward for you at times, and you tend to over think what you say and do. If you make a social faux pas, you remember it a lot longer than anyone else does. Just relax and do your best. There are little things you can do to improve your social image. Express more of an interest in the people around you, and be a good listener. The secret of fascinating people is that they find everyone else fascinating!

What Kind of First Impression Do You Make?

been a while since my last post. and i really miss blogging and blog hopping. so here's my first post for this month. kind of fuss because i'm struggling now- inside. insecurities and low self esteem. been trying to cope up by not pitying myself, by not thinking about it. but there were times like now couldn't help it.

So what I do each time-finding strength through our Lord God. I think of him and then positive thoughts come afterwards. I shouldn't be negative that I have to continue myself up. So I could move forward. Now I found a better way. My sister has a pocketbook –daily gospel. Never have I opened it before for bible reading is a bit boring for me because I hardly understand what they really mean. But it’s different with the bible since it has commentary after the gospel that made me more understand the context.

They say the bible has the answers to our questions. Just when you feel downbeat, confuse and in pain open it, read and be enlighten to what you should feel and how you should react to the situation. I’ve been hearing this from talk shows and inside pbb house told by a housemate. So I tried it and I started doing it yesterday and I’m so amazed.

Right now, I feel so trivial and I don’t want to pity and let myself be really like that. so i open the book and this is what it says:

1^st reading: Jer 18:1-6

Gospel: Mt 13:47-53

Jesus said to the crowds,” Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a big fishing net let down into the sea, in every kind of fish has been caught. When there is full, it is dragged ashore. Then they sit down and gather the good fish in buckets, but throw the worthless ones away.”

“That is how it will be at the end of time; the angels will go out to separate the wicked from the just and throw them into the blazing furnace, where they will weep and gnashed their teeth.”

Jesus asked, “Have you all understood all these things?” “Yes, they answered. So he said to them, “You will see that every teacher of the Law who becomes a disciple of kingdom is like a householder who can produce from his store things both new and old.” When Jesus had finished these parables, he left the place.

The commentary:

We can find anything on the net, many good things and also a lot of garbage. The internet is the most comprehensive mirror that human race has ever had. By speaking of the “net,” Jesus reminds us that the first activity of the church must be mission: “to catch people”. Many of them surely will not persevere, but a Church that encloses itself and forgets its missionary dimension would die. How we would like to have a perfect “catch,” a perfect Church made only for upright persons! Christ, however, did not want a Church like that, nor is that the way for the church to save the world. Good and evil will fill the net, we need to the patience of good fisherfolk; patience with ourselves and with others, patience with so many situation in life.

Though i found the gospel is for me in a different way the commentary talks about. but help me feels better for it made me realized that all i have to do is to be patient. and that's the only way i could and should right now.