Photo of St Anthony church on 6 April 2025, 5th Sunday of Lent
I went to church on 6 April 2025, my first step into the church after its renovation. My official first mass there. I went to confession and told the priest I am divorce and he told me I had no sin in this. I am so relieved. I am able to receive holy communion again.
Ever since I started going back to church, beautiful things happened. It must be God feeling happy for me to go back to church. My garden has sunbirds flying and chirping. They came to make nest again. I had a bird nest outside in my garden now. I feel so happy.
The beautiful bird nest in my garden
I got a cockatiel bird this Mother's Day!
Clara gave me a bouquet of beautiful flowers too
It was a good month of Happy Mother's Day. I celebrated with my mother too. I treated her to Pin Wei Seafood Village for a dinner. This is indeed a blissful life.
Standing in front of the church hall, not knowing when I can receive Jesus ever...
I had not been updating the blog. My computer is not working properly. Now I'm trying to use the handphone to do so.
Today I feel so happy because I took the opportunity to ask father (Gerard) about receiving holy communion. As soon as I am prepared to go for confession, I can receive Jesus again.
Remember I told you that I like to catch birds when I was young? Running after them, chasing them. (I love to scare the cats too. This is because they make too much noise at night, scaring me...) In Singapore, these are the fun things that we could do when I was young...
Growing up, I stopped catching or running after birds. I hardly even looked at birds. Soon, it was almost forgotten that I had encounter birds during my working years. After my graduation, worked and then got married and so on. I did not encounter any birds at all. I only had dogs later on.
8 March 2008 changed my life. As you can see from the video above, 11 April 2008 I had a special encounter. I caught hold of a baby bird! How fun was that! And after that, that was not the first time I caught a bird. Over the years, I had encountered more birds. I saw them on the pathway, I saw them in my corridor garden, at my house and while walking along roadsides.
5 June 2012, this turtle dove came to my house.
Something so special and it just made my day. This is because in Singapore there was hardly any nice view. We are surrounded by HDB flats. And that's why this picture's background is the HDB flat, and also my other pictures have background of HDB flats as well.
On the same day of 5 June 2012, when I went out of the house with Isaac and Richard later on, I had another encounter of another bird. I was really filled with ecstasy. It just let me catch hold of it and it never fly off.
5 June 2012 caught the bird along the roadside.
Just last year, there were sunbirds that came to my garden to build nest. And I was able to see the young baby birds!!!!
8 February 2020 bird nest done by sunbirds at my garden.
This was the first time I see real bird nest. In school, I read about bird nest and what the book had drawn the bird nest to be like. But I never had a chance to see real bird nest in Singapore. I only see pigeons having their 'nest' under/ in the crevices of MRT tracks/pillars. So This really made me so proud of my garden.
