Church of St Mary of the Angels was busy with our celebrations for the annual Feast Day.
Today was the time of the year when many will gather at our basement carpark selling food. All the stall vendors did their best to outwit the other stalls and get patrons to buy their food. Though competition was really keen, but all in the name of good fun and fund-raising for the church.
I was attending mass this morning when all of a sudden, the sky started pouring.
“Oh my, shouldn’t God bless our church with a good weather on an important and happy occasion like today?”
That was my first thought. And I would have continued thinking this way, and beginning to doubt if God is really good, if not for what our parish priest Father John-Paul Tan said at the end of the mass.
“Thanks to the rain which helped to keep our parishioners on our property for the food and fun fair”
Bingo! That’s the purpose of having a rainpour today! A nice reframe, but then, isn’t this very true as well?
So no doubt we Chinese have a myth that if it rains on your wedding day, that means the bride and bridegroom must be very stingy, I am beginning to see a rainy day with a purpose.
Life events with their many different perspectives give more meaning to our days.
[tags]perspectives in life, reframe, God, Feast Day[/tags]
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2007 Jul 30
the rain didn’t deter parishoners from visiting the food & fun fair at st anne’s church too…we celebrated st anne’s feast day yesterday as well…it was raining cats & dogs but it was business as usual…showers of blessings indeed!