Article August 15, 2011 Issue

Our healings

College students from the Philippines share their spiritual inspiration

Daiza Cuyaman, Janice Gaddo, Cristine Joy Palista, Katherines Biang, Melissa Alipio

Attending Wednesday testimony meeting at our Christian Science church has been and always will be a blessing to everyone! One Wednesday evening, the topic was all about courage. One of the hymn selections was No. 452 from the Christian Science Hymnal Supplement. This hymn struck me. I was awakened by the second stanza, which says, 

O Thou abundant Life, whose freshness daily
admits no common round, no dull routine,
this is our joy and this our discipline,
to take Thy gift of life and use it fully; . . . .
(Peter J. Henniker-Heaton)

In my philosophy class in school, we had just finished discussing the “absurdity” of life. One manifestation of this absurdity is the mechanical or repetitive cycle of the activities we do. We were asked to give examples drawn from our experiences. Since we are students, the common answer was that we’re bored with going to school every day because of these repetitive scenarios: wake up in the morning, prepare for class, go to school, go home after school. It’s always like that, we said, as if there is no more spice or anything interesting in a student’s life.

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