Below is a typed up transcription of the reflection I shared today in this year's first recollection entitled "Restart Recollection" representing first year med students (YL5, batch 2026). The two questions below in bold were from our Campus Ministry's head– guiding questions centered around the theme of hope. What is your source of hope these days? How does your relationship with God affect your experiences as a medical student or vice versa? Instead of new year’s resolutions I decided to dedicate myself on a theme. For every decision I’m faced, this theme will guide my action. And when I was asked to do this, one of the guiding questions was what’s my source of hope these days? As God’s providence would show it lines up with what my theme is: For 2022, I have chosen this year for me to be the year of “hope”. I got it from reading Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical "Deus Caritas Est" (or “God is love”) The quote goes "Hope is practiced through the virtue o...