Something

The True Religion
At home, it is kindness.
In business, it is honesty.
In society, it is courtesy.
In work, it is thoroughness.
In play, it is fairness.
Toward the fortunate, it is congratulations.
Toward the weak, it is help.
Toward wickedness, it is forgiveness.
Toward God, it is reverence, love and obedience.

--taken from the Anglican Digest

Testament to my nerdiness

According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.

2) Italicise those you intend to read.

3) Underline the books you LOVE.

4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6. The Bible

7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13.Catch22-JosephHeller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare

15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20. Middlemarch - George Eliot

21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34.Emma-JaneAusten
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen

36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41. Animal Farm - George Orwell

42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50. Atonement - Ian McEwan

51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52. Dune - Frank Herbert

53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas – i am the hand of God!>;p

66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68.BridgetJones'Diary-HelenFielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72. Dracula - Bram Stoker

73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75. Ulysses - James Joyce

76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78. Germinal - Emile Zola

79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80. Possession - AS Byatt

81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87. Charlotte's Web - EB White

88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94. Watership Down - Richard Adams Thlayli!!

95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

i love to read. sue me!

YOU GOT TO WATCH THIS

http://blip.tv/file/822175

ENJOY!

For Your Reflection

Tell me the story again

Tell me the story again, Grandfather.
Tell me who I am.

I have told you many times, Boy.
You know the story by heart.

But it sounds better
when you tell it, Grandfather.

Then listen carefully.
This may be the last telling.

No, no, Grandfather.
There will never be a last time.
Promise me that.
Promise me.

I promise you nothing, Boy.
I love you.
That is better than a promise.

And I love you, Grandfather,
but tell me the story again.
Please.

Knots on a Counting Rope
Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault

I would also like to recommend the following to anyone/everyone:

online retreat

if any of you would like to be in a group for the above, just email me about it(j3dinikz@gmail.com) and i would gladly be part of your group ^_^
Henry Holt and Company
New York, 1966 and 1987

Seeking

As proof that i'm only repeating what's been said before and that i'm not trying anything new much less try ing to reinvent the wheel.. here are some very nice sites to spend your online time on:

life4seekers

religion&ethics

"there is no new news.. only old news happening to new people - malcolm muggeridge(?)" >;p
well i hope you enjoy those and start to turn those wheels in your head ^_^. keep thinking! spread the light!

Me according to Jung

To outsiders, INTJs may appear to project an aura of "definiteness", of self-confidence. This self-confidence, sometimes mistaken for simple arrogance by the less decisive, is actually of a very specific rather than a general nature; its source lies in the specialized knowledge systems that most INTJs start building at an early age. When it comes to their own areas of expertise -- and INTJs can have several -- they will be able to tell you almost immediately whether or not they can help you, and if so, how. INTJs know what they know, and perhaps still more importantly, they know what they don't know.

INTJs are perfectionists, with a seemingly endless capacity for improving upon anything that takes their interest. What prevents them from becoming chronically bogged down in this pursuit of perfection is the pragmatism so characteristic of the type: INTJs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "Does it work?" to everything from their own research efforts to the prevailing social norms. This in turn produces an unusual independence of mind, freeing the INTJ from the constraints of authority, convention, or sentiment for its own sake.

INTJs are known as the "Systems Builders" of the types, perhaps in part because they possess the unusual trait combination of imagination and reliability. Whatever system an INTJ happens to be working on is for them the equivalent of a moral cause to an INFJ; both perfectionism and disregard for authority may come into play, as INTJs can be unsparing of both themselves and the others on the project. Anyone considered to be "slacking," including superiors, will lose their respect -- and will generally be made aware of this; INTJs have also been known to take it upon themselves to implement critical decisions without consulting their supervisors or co-workers. On the other hand, they do tend to be scrupulous and even-handed about recognizing the individual contributions that have gone into a project, and have a gift for seizing opportunities which others might not even notice.

In the broadest terms, what INTJs "do" tends to be what they "know". Typical INTJ career choices are in the sciences and engineering, but they can be found wherever a combination of intellect and incisiveness are required (e.g., law, some areas of academia). INTJs can rise to management positions when they are willing to invest time in marketing their abilities as well as enhancing them, and (whether for the sake of ambition or the desire for privacy) many also find it useful to learn to simulate some degree of surface conformism in order to mask their inherent unconventionality.

Personal relationships, particularly romantic ones, can be the INTJ's Achilles heel. While they are capable of caring deeply for others (usually a select few), and are willing to spend a great deal of time and effort on a relationship, the knowledge and self-confidence that make them so successful in other areas can suddenly abandon or mislead them in interpersonal situations.

This happens in part because many INTJs do not readily grasp the social rituals; for instance, they tend to have little patience and less understanding of such things as small talk and flirtation (which most types consider half the fun of a relationship). To complicate matters, INTJs are usually extremely private people, and can often be naturally impassive as well, which makes them easy to misread and misunderstand. Perhaps the most fundamental problem, however, is that INTJs really want people to make sense. :-) This sometimes results in a peculiar naivete', paralleling that of many Fs -- only instead of expecting inexhaustible affection and empathy from a romantic relationship, the INTJ will expect inexhaustible reasonability and directness.

Probably the strongest INTJ assets in the interpersonal area are their intuitive abilities and their willingness to "work at" a relationship. Although as Ts they do not always have the kind of natural empathy that many Fs do, the Intuitive function can often act as a good substitute by synthesizing the probable meanings behind such things as tone of voice, turn of phrase, and facial expression. This ability can then be honed and directed by consistent, repeated efforts to understand and support those they care about, and those relationships which ultimately do become established with an INTJ tend to be characterized by their robustness, stability, and good communications.

accurate ba?

wanna take the test?

here it is: http://www.humanmetrics.com/

And you thought we had ethical problems...

o boy, if we as a race don't think things through soon, we may just be in for a lot of trouble in the very near future.. things are HAPPENING in the world and they are HAPPENING FAST..

check the following links and i sincerely hope and pray we all start pondering about it quick to be able to know how to react much less what to do about these things...

The Embryology Bill: What is at stake?

An Ethical Look at Human-Animal Embryos


God bless. and keep thinking, with the intent of finally doing.

Beautiful.... made me scratch my head,too ^_^

In 1880, Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote:

MÁRGARÉT, áre you gríeving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leáves, líke the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Áh! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you wíll weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It ís the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

(Spring and Fall: to a young child)

ok, ok.. here' the backgrounder[so you can have a wee bit of a peek why i put that poem here]:

Couldn’t God have designed a gentler universe?

abeautiful piece of reflection[this jesuit-astronomer.. or astronomer-jesuit is fast becoming a current fave]

i'm lazy but i found some very nice things to read in the net..

here they are, they reflect my thoughts and growth in reason and in faith:

fides quaerens intellectum

is there a contradiction(mystery)?

is there a contradiction(elegance)?

Books

let me share with you the books i've read ever since i came to cebu last october. they were pretty good and most surprised me (why i haven't come across them earlier ^_^)

1. Can man Live Without God? by Ravi Zacharias
2.
3.Rama series
4.Surprised by Truth
5. The Narnian
6. The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancy
7. Mere Christianity
8. Confessions by St. Augustine(current)

the following are books in my wishlist:

a. Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton
b.CS Lewis Books
1. That Hideous Strength
2. Surprised by Joy
3.The Abolition of Man
4.Screwtape Letters
c. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainier Maria Rilke
d. more to follow ^_^

Really Good books i've read lately (most of them were good surprisingly ^_^):
1. Can man Live Without God? by Ravi Zacharias
2. Mere Christianity
both for their lucidity (rare combination ofentertainment and actual food for the mind/soul)

3. The Narnian
amazing autobiiography of CSLewis - good book!! entertaining, well written and full of nuggets, too. gotta buy this.

Something

...Beautiful. Something, to think about and reflect on,pray for....:

‘Sisters and brothers, watch how you live. Your lives may be the only gospel your neighbours will ever read.’
-Bishop Helder Camara (Recife, Brazil)

What does it mean?

It means living in such a way that our lives would not make sense if God did not exist.
- Sacred Space(sacredspace.ie)

Like i said.. Beautiful ^_^

Signs of the Times

hey guys, let's from time to time see how it is in the world to be able to situate ourselves better...
thus from time to time i'll be posting links here that will show some news about what's happening in other parts of OUR world.the text of links i'm putting up will most always reflect the article's title. hope this gets us thinking and hope fully feel responsible enough to do some positive little contribution to spread the light

first to check out: Gordon Brown is wrong

Grace Something

i received the following txt message from one of the more decent persons i know yesterday, here it is verbatim:

"Read this nice story:A man experienced being robbed by thieves.. In his diary, he wrote 'let me be thankful first, because they took my purse and not my life;second although they took my all, it was not much especially my faith; and third, because 8 was I who was robbed, not I who robbed'"

surprisingly, it elicited quite a reaction from me... i guess maybe because i'm trying reflections during this season of lent for the first time.now, we can be forgiven for assuming that the person who was robbed was a Christian. And quite a mature Christian at that, for his reaction to his experience and THAT realization connected with my current favorite quote from GK Chesterton: "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." and somehow THAT set me off to thinking for a bit and set me to reply to my texter with:

"Nice. But you know why[it's been said that] Christianity has been found hard[difficult] and left untried? Because a truly outandout Christian would 'never' be robbed if he was conscious. He would give his brothers[/sisters] everything just to [hopefully]prevent them from sinning against God. Maimagine mo? Hirap 'no? Grabe challenge sa Kristiyano. Ahehe..."

That came out from me! almost unimaginable because my natural reaction to being robbed would be to beat the daylights out of whoever dared do that to me. Which would be the right thing to do, accdg to some circles i go around in. but as my inspiration for this blog states:" Think things through". hopefully i'll always have the courage and honesty to do that^_^. and even more importantly, may i always have the grace to do that and have reflections like these =). Cause honestly, that reply of mine was not 'me'.that was grace speaking. God bless us all in this season of Lent and may we accept the challenge to reflect on what is truly important and what our priorities should be in that regard.

Grace a prayer shared

To be conscious about something is to be aware of it. Dear Lord help me to remember that You gave me life. Thank you for the gift of life. Teach me to slow down, to be still and enjoy the pleasures created for me.
To be aware of the beauty that surrounds me. The marvel of mountains, the calmness of lakes, the fragility of a flower petal. I need to remember that all these things come from you.

Grace Advent

Came upon this:

The season of Advent sometimes seems in danger of being eclipsed by Christmas. A consumer culture teaches us that we should never have to wait, but that anything can be had at any time. Advent goes against the grain with its messages of preparation, attention and waiting, a reminder that now is not everything, an assurance that now is not the only time.

From the celebration of Saint Nicholas on 6 December to 'Little Chistmas' on 6 January, a wealth of customs helps us to train ourselves in these virtues, but some of the practices that have developed - and our habits - can distract us. Advent is a time to be present to ourselves, the better to notice God's presence among us.

Part of our prayer this Advent might be asking for the grace to live with the things that don't balance out as we would like, an acceptance of the blessings that have come our way. The graces of wisdom and insight are evident in the stories of Advent and Christmas. Isaiah, John the Baptist, Joseph, Mary and the Magi all bring their words to us, that we may learn who we are, both here and now, and as people who are called to journey on in hope.

This Advent, be present.

Piaras Jackson SJ
Editor, Sacred Space

you can check out the site here: http://www.sacredspace.ie/latestspace/

so as Fr. Piaras hopefully exhorts.. let us be present during the season of advent[and hopefully appreciate Christmas even more]. Pretty late post,hehe, but better late than never.

Bojol

S6301000, originally uploaded by j3dinikz.

this is a tespost from flicker and a test photo for me, too.. i'll be posting more pics from now on.. ^_^

Overheard

We are long past the point of talking about wether an unbeliever should be punished for being irreverent,it is now thought irreverent,to be a believer.

-r.zacharias

Grace A Prayer Shared

He Giveth More Grace

He giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater,
He sendeth more strength when the labors increase;
To added affliction He addeth His mercy;
To multiplied trials, His multiplied peace.

When we have exhausted our store of endurance,
When our strength has failed ere the day is half done,
When we reach the end of our hoarded resources,
Our Father's full giving is only begun.

Fear not that thy need shall exceed His provision,
Our God ever yearns His resources to share;
Lean hard on the arm everlasting, availing;
The Father both thee and thy load will upbear.

His love has no limit; His grace has no measure.
His pow'r has no boundary known unto men;
For out of His infinite riches in Jesus,
He giveth, and giveth, and giveth again!

Annie Johnson Flint

2Corinthians 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Just Forwarding

If "pregnant with meaning" was meant to describe something the following 3 paragraphs from GK Chesterton' book "Orthodoxy" would be it... enjoy! i'm still chewing on it(the whole book actually) and will likely give a reaction/reflection some time in the near future:

It is only with one aspect of humility that we are here concerned. Humility was largely meant as a restraint upon the arrogance and infinity of the appetite of man. He was always outstripping his mercies with his own newly invented needs. His very power of enjoyment destroyed half his joys. By asking for pleasure, he lost the chief pleasure; for the chief pleasure is surprise. Hence it became evident that if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small. Even the haughty visions, the tall cities, and the toppling pinnacles are the creations of humility. Giants that tread down forests like grass are the creations of humility. Towers that vanish upwards above the loneliest star are the creations of humility. For towers are not
tall unless we look up at them; and giants are not giants unless they are larger than we. All this gigantesque imagination, which is, perhaps, the mightiest of the pleasures of man, is at bottom entirely humble. It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything-- even pride.

But what we suffer from to-day is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert--himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt--the Divine Reason. Huxley preached a humility content to learn from Nature. But the new sceptic is so humble that he doubts if he can even learn. Thus we should be wrong if we had said hastily that there is no humility typical of our time. The truth is that there is a real humility typical of
our time; but it so happens that it is practically a more poisonous humility than the wildest prostrations of the ascetic. The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which might make him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

At any street corner we may meet a man who utters the frantic and blasphemous statement that he may be wrong. Every day one comes across somebody who says that of course his view may not be the right one. Of course his view must be the right one, or it is not his view. We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are in danger of seeing philosophers who doubt the law of gravity as being a mere fancy of their own. Scoffers of old time were too proud to be convinced; but
these are too humble to be convinced. The meek do inherit the earth; but the modern sceptics are too meek even to claim their inheritance . It is exactly this intellectual helplessness which is our second problem.

emphasis above are entirely mine , helps me chew better ^_^

Grace (Faith &Love)

i attended a healing mass tonight. i didn't quite know what to expect but the schedule was the same as a prayer mass i've been meaning to attended since last month so i thought, 'why not?' and wat i brought home with me was the priest's homily.he talked about faith. he said that if we'd only let God be powerful in our lives then he'll be a powerful God to us. if we'd let him be present in our lives, we'll see his love all around us.. then he tied it up with the psalm reading"My faithfullness and love will be with him forever..." it was a nice thought daw that we have a God who is like that.. then he proceeded to ask the congregation, do we really love God? we can think we do but are we faithful ?his words were "ga-gugma man ko, ga- gugma man ko"...." apan matinudanon ka ba?"(you can say you love a thousand times, an can mean it- but are you faithful?). i guess love and faith go handinhand, and if God is love, it explains his faithfulness-- he is also Faithfulness. and guess what?to all of us who believe, that's what we have to imitate/learn/be.

Something

"Honesty is such a lonely word" as the song goes.. but i think the more apt word to that is 'sincerity'. Ergo:"Say what you mean and mean what you say." i think, is probably closer to the mark and more applicable to reality. you see we sometimes are careless with what we say - not always with any intention to be careless or unthinking - but we are unaware sometimes of the way others will take what we say or even of the meaning of the words we use.. we get carried away by our feelings at/of the moment... let me qualify that:" we let our feeling run us without thinking first[and this, i'm sure you agree is NOT an oxymoron:"unthinking feelings"].. so when we are caught up in an intense feeling.. love/hate.. joy/sadness/anger.. we say a lot of things without thinking them through first.. and we end up saying later on.."i didn't mean it that way" or worse, we let the Other discover it on their own that we "didn't mean it,exactly that way". you can imagine how much misunderstanding this begets,people get hurt unnecessarily or rest their hopes on your unmeant/insincere words and get hurt down the road. so i urge you to think things as thouroughly as you can before saying anything or professing to commit to anything, no one can fault you if you say " let me think on that first" in a conversation. you don't have to agree or disagree in the precise moment someone asks you your side in a seemingly yes/no position subject.More so, try not to be careless when dreams are involved. your dreams or other people's. Never be cavalier with other people's hearts and minds, the potential of hurting them greatly in the long run is just too great.and this is where the part of the lyrics of the sunscreen song is coming from.."Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours." And we go back to this "blog"'s theme: think. think things through.. and spread the light( the source being within you and given to you by grace) all around..

Blurt

found this somewhere

"Sometimes you have to pretend not to care no matter how much you really do. Because sometimes, you mean nothing to the one who means everything to you."

Ouch. i kinda know wer that's coming from... problem is I'm not really good at fooling myself. not that i don't do that[fool myself that is].it's just, i do try but with eyes wide open punishing myself doubly so some of my friends say. besides, i can't pretend "not to", cause i really "do". o well, you live... you learn... only wish the next lessons will be a wee bit more pleasant than the ones that've been coming my way for the longest time ^_^

Just Forwarding

Living on the Edge
By Kristin Wallace

There is a billboard on my morning commute that was created by the Ford Motor Company. They wanted to impress the public by displaying a car that sits 30 feet in the air at the top of a billboard. Their ad statement is about “being on the edge“ as the name of this car implies (“The Edge”). Apparently, we need this car to take us on an incredible adventure, where we can experience a daring life of excitement on the edge.

This week as I drove past the billboard, there was a large crow sitting happily on the top of the car. He didn’t care if this car was the latest and greatest, all he knew was that it took up space where he normally liked to perch above the freeway. This was probably not the intent of the Marketing Team at Ford. But leave it to nature to bring us back to reality. It is still just a car. Even with all of the fancy promotion, it cannot really deliver more than just a nice ride somewhere.

If you are looking for real life on the edge it is not found in earthly possessions. All those things that promise excitement, at some point end up dusty and dirty, with a crow sitting on top. Real life and great adventures are found in a relationship with Jesus Christ. He promises your life will be filled with ups and downs, but He will be with you each step of the way. Where else can you find unconditional love, the power of prayer and the hope for eternity? Each day the Lord will be with us on a spiritual journey on the edge.

John 10:10 I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Have a great day! Kristin.

A Prayer Shared

An Act of Abandonment

O my God, I thank you and I praise
you for accomplishing your holy
and all-lovable will without any regard for mine.
With my whole heart,
in spite of my heart,
do I receive this cross I feared so much!

It is the cross of Your choice,
the cross of Your love.
I venerate it;
nor for anything in the world
would I wish that it had not come,
since You willed it.

I keep it with gratitude and with joy,
as I do everything that comes from Your hand;
and I shall strive to carry it without letting it drag,
with all the respect
and all the affection which Your works deserve.

Amen.

By Saint Francis De Sales

Blurt

Sometimes you haven't the foggiest idea what hurting means. and then you hurt. and then you realize you were right. you haven't the foggiest idea what it really means. then you realize you're numb from it already and you're back to being fine. Sort of... 'til the next realization ^_^

Something

In a room draped in blue
I am thinking of you
I am tired, I can't sleep
And for you I will weep

In a flash, you are gone
Yet around me life is calm
I cannot understand
Is this part of the plan?

I get cards with bouquets
But they can't take your place
I have dreams about us
But I always wake up

I can ask all I please
I can beg down on my knees
For a reason, for a sign
But these answers I won't find

And I will weep
Can you hear me?
Can't you tell me why?

I'll go on without you
And what's left for me to do
But to stay where I am
In my world of pretend

And I won't know until I die
If my faith was but a lie
'Til then you'll hear it in my cry
I didn't want to say goodbye to you



-from Bleach-

A Prayer shared

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

— Wendell Berry

Qoute

God is like the sun. you cannot look at it but without it you cannot rightly look at anything else..

Consider

this is taken from a post in my friendster blog which was taken from a book by a jesuit.

For the joy of love, consists not in receiving but in giving; everybody who has ever been in love knows that; it is Lesson Number One in the primer of that fascinating subject.

Love is a giving; therefore a sacrifice; and therefore, it means, very often, denying yourself, going without, making do, for the one you love

Watchoo think?