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?