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Neverland

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part 1 One of the constant dramas I've had over the past years has something to do with relationships. I wonder if this constant push and pulls inside me would ever cease.   ------ I have just updated my vision board when Linda Lee asked me about it... Flashing back, she once asked me about the role models I have in life and I started enumerating the names of different saints. She beamed over the status I dreamt for myself and suggested that I start shifting my gears towards that mode...  ------- There is inside me that wishes to stay on a spiritual level ~ one of my animators told me that I do reflect a lot but have to be careful in overanalyzing and feeding my ego.  It's the 'me' that says that God and the ' children ' come first.      The other side wishes to forget God's call and just go with the flow of human nature. Reaching to that furthest end of temptation to commit something for the heck of it.  Reaching

16th of July

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I was in a journal writing/ dream interpretation course with some young friends  when I met her...  I couldn't remember what I shared in there but she stirred a memory in each one of us in her experience... -------------------------- July 16, 1990, 4: 26 pm I was with my friend Hazel in the library and just as we were descending the stairs, earthquake shook our country that day. Hazel was able to get down to the groundfloor while I retreated back to the library where we were gathered by our librarian in prayer. It took several minutes and when everything quieted down, we all went down together. I went home where my family awaited me. --------------------------- She was attending a conference in one of Baguio's finest hotels... It toppled down and left her under the debris... ...where she stayed for three days... She was among those who survived... her other colleagues perished in that incident... ...and the eternal question, "Why me

ţlīthā qūm

  ţlīthā qūm Mark 5, 41 NIV I wonder how He said it... Was it similar to a song?... a soft whisper...  la Sua voce serena... tranquilla... 'Nowadays, we couldn't distinguish whether one is angry or affectionate ~ the tone with which we say things are the same...' preached the priest last Sunday. ...He  saw her, he called her forward and said to her,  “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.”  Luke 13, 12 NIV There's something in This man... His look... His gaze... His eyes... mi penetra... nel profondo... fino all'anima mia... "He reached out His hand and touched the man. " Matthew 8, 3 NIV ...gently... senza timore... ------- I remember a story recounted by one Peruvian missionary nurse I worked with in North Africa. She was assigned to prepare a teenager for his first communion. He not only looked younger but he was quite smaller than his age. He was all curled up because of an unknown disease. His whole body