Ahuv Sheli

One of the most difficult tasks  perhaps, is cleaning up one's room. I remember transferring to my brother's in 2014 to give way to my youngest sister who stayed with us for a while. My former room was assigned later on to my teenage niece when my sister got married and settled outside the country. I looked at my closet and I have bags and shoes which I could use until 2025. I have donated a huge amount of good clothes to a temple nearby but my things kept on growing... (me and the Diderot effect ).  I surmised I have given away but I have also doubled what I bought. The priest in an earlier homily challenged us to take a closer look on what we keep and challenged us to a life of interiority vs. superficiality.  It is a life that continuously chooses to 'create' space and give birth to Jesus...a life that seeks the 'needs' rather than the demands of this world... a life that gives rather than keeps. source: National Catholic Regi...

I have decided to keep a Bible diary instead of an online journal for a while. But friends urged me to write and be a voice that can be "heard" now rather than continue pushing off a gift on hand~ in short, to go back to blogging. Know Thyself I felt a part of me crumbled when I trusted people in the outside world. For a year, I struggled with issues on 'privacy' and I decided to delete my FB account. I felt the need to disengage in interacting online ~ to check out these 'beasts' inside that required taming. I succumbed to work and had to give up my Saturday catechism to give way to the extras I accepted on my plate. Overworked, underpaid and extremely tired ~ discouraged that I still have not given ALL of myself to a work I really put my heart into... I begged the Lord to gift me with a 'listening' heart to hear and 'open' eyes  to see that the world around me is groaning with the same sentiments.   And the Lor...