Ahuv Sheli

It wasn't as dramatic as the encounter of Jesus and the woman at the well... God led me there... Walking with a Broken Heart I found my way in a bookstore...you should see a couple of books I enjoyed browsing (well, at least their titles)... I wish finding a soulmate was just as easy as shaking hands with a stranger... but do we ever need to look for them ourselves? These are familiar names but... hmmm... not yet... not these books... Oh, are they really? Oh, my heart says it's near... How to Mend a Broken Heart sample PDF And there, I found it! ------------------------------------ The book took me side by side with the Old Testament. I thought I could just speedread it, but a good book is definitely worth buying. I realized each day as every Chapter evinced that we are all broken hearted ~ wounded people. It's not just because one is scorned or set free that we experience this. I see a deeper brokenness embedded in eac...

They Met Me In Dreams: First Part I saw familiar faces and heard them droning, looking at me with strange eyes, as I brisked my way to the empty pew. The celebration was about to start but something just didn't fit in the picture... I fail to point what it is...         "No..."                  "Why?" They continued to drill my thoughts and I... I woke up with those queries reverberating on my mind... My missionary friends would often visit me in my dreams especially on my periods of desolation... but they usually came in twos or threes and prayed for me. This time, 2nd of October, they were an assembly and have celebrated the Eucharist with me. It was the Feast of the Guardian Angels... exactly two months after Our Lady of the Angels of Porziuncola. Was God preempting what was to come? He Met Me At Noon: Second Part "Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempt...

For a bit of a time now, I've been very silent about my journey. My intimate friends wouldn't want to touch this area of my life for fear, perhaps, that I may break down to tears again after I've settled my mind on defying gravity. But the truth is... I still pine for that day that Sam will come back... perhaps, not anymore having the same relationship as I had with him for two years. Only this longing that he'd close this chapter in my life---maybe it's even very demanding to ask that I see him...  My mom and my wise friends would tell me that it was God's way of showing me that things will not work out well in a long distance "online" relationship.  It's just that nobody knows except God how I've emerged as a better person because of Sam. I know how we've been transformed from selfish self centered beings to generous people.  I propose that I talk about the love that I had with him not to generat...

Welcome to the Art of Sharing A blogfest of "Nostalgic Moments" from 7 September to 24 September 2011 Nostalgic Moments Blogfest Invitation of Sneha Kedar It was one of the best romantic films of the 90s... and it always brings me back to that time when I started life outside college... No more.... classroom walls...  Clinical Instructors to guide us... lunch outs...  staying up late for Case Reports... Life has always been home...school...hospital duties...church... I was thrilled of the life ahead of me... my nurse lamp Then one fine day,  He  came to me and asked me if I wanted an adventure... Jack : "Come on, just give me your hand." Rose : "You're crazy." I just graduated... Jack : "Whew! I'm Jack Dawson." He completely swept me off my feet... God,  I was so in love ... and for ten years, we held on to each other...   through thick and thin... He took me everywhere....

Yesterday was mine...  Today is yours...            Thanks  to our genius  Josh   at  Its Tiger Time for our You Tube Tuesdays!  ------------------ I was looking at my tapestry today... a year has passed since I last wrote and plotted on it.  It was in 2006 that I started its use under the guidance of a Claretian missionary.  One of the features I added was lovelife... As I went through my thirty-five years of existence here on earth, I cannot help but be grateful  for all the things that happened in my life... and for all the people who wove their own stories and added colors to my tapestry... ------------------- I remember how I started building my dreams... on sand... ... missions... youth formation... a loving husband... twins... a haven for children... nursing home... a team of caregivers... home abroad... ...

I raced to my seat early Wednesday morning last week.  As I silently opened my netbook, my nurse colleague  took one look at me and began grazing my back... I wasn't sure what it was she smoothed but what began as a sob almost immediately turned into a yowl...  I knew something inside must be hurting deeply... a slight touch becomes a prick... and easily reduces me into tears... me in the swing What sensitized my nerves to react this  way the whole September? Was it the famous question of 'efficiency' at work? ... a promise I've been waiting for a long time that was broken? (Epiphany: Sam's promise that he'll visit me in my country September 2011) ... attention I sought and didn't get? ... an unanswered prayer? I looked into life with so many rules that stifled my growth... A growing list of screw tapes and disturbing 'have tos' and 'must dos' knocked me down...   I grew wea...

*Disclaimer: All images lifted from Google. No copyright infringement intended.  I don't know who you are... or if we have even met? I just know that you are here... I could feel you ... closer to me more than I could ever imagine...  ---------------------- Sulekha Rawat's Collage of Soul Mate articles invite... http://sulekkha.blogspot.com/2011/09/lets-make-collage-of-articles.html While it holds true that we usually equate our "soul mates" to its romantic angle, it's also good to look at its other dimensions... I believe that we all have... Twin flames... born of the same desires and passions...   St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross Twin souls... even at the beginning of time...   St. Scholastica and St. Benedict ...mystical...   St. Francis de Sales and St. Frances de Chantal ...spiritual... St. Clare and St. Francis of Assisi "It is lovely to be able to love on earth as one...