Ahuv Sheli

Pananatili by Hangad source:  http://youtu.be/86tDWdP8hKw device: OpenDrive A song based on the Book of Ruth 1, 16-17 * no copyright infringement intended "I was enamored with this song... I made it the rhythm of my 'walk'..." January 2013 was teeming with promises... We set up early morning meetings, worked out on invitations for article submissions, redesigned our website, prepared our financial statements...  Our mind is set on being indexed this year (do pray with us)...  26th of January, one of my Saturdates received the Sacrament of Baptism together with her baby brother... "I must receive this magic of the passing moment as grace..." ~ Henri Boulad, Ch.2 The Depth of the Present. All is Grace: God and the Mystery of Time. (NY:Crossroad Publishing Company), p. 19. I was so happy to see the kids at five in the afternoon. My Saturdate, in a beautiful white dress, was giddy with excitement. We went together with h...

I tossed and turned in bed all night and couldn't bring myself to pray nor sleep knowing that I've displeased someone... Last night, he finally took a moment to tell me that I was offending him by not talking to him...  I've ceased asking him for help because every time I did, he declines... I was filled with remorse but I refused to cry.  Then God led me to my heart's softer spots and told me that... This person made me stronger in a sense... I found my way through life without him... I learned how to do things by myself ~ I became more creative... I   became a better artist because of him... I woke up refreshed in the morning and found my way to the train station when suddenly a guy flared up right infront of me...  I was so piqued I blurted, "You are either a guy or a girl!" I knew that by saying it in English I would've offended him twice...but I immediately caught myself... Were these remnants of last night's confrontation? O...

"I learned this, at least, by experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours... ~  Henry David Thoreau, Walden  Source:  The Writings of  Henry D. Thoreau I looked at my Vision Board... I haven't seen it for a while ~ a very long while...until my friend Linda Lee asked me about it a week ago... While at my brother's house, certain emotions were awakened... My sentiments for having my own family, living in a simple house, having kids were 'again' raised into my consciousness. While praying, as I described who I'd like to be with ~ I asked God for someone who has the same vision as I ~ my niece laughingly told me that I was looking for a partner in Catechesis more than a boyfriend... I have romanticized love relationships ... based on what I've watched... ...what I felt... ...

I spent time at my brother's house this weekend.  It was an early retreat... I had time to relish every moment that I had last December before finally closing my diary for 2012... We continually give thanks to the Lord for all His goodness! Belle's countdown before December 8, her Communion. My grandchild's baptism, December 9. 12-12-12 Celebration at Shangri-La and our journal distribution. Lunch-out with colleagues Endless gift wrapping and gift giving... Belle's first hospital experience, December 18-21. Sophie's visit, December 24. Healthy food for Christmas 2012 Feast of the Holy Family, 30 December.

"Do not let yourself be distracted by the great noises of war, the dramatic descriptions of misery, and the sensational expressions of human cruelty...   The newspapers, movies, and war novels may make you numb, but they do not create in you a true desire for peace..." - Nouwen, Henri, The Path of Peace , Finding My Way Home: Pathways to life and spirit , (Diliman, Quezon City:  Claretian Publications, 2004),80. I was at  St. Paul's Saturday afternoon when I received an invitation to reflect on 'peace.' The reflection grew with several posts I read ~ 'survival stories,' an uproar on justice, war, gruesome crimes, family misunderstandings, passing of a bill I don't support, etc.  It took me to a dream I had in November, it was a short flash but it was enough for me to remember ~ I saw the devil sitting on top of my roof  ~  "it prowls like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour"  (I Peter 5,8 NIV) . It...

December 26, 2009 at 3:02 am, lifted from my 'Memoirs of a Young Traveler' "It's the most wonderful time of the year..." goes one song.  It's the BEST time of the year for me... I remember on one occasion, I was asked by an Egyptian priest to play for the Arabic community in a mini concert sponsored by our bishop. I said okay, even if they told me about it a few minutes before the concert began. It was good that they had the musical sheets readied, I had time to rehearse with them (but I practically had to read the notes from right to left). Anyway, the best part came before we sang our Christmas carols. I was a bit jittery, still studying the notes.  There was this little African boy who looked at me intently. He had those cute innocent eyes. I was anticipating what he might need. I thought maybe he was getting hungry... or maybe he was lost and was looking for his mother. I was thinking a lot of things, when he suddenly took my han...

Kindly visit my Christmas post at  We Have A Story my drawing of the Madonna and Child on chalk between 2009-2010, adapted image "The question is: Is the humanity of our time still waiting for a Savior? ... ...despite its contradictions, worries and tragedies, and perhaps precisely because of them, humanity today seeks a path of renewal, of salvation, it seeks a Savior and awaits, sometimes unconsciously, the coming of the Savior who renews the world and our life, the coming of Christ , the one true Redeemer of man and of the whole of man." ~ Pope Benedict XVI, General Audience, December 20, 2006 source:  Excerpts from Pope Benedict XVI's Spiritual Thoughts Series: "Christmas"