Quotes Worry Or Faith 12:03 PM There isn't enough room in your mind for both worry and faith. You must decide which one will live there. Hey, did you find this post helpful or entertaining? Please go ahead and share. Share buttons on the left and at the bottom of the article. Big thanks! Subscribe to About Life And Love by Email
Faith A Poem About Waiting 1:07 AM And though oft My answers seem terribly late, My most precious answer of all is still...Wait. This poem was written by Russell Kelfer intended for a woman wanting to have a baby. But if you've been waiting, asking and hoping for something or someone, this poem will also speak to you. A Poem About Waiting Wait Russell Kelfer Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried; Quietly, patiently, lovingly, God replied. I plead and I wept for a clue to my fate . . . And the Master so gently said, "Wait." "Wait? you say wait?" my indignant reply. "Lord, I need answers, I need to know why! Is your hand shortened? Or have you not heard? By faith I have asked, and I'm claiming your Word. "My future and all to which I relate Hangs in the balance, and you tell me to wait? I'm needing a 'yes', a go-ahead sign, Or even a 'no' to which I can resign. "You promised, dear Lord, that if we believe, We need but to ask, and we shall receive. And Lord I've been asking, and this is my cry: I'm weary of asking! I need a reply." Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate, As my Master replied again, "Wait." So I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut, And grumbled to God, "So, I'm waiting for what?" He seemed then to kneel, and His eyes met with mine . . . and He tenderly said, "I could give you a sign. I could shake the heavens and darken the sun. I could raise the dead and cause mountains to run. "I could give all you seek and pleased you would be.You'd have what you want, but you wouldn't know Me.You'd not know the depth of my love for each saint.You'd not know the power that I give to the faint. "You'd not learn to see through clouds of despair; You'd not learn to trust just by knowing I'm there. You'd not know the joy of resting in Me When darkness and silence are all you can see. "You'd never experience the fullness of love When the peace of My spirit descends like a dove. You would know that I give, and I save, for a start, But you'd not know the depth of the beat of My heart. "The glow of my comfort late into the night, The faith that I give when you walk without sight. The depth that's beyond getting just what you ask From an infinite God who makes what you have last. "You'd never know, should your pain quickly flee,What it means that My grace is sufficient for thee. Yes, your dearest dreams overnight would come true, But, oh, the loss, if you missed what I'm doing in you. "So, be silent, my child, and in time you will see That the greatest of gifts is to truly know Me. And though oft My answers seem terribly late, My most precious answer of all is still . . . Wait." Hey, did you find this post helpful or entertaining? Please go ahead and share. Share buttons on the left and at the bottom of the article. Big thanks! Subscribe to About Life And Love by Email
Quotes Just Because You Miss Someone Doesn't Mean You Need Them Back 10:16 AM Just because you miss someone doesn't mean you need them back in your life. Missing is just a part of moving on. Hey, did you find this post helpful or entertaining? Please go ahead and share. Share buttons on the left and at the bottom of the article. Big thanks! Subscribe to About Life And Love by Email
Faith The 7 Fruits of Suffering 9:06 AM Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways. -Proverbs 20:30 The Seven Fruits of Suffering shared by Bo Sanchez on yesterday's Talk 2: Why Am I Suffering? From the series Your Toughest Questions Answered. The Seven Fruits of Suffering 1. Hunger. "The enemy of great success is small success." Success causes you to slow down, demotivate you and makes you content. You will no longer aim for a better life if you're comfortable living your good life. Suffering makes you hungry again, motivates you and propels you to greater success. 2. Harvest. When we suffer, we must pull away or walk away from our "bullies"; toxic people, stressful career, self-inflicted problems or bad habits or addictions that are affecting our lives so we can have a momentum. The greater the hunger, the greater the harvest. 3. Humility. There are two teachers in life---Teacher Trial and Teacher Triumph. Both are great teachers but Teacher Trial is more effective. When you suffer from trials you become teachable. Triumph makes you proud and so you're not open to what life teaches you. You learn more when you suffer because you're humble enough to accept the lessons that life presents. 4. Hardiness. You become more enduring and tougher when you suffer. There's a direct connection between the size of your comfort zone and the size of your success. The bigger your comfort zone the more successful you are, because you'll stretch out more to make your comfort zone wider. 5. Healing. You get wounds when you suffer, and these wounds turn into scars in time. Your scars can inspire others who are in the same situation that you used to be in. You become a wounded healer. 6. Holiness. There are times when there's nothing left for you to do but pray, even when you don't feel like praying. Personally, I'm glad we Catholics have memorized prayers. It came to a point when I don't know what to pray for anymore. I was all prayed up, I said. That's when I learned to appreciate the power of memorized prayers. It's an instant relief when you don't know what to do anymore. Suffering pushes you to converse more often with God. 7. Heaven. In all your sufferings on earth, you'll realize that your real happiness will only be in heaven. "Tough times don't last but tough people do." You will outlive all your problems. God is not a sadistic selfish God who sits on His throne and takes delight when He sees His people suffer. Our faith tells us that everything is part of His divine plan. All things are intended for our good. Let's focus on the prize and not on the obstacles. We all suffered (or are still suffering) at some point. The important thing to remember is not why we suffer but what we get after we suffer; what the fruit of our suffering will be. The big message: The greater the pull back, the greater the come back. If life is pulling you back and you feel like time is standing still, nothing is happening and your suffering seems endless, it just means that life is preparing you for a great come back. If God brought us to it, He will bring us through it. Hey, did you find this post helpful or entertaining? Please go ahead and share. Share buttons on the left and at the bottom of the article. Big thanks! Subscribe to About Life And Love by Email
Music Music: Let Her Go (Passenger) 5:52 AM Let Her Go Passenger Well you only need the light when it's burning low Only miss the sun when it starts to snow Only know you love her when you let her go Only know you've been high when you're feeling low Only hate the road when you're missing home Only know you love her when you let her go And you let her go Staring at the bottom of your glass Hoping one day you'll make a dream last But dreams come slow and they go so fast You see her when you close your eyes Maybe one day you'll understand why Everything you touch surely dies But you only need the light when it's burning low Only miss the sun when it starts to snow Only know you love her when you let her go Only know you've been high when you're feeling low Only hate the road when you're missing home Only know you love her when you let her go Staring at the ceiling in the dark Same old empty feeling in your heart 'Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast Well you see her when you fall asleep But never to touch and never to keep 'Cause you loved her too much and you dive too deep Well you only need the light when it's burning low Only miss the sun when it starts to snow Only know you love her when you let her go Only know you've been high when you're feeling low Only hate the road when you're missing home Only know you love her when you let her go And you let her go Oh oh oh no And you let her go Oh oh oh no Well you let her go 'Cause you only need the light when it's burning low Only miss the sun when it starts to snow Only know you love her when you let her go Only know you've been high when you're feeling low Only hate the road when you're missing home Only know you love her when you let her go 'Cause you only need the light when it's burning low Only miss the sun when it starts to snow Only know you love her when you let her go Only know you've been high when you're feeling low Only hate the road when you're missing home Only know you love her when you let her go And you let her go Hey, did you find this post helpful or entertaining? Please go ahead and share. Share buttons on the left and at the bottom of the article. Big thanks! Subscribe to About Life And Love by Email
Quotes If You Are The Other Woman 11:14 AM If you're the other woman just remember: the way you got him is the way you are going to lose him. Hey, did you find this post helpful or entertaining? Please go ahead and share. Share buttons on the left and at the bottom of the article. Big thanks! Subscribe to About Life And Love by Email
Quotes One Day 7:16 PM One day, someone will walk into your life and make you see why it never worked out with anyone else. Hey, did you find this post helpful or entertaining? Please go ahead and share. Share buttons on the left and at the bottom of the article. Big thanks! Subscribe to About Life And Love by Email
Quotes Let Your Light Shine 2:23 PM Let Your Light Shine! Hey, did you find this post helpful or entertaining? Please go ahead and share. Share buttons on the left and at the bottom of the article. Big thanks! Subscribe to About Life And Love by Email
Faith I'm Singing In The Rain 11:14 PM You can sing "Rainy days and Mondays always get me down" or "I'm singing in the rain". I was complaining about the rain this morning when I realized there's so much to thank for. The glass is not only half empty. It's also half full. I love the tapping sound of rain on the rooftop. I love it that due to this rain, the temperature in our country dropped. For a change. I love that the other day I got stranded inside a bookstore and ended up buying a great book. I love how the sound of the rain calms me down. Two words: Bed weather. These simple things remind me of the great blessings I have. That I have roof over my head, that I can sleep better, that I'd get to read another chick lit with the sound of rain in the background. You can sulk or you can sing. As for me, I'm singing in the rain. Dancing too. Hey, did you find this post helpful or entertaining? Please go ahead and share. Share buttons on the left and at the bottom of the article. Big thanks! Subscribe to About Life And Love by Email
Lux Thinking Aloud I Thank God For My Childhood 1:17 PM I Thank God For My Childhood Childhood. I have been thinking a lot about my childhood lately. I think it’s one of the inevitable signs of aging or part of the mid-life crisis. No matter, I thank God for my childhood. Throw-back Thursday, Flashback Fridays and the You-have-an-awesome-childhood-if-you-know-this posts I see in my newsfeed every day don't help. I miss the innocence of childhood, the curiosity that comes with childhood, childhood’s insatiable thirst for knowledge, the simplicity of life when you were a child. Ah, but we have to grow up, to grow old, to be boring adults. Most of us wish we could go back to our childhood when our only stumble blocks were our bully siblings or classmates, terrifying teachers, doing the chores and in my case, dizzying Math equations. Childhood for me means playing with my Barbie dolls and jackstones. Childhood means eating gigantic bars of chocolates my father would always bring home. My childhood was about watching children’s shows on T.V. or Disney movies. It was doing household chores reluctantly and eating veggies forcibly. The last two are tortures. Childhood means fear of crossing the streets. Childhood means being terrified when there’s a stranger at the gate and no one else is home. Oh, the fear! Childhood is when I thought the scrape on my knee was the most traumatizing thing I would ever face and a high fever would end my life. Childhood is when losing a pet is the only heartbreak I’d have to deal with. I missed out a lot during my childhood. My mother never allowed me to join the other children for Christmas carols or even attend the daily offering during Flores de Mayo in our village chapel. I was forbidden to play Chinese garter (apparently I was too fragile), I was never allowed to play with other children except for my siblings, cousins, and a very few childhood friends. I was never encouraged to try any kind of sports. These made me an introvert, and I now love being one. I’m not a loner. I just prefer smaller crowds, intimate gatherings and I enjoy my Me-time so much. Silence is my charger. Serenity is my booster. Our childhood is amazing. Whether we have had a happy childhood or not, it made us who we are today. I agree with Bo Sanchez. Our past does not define our future. However, it sure does affect our present in more ways than one. I may have suffered a lot during my childhood (middle child syndrome), but I believe that those exaggerated sufferings in my memory were nothing but a preparation for what I had and still might face in the real world. There were ups and downs in my childhood. There were heartbreaks (broken friendships, betrayals, rejections, death).Failures (Math!!!).Fears (frogs, crossing the street, the fear of being kidnapped---blame it on the media).Hardships (chores!).But, there were quick beach getaways too, new toys, ample supply of sweets, pretzels and cheese balls, games, the fun of dancing, and a lot more. Whenever I see children begging for food or working hard at an early age, I would pause and thank God for my childhood. Priceless childhood memories: 1. Dancing to any kind of music with my sibs and cousins. I have a picture of me and my cousin dancing in matching costumes in the living room. 2. Birthday parties. (Minus the games) 3. Going home to a fridge full of Mars Bars, Toblerone (all flavors), Twix, Baby Ruth, Butterfinger, Hershey's, M&M’s, Snickers, and boxes of Pretzels, Cheese Balls and other junk foods. I think I’ve had enough of junk food that I now prefer munching on healthy stuff. 4. Disney movies. 5. Playing with my Barbies. 6. Eating Milo and Nido powder 7. Message relay. It’s the only parlor game I was good at. I was a klutz. 8. Eating dirty ice cream, ice scramble, or fish balls after school. 9. Watching Cedie, Ang Munting Prinsipe---my all time favorite show in the morning. I even faked a fever once so I won’t miss an episode. I was that hooked. 10. Coloring books 11. Watching Jackie Chan movies, Voltes V (my cousin’s favorite shows), or Dragon Ball Z every afternoon. 12. Lining up with my cousins to kiss my uncle and get a penny in return. 13. Playing Duck Hunt and Super Mario on Nintendo. Yep, Nintendo. 14. Watching the much-anticipated Magandang Gabi Bayan on Halloween 15. Curly hair with bangs! 16. Playing pretend. 17. Climbing trees. 18. Eating Santol until my lips turn white. 19. Chasing chickens and running like crazy when they chase me back. 20. Running around with our dogs 21. Scribbling random names on paper. 22. Drawing stick figures or huge houses with a garden, a dog, and a cat, with the sun at the upper right corner of the paper and birds that were shaped like the letter M of McDonald's. 23. Eating the nectar of Santan. 24. Blowing bubbles. 25. An afternoon chat with my late Lola and drinking more than half of her Coke in a beer mug which, late have I realized was mixed with a bottle of beer. She got me started drinking and I had no idea. No wonder it tasted funny and she’s always giggling every time I gulp it down. Bottoms up! I thank God for my childhood. How about you? What's your favorite childhood memory?
