Praying With Passion

"Those who follow you, Lord, will have the light of life."
Is 48:17-19
Mt 11:16-19

The fullness of life that the Lord has given us is real and has to be felt in our own lives. The grace comes with it the passion and exuberance for life. If our life does not exude this light, then we are not living in the light. Let us claim this gift and live it. There is so much light and joy in the good news that there is no other way to live but with passion.♥

Big Confidence In My Confidant

"Teach me your ways, O Lord."
Num 24:2-7, 15-17
Mt 21:23-27

THE TRUTH HAS POWER . . . .
. . . . And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true . . . . written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel the truth resonate within us . . . . vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called ---- re-membered ---- re-cognized ---- as that which is already inside us. 
~ Peter Solomon, The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown ~

There are times we are not sure with ourselves but have to be convinced that if we do the right things with Jesus we can never go wrong. Christ is the source of our confidence.♥ 

Fighting Spirit

"I don't know Who or What put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone ---- or Something ---- and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that therefore, my life in self-surrender, had a goal."

"From that moment, I have known what it means not to look back or to take no thought for tomorrow . . . . I've come to a time and place where I realized that the way leads to a triumph which is a catastrophe and to a catastrophe which is a triumph, that the price for committing one's life would be a reproach, and not only elevation possible to man lies in the depths of humiliation. After that the word courage lost it's meaning, since nothing could be taken from me."♥ 
~ Dag Hammarksjold ~

The In Depth

"The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard." 
~ Charles M. Schulz ~

"In the depths of his conscience man detects a law which he does not impose upon himself, but which holds him to obedience. Always summoning him to love good and avoid evil, the voice of conscience can win necessary speak to his heart more especially. Do this, shun that. For man has in his heart a law written by God. To obey it is the very dignity of man. According to it, he will be judged. Conscience is the most secret core and sanctuary of man. There he is alone with God whose voice echoes in his depths. In a wonderful manner, conscience reveals that law which is fulfilled by love of God and neighbour."  

~ Vatican II ~

Seriously, 'a sense of right and wrong'. ♥  

A Reader

"The highest reward for reading a good book is not what you get from it, but what you become by reading it."♥

"Read aloud to a child and you become a child, listening to the words as you speak. Whom then is really doing the reading? Your mother perhaps, or her father, or his mother. Down, down the generations and over the water and beyond, the words that create and sustain civilization make their way back into the past. The story you tell and the story of your telling it become words spun form sugar ---- or thin air- --- into bridges." 
~ Roger Rosenblatt ~

Luna

Only you can hear my soul 

Moon
How many songs yet resounded
Through the centuries desires 
Winged the heaven to reach you
Harbour for non-writing poets
Who often lose their minds
You hear the sighs of yearning
And give a dream to every soul
Guiding moon, listen to me now

Only you can hear my soul

Moon
You know the secret of eternity
And the narrow path of truth
Lighten my heart
Heart of a man who doesn't know
That love can ease the pain
Like a fire that burns the soul

Moon
You light up the heaven and its immensity
We only see the side you wish to show
Like we ourselves mostly do
Non-flying porcelain angels
Burning paper souls
Hearts falling like leaves
Dreams going up in smoke
Children of the earth and of yourself, who knows

That love can ease the pain
Like a fire that burns the soul
But love is the driving force of our heart
The power that moves and illuminates everything

Only you can hear my soul
The dawning light, my goddess, my oh so silent goddess.♥

~ Luna, Allesandro Safina ~ 

Be An Angel

"Let the clouds rain down the Just One, and the earth bring forth a Saviour."
Is 45:6-8, 18, 21-25
Lk 7:18-23

No one can stop God's righteousness to shine in the world. Despite the grim scenario in the world, there's always goodness and kindness, healing and wholeness, hope and life. Go back and tell everyone what you have seen and heard. There's so much good news to announce!♥

"Still around the corner there may wait A new road or a street gate; And though I oft have passed them by, A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun."
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the Ring. ~ . . . .  but let me add ---- 

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore! Dream! Discover!” 
~ Mark Twain ~

Just Sayin'

Hey Stop, Look, and Listen . . . .

"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things."
~ Epictetus (55-135 A.D.) ~

"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."
~ Plato (427-347 B.C.) ~

"Plato was a bore."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) ~

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
~ Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ~

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."
~ Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) ~


"Hemingway was a jerk."
~ Harold Robbins ~

P.S.
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."♥
~ Maya Angelou (1928-) ~ 

You're Beautiful

Stay Beautiful 
Even if we don’t stay friends 
Stay Beautiful 
Even if we fall apart 
Stay Beautiful 
Because you’re going to be someone in life
Stay Beautiful 
For me or if not for me 
Stay Beautiful
For yourself or for the people you love 
Just Stay Beautiful
Because someday you’re going to find the one 
You really truly love and she’ll be telling you 
To Stay Beautiful too
Stay Beautiful
Because you’re an amazing person and 
That’ll never change and 
Stay Beautiful
Because you’re one and in a million and 
Stay Beautiful
Just to stay the beautiful person
You are today and 
Stay Beautiful
Because that’s who you are 
You’re Beautiful.♥ 


~ Hayley Foster, Stay Beautiful ~

Real Time

As they say : They are all written in the stars. But to create more positive results in your life, replace ‘if only’ with . . . . Don’t put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you’re ever living is in this moment. There’s no next time. It’s now or never.

Everyone faces challenges in life. It’s a matter of how you learn to overcome them and using them to your advantage. Get real.♥ 

Love Unlimited

I've met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason : I'm not expecting anything to come from it. I know that, in three months time, I'll be far away and he'll be just a memory, but I couldn't stand living without love any longer : I had reached my limit ..... Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes directions.

~ Paulo Coelho ~

The greatest relationships are the ones  you never expected to be in. The ones that swept off your feet and challenged every view you've ever had !♥