Friday, January 31, 2014

Life Is Unfair

Life is unfair so they say. It is true, only because people can be unfair. Life can be fair if people are fair. If we can only be a little bit more understanding, compassionate and loving, I think life can be fairer.


Lord, grant us the grace to be more understanding, compassionate and loving so that others can say, “life is fair”. Amen.

by aats 

Sunday, January 26, 2014

In The Greater Scheme of Things


I found a song “Pilgrims Theme (Greater Scheme of Things) by the Jesuits Fathers Johnny Go and Manoling Francisco years before and even now it still speaks so much truth on life. Let the following lyrics speaks to you:

Tired of weaving dreams too loose for me to wear
Tired of watching clouds repeat their dance on air
Tired of getting tied to doing what's required
Is life a mere routine in the greater scheme of things?

Through with taking roads someone else designed
Through with chasing stars that soon forget to shine
Through with going through one more day - what's new?
Does my life still mean a thing in the greater scheme of things?

REFRAIN 1:
I think I'll follow the voice that calls within
Dance to the silent song it sings
I hope to find my place
So my life can fall in place
I know in time I'll find my place
In the greater scheme of things

Each must go his way, but how can I decide?
Which path I should take, who will be my guide?
I need some kind of star to lead me somewhere far
To find a higher dream in the greater scheme of things

The road before me bends, I don't know what I'll find
Will I meet a friend or ghosts I left behind?
Should I even be surprised that You're with me in disguise?
For it's Your hand I have seen in the greater scheme of things (REFRAIN 1)

BRIDGE:
For Yours is the voice in my deepest dreams
You are the heart, the very heart
Of the greater scheme of things (REFRAIN 1)

REFRAIN 2:
Why don't we follow the voice that calls within
Dance to the silent song it sings
One day we'll find our place
For all things fall in place
For all things have a place
In the greater scheme of things

There are times in life when we don’t know where we are going, dark nights more frequent and cloudy skies more present. However, history is telling us, that we do still find good in life, enough reason to smile and far more reason to hope. All we need is to listen to the voice within.


Lord, grant us the grace of a listening heart, so we can hear the voice within and dance to the silent song it sings. Amen.

by aats

Friday, January 24, 2014

Can’t Discount The Good


No matter how bad a person may seem, there is always something good in him. You can never discount goodness in a bad persons heart. It is in there lying dormant, waiting to be awaken by someone who is good enough to break the bad spell.

#kd-th 

by aats

The Most Terrible Poverty

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta said, “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”

This is the kind of poverty creeping in the society that is fast becoming so connected electronically, yet fast becoming so disconnected in real human interaction. We hide in the comfort of virtual relationship because it gives us a wall from being hurt, only to find out later on the limited capacity of virtual reality because it cannot compensate real relationship. A person cannot exist being alone; he has to interact if he wants to keep his sanity. We live because we relate with one another and we ceased to exist if we stop. We don’t have to look that far, all we need to do is look at the untamed social media and the effects it has in us.

The increasing news of suicides, shootings and psychological disorders are but symptoms of a society that has failed to value relationship. The accumulation of material wealth has its limitation; it cannot buy happiness. What we need is to practice again going out, talking and relating with real people, in real time and in real environment. Yes, we can get hurt but we can have love too. We have to reach out to those who are alone and unwanted. This is the only way to heal all the uncried tears and unseen wounds.

Lord, wake us up to the value of having real relationship. Amen.

by aats

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Never Been There, Never Done That

We had this joyful exchange of comments in facebook about love and one made comment that I am like saying, “already been there, already done that.” To which I replied, “Never been there, never done that.”

Well it is not necessary to be there and to have done something to know what love is. Experience helps, however even without it, love is love and no amount of experience can make us expert about it. When we love, we know.

by aats 

Sunday, January 19, 2014

He Speaks In Our Language


God is so good that from heaven He came down to earth to make us realize that He can make the journey from heaven to calvary, if that’s the only way for us to feel loved and cared for. In the same manner that in His goodness He speaks to us in the language we can understand so that we will fully know the extent of His desire to embrace us. If we are a drunkard, He will speak in the language of a drunkard in order to save the drunkard.

by aats

Friday, January 17, 2014

Who Is The Ruler?


The 1st reading today from 1 Samuel 8:4-7,10-22 tells the story of how the Israelites were asking Samuel to give them a King to rule over them. They want to be like any other nations who have a central figure especially in times of war. Samuel pointed to them what the King can do for them and they insisted still to have one. Samuel was hesitant because for them there was no other King but God, but God himself said to grant what they asked for.

Who is the ruler of our life? Is it ourselves? Is it our wants and desires? Is it our feelings and emotions? If Christ, who is the source of all that is good, is the ruler of our life then no wants and desires can surpass what we can receive and no feelings and emotions can surpass what joy and fulfillment we can experience. 

Lord Jesus, be the ruler of our life. Amen. 

by aats

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Seeing Someone Pray


Men and women of prayer are inspiring. There beauty glows from within. They emit certain aura of goodness, beauty and truth. We smell in them the sweetness of unexplainable grace. It makes us aspire for greater things. We cannot help but sigh with thanksgiving for such a sight.

Only in prayer can men and women be truly grounded and in due time be courageous to fulfill Gods plan.

Can there be more inspiring than seeing someone pray? A man and a woman of prayer truly inspire.

by aats

Monday, January 13, 2014

The Only Thing That Counts


We can do all the good things we want to do, we can judge some things to be good or not, we may even define someone as godly or not, yet at the end of it all Saint Paul in his letter to the Galatians said, “The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.” Gal 5:6

Our faith should not just be intellect, it should be intellect expressed in love. 

by aats