Lately, I noticed that I've scarcely visited any of my social media sites to connect with friends... I was so engrossed in enhancing our website, taking care of kids and just living in the real world that I've missed out on a lot of things...
A change in my schedules filling in my weekends and my time after work has taken its toll on my health... I've encountered a lot of disappointments in between, desiring so much to reach the heights... My brother shared some really remarkable apps that I could focus my energies on while working on several issues... "These things (success or failure) are not up to you," he lovingly assured me..."and stop being weird ," he added (referring to ...).
I visited the hospital a week ago and while waiting for the doctor, a man in his seventies engaged me in a conversation. We talked about a lot of things ~ from Obama Care to our present government, our country's economy to his illness and healthcare benefits. My attention shifted on him, a very wise old man, and I found joy in doing so...
"Contemplation is not necessarily a matter of thinking of God...
it is a matter of immersing ourselves in the heart of reality...
it is an attitude of mind which does not need either a monastery or a desert to be practised in...
it is the capacity to live out the present fully..."
~ Fr. Henri Boulad, Ch. 2: The Depth of the Present, All is Grace: God and the Mystery of Time,(NY: Crossroad Publishing, 1981), 25.
I thanked God for that moment of encounter.
I reflected that most of the time I felt like I was alone. My sadness, my fears, my sickness, gaffe -these are mine. I thought, how could I share any of these when people have their own lives to live? own sufferings to look at? own crosses to bear?
But once bread is broken and yoke is shared ~ the burdens... our crosses become light because I/we become one with Jesus ... I/become one with the others...
"At times we have to be able to set everything aside and forget it: all our duties and tasks, all our own plans, in order to be able to go to God completely naked, simply to receive..."
~ Fr. Henri Boulad, Ch. 7: All is Grace, All is Grace, God and the Mystery of Time,(NY: Crossroad Publishing, 1981), 124.
me on the keyboards
Source: Song "Pananatili" by Hangad
from the Book of Ruth
device: opendrive.com
... I have experienced true love in His faithfulness...
Have you experienced such love?