the flower of the virgin mary is the rose...for the feast of the assumption of the virgin mary every august 15th, here are pink roses from my garden one fine summer... art is by rubens, circa 1626, beautiful...
Expect...more than others think is possible!
Care... more than others think is wise!...
"To be kind is more important than to be right ...Many times what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens." ...both quotes are by anonymous...
not so strange after all...
strange things happen in life
but we know where we're going.
back to where we came from,
to dust that is flying,
that's the physical
but our spirits won't linger. it goes
up and above in the skies
with our Father in heaven.
some may think that we are sinners.
unlike the virgin mary who is pure
and without blemish and clean,
all of us at some point had fallen.
life is so strange a mystery a few may say.
that's not true for life is already
defined, debugged and solved like a puzzle,
and that is life equals death at the end...
the holy virgin mary lived and like all of those who lived before us, all died, as we will all die someday... sad if you think about it. so the more to cherish, the more to enjoy life as it is in any state, sad or happy...and the more not to take life for granted...
humans please their God in unimaginable ways since the very beginning of time, sacrificing lives to their perceived deities. modern homo sapiens search for the best of things to commemorate their love and adoration to God even carving God's image made from body parts of animals that God has created Himself to give Him the best. such actions are again condemned by others as same others persecute their co-humans on how they show or practice their faith or religion just to earn a buck. i know to each is her or his own. some people think beyond what other's can't. we are all sinners. we stumble but we learn how to get up and ask forgiveness. because you know why we fall from God's grace? we are just humans not a God who in infallible, omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. we are not God who is everything or all in one. so there you go. we criticize, we judge others, we think lowly of them...some of us but not all of us. i think we need to pause and start to think of our own lives as a start because how we may perceive ourselves is the opposite on how others may perceive us which is sad to say is typical nowadays. we think highly of ourselves but others do not put us in that pedestal of golden laurels which we wrongly imagine ourselves to be. although we can't control others, we can control ourselves. so as long as in our own perception, God knows that we are good then i think we are good to go, safe and in the right track for other's really do not know us for sure. they have misconceptions of who we are, but that's how life goes sometimes...
and why do we love Jesus, His mother and His company?
we won't be able to see the light of day, the miracles of life
we won't be able to think, to be passionate of what everyone of us does
we won't be able to see other worlds, other cultures, other lands
we won't be able to sing, to live, to write poems, to love
and to have our loving relatives and family around us
we are able to smile because of Him
we are able to live in the country of our dreams
we are able to breath fresh air, enjoy the view
walk by the beach, be dazzled by the mountains and the trees
but most of all we can be whatever we want
if only we believe in the power of God...
for everything is possible with Him. every dreams will come to reality if we put our faith in Him and i don't have to look further for my life is a testament to that belief. i am living the life that i've imagined. it is not all a bed of roses all the time. it has its ups and downs but at the end of the day i always come to the conclusion that i have it good, i am blessed, i am very lucky. all the stars lined up for me when i needed them most. yes, i feel guilty at times but given the chance i will make other lives like mine... now at this moment, not a lot that i'd helped in my book but it is my goal to change that into more, only it takes a little longer. in the meantime my profession of helping people will suffice for now, my job is a dedication to humanity, that i'm very proud of. thanks to God and my benefactor :) i know when we're young and inexperienced with life, we do stupid things but not to worry for as we grow older wisdom will come in handy. we become less critical of others, we learn to accept things that we can not change. we are more in tune to the world by then... same as fruits when they mature they are sweeter to eat and more tastier to our very discriminating palates...(^&*)...
