I have been contemplating on writing a book for a very long time. Right when I was 14 when I started a quick feedback of my storytelling skills and had asked my classmates what they thought of the story I made. I didnt know I just started my first feasibilty study.
I read and researched and well didnt really have the main objective to my book yet. But I have a lot of stories to tell. On this day I almost died last year. The miracle of surviving with just stitches and some scars are my only proof of being under a catastrophe and survived. I will detail that in Chapter 10.
Today is my miracle day. I thank God immensely of giving me another life, to breathe through it with a smile and count every day as a blessed day.
As for my book, I will kee you posted 😉
Enlightenment
“Learn to Weep” – Pope Francis
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I was chatting with my best friend and was solicited with advice, Â with me feeling tired and melancholy, it hit home. The story goes, It was her birthday when she paid a visit to University of Sto. Thomas, her alma mater, to witness the visit of Pope Francis in the Philippines. She was moved by the whole experience, just by being there.
There was an encounter between Pope Francis and a child where the child asked why God let bad things happen to innocent children. Quoting his response from the heart came “Only when the heart is able to ask the question and weep can we understand something.”
Whenever something bad happens in our lives we seek advise, people who console us until we feel better or found justification to the mortifying feeling we are experiencing. There are tag replies to, say, a loss of a love one, e.g. ‘We are destined to be gone, its just time is the essence.’ For me, when I had lost my loved one, I cried not because they are gone but because I don’t know how to survive without them. I’ll be lost.
Learn how to weep, cry with your heart for after the tears all will be clear.
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Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt
StandardHmmm, food for thought, quite a chunk. We always get inspirational quotes, motivational speeches and encouraging dialogues that moves us forward for whatever decision we have to make. Accepting a promotion, becoming a parent, getting married, that sort of life altering decision in life.
We need that, aware or not, that is one factor why we go ahead with a decision, when we get told to. I always had qualms, and most of the time my mind is made up but I just can’t go ahead sometimes, specially if it concerns other people’s welfare, I need an accomplice.
In my life, I always had my mentor, Pascale, she’s different from me like night and day, that was the first day I met her. She was my mentor, financial manager, for 10 years and had been the greatest motivator in my life. She never really told me what to do but she makes me ‘say’ what I want to do. She narrows everything down that made me select the best answer like a quiz. For the last 14 months I haven’t seen her yet as we are continents away. She made me believe and she made me who I am. She was and is the friend, adviser, boss, logical judge and french connoisseur, best I ever had. Thankful for the lessons given. The best advise she gave me was, I am great and I should believe I am. There is no better person who could think less or more of you than yourself.
Merci beaucoup Madame! Gros Bisous!
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The Sage?
StandardI told one of my friends that I started blogging and he commented ah, you are turning to Sage? Enlightenment? Interesting and so I followed the lead, it seems that Sages are teachers but they don’t use words, quoting a page from “Sacred Place in Time”, enlightened Sages are silent. It is a very moving description that I was not able to grasp the entirety to it. I may inquire on my friend on what he knows more and keep you guys posted. Here’s the link in case you want to read it: Â http://rahkyt.com/2013/09/09/practical-enlightenment-the-silent-sage/
Midweek and we are 2 days near the weekend. Yehey! To the Middle East people, enjoy your weekend.. They start their weekend on Thursdays, off on Fridays and some companies, Saturday in respect of the day of prayer for the Muslims which is the Friday. Salam!
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