INJUSTICE!

When dogs no longer eat excrement, then human beings will no longer practice favoritism. 

Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to support many incompetent men; for such is the favoritism and nepotism always prevailing in the purlieus of these establishments, that some incompetent persons are always admitted, to the exclusion of many of the worthy.

Set your spirits FREE!

In life, there's many things that we have to learn to let go. We have to let go of situations, things, memories, people and even ourselves.
It's easy to form an attachment to people and things. When you've formed an attachment to people and things, it can be a very painful experience and feeling when you realized that it's time to let go. Even the mere thought of not having that person or thing in your life just squeezes your heart in pain.
However, there are times where you or that person has changed to the extent that it's necessary to let go of the relationship or friendship, so that each of you can fulfill your life path.
Letting go of your past and memories are also extremely hard. Even though old memories can be tormenting, yet you might hold on to the past and refuse to move forward. However, by refusing to let go of the painful past, it'll serve as a roadblock to love.
Letting go of your old self and the process of letting the new you emerge can be one of the scariest experiences in your life. But by leaving behind your old self and taking a leap of faith into the unknown, it might just reveal what you are truly capable of becoming.

FAMILY: the fame,money, and power never could compete!

The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it.

When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being "better," and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.

Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair.

Every single person has capabilities, abilities and gifts. Living a good life depends on whether those capabilities can be used, abilities expressed and gifts given. If they are, the person will be valued, feel powerful and well-connected to the people around them. And the community around the person will be more powerful because of the contribution the person is making.

Let it RAIN, let it RAIN!

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky. 

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. 

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. 

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. 

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion. 

No person has the right to rain on your dreams. 

One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant. 

Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years. 

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. 

You Give Me Something

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This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Grace means more than gifts. In grace something is transcended, once and for all overcome. Grace happens in spite of something; it happens in spite of separateness and alienation. Grace means that life is once again united with life, self is reconciled with self. Grace means accepting the abandoned one. Grace transforms fate into a meaningful vocation. It transforms guilt to trust and courage. The word grace has something triumphant in it.

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"

A life lived in love will never be dull.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after -- lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live.

Try to discover what lies beneath.

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We need to attach a reason to our emotional states. At the high end of the emotional spectrum, we believe that true joy is an effect rather than a cause. Because of this deep-seated belief, we spend most of our lives chasing whatever we think causes the effect of joy -- it may be a perfect relationship, lots of money, fame, the perfect place to live, even our God. At the low end of the emotional spectrum, the game we play is blame. We blame anything from the food we have just eaten to our partners to the government for the reason that we feel bad.

-Richard Rudd

When we do things we should embody it, never pass the blame to the innocent.

We live in a world of material possessions wherein the treatment of one person to several persons are very competent. We all seek fame,money, and power but we tend to forget the most valuable things in life.

The things which at the end will make us more happy, it's the only thing that is cannot be stolen nor destroyed for it is made of a very strong foundation. A foundation wherein love is linked with faith and courage.When we see signs and visions never steady your focus on the vision and sign only but shift your focus towards the hidden meaning behind that sign and vision, never be afraid to plunge in the world of MYSTERY. For all we know all the things in life are kept as a MYSTERY, a mystery that's needs to be discovered!

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.” -Mother Teresa- When we hear this words, what comes to our mind?Do we practice silence accordingly? Our actions greatly depends on the choices that we have made and to make. I believe that each one of us is gifted by the gift of being silent. For being silent gives us the opportunity to review the things we have done good or bad and also for us to be able to reflect on how to live life to the fullest according to the game plan of God :)

You never seize to amaze me!

After months and months of waiting! The most awaited television series of The CW  Gossip Girl has launched its Season 4 ! It got me like OH-MY-GOSH! I loved it! I knew Chuck Bass will be alive for what's it gonna be for GG if there's no Chuck Bass?! I love you Blair Waldorf you always dazzle me with your glamorous looks and styles, a toast for you for the success of conquering a Prince's heart. You're meant to be a royalty! For you Serena van der woodsen, a big chuckle! Looks like, what goes around comes around! Let's hope for the best, S.  Well for you ,lonely boy, Dan Humphrey good luck with that  baby I hope it truly is yours. Crossing my fingers for Georgina Wilson to come back, as if?! Nathaniel Archibald! Oh you, poor boy! Come here, you can never deny the fact that you still love and will always love S! Beware of stalkers they're currently trending. As for you Vanessa Abhraims, be careful what you do you might regret it! As for the revolving lives of this young elite teenagers "love is worth it"! 

 I hope you too can catch up the SEASON 4 of GOSSIP GIRL! THE LONG AWAITED! :D

VESPERS! :D

Yesterday was a big day for the CHOIR, 4TH YEAR AND GR. 6 students! It was the day that we have all been waiting for, we practiced for hours, days and weeks. for this very sacred and momentous event. I was happy to be a part of it for I am a member of the choir, we were asked to assemble at the chapel by 1 pm so that we could still practice for the VESPERS is still at 4 pm. I was really jumpy for I was afraid to really give my all for I know at one point I might lose my voice but with the guidance of Mary, the mother of Jesus, I was able to surpass the challenges accounted before me. I was grateful for the opportunity given to me being part of this celebration, for your information it has been my 5th time attending the VESPERS. I am proud to say that I have given my all even if we as a whole made mistakes we know deep inside that we all have sacrificed and gave our all just to make this very event extra special!

In accordance to the CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, I was able to experience and see for myself the releasing of 100 DOVES! I was able to see and talk to Sr. Julia,our 3rd Grade C.L.E teacher, I haven't seen her for almost 8 years and she was the one who discovered me in the field of singing. She wanted to find soloists for the song "Mary" and I was pinpointed by my classmates to audition for the part and unbelievably I was chosen and I became a part of the choir by then. It was a blast spending my 8 years serving the Lord by singing! Almost all my batch mates are scared of Sr. Julia for I myself was a testimony to her uniform STRICTNESS but I wasn't really affected by it for I have not experienced at one point being scolded by Sr. Julia. When I saw her I was hysterical, tears wanted to drop from eyes but I stopped it before it could get even worse, I was hysterical for 8 yrs I haven't seen her and from my VERY FIRST years in Assumption she was with me guiding me all along.

Something's change, don't they? I believe that as we grow old things change but there will something be about us to be cherished and remembered forever as for Sr. Julia  even though at this point she has grown older and ill but even if that fact remains I will always remember her by the Sr. Julia I was able to love and idolize, the understanding, caring, and compassionate Sr. Julia! ALL HAIL TO OUR BELOVED ASSUMPTION!

HAPPY 100 YEARS AC ILOILO!

TAIZE'! :))))

This is really a very delayed post but anyway whatever! It's the thought that counts. Haha.

    I've been really excited for Taize' since the day Jessica,my friend, told me that we are going to stay in school for approximately 12 hours to pray and have some activities and what's the most exciting part is that we get to meet new people from  some schools in Iloilo and also other places like Passi. It was a very memorable experience! I had a blast but seriously I felt like drowning and I was a little tipsy for I wasn't really used to staying up late at night and what really killed me to rest myself to sleep was the talk which is sort of boring for I canno't really hear the speaker from my place so I was so sleepy.

We were asked to share our insights and learnings from the talk given by the speakers, I seriously had no clue as to which I was going to say. The funny and ridiculous story about me was that I went to the CR for I had a "nature calling" , and after that I didn't know where I was suppose to go or where my group was so I asked Mr. Guinmapang where my group was and he told me to go the group which I thought was the CRESCENT MOON shape, I was finish sharing my thoughts and insights but suddenly Diane,a classmate of mine, has noticed that my shape was different from the group that I was in. It turns out they were the PYRAMID GROUP.


I feel really stupid at that time for after realizing I was in a different group Diane and Nicholai which were part of the Campus Ministry pulled me out from the group so they were holding me as if I was a prisoner. Diane was holding my right wrist and Nicholai was holding my left wrist. I really felt embarrassed, we went from one group to another but when we were unable to locate my group mates I just stayed with Ariana's group instead. I again shared my insights and learning from the talk. After that we were busy interrogating the Seminarian which was in our group, he's name was Jim. We asked him questions like "do you have a facebook?" and all kinds of stuff which was really funny.


It was 3 am in my watch and I was really sleepy, sleepy in a sense that I was ready to collapse on the ground. From 3 am to 5 am I was super sleepy I had to fight my urge to sleep but I just can't fight the feeling so I napped for awhile just to lessen my sleepiness. After the Taize' I still went to Alice Kanaan's house to pick the things I left last Friday afternoon before going to the Taize', when we arrived we were hungry and sleepy. We ate the food that was still left from our snacks and after sustaining our hunger we directly went to sleep. We slept until 8 am, Aurelia woke us up for her car is already outside waiting for us so I immediately fixed my things and I went with her because we made a deal that she was dropping me off by my house for its just along the way. And when I arrived I immediately collapsed on my bed and I woke at exactly 3:30 in the afternoon, I had a terrible head ache.


It was super duper fun! :) minus the part where I feel like collapsing on the ground. I hope
you had fun too! May this experience be repeated again. SOON! :)

 

One way Jesus! :)

Nothing can make you feel more happier than sharing your talent and serving God. I believe that when you share your blessings, you utilize it. You make use of it by letting others who don't know how to sing or don't sing at all participate and by that you encourage them to become more closer to the God. Serving God is for me the most remarkable task I was able to accomplish for I know that when I serve God I become more close to him and I make contact with him. You may say I'm a very devoted child of God but I tell you this are the least that I can do for him in exchange for the things that He has given me. I know for a fact that in my own little ways I am able to express my deep gratitude for the blessings I receive each time I pray for Him, I always remember that life is not always full of hapiness and that they're also times when things get out of shape and you feel like your whole world's trembling down.

                           At this very moments I always find a way to pray to God and ask for His guidance and wisdom that I may be able to surpass the challenge that I am currently and about to face circumstances. That I may be able to distinguish right from wrong. In sharing my talents to others I don't forget to thank the Lord, creator of all things in which from Him I have seen all great things that made my eyes in awe for wonder and greatness. I thank teh Lord for from Him, I have lived and enjoyed this life! I am proud to say that I am able to share my talents to others plus I am able to serve the Lord! :)) How great can that be?

Everybody needs time to take a break!

All people always seek time for breaks! We all need this break because it is only at this time that we have a chance to reflect on things whether its is in the time when we search for what is true and correct and also at time where we have to clear our minds and escape reality. We escape reality for we know that it hurts, and that it pains us. As we escape reality and focus ourselves on fantasy, we begin to assume things to happen which are bound to be impossible. We do this things for we know that when we do this it'll lessen the pain of reality and at the same time it'll not hurt us. i remember the saying "The Truth shall set you free." , when I hear this words I immediately refocus myself towards reality for I know that even if reality hurts and it'll pain me , it'll give the logic that I' am not doing good so I need to correct my actions but if I stay in fantasy all the thoughts will always be "Don't worry, you're correct. You did it right!" but actually fantasy are supplying us with things that are full of love,care and compassion which is made by the mind only.

HURT MY FRIEND AND I'LL BREAK YOUR LEG!

Whatever happens to my friends, I will always be there to defend them through thick or thin. Whenever I friends get involved in a fight or anything,I will always argue and quarrel over their enemies and I fight for what is true! But if my friend is the one who has fault I will not tolerate their wrong doing because I'm his/her friend I will correct the mistake. If I tolerate the mistake then I'll add up another mistake to the mistake first done.

It was a day to remember and cherish forever! :)

Yesterday and Today was a fairytale! haha. Fairytale in a sense that never did I imagine that for a movie my dad would cry, seeing him cry made me laugh all throughout the whole movie which was "I'll be there" starring Gabby and Kc Concepcion. The story was about a father who left her daughter to find himself, to make his daughter proud but the daughter thought his father really neglected him so she got so furious at him for making broken promises which he never fulfilled but at the end he did which was really heart warming because at the process in which the dad was making up to the obligations he has neglected for being away the daughter was so full of pride and anger that she cannot forgive her dad. Kc was like that because she said she loves deeply and so that's why when she gets hurt she gets hurt deeply, but at the end despite of all the miscommunications they both were able to realize that all they need to do was to ask forgiveness from each other because its just plainly normal that in a relationship there will always be struggles for people to play their different obligations in that particular instances. I knew my dad somehow found a connection between him and Gabby who played the father role in the movie, he told us that he can connect to the father in the movie because we we're like KC in the movie who was all complains,anger, and pride over her father which manipulates her and turns her into this "angry lady". haha. Indeed it was something to remember and cherish! I've learned that sometimes not all obligations will be fulfilled but even though its like that we should keep in mind the value of forgiveness.

If you were put in the situation that I was in, what will you do?

It was never a question of who's the smartest instead it was a question of who has courage to be smart. I really felt insulted in the way that she spoke those words it felt as if it was a thorn wounding  my finger, so it all started here. It was morning, the bell rang and we left the room to move towards the Biology Laboratory while we were walking this girl just suddenly approached me and asked me if I was really the leader of the group and by this sudden question I was deeply insulted. You may say that I'm emotional but seriously if you were in my case what would you do? Would you react the same thing as i did? The reason why I felt insulted was that was she doubting my capability into being  a leader and if she doubts me being the leader then she is also doubting the choice of the whole class because at the first I didn't beg for the position and second  I was chosen by the class. Now I have realized that we just can't avoid people who tend to be jealous, jealous in a sense that they just won't be happy of what we've achieved and that they always want to be the center of attention. Honestly, if you want to be in the center of the scene then you can have it! I'll be happy to give the place to you because all I want is to be happy and by that I don't mean being popular. All I ever wanted was to be a simple person,a person to whom everybody comes when they're in need of counselling.

What I've done?.

Lately, I've realized that in every move I make there won't be any exceptions in making mistakes. It is a given fact that when we make mistakes, we don't normally admit it and we don't usually say that we have done wrong. Our immediate response to the truth will be denial. As a human being, I can say that we are not perfect and what's the point of life when we don't make mistakes? How will we learn? All people have different reasons for being alive, they survive and live because there will always be this mission clinging to them. This mission is the reason why people struggle to survive and live because they can't die without fulfilling their purpose in life. So let us remember that in committing sins we are given second chances which comes in form of FORGIVENESS but let us not make this a reason for making another mistake. Second chances are present for they are there to correct the sin not to add up to it so let us check ourselves.

Not like the movies! :(

I first heard this song over the radio, I was really curious on what was its song title because I thought the song and me had somewhat a connection. What I really liked about the song was its chorus which goes 

Why can’t it be?

Just a pathway full of roses

Leading to a sunset view

With the one you’ve always dreamt of greats

Why can’t it be?

It was like a movie scene, the way I felt for you

Only you didn’t fall, now it’s not like the movies at all

(…not like the movies at all..)

So what da' ya think? Nice? Life is so full of songs to relate to, songs which you can connect your life and experiences to. I shall call this song "the theme song of my life!". Haha. So it ends here. :) BABOSH!

define the word ISOLATION..

When I first discovered that I was to going to be separated from closest best friends it felt like my world was tearing apart, it felt like it was the end of the world. Even though I felt like that I never had the guts to express my feelings, I was still smiling and I know deep inside of me I was pretending because what I really felt was that I was completely and utterly alone! I was really good at hiding things, I maintained a smiling face until the day ended. No one knew that I felt that way, not even my friends! Before I went to bed I was thinking real hard on the statement "maybe, it's meant to be", I prayed that whatever the reason God had for deciding to put me in Catherine was to make me understand further what my mission was here on earth. I've realized that all things happen for a reason and that everybody needs a chance to be with somebody else.