Thank You , Father God , for this thought/epiphany I had while riding a taxi to the office with a ball of bitter and acidic regrets in my guts about my worklife --- that the value, beauty, dignity and nobility in my life and self is the love that God has for me in creating me and redeeming me ….. A ‘Surprise Me, Lord’ moment indeed …
September 09, 2008
Thank You Father God for this thought that came to mind while taking my early morning shower --- that You commanded us to love other people , not necessarily to like them …. ‘liking’ is from the human ego and mind , ‘loving’ is from and is of God.
I realized that although physically , routine and unchanging patters of action is the rule of the day , my mind (mental and emotional) is very active and adventurous, exploring, discovering and discovering new things and ideas and places and ambiences, as well as new such things in my inner landscapes. I’ve virtual-traveled in so many places in Europe …. Just this morning I surfed for the tiny nation of Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino …. It’s wonderful and mind-boggling and I’m responding to these virtual travels with a degree of emotionality that I might have if I’ve been personally brick-and-mortar there…
September 10, 2008
· This thought came into mind this morning while fixing my face preparing to go to the office, and examining the unclear/un-white color of my eyeballs and the red veins ---- that like the William Blake verse (“ To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower …. etc”) , I too, would like to see infinity and forever in reflected in my eyes , the beauty and splendor of God’s creation , nature and the universe , His love for me and mankind reflected in my eyes … And since the eyes are supposed to be the mirror of one’s soul ( mind and heart) , the only way , I suppose that those wonderments could be reflected in my eyes , if those were in my soul , mind and heart … and that could be so if I but follow the advice and admonition in Philippians 8 --- that whatever is lovely, of good report, noble and good , we should keep them in our minds …. And I really would like to be able to do that …. I try to sometimes but I have to be really vigilant and it would take a lot of practice to do that almost unconsciously …. So help me , Father God … thank You ….
· Thank You Father God that all my cholesterol levels indicators are now in the normal ranges from well above the normal , after four blood tests , three-months of medication and two months of proper eating ( no fats, low sodium, low carb, high-fiber, fruits, vegetables and fish and lean chicken meat) . I feel much better inside now , also … that feeling of “parang nauupos na kandila “ inside is now gone …
· Father God , I pray that my target when I reach my five-fifth birthday on October 31 will come to reality --- that I will be able to feel a conclusive and palpable semblance of the kind of person and woman that You have planned me to be … to be that kind of person , finally, before I become a senior citizen …. I also pray that I will be able to retire from this office with enough resources to do the work that will employ the talents to the max , that You have given me , for Your glory and according to Your will , and for my travel dreams to come true. These I ask in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ … Thank You , Father God. Amen.
· Dr. Jackie Freiberg : “Your work is your signature. Make it a masterpiece.”
· Villa d’Este : “ The Villa d'Este is a villa situated at Tivoli, near Rome. Listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, it is a masterpiece of Italian architecture and especially garden design. “
· Grabe … such architectural and gardening marvel ! Another place I have to go to, before I die …. ( Thank you, Wikipedia for the pictures and text …. Just wanted to put them here on my blog , like a collection of favorite things ……)
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This is very interesting …. A mosaic depicting the tragic-comedic theatrical masks found in Villa Adriana , the palatial retreat of Emperor Hadrian built in the second century …. Love the earthy, autumn-y palette …. Reminds me of the Tuscan countryside colours …. As if I’ve been there …. Although ,if I remember right , Villa Adriana is in Tivoli , near Villa d’Este …..
September 11, 2008
· Father God, I’m praying that 9/11 will never happen again …. Let there be peace on earth, among peoples and bless and heal the victims …
· A thought that recurred, again …. That the reason for and the cause of my existence and my being is God’s love … to manifest and express and experience God’s love in my everyday life … in the little quotidian , ordinary , routine things of everyday life, like the presence of the air we breathe, the trees and plants and animals, the food we eat and the water we drink , as naturally as Nature expresses and manifests God’s love …. Jesus Christ came that we may have life …. An abundant life…
· I’m beginning to have this insistent and persistent uncomfortable feeling that this ‘serving the people – government service’ thing , while good, is not the highest gift and the core gift that God has given me and not the mission and work that God wills for me … where I am now, work-wise is not really a ‘comfort zone’ …. More like a ‘pragmatic-practical-obligation zone’ --- which is really quite an uncomfortable and unfulfilling thing…
· Thank You, Father God , for this thought that crossed my mind while taking my early morning shower ….. about the majesty and excellence of God’s mind and character …. If I remember right … before Christ’s Passion was accomplished , His command was to love our neighbor as we love ourselves …. But after His crucifixion and resurrection , His command was to love our neighbor as He has loved His disciples … (….”as I have loved You” …) … The character of a true Leader …… He did first what He commanded His disciples to follow …. Thank You , Lord Jesus Christ, for this awesome realization …. That’s an impossibly tall order for a human like me ….. but with You nothing is impossible ...
Tidbits :
· Before I forget …. The taxi I rode in this morning of September 11, 2008 , to the office was named Jopi with plate number TYX 349 and telephone no 445-0245. I was thinking I will begin to memorize and remember the taxi details , each time , to exercise my memory cells …
· A cute and winsome song/lyrics I heard in the taxi today …. This young guy was singing about missing his girlfriend on Tuesdays, about the rest of the week being OK and Tuesdays sucking …. And I was wondering what could be happening on Tuesdays for him to be pissed about Tuesdays ….. until the last line of the song …. “Kasi ‘coding’ ako pag Tuesday”. For non-Metro Manilans or non-Pinoys -- the guy couldn’t get his car out any time he wanted because his car plate number does not allow him to be on the streets all the time on Tuesdays … A bit of genius and artistry, really, making a song out of a quotidian thing and a piece of urban pest as ‘coding’…
September 15, 2008
· Thank You, Father God for the ‘Surprise Me” moment this morning … Monday morning and left the house at seven am and trying to get a taxi ride to be on time for the useless for me -forced - flag-ceremony attendance …. After scouring the length of commuter-heavy ‘bangketa’ , I finally gave up and went to a lonesome spot near a gasoline station for a another nil chance to get a taxi , I was thinking ‘ Lord, bahala ka na ---I’ve done my best’ ….. when a dark-blue-green van stopped in front of me , door opened and somebody asked if I was from the office “ and I hopped in for the the free ride to the office, got there on time …. Father God, please bless this Mr. Resujo of the same office , for his kindness … I’ll donate the one hundred bucks which I would have paid for the taxi ride which he didn’t accept , to the ‘Love-a-Poor-Parish’ program of Greenbelt parish, in his name … First time this happened in my twenty seven years of going to the office …. This was really a surprise , Lord Father God … and Thank You… more surprises please …. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ ….
September 16, 2008
· Lord Father God , surprise me today joyfully and abundantly….and may I be a pleasant and encouraging surprise Thank You. May I do Your will today.
· Memory cells exercise ---- kahit pang-short term lang ….. the taxi I rode on to the office today is named ‘Jomalyn’ with plate number TXD 526 , phone # 4445168.
· Reading about Hox genes today ….. the more I read about science , the more I am aware of God’s intelligence and creativity and humor … From Wikipedia : ‘The functional equivalence of homeotic proteins can be demonstrated by the fact that a fly can function perfectly well with a chicken homeotic protein in place of its own[1]. This means that, despite having a last common ancestor that lived over 670 million years ago[2], a given homeotic protein in chickens and that in flies are so similar that they can actually take each others place. The reason for this high level of conservation is related to the function of these proteins. Homeotic genes set up the basic regional layout of an organism, so that eyes form on the head and not on the abdomen, and limbs form at the sides and not on the head. Even a single mutation in the DNA of these genes can have drastic effects for the organism and so these genes have changed relatively little over time.” Wonderful …awesome …. fantastic, Father God is ….I remember the Bible verse “ …. For I am fearfully and wonderfully made …”
Came across this topic from reading James Rollins’ ‘Black Order’ …..Thanks, James Rollins ….
September 22, 2008
· Thank You, Father God for this day …. I’m excited about the beautiful and magnificent surprises for today that in Your generosity I receive … Your will be done in my life today ….
· Quick recall to exercise my short term memory cells …. The plate number of the taxi I rode in this morning to the office is NYW 234 with telephone number 2775282 …. There …
· Over the weekend this idea came to me ….. why don’t I form a senior citizen group for which finally this morning I came up with a name --- Ageria --- meaning the absence of the dark side of aging (formerly Antigeria , but let’ s do away with the anti ) ….
· Thank You , Father God for the March 11 ‘God Calling’ reading… Beautiful and splendid piece ….
· Oh well, since we’re still here ….anticipating active –and-true-life-after-retirement-ASAP .. and I’m faced with and assigned to a rank-and-file task that is quite ‘in the clouds’ , on the technological edge as far as this agency is concerned (it’s already so-yesterday in other parts of the realm of human activities,though) , I read somewhere that if you’d like to be on the forefront to the future , you have to be on the uncomfortable, uncertain, but fraught with beautiful possibilities , edge … well, and so ….let’s get edgy …. edgy is not popular ….. edgy is uncomfortable …. edgy is uncertain … but certainly is not boring …..
September 25, 2008
• Whaat?? Nothing to write and say, except that I’m memorizing the Lord’s prayer in French …..getting there …never mind the pronunciation …. Have memorized the German version ….far easier since I’ve had a brush with learning German in high school way back when ….
• Aiming for complete kenosis up to the end of September
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