ABOVE ALL


I was going to blog about the day I spent yesterday with my cousin, Alma, but I think I'm gong to blog that next time. It's quite interesting cause I'm learning a lot on the way of life here. For now, there's something else I need to write about.

Last week, fafa Jay's niece, Sara, sent me a link to a site called the Sacred Space. I've been visiting it first thing in the morning for about a week now. It's a wonderful site for prayer and reflection and it has helped me a lot to start my day right.

Most days, I've been guided by the things I've been reading on this site but well, it does take a lot of assiduousness to keep at it for the whole day. I mean, it hardly ever happens that 24 hours pass that neither one or a couple of these things don't come into play... things like temper, pride, a little bit of selfishness, a little bit of crassness, a whole lot of indignance on the most inconsequential discontents. And then, there are our secret little prejudices, the measures by which we measure, no matter even, that measuring has never been, and should never have been, a business we got ourselves into. Good or bad, people are made of such things and we are just lucky that sometimes we are enabled to do each other a good turn or man would have lost all hope for posterity. I don't know... more and more it just becomes so apparent to me how easily we could self-destruct when left to our own devices.

I believe we cannot go on with a total absence of guidance from something or Someone we can believe in. I don't think we could discount the 'presence' of something 'divine,' at the very least, without claiming to our own bit of arrogance. If this be the case, then we might not be far from waking up with the best intentions, and not be able to do much about them than to sleep on them again when night falls. If this is how we are wont to live our lives, there would be no heroes, no great discoveries, no big leaps for mankind.

But we do have our heroes. And the bottomline is, we do live in a better age. Less innocent perhaps, but more enlightened. Less profound, but more involved.

Have we done all these all by ourselves?

So Sara, thank you so much for the link.

There is one prayer that has grown to mean so much to me, in view of all the plans I've churned up in the past year, and with all the experiences that I am going through now. This, I'd like to share with you all.

Lord, I so wish to prepare well for this time.
I so want to make all of me ready and attentive and available to you.
Please help me to clarify and purify my intentions.
I have so many contradictory desires.
I get preoccupied with things that don't really matter or last.
I know that if I give you my heart,
whatever I do will follow my new heart.

In all that I am today, all that I try to do,
all my encounters, reflections - even the frustrations and failings
and especially in this time of prayer,
in all of this may I place my life in your hands.
Lord, I am yours. Make of me what you will. Amen.