I guess life is just like that. We journey in circles. Every single day, we feel like we are spending time on something different but we never really realized that we were on that very same place once. We swore once we would never feel the same way again. We swore to know better. But after some time, here we are again. I...
It's a crazy feeling to be surrounded by people who you couldn't imagine how much fear they can inflict to you even without any effort on their part. It's sad to feel so uneasy within a community you feel so belonged to but in the presence of such people, you instantly feel like your heart is going to jump out of your chest...
Tonight, a random message popped into my inbox. And it was kinda funny even imagine how that person could consider asking me such question. Buuut then again a friend recommended me. I also cannot imagine why my friend would even recommend me. I mean, it's just funny. Then, I suddenly felt a little sad... I started ballet when I was young. Quite young....
I've been to two funerals this week. One of which was a somehow expected death and the other one was sudden. Both were old but not quite. Well, not really. Listening to stories of their loved ones about what truly happened or how the death came made me think so much. Life is just amazing. One day, you have it and then one...
Every waking moment reminds me of certain things I would rather forget. But every waking moment allows me to move further as well. I know my place now. The better part is that I finally knew how to take control of what I feel. Fact: I love you. I cannot figure out how or when I could ever unlove you. I know it's...
A brief moment I spent today To stare at you from a far, nothing to say I looked and try to see How things have been without me A brief moment I smile to know That everything is a smooth flow That you seem fine and well But from that moment I shall not dwell A brief moment I stayed still From afar,...
I cannot unlove you. You are and will always be my one great love. I cannot unlove you. You are and will always be my one great love. ...
There comes a point when two people just stop talking to each other and start growing apart. What hurts is that one of them feels like drowning while the other one stays afloat. </3 There comes a point when two people just stop talking to each other and start growing apart. What hurts is that one of them feels like drowning while the...
Today a lot hurts. And it hurts to know how the hurt could actually hurt you even more. Tired. So tired. Just tired and hurt. The Lord is my refuge and my stronghold. ...
I miss the way we talk to each other. I miss the way you make me laugh. I miss the way you hold my hand. I miss the way you dance your crazy dance. I miss the way you look at me. I miss the way you surprise me. I miss the way you hug me tight. I miss the way you call...
Nobody has the right to judge anybody. I guess we all have our share of brokenness. And we shouldn't blame anyone for it. We made it for ourselves anyway. People come, people go. Nothing is meant to be forever. But it's that certain lingering feeling inside us that hurts even more. It sucks when you are on the process of forgetting yet everything...
“Sometimes you just need to cry and be sad. You need to break down and be torn apart. You need to learn to pick yourself up and put yourself back together. Sometimes, the only way to be happy is to give into sadness first, because without sadness, there is no happiness; you would never learn to smile.” “Sometimes you just need to cry...
Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise; your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning. And so we men, who are a due part of your creation, long to praise you – we also carry our mortality about with us, carry the evidence of our sin and with it the proof that you thwart the proud. You arouse us so that praising you may bring us joy, because you have made us and drawn us to yourself, and our heart is unquiet until it rests in you.
Grant me to know and understand, Lord, which comes first. To call upon you or to praise you? To know you or to call upon you? Must we know you before we can call upon you? Anyone who invokes what is still unknown may be making a mistake. Or should you be invoked first, so that we may then come to know you? But how can people call upon someone in whom they do not yet believe? And how can they believe without a preacher?
But scripture tells us that those who seek the Lord will praise him, for as they seek they find him, and on finding him they will praise him. Let me seek you then, Lord, even while I am calling upon you, and call upon you even as I believe in you; for to us you have indeed been preached. My faith calls upon you, Lord, this faith which is your gift to me, which you have breathed into me through the humanity of your Son and the ministry of your preacher.
How shall I call upon my God, my God and my Lord, when by the very act of calling upon him I would be calling him into myself? Is there any place within me into which my God might come? How should the God who made heaven and earth come into me? Is there any room in me for you, Lord, my God? Even heaven and earth, which you have made and in which you have made me – can even they contain you? Since nothing that exists would exist without you, does it follow that whatever exists does in some way contain you?
But if this is so, how can I, who am one of these existing things, ask you to come into me, when I would not exist at all unless you were already in me? Not yet am I in hell, after all but even if I were, you would be there too; for if I descend into the underworld, you are there. No, my God, I would not exist, I would not be at all, if you were not in me. Or should I say, rather, that I should not exist if I were not in you, from whom are all things, through whom are all things, in whom are all things? Yes, Lord, that is the truth, that is indeed the truth. To what place can I invite you, then, since I am in you? Or where could you come from, in order to come into me? To what place outside heaven and earth could I travel, so that my God could come to me there, the God who said, I fill heaven and earth?
Who will grant it to me to find peace in you? Who will grant me this grace, that you should come into my heart and inebriate it, enabling me to forget the evils that beset me and embrace you, my only good? What are you to me? Have mercy on me, so that I may tell. What indeed am I to you, that you should command me to love you, and grow angry with me if I do not, and threaten me with enormous woes? Is not the failure to love you woe enough in itself?
Alas for me! Through your own merciful dealings with me, O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can hear it. My heart is listening, Lord; open the ears of my heart and say to my soul, I am your salvation. Let me run towards this voice and seize hold of you. Do not hide your face from me: let me die so that I may see it, for not to see it would be death to me indeed.
Excerpted from the Confessions of St. Augustine (Book I, Chapter 1)
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3 things that disappoints me about catholic mass goers
3 things that disappoints me about Catholic mass goers
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