Breakfast with my Mom and TinaPA
Every Tuesday nights is our Bible study at our humble yet so blessed home but for some reasons only TinaPA would know, she was only able to muster her energy until dinner. She said goodbye before we could begin our usual light, insightful and happy story book telling like mood. So this morning at breakfast, TinaPA is ok and we talked about a lot of stuff about her family, children and her own journey. I kind of mad at her because I have a strong feeling she was not being honest about last night but my mom said to be patient as I was advising my sister too to do the same in her situation that when logic fails all you have to do is shut up, do not react, be patient and pray for enlightenment for it will come. And to me it did come and as we wind up our breakfast, I brought to the table one of the side lessons last night which is Mat 5:3..The first of the Beatitudes.....Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven...For a good measure we are blessed to have our own morning rigodon of just preparing the breakfast and after that our schedule is at our mercy for we are so wealthy with time. And for a good measure too all of us three suffered severe losses in our lives too, for a start both are widows. Materially, all of us were in one way or time or the other were stripped literally. Now we live simple lives. TinaPA is a doyenne of a pedigreed family with a rich history of a father whose kindness is legendary to the needy in his lifetime... Must not be easy for her really for as protected as she was before..it came to us too that good intentions are not always for the good. Mat 16:22-23.. I now believed God has made us so to become depleted in spirit and wealth so that all that was left to us is our thirst for Him and His words, our thirst for our own gift of deliverance..in our own needy lives, it is only His words that man doesn't live by bread alone Mat 4:4 that became so real and meaningful. So this is it. This is our journey. Our own transformation, our own restoration and His Kingdom come in our lives. From a human perspective of neediness and searching state to a continuously being spirit filled life where we all three believed did happened for a very good reason. And how we all met is one for the storybook of how really everything was planned out by God long before we've met.
