The Force is with us 2016

What really constitute success? Knowledge, wisdom, good timing, right time right place good connections, grit and endurance, patience, talent, experience, expertise, pure luck or great planning or all of the above. I believed all of the above are good tools in making an undertaking well undertaken. It helps brings out the best in whatever we do. But in life there are no guarantees as to make us success or failure. It's a fickle world filled with illusions or Ecc1.1 Vanity of Vanities. Looking at a perspective of magic, it gives a different take, a different way to look at life. Or from the eyes of a child Mat 19:14. The veils and walls in our eyes are tremendous handicaps. It makes it impossible to know what's beyond our mind's composition. Like our acquired education, experiences, values, our culture and the environment we have embraced Ecc1:16-17. Ecc1:18 Much wisdom is much sorrow and he who stores up knowledge, stores grief. Although I am not trying to be religious or leaning to any structure of belief, a lot of books pertaining to life would just be folly if we admit that through our own efforts we can create life or make it flow according to our will. It's just that there are tons of wisdom emanating from the bible to guide us or that can enlighten us. There is that greatest Will that kind of direct all these which seemed to be as coincidences that occurs quite wonderfully. We thought we did but we are just a part of the greater system that works for a greater good. Our unawareness stems from our own attachment to what we know, to our own knowledge and wisdom. These attributes are in themselves limiting if we have to use it to gauge life. As life, it is life and has its own life coming from Life and we are just witnesses. We are indeed made to enjoy life. But first let us empower ourselves by disempowering our minds. Let us have humility to recognize the great power that is in us. We are a part of the greater complex of an understanding that has come to be labeled according to different mind disciplines. It is the Universe, The Spirit, The God, The Allah. We have to face our own humanity, our own mortality that we are significant insignificants in the fulfillment of a great process occurring each moment. An opportunity to experience life as it is minus our own biases and fears. Minus our own worries and our stressed being. An opportunity to BE without trying to own the world. Less is more; less of ourselves, less of our ego, less of our pride. We are like a vessel that when so full of ourselves, the real thing can never possibly fill us up. We forever condemn ourselves to our own limitations that leads to our own frustrations of failed expectations. To empower ourselves, let us relinquish our worldly pride and personal belief that we can create a truly meaningful life. Mat6:33 would be a great guide. Only God can. He is in us. The Force is in us...We just have to silence our minds and let that The Force rule over us. We have to lay our down defenses for actually our own enemy is our limitations or fears to cross our set of beliefs. Open up the walls and let us get strength from our faith.. This is where we should put our grit and focus, our endurance and patience, our talents and awareness of the moment. Have the moment and enjoy it. It is the only thing that is real. Yesterday is gone tomorrow is nowhere but this very moment is where we are in convergence with the Force. Let's make 2016 a milestone, let us make this our success story to know that the Force is in us.

A lot of times I hear that we should have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I try to understand it as it maybe confusing for how can one mortal have a relationship with God. The relationship is not possible for we are unequal entities. But then as God gave Jesus Christ to be the way the truth and the light, I understood that it can start with obedience in the carry your cross and come and follow my way thing. It is a life leaning, surrendered and centered to Him. Stripping ourselves with our own will to His will is actually our only possible way to be in relationship with Him. It might seem mind boggling but the more we are entwined with our acts and thought on our own the farther we are from Him. God's ways are too way far from the way our thoughts are made especially the influences surrounding us. Isaiah 55:58 For my thoughts are nothing like your thoughts says the Lord.. And my ways are far beyond anything you can imagine For just the heavens are higher than the earth so my ways are higher that your ways and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts.... Love is the key as Jesus said that's is why to forgive is divine. With forgiveness we free ourselves from the entanglement with the negative energy or sin. So that loving one another is the only way for us to grow spiritually to access and achieve the truth and life. The worldly influences has actually veiled, warped, blocked, walled or separated us from achieving Mat 6:33 Seek yeah first the kingdom of God and all His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. Successful materially is not the center but a great deceiver. Jesus is the center. It can be possible though if it will be according to His will and in His time and it is a bliss. In fact it is just a bonus for his purpose and reason not according to ours for by then we work not for ourselves but for the Kingdom. Material success takes a different meaning. We then become a part a co creator with Him as we now have a living relationship with Him being now a real part of the vine as being the branches that bears those fruits that others will partake. Like Comment Share Jason Lee, Manman Legaspi, Thelma Calabio and 26 others like this. Comments Isidric M. Panganiban Isidric M. Panganiban Personal relationship with Jesus means: 1. Knowing Him (That Jesus died on the cross to pay for your sin, so that you don't have to) 2. Welcoming Him to come into your heart (Repentance: change direction; from walking away from Him to walking with Him ...See More Unlike · Reply · 5 · August 17 at 12:17am Aida P. Montajes replied · 1 Reply Bobby Fernandez Bobby Fernandez That is true Ed. Unlike · Reply · 1 · August 17 at 12:56am Matthew John Matthew John God's desire for love from us isn't primarily for His benefit, but for ours. One of His deepest desires is that we know His love, and somehow when we take action to love Him, it's then we discover just how much He loves us. God wants us to love Him, n...See More Unlike · Reply · 1 · August 17 at 1:15am Anna Puno Anna Puno Soooooo enlightening!!! Unlike · Reply · 1 · August 17 at 6:53am Ed Rame

I strongly believe this... I strongly believe this... Philippians 4 Paul Wilbur's photo. Paul Wilbur's photo.

The 150 beads of the rosary represents the 150 chapters of the Book of Psalms. During that period, there are few among the n multitudes can read or have a copy of the bible. So instead the rosary was improvised to embody the thoughts of the Book of Psalms in each chapter to each bead. Charles D'Souza's photo.

I have this about giving...and I have a different experience from someone who thought to be giving and generous...she gives to what she thought was right and loves to give the things that she has. They are stuff she loves and bought at sale prices and she loves rummaging along sale stuff...the I asked myself...was she really giving or it is just giving unto herself wallowing in the thought that she's generous. I think giving should be addressed on the need of the receiver not on what we thought we like to give, it becomes more meaningful. But I love the giving from the Prophet of Gahlil Gibran, he defined giving well.

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September 6 at 10:18am ·
Very nice... and we sometimes never forgive and tough on those who made mistakes on us. We lost respect and condemn others to what we perceive they are through their mistakes but a lot of times the mistake was for us and to open our eyes like a jolt as we are missing a piece to our wholeness...yet we let pride, anger, doubt, fear over rule the better in us....Thus we missed out the enriching process of our life....Thanks Med.


Medardo Panlilio
September 6 at 8:06am ·
THOUGHTS TO PONDER-- Marcel Proust said, "The only true voyage... would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes."And this is true because even t...he strangest land will not look different than how our eyes allow us to see. This does not only apply to places but to things and people. Our own prejudices and stereotyping prevent us from being able to see what are good and loving in others even if these are so freely and brightly meant for us. Our own blindness are sometimes so egregious that we reject the very things and people that bring us life. Instead of thanking them we kill them and hang them to a tree till they die. Unless we are able to transcend and overcome this blindness we keep choosing what kills than what gives life which in the process killing and damning our very selves.In the coming election we are making decisions that impact us and others in a big way. Yes, through a seeming innocuous choice we may starve and kill people which may be our own selves although we think we are saving ourselves. SOMETHING to think about friends.
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It is through Mama Mary whom the Word was made flesh possible and Him to have dwelt amongst us. Catholics honor her for her obedience and simplicity. We honor her of her great role in God's great plans for man's salvation. WE honor her as the mother of our Lord Jesus Christ. And mothers to us have great meanings, some we can understand and some we can't. By faith we hold her dearest in our hearts. Happy Birthday Mama Mary. Thank you for the great love.