Dance Like a Bamboo

Ave Maria:-)

Kumustamos lovely people? there are good days and then there are GOOD days...there are bad days..and then there supersonic ba-haaad days  ah well..can't win them all can we? But hey, with the Lord even bad days can turn out some good stuff.  I know...., I know ...you don't want to hear the thematic about : " Trials bringing out the good in us...trials purifying and making our faith like gold... sufferings strengthening us...da..da..da..."  but hahaha, there! I already typed it, and I can't help blurting out that IT REALLY IS TRUE. That said.... when we have our stroke of misfortune... when the days starts, gets midway and is about to  end with still no ounce of good luck happening...in fact huhuhu.... everything is going Wrongggg at the speed of light -Duh-HWAT -IS -Happening-Somebody-Tell-meh ... what to do?

 HAY NAKU DON'T REBEL, my friend ...

 Just ask God to help you be like the graceful bamboo... and if you're Filipino..that should be easier for us to imitate..there being lots of bamboos in our homeland - the better to observe how they just gracefully go with the flow of the wind - not breaking... How achingly beautiful.. And we could learn from that image...Bamboos Dancing in the wind.

And what are your complaints today dearest?

That people are already driving you nuts...Noted.

That  the very unpleasant  situation could be getting out-of-hand.... Noted.

That the  support systems are not giving the support you're counting on....Check

 SO IKAW ...you ..me... would be wise to find our strength from within.

To ask Jesus to help us contain our seething emotions and dark , morbid thoughts...and to say with conviction any or all of the following :

"This too shall pass."

" I can learn from this." 

" The Lord can use this situation to mold me into a better person..wiser, stronger in faith and love...."

" We all have our share of hard knocks as well as upswing moments in life... so sport lang tayo." Amen.

How was your day naman?

As usual , I was jolted from forgetfulness or geez may I confess, I really didnot know twas the Feast of Queenship of Mary.

As luck would have it... had the chance to hear mass... again with my husband...thank you Lord..as we never know when we get the next chance to hear mass and recieve His Body and Blood.

Yesterday was also spectacular .... also heard mass with my husband (this is not a regular occurrence  but would love for it to become one  week-day masses together,  I mean)..and then later in the evening recieving a text from my son that he too was at Padre Pio church somewhere in Libis... hehe, my son didnot  go out of his way to hear mass..but his employer did... so ayun... he too got to hear mass.

What is special about that? Oh my... after all the Joyful, Sorrowful , Luminous , Glorious Mysteries of our life... I realize that really the greatest blessing.. the most Awesome, Imperishable gift will still be our salvation in the Lord...and that all possible ways to attain it are priceless - our real treasures in life.

It is not as tho' we did not have any temporal needs ...are you kidding me? haha...I could enumerate 10 major needs before you... even before you take your next breath.... It is not as tho'... there are no troubles.... or no pains...  or no temptations to go into panic or Godzilla mode.... hahaha... there is all of that in the superlative degree..... peks man...  pero somewhere along our walk in life with Jesus.... We stumble into the Stark Reality that it is our life and purpose in Christ... our mission with Him that is important above everything else. and that anything...everything we are bound to do must be in accordance with our purpose in the Lord... Hence whether one be a famous doctor, an OFW Saudi underpaid nanny.. a jeepney driver... the president of the Republic... or someone battling stage 4 cancer... these will only make sense and amount to something when one's life is rooted in Christ. When He is our Firm Foundation... because it only through Him that we can live forever.  for if there would be no eternal life in sight what is the sense of it all, right.?

to hear the gospel and to believe....truly believe.!

It is wonderful.

 It is both crazy and wonderful.

And in the eyes of the world, simpy MAD. Cause by worldly parameters..we must have enough money, we must be  physically fit and strong, we must have the solutions even before the problems happen (now that one's weird - sa Tagalog we call it Praning) ..we must never , never let our rights be bypassed, never be transgressed, never be tresspassed, bypassed..all synonymous words, foolish words to assume foolish rights ( Consider this--when we sin, we unwittingly give up our right to truly live - to live that life in union with GOD--- so for us  to rant and rave about our rights while in the midst of our sins does not equate) ....

 And boy oh boy...if Jesus ever even toyed with the IDEA of His Right as the SON of GOD..then His Crucifixion would not have happened , He could have walked out  of Calvary and left us to our pitiful selves...and there would be no sense for me to blog, nor for you to proceed in goodness and holiness... di ba? 

May our Blessed Mother help us grow in faith , may her Queenship lead us to also keep our vigil... to also stand firm at the foot of the Cross of Jesus....to understand that as our Jesus suffered much so that we might live.... we too will be required to  bear our sufferings - for our family, for friends, for strangers  and even for enemies so that all  may find their way back to Jesus and be saved. 

Dear Mother ... pray for us  , stand with us at the foot of the cross and help us understand..  and like you may we also recieve strength , love and wisdom from our Lord.

God bless you............................................... love and prayers , te mye

"Yet  to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God--" John 1:12