Skip to main content
The day I did everything differently...

I have never believed i could do anything different. I am just an ordinary guy living an ordinary life in an ordinary place. It was ages ago that i did not come to realize the power i have within, with words. Yes, this is not just any other kind of philosophy. Words are life and they shape who am I now. Let me tell you a secret, which is no secret at all. Everybody knows the importance of words and what it do with our lives. Words create worlds, they conjures up images long past and tickle our imaginations forward to the future. It is wonder why my favorite Gospel begins with... In the beginning was the Word and the Word was face to face with God.

Words create worlds. It has been my dream to create worlds, worlds that I can live with amidst the vicissitudes of living. Words are like the all-powerful black hole that swallows everything whole. This is my dream and this is my world. I want to enter into my world by escaping far from it and embracing it at the same time. And you may ask... Is that possible? Fortunately, yes, in my own world, nothing is impossible. I am a creator of world in my own words and i can pretty much live in that state. How far can i go, i asked myself... I reply as long as words are present i am and will always be... Oh! But sadly, at times i am engaged in a serious thought whether or not, i can invite other person like me to live in my word, to live in my world. Maybe, it is another story...Maybe there is that all-powerful, all-embracing word that exist somewhere. And the only way we can encounter such a Word is through revelation. This Word i humbly acknowledge does not come from us. It is above and over us, and yet it embraces us just the same... In the beginning was the Word and the Word was face to face with God. As i am growing up and encounters many a great realization, i became aware that my words, my worlds are of finite quality. Yes, it stretches beyond me but up to a certain point only. My word, my world can only go as far at it can and no more. Oh! How i wish it were possible to go beyond my limits and yet... Hence, before this humble truth I once more acknowledge...In the beginning was the Word... and the Word Became Flesh for love of us all... February 23, 2016

Labels:
Location: Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Eleventh Station Reflection: Jesus is Nailed to the Cross

  The Cross was embraced by you my dear Jesus. You carried it in your arms prayerfully and without any complaint. The nails fastened you to the wood of the cross. By these nails you allowed yourself to be firmly secured to the wood that everyone abhors. The wood of the Cross was horrible enough and the nails have made you physically and symbolically united to all that represents the fallen humanity. The nails were driven to your hands and feet. You hear the deafening pounding sound of the hammer as it pierces your hands and feet.   You feel the excruciating pain it gives and yet like a trusting lamb, you allowed yourself to be led to the slaughter. What an example of charity? What a model of docile obedience? The charity of the passion and docile obedience are landmarks of Franciscan spirituality. St. Francis of Assisi have contemplated such nail-wounds in his body too. He who has been endowed with the five marks of the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ knew too well how it i...
Post a Comment
Read more

THE POWER OF AMEN

                      The barren womb symbolized by the Blessed Mary's Virginity is made fruitful by the FIAT she uttered from the very depths of her obedient and trusting heart.             It was said that after the fall of man and woman (Adam and Eve), God the Father went to his Son and confide the matter and asked what is to be done. After, some time the Son told the Father… YES Father I will go to redeem the world.   This is nothing but a story but it tells something of man’s salvation… Here begins the world’s redemption: The YES of God the Son to the Father. His Eternal AMEN began it all.             The theme for today’s novena is Mary’s Fiat . St. Luke’s account during the annunciation ended with these marvelous words: Ecce ancilla Domini, FIAT mihi secundum Verbum tuum.   Mary responded pos...
Post a Comment
Read more

OPENING UP...

There are so many demands in life as on grows up. It seems that age multiplies exponentially one's concern. We always cherish the times bygone when our sole concern as children was to enjoy playing with our peers. Yet, there were rare moments when one experiences them... When one truly becomes like a child again and leave all the worries of adulthood. I am right now entertaining the thought that growing up is a curse. But the curse I believe is not in aging per se but in our ability to open up that fabled box. This is the box that contains in itself a host of curses as it were. It was said that the primal box was already opened and that we on our part cannot resist opening ours. Pandora's box has been opened and all hell was let loose. It was also said, that there was not one box only. There were actually two. Yes, the first one was opened and the second one was also opened simultaneously. Now the second box contains all the virtues and goodness one may imagine. Th...
Post a Comment
Read more