I Take off the MASK!

You don’t always know
You don’t always see
You don’t always have the strength
To accomplish what it is you desire
Even when you want to do what is good
You fail
You can’t help everyone
You can’t even help those whom you love
You are helpless

And all that’s left in you is your will
Your will to will what is good
Your will to do what is right
Even in your weakness
Even in your pain
And in your brokenness

You would have despaired
Were it not for God
Who accepts your offering
Your silent prayer
Your surrender.

God knows our helplessness
And that is why it is when we are weak
That we are really strong
For when we surrender to God,
He grants us His strength.
When we acknowledge our smallness,
He lifts us up.

He takes the bread
And breaks it
And offers it up to the Father,
And then it is blessed
And is multiplied
To feed thousands more.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.
A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
-Isaiah 51:17, WEB

You can’t please everyone. This is simply true. You can’t even please your loved ones all the time. There will come a time when you will have conflicts and frustrations. A time when even if you’ve tried as hard as you could, such would still be insufficient to please those closest to you.

When that time comes, we can take comfort in this – that even if you cannot please everyone, you CAN still continue LOVING them! Because loving people doesn’t depend on whether they’re pleased or not. It depends on our sincerity of heart and in our deeds, of doing what is good for the people we love.

“Love never fails.” – 1 Corinthians 13

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You are the source of other people’s happiness. You just don’t know it yet, but the decisions you make can profoundly affect the lives many.

Who knows the many people who will come to you later on for your friendship? Who could count the people whose lives will be far better because of something you said or taught? Whose days would have been so much brighter had they only seen your smile?

Your struggles are not yours alone. Your happiness and your success are not yours alone. There is so much more that depends right now upon your healing, your perseverance and your victories. Your life can be the flame by which countless others can see the light!

“Love is the light-and in the end, the only light-that can always illuminate a world grown dim and give us the courage needed to keep living and working.” – DEUS CARITAS EST

“A heart that is kindled with LOVE is a light that shines in the darkness. Be not afraid, be a light that shines for the world today!” – Jocelyn Soriano

“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.” – Albert Einstein

A simple life is a truthful life. It is a life that doesn’t need to pretend or to compare oneself with others. When one is simple, one is like a child. One knows what one wants deep down in one’s heart. In simplicity, one doesn’t acquire what one doesn’t need to have; hence one has more time to pursue one’s deepest desires. One can have time to listen to another. One can have the time to extend a helping hand.

May we strive for a simple life, because it is the simple who are truly happy. They are the ones who truly know how to love.

“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.”– Matthew 11:25, NIV

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