What do you do when you’re about to give up? You raise your hands in surrender to the God who will never give up on you. 🙂
Author: Jocelyn Soriano
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There is morning, and there is evening
There is morning and there is evening,
yet there is only time;
there is toil and there is rest,
yet there is only life
there is sorrow and there is happiness,
yet there is only beauty;
there is pain and there is laughter
yet there is only peace
there is body and there is spirit
yet there is only man
there is holding on and there is letting go
yet there is only lovewhat seasons come
and what seasons go
shall we take one and not the other
or shall we know both
and shall we know them true
to know that there is but one good
that makes up everything
God has created
Tell me now my friend, how many times have we deserted the more important things because we were not willing to embrace the crosses that comes along with our glory? How many times have we preferred to abandon life because of its sorrows, love because of its pains. It is no womder then that we often find ourselves left with nothing, without joy, without peace, and without the beauty that comes along with the pureness of our tears.
In the past I knew only what others had told me, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.- Job 42:5 TEV
You can’t run away from your shadow. You can’t avoid it and live as though it wasn’t there. You have to face it courageously and see clearly how dark and big and ugly it is. You have to accept it’s there. All these so you’d know what efforts and prayers, what struggles and sacrifices you ought to make to conquer it, lest you fall all of a sudden, brought down shocked and unaware of the monster that lay hidden all these years.
“Lift up your tired hands, then, and strengthen your trembling knees! Keep walking on straight paths, so that the lame foot may not be disabled, but instead be healed.” – Hebrews 12:12 TEV
I realized that the times when we are most unloveable are the times when we need most to be loved.
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What I learned
Having just celebrated my birthday, I would like to take down some of the things I’ve learned in life.
1. I learned that growth is a continuous process, and that the process usually means undergoing some sort of struggle, pain or difficulty.
2. I learned that though the process of growing is usually difficult and involves some kind of sorrow or pruning, the result is always towards greater happiness and empowerment.
3. I learned that one of man’s greatest need is to be loved, and one of the greatest hindrance to being loved is our inability or lack of willingness to understand one another.
4. I learned that many times, it really doesn’t take much to make people happy. A single rose could make someone’s day just as much as a million dollars can.
5. I learned that the greatest enemy we should conquer is our very selves. If we can face our shadows and our fears, we can face everything else.
6. I learned that however happy we are in the life we’re living, we should always have a dream.
7. I learned that there are times when our love for another person is that which inspires us to love ourselves more.
8. I learned that no matter how hard I try, I cannot cause the night to end any sooner. On the other hand, even if I do nothing, the morning will surely come to give me a brand new day.
9. I learned that no matter how my friends and I try to think my problems through, there are problems that won’t immediately go away, and all we can do is to wait and weather the storm through.
10. I learned that if there is one thing we should strive to build, it is a home right within our hearts; a home that we can always take with us wherever we may go, a home that nobody can ever take away.