Category: Poems

…for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him. -Matthew 6:8, WEB

Most of our worries are based on our fear that things won’t happen as we have planned. But when we come to think about it, shouldn’t it be more important that things happen as God Himself has planned? We may not always know what is best for us, or what can really make us happy. But it is for certain that God knows. And it is His will that shall save us in the end.

Not As I Dreamt It

Not as I dreamt it,
Not as I thought with my mind,
but as you have conceived it, Lord,
far better than I planned.

Not as I desired it,
thinking how glad I might be,
but as you have designed it, Lord
to be far more joyful then for me!

“God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not… we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.”– John Henry Newman

And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: “Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.” – St. Therese of Lisieux

Someday

Someday,
We’ll understand each other, you and I,
When we finally discover the reason why
Why we seemed so different from the outside

Someday,
We will see,
That there’s a lot of similarity
Between you and me

We will know
That we have both tried our very best
But we were both wounded
We were lost and tired and weak

All the while
We were both just trying to find
The thing that’s missing
In our lives

We were both just trying to walk
Just trying to talk
Just trying to pray
When we couldn’t find our way

Someday,
We will finally come to see
We both just wanted to be loved
You and I.

Yes, I don’t judge my own self. For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God. – 1 Corinthians 4, WEB

Life isn’t perfect. But that doesn’t mean it could never be beautiful. – Jocelyn Soriano

Perfectionism has many levels. Sometimes we think we have already learned to accept life’s many imperfections and our own inability to accomplish a task. But once in a while, something happens beyond our worst nightmares. We are caught by surprise and our perfect world is shattered once again.

How do you deal with imperfections? You deal with it as you deal with earthquakes that come out of nowhere. You try your best to survive it and not blame anyone for not being able to control the movement of the earth.

Deep within our own minds, we already have a story that we want to be played. We have in it expectations of how our dreams can work out if only we do this and that. We tell ourselves how evil must never triumph and how good must always shine.

But that is not often how things really work. Sometimes we need to go through a storm before we could see the sun again. And many times, we must endure longer winters than we’ve ever expected until we see the flowers bloom again.

Let us try not to be disheartened when things don’t work out the way we wanted them to. Let us instead try to trust God, who is ultimately the one in control, the one who lovingly weaves all stories into something truly beautiful and far more wonderful than we could ever imagine on our own.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.” – 1 Corinthians 2, WEB

The Courage to Smile

Let me deal with life as it comes,
not as how I wanted it to be
Let me have the courage to smile
when things don’t work out for me.

Let my heart be able to trust
that all can still be well,
for you are there my Lord and God
you can make things whole and fair.

No matter the storm that comes,
No matter the raging seas,
may I have the hope that never fails,
and faith that always trusts in Thee.

“You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.”- Kahlil Gibran

Can I Judge You?

How can I judge you
when I don’t even know you?
How can I judge another
if I do not even know who I am?

All I have are clues
All I have are rumors
All I have are sketches
But sketches do not define who we are.

How I’d like to say things
based on what I see
based on what I believe to be true
but how little I see the truth!

I therefore withhold my judgment
and replace it with my many doubts,
I lift up my complaints to Him
who knows you as you really are.

I cast upon Him my heart’s burden
and all the things I cannot see
I believe in His love and In His Justice
And He will judge between you and me.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another? -James 4, WEBBE

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him? – James 2, WEB

In His Eyes

Does it not feel unfair at times,
How some people seem to get
All the attention and love and care
While others work so hard
Just to be accepted
Only to be rejected
Time and time again?

The world applauds
Those who are beautiful and strong
Those who are happy
Those who already seem to have it all.
While for those who are weak
For those who seem poor in all things,
Those who thirst for love the most,
No alms are given,
No eyes are even interested to see.

Yes, the world is unfair,
And our prejudices are many.
Maybe that is why God chose to be born
Among those whose only wealth
Is hope.

God chose the humble
and the poor and the weak,
Those who are lost
and cast away,
Those who do not belong anywhere else.

Is it not enough then
That the unfairness of the world
Should be responded to
By the generosity of His love?

The world may never care,
It may not even know that you’re there,
But you are never left out in God’s eyes,
And never ever cast away
From His heart.

“And when he says to his people: ‘I haven’t chosen you because you are the strongest, the biggest, the most powerful. I have chosen you because you are the smallest of them all. You could add: the most miserable. This is whom I have chosen’. This is love”. – Pope Francis