Category: Words of Wisdom

It’s already eleven in the morning where I am, and yet I can’t help but feel that the day is only just beginning, after all, the year has only just begun. How do you start a day, especially if it’s the very first day of the year? Simple I guess, you start it the way you should start each and every day that is given you, you start it with HOPE.

HOW DO YOU START A NEW YEAR?

You start not with a heart full of burden,

but with a heart that is empty and waiting to be filled;

you start not with eyes soaked in tears,

but with a vision clear and sure for the year;

you start not with doubts nor anxieties,

but with trust upon God and upon your God-given seeds;

you start not with demands,

but with a grateful heart for all that you have been given through the years;

you start not with anger,

but with a forgiving peaceful heart;

you start not with jealousy,

but with a spirit that rejoices with your friends;

you start not with defeat,

but with a victorious voice;

you start not with chaos,

but with a prayerful song;

you start not with evil,

but with good, and an enlightened heart;

you start with all that God has given you,

and with the hope of all that is to come,

knowing that whatever happens,

you are a child of God,

special,

beloved,

and destined for something

even more wonderful

than the stars!

I am an empath. I could easily feel other people’s feelings, good or bad, as though they were my own. To an empath, the problem is not in connecting with another person, for it is as natural as breathing. The problem of an empath is how to set boundaries between herself and that of another person’s skin.

This boundary is not a wall that completely shuts out all the rest while enclosing oneself within. But it is more like the human skin, still sensitive, still able to touch, but is able to DEFINE the person within one’s own unique and beautiful personality.

There had been many times when I felt being absorbed into the personality of another. I could understand so well and actually live within the other person’s perspective. But along the way, I also lose my own self, like I didn’t exist at all! I didn’t like it when I felt as invisible as the wind. The wind touches you and knows you, yet you couldn’t grasp it. And at times, you aren’t even aware it’s there.

I don’t like to live like I’m invisible. I want to leave a mark, my own mark saying that I have lived and I have made a difference.

It could only happen if I’m able to define who I am, the person who is going to make that mark.

Yes, I am an empath, but I am somebody who needs also to be seen and understood.

I am special.

I am beautiful.

I am no less of a person by flaws that you see in
me; I am no lesser for I am not those flaws. I
know who I am, my flaws and my strengths, and
there is no better person who can handle me but me.

There is a happiness that comes from knowing all
is well, and you are surely walking in a path that
will lead you to your dreams. And there is a
happiness that simply comes from knowing all will
be well, and whatever comes, you are can
deal with it and handle it well. Now that’s
confidence. That’s faith!

We are all in this journey for one thing only:

“TO KNOW LOVE.”

Knowing love however, requires FREEDOM.

Hence, to curtail another’s freedom, even the freedom to experience pain, is the greatest of all evils.

PAIN seems to be evil, but it is pain that brings us WISDOM. And it is wisdom that helps us to know LOVE.