Category: Words of Wisdom

Sometimes, you just breathe in the morning air and you know there’s something good that will happen along the way. Nothing new has happened yet, there are no visible signs. But deep within you, you know your prayer was heard, that there is a grace that is given, the grace of HOPE.

Morning Joy

Joy is in cool mornings,
A cool morning breeze when the sun is bright;
Joy is in this feeling,
Of rebirth and delight.

And I yearn to wake up and awaken;
I yearn to walk beneath the light;
I yearn to walk just near the trees,
And watch some little birds in flight.

I yearn to walk just near the shore,
And watch the waves at sea;
There’s nothing I could ask for more,
Than earth’s enchanting melody.

In the early hour of the day,
When night has just passed away;
When all is fresh, and all is beautiful,
When all is brilliant, ever pure.

Joy is in cool mornings;
A stroll amidst a brand new day,
When life is just beginning,
When angels sing and dance and pray!

It is because of The LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail. They are new every morning. – Lamentations 3, WEBBE

It is said that it is quite often the last key in the bunch that is able to open the lock. It is the last key that makes a way. It is the last key that opens the door we’ve been trying so very hard to get through.

But what’s interesting about the last key is that it can remain unused for so long. Why? Because we want to hold on to it for as long as we could. We want to hold on to the idea that we can still resort to something after all else fails. We want to hold on to HOPE.

Because what happens if we did try to use the last key and it doesn’t work? We would have lost everything. It would have been worse than waiting before a closed door.

But the truth is that whatever may be our fears, we must find the courage to use that key. We have to risk losing our only hope so we can find the fulfilment of that hope. Using that key is the only way we can open that door. And unless we risk it, we’d always be left wondering, “What if we used the last key and found our way to what we’ve always been searching for?”

“Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.” – Pope Benedict XVI

Today may just be the day you must realize how much God really loves you. He loves you simply for who you really are. For the person He has created you to be.

Imagine a babe upon your arms. Imagine your very own child. You loved him before he was even born. Before he could even utter a word. You love him just because he is yours.

Try to live this day with the thought that God loves you. He willed you to be and He desires for you to live forever, to always exist. Never to be blotted out from His memory.

God loves you. At your weakest and at your worst. At the height of your greatest fears and at the depths of your heaviest sorrows.

God loves you. Despite all your helplessness. Despite all your doubts. Despite all your many falls.

God loves you. May this very thought draw you to love as you have never loved before.

“Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings…” – Psalm 17:8, WEBBE

To be humble is not to degrade ourselves, but to be true. It is to know both our weakness and our strength, our imperfections and our God-given beauty.

“Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.” – Mother Teresa

How many times have we been discouraged by the criticisms of other people? How many times have we allowed ourselves to be hurt so much because we have allowed the opinion of others to affect our own self-esteem?

To be humble is not to think low of ourselves. Rather, it is to think true. It is to have a strong image of who we really are such that our love for ourselves no longer depend on what others think about us.

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom. – Proverbs 11, WEBBE