Life is a journey

In the journey of life each day brings some good news and bad news as well. I have always been a co-traveler, also at times lone traveler through the open roads of life and so each time life's realities hurt me. When life gets to the wrong rails, when one becomes a victim of other's prejudices and misunderstanding, it's there that you need to realize , with hope in your heart, life can still go on, doesn't matter who is beside you or even if there is none.

Why Worry?

Let's break the worry habit before it breaks us.

Let us not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little"

Hope is Our Greatest Treasure

When we learn to take everything that life offers in our stride, we become people with hope. When we are truly hopeful we find:

Success in the midst of failure

Victory in the midst of defeat

Joy in the midst of greed

Humility in the midst of pride

Uniqueness in the midst of the ordinary

Courage in the midst of fear

Healing in the midst of pain

Reconciliation in the midst of anger

Faith in the midst of doubt

Peace in the midst of conflict

Good in the midst of eveil

Wholeness in the midst of brokenness

Light in the midst of darkness

Love in the midst of apathy

Hope in the midst of hopelessness

Why the Suffering?

Some times life is more than we can bear. We are bent down under the weight of our troubles and broken by the impact of our suffering. We try to understand the mystery of suffering but to no avail. With arms extended toward the heavens we ask, "Why"? half-way expecting an answer, but we know there will be no answer, no reason given for what is happening to us. We want to understand our suffering so we can control it, yet we never completely understand, and our frustration only compounds our suffering. Ultimately, we come to realize that suffering is a part of life, and that if it is to make any sense or logic, we will have to be the ones to give our suffering a sense of meaning and purpose by the way we embrace life's adversities.

Loneliness

Loneliness comes over me like a cloud. I feel abandoned, even by myself. The skies are dark and my heart is empty. All around me is desolation. Will no one hear me? Will no one understand me?


In my loneliness I travel far away. No one knows me there, no one really cares. i feel unloved, insignificant and all alone. My connection with life itself is broken, as is my heart. i want to die. i want to end the pain.

In my delusion, I look to the external for some relief, but there is no reprieve. i am separated from all that really matters.
But from the midst of nothingness, I hear YOU Lord speaking to me. "stay with me in the hour of loneliness" I dare to stay, allowing what will be.

In the hour of loneliness, I know of my pain, as the tears of a newborn child, pining for its Source, yearning for its Destiny. You speak to my soul: "Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget you, I will never forget you.