My personal prayer

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Heavenly Father thank you very much for your unlimited Mercy and Grace. I should be appreciating my life more often than I do, forgive me for not doing so. Although my last day at work is this coming Friday due to the big lay off in our company, you have appointed a new job for me this Monday. I do not know how this kind of things transpired in perfect order in your time. Forgive me for not believing enough. Thank you also for supporting and guiding my friends and co-workers who got hit by this huge scale down of employees. Give hope to them especially to those who have family to support, to those who give financial support to their sick love ones, to those who are struggling to keep their houses, to those who are having emotional distress apart from having let go to work. You God never fail because you are the past, present and the future nothing and no one can intimidate your greatness and mercy, with you everything is possible. I know that there is a hidden message in this things that are happening. May we have the wisdom and courage to find the meaning of it all. We all know that you allow things like this in a more constructive and purposeful fashion not like our evil ways only for the purpose of destroying one another. This message of yours behind all of these as we find it will be very valuable in molding ourselves in becoming light hearted people. Your light is all we need in this day and age that is utterly becoming dark. Your light is the one that will give us strength to bounce back every time we give in to the deceitful ways of the world. You have not place us here in this world to have a life and be lost, but we are consistently receiving your guidance through our conscience. It's a matter of choosing the right time when to listen to it because often times we ignore it. May we stay connected to it and remain aligned to your presence, inspire us with your grace to draw ourselves closer to you. We need you, it is only through your spirit that we are all going to be filled and satisfied. We place our lives and trust to you, you deserve all the Glory and Praise. In the name of your son Jesus Christ with the unfailing guidance of the Holy Spirit. Amen

How should I handle my Growth?

 

In this time of Lent we are once again being reminded of how important our spiritual growth is. We are so busy chasing after material growth overly concerned about it. Not to impose anything or to create arguments with my religion. In Catholic tradition we begin the celebration by putting ash in a symbol of a cross on our foreheads remembering from ash we came to ash we will come back. We enter life the same thing we will exit it, with nothing. Of course there is also giving up something that you are so use to have for detaching from it in respect to lent.

We have a saying in the Philippines. " Kahit isaksak mo pa sa baga mo yan hindi mo rin madadala pag namatay ka na". English translation is; "Even if you stick it in your lungs you will not be able to bring it with you when you die". It's all illusion, you think you have your name on it but then the deal is you cannot take it with you when your time is up.

Everything that gives me compulsion is not of my spirit, but of my flesh. Lust and Greed are the most evident examples of "I have to get it now or else....". Ego driven and tiresome if you keep on chasing it because the thought of having it will complete us, is less likely achieved especially when we become addicted to it. 

Maybe our hunger can be resolved in being fluent in the language of faith instead of a thing. By seeking the peace and joy that comes from God. Praying is a powerful tool in achieving the unseen things that could deeply satisfy us. Although sometimes the content of my prayers I must admit are not expressed in a faith based statements. Still struggling and working on it. As I slowly understand to persevere in coming to pray more often.

Why do we need perseverance in prayer if we have faith? Isn't faith enough? I think we persevere not because God fails, fails to hear us or fails to grant our request. It is us that fails because we are weak. This is where perseverance comes in. We focus on God's solutions that are coming from an effective and secure ways. Compared to our solutions which is insecure that needs urgency and desperate. In God all things are possible, He does not fail because He is eternal, He is not intimidated with time. He is the past, present and the future.

It seems like the growth that gives lasting joy is spiritual not material. If we can maintain our direct connection with our creator even if we fall we can see it in a different perspective. Yes, earthly possessions can fill me but maybe only for a short time, then I move on to wanting more of the other stuff that are no longer making any sense. In connecting to my spirit there is clarity. We will all end up as a spirit anyway. Teilhard de Chardin have said "We are not human beings having spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience".

Removing myself from a narrow egoistic eyes, I can see that sometimes growth comes from praying and reduction.

Dark Knight R.F.

My affirmations for this day

Today I am maximizing the power in my choice to lean more into a hopeful, secure and positive perspective.
I am able to ignore the things that are not working out right because I know that everything that is happening now is evolving so it can never stop moving from one place to another.
It is through my appreciation that I will acquire the release of defending myself from what is not working right.
I know that I will never be able to change my frustrations for the time being but I always have an option to calm my mind and distract my attention away from it.
All I have to do is to relax my mind so that I can easily bring my attention to the things I have that delights me and shift to knowing what to count, instead of looking for what is missing.
I have a bright new day ahead of me and I am responsible enough to create a brand new hope, faith, trust and certainty.
I can change my mood by adjusting my mind to be more peaceful.
The more I think of the things I am grateful for the more I will attract the things and events that will satisfy me.
I will take charge today in being firm in encouraging myself and others.
I appreciate my life.

Dark Knight R.F.

It's not up to your life to make the turn on your own turning point, it's all up to you! - dark knight r.f.