The Most Effective Strategy For Me

What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings?

Simple, I pray. Sometimes even three decades of the rosary but personal prayers are the best.🙏🙏🙏❤🙏🙏🙏

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Hope

I chose this word Hope to guide me throughout the year. Hope is something we long for, something that let things happen. Coupled with prayers, it is simply one of the best things we can have and do. Hope is a feeling of expectation, a desire of something we really need to achieve.

Tomorrow, I’ll be back to The Medical City Clinic in Pasig to get the results of my numerous laboratory tests and hopefully to see my endocrinologist. I forgot to ask the information desk if she will have her scheduled clinic tomorrow. Keeping my fingers crossed that my laboratory tests will be okay. Praying I don’t need to add more medications. My maintenance meds are for a lifetime now so you could just imagine how it would affect me in the long run.

I have a chat with Nissa a few minutes ago. It’s Obet’s 50th birthday on January 29 and as her birthday gift to him, they will have a week-long trip to Seoul, Korea starting January 25. They will be back by the end of January. It’s just the two of them. She said she arranged a package, mid-range since she does not have time to do a DIY. A bit costly though since it includes hotel accommodation and tours. I am happy for both of them.

I find consolation and peace of mind attending daily masses online. I love how the priest presiders share their homilies and reflections on the daily gospel readings.

And here’s something we ought to remember:

 

– hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” — Jonas Salk

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A Simple Prayer 24

Dear Lord,

Arm me with grace for whatever lies ahead🙏🙏🙏

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Habits

What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life?

Praying is the most important one. It is one thing that I can’t break. Praying calms a storm 🙏🙏🙏.

Blogging of course. As I have said before, it has become a way of life for me👩‍💻.

Reading is a must. I am lucky finding books that I get engrossed with. Love historical novels, poems, memoirs and sometimes thrillers too. I always set a goal on how many books I read in a year. I have a virtual library at Goodreads.

Writing some one-liner thoughts in my journal.✍️.

I don’t often do gardening but it helps me cope. The silence I listen to while digging the earth, uprooting weeds, trimming the grass and admiring new blooms that sprout now and then🪷💐🌿.

There are many more things that improve one’s life and your attitude towards them makes the difference.

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Peace Be With You

What brings you peace?

Prayers, always prayers🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Minute Reflections

Close your eyes for a while

Savor the silence

Listen to God’s voice

He gently calls,

Whispering His everlasting love.

Silence is a prayer in itself.

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Always believe in prayers

No matter how mundane your wants and needs are,

God answers our prayers.

It may not be immediate

But rest assured it is the best.

Let us learn to listen to God’s whispers

Let us learn to appreciate silence in our hearts.

(Reposted from my post back in 2011)

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A Simple Prayer

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Thoughts

If you could touch one soul out there through your words,

If you could make someone smile despite the tears,

If you could inspire someone who is depressed to move on,

Then you are truly blessed.

God sees the goodness in everyone of us.

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Blessed Carlo Acutis

Culled from the net

This was the photo they selected during his beatification.

I am sure some of you have heard of Carlo Acutis. 

“Blessed Carlo Acutis (3 May 1991 – 12 October 2006) was an Italian Catholic computer programmer. He was best known for documenting Eucharistic miracles around the world and cataloguing them all onto a website that he created in the months before his death from leukemia. He was noted for his cheerfulness and his computer skills as well as for his deep devotion to the Eucharist which became a core theme of his life.“- from Wikipedia

I only heard of him a  day after his scheduled beatification. Last night on live feed, I witnessed his beatification at 10:30 am (Italy time but was last night here in our country). He was beatified at the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi, Italy.  Even though the mass was in Italian, I cried while watching it.  He is the first millennial declared as blessed.  He  was born in London on May 3, 1991  and died  last October 12, 2008. He contracted leukemia and offered his pain both for St. Benedict XVI and for the Universal Church. 

Here’s two of his lovely and meaningful quotes:

“I offer all the suffering I will have to suffer for the Lord, for the Pope, and the Church”. 

“the more Eucharist we receive, the more we will become like Jesus, so that on this earth we will have a foretaste of heaven”.

Here’ s the miracle attributed to Carlo Acutis’ prayers:  (from the catholictelegraph.com)

The beatification of Carlo Acutis took place Oct. 10 after a miracle attributed to his prayers and the grace of God. In Brazil, a boy named Mattheus was healed from a serious birth defect called an annular pancreas after he and his mother asked Acutis to pray for his healing.

Mattheus was born in 2009 with a serious condition that caused him difficulty eating and serious abdominal pain. He was unable to keep any food in his stomach, and vomited constantly.

By the time Mattheus was nearly four years old, he weighed only 20 pounds, and lived on a vitamin and protein shake, one of the few things his body could tolerate. He was not expected to live long.

His mother, Luciana Vianna, had spent years praying for his healing.

At the same time, a priest friend of the family, Fr. Marcelo Tenorio, learned online about the life of Carlo Acutis, and began praying for his beatification. In 2013 he obtained a relic from Carlo’s mother, and he invited Catholics to a Mass and prayer service in his parish, encouraging them to ask Acutis’ intercession for whatever healing they might need.

Mattheus’ mother heard about the prayer service. She decided she would ask Acutis to intercede for her son. In fact, in the days before the prayer service, Vianna made a novena for Acutis’ intercession, and explained to her son that they could ask Acutis to pray for his healing.

On the day of the prayer service, she took Mattheus and other family members to the parish.

Fr. Nicola Gori, the priest responsible for promoting Acutis’ sainthood cause, told Italian media what happened next:

“On October 12, 2013, seven years after Carlo’s death, a child, affected by a congenital malformation (annular pancreas), when it was his turn to touch the picture of the future blessed, expressed a singular wish, like a prayer: ‘I wish I could stop vomiting so much.’ Healing began immediately, to the point that the physiology of the organ in question changed,” Fr. Gori said.

On the way home from the Mass, Mattheus told his mother that he was already cured. At home, he asked for French fries, rice, beans, and steak – the favorite foods of his brothers.

He ate everything on his plate. He didn’t vomit. He ate normally the next day, and the next. Vianna took Mattheus to physicians, who were mystified by Mattheus’ healing.

Mattheus’ mother told Brazilian media she sees in the miracle an opportunity to evangelize.

“Before, I didn’t even use my cell phone, I was averse to technology. Carlo changed my way of thinking, he was known for talking about Jesus on the Internet, and I realized that my testimony would be a way to evangelize and give hope to other families. Today I understand that everything new can be good, if we use it for good, ” she told reporters.

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Heartland Series 12

Dear Lord,

Give us the grace to acknowledge Your presence all the days of our lives.

Amen.

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