Old ladies

I love this photo! It makes me think of myself and a really good friend of mine years from now. I really pray that the handful of friends that I have right now will still be with me until I grow old and wrinkled and gray. I have discarded so many along the way. So many have left my side when the going went tough. So the handful left are the ones I really treasure and take care of.

Happiest moments

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
- Thomas Jefferson

I have always been a sentimental person. Tender moments, especially those that happen in the family, make me cry. I just love my family so much. Sometimes, I wonder how people who are not close to their family or those that do not have a family near them, can bear it. My family is not perfect. Tell me one and I will tell you right away that they are faking it. There is no perfect family. We fight. There are days when we don’t feel like talking to one another. But at the end of the day, there is that unmistakable love for each other.

An inspiration

It’s so much easier to start – and finish – a job if you are inspired to do so!
What do you think?

So true. I really can’t work that well when I am not inspired to do so. Inspiration is not hard to come by. It can even come from little things that I suddenly remembered or was told about.

Sometimes, it’s not enough to want something, or even want to do something. Other things just seem to get in the way. You have to find out what really inspires you. Find out what you really, really want, deep down inside. Find it, and hold on to it. Having a strong motivation for doing something will help even the most organization-challenged of us battle our way through the tedious, boring, and hard work.

Something to ponder on…

When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell

Do you agree?

Think about this…

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies, succeed anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of being selfish and having ulterior motives, be kind anyway. What you spend years building, someone may destroy overnight, build anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you, be honest and frank anyway. Give the world the best you have, it may never be enough, give the world the best you have anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous, be happy anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it’s between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

Raindrops

Rain is normally depicted as both good and bad. Remember the saying “When it rains, it pours”? When blessings come pouring in, that saying is of course applicable. The same holds true when problems keep popping out one after another.

But you know, rain took on a new meaning for me. It now means cleansing to me. Cleansing of the soul. Whenever I hear raindrops on the rooftop, I know the Lord is reminding me to breathe deeply, close my eyes and let the rain wash my troubled soul. Cleanse it.

I now look at rain as something positive. I now make it a point to look at something positive in everything that life throws at me.

Be positive. Live and love life. And remember to close your eyes, breathe deeply and let the rain Man cleanse your soul.

Inpirational find

I found this post at My Life as Mama Jodi and it really made me smile. I hope it is okay with her that I reposted it here…

Matthew 18:20 ~ For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Does this count?

My little Anika always does this at night. Except that she makes my dad and mom pray with her this way. Ha! Ha! Ha! She is such an adorable kid and I love her so much!

On intimacy…

When I was in my teens, friends make it a point to tease me about my body. I am more well-developed than the average girl my age. I have the curves in all the right places, they say. I was a shy kid and have always kept to myself when I can. It didn’t help that I got so conscious with my body because of the teasing. It was all friendly banter, don’t get me wrong. But still…

So when I met Matt (not his real name) in college, everything changed. He is a straightforward guy so he would tell me in not so many words that he liked what I was wearing, how it hugged my body (not in a malicious way, believe me) and how it made me stand out. It was disconcerting in the beginning. But little did I know that it became a challenge for me to improve my appearance. Plus the fact that my self-esteem blossomed because of his daily praises.

He never belittled whatever we had to share back then. Intimacy became second nature to me. Something that is pure and happy. That’s one of the things I am thankful for. Matt made me feel good about intimacy.

And I miss it. Intimacy and being with him.