The Prospects: Truth, Faith, Peace, Prosperity, Thanksgiving
By: Megs S. Lunn
How was your Christmas Day? For me, it was not the merriest of my life, but there were things I want to thank for. For one, I truly had peace on that day.
Well, speaking of New Year’s Day, did you find it strange, even funny, that every new year’s day, you have your New Year’s Resolution, in an almost mindless routine every year?
What we must think and remember always that to capture the true spirit of New Year is to mainly understand the spiritual aspect. I tell you what, having been away for two weeks and spending the holiday seasons in the city, was not very much exciting at all, not much of a fun anymore. It was more on meditation and reflections; walking with God in the serenity of where I had been. The obsession of the new year’s resolution is passed to me already. It’s a matter of maturity.
When we were wishing for too much and went to the “misa de gallo” for our wish to come true is but a childish thing to do. Father Jessie Guillergan, Jr. said on his homily one morning of the misa de gallo, “if you go to church to complete the 9 days misa de gallo, hoping your wish will come true and later did not is a disappointment to the one who did it. Maybe it’s not God’s will, not yet, for your wish to be granted.”
Disappointment for not having our wish to come true is an immaturity. “God promised, it will be granted in HIS own beautiful time. Someday, in HIS time, whatsoever we asked will come true. It may not be in the exact package we wanted, but it will be what God thinks is best for us.”
New year’s resolution like history, repeats itself. Isn’t it every year that we wish or even promised we will be a renewed human being comes new year’s day? It is but rather an obsession and not a resolution.
But the true spirit of the New Year is somewhere else. As one of the MP viewers of its website commented, “It is in the recognition that we in this life will always need a constant renewal that life long process of having to begin and begin again.”
Walking with God is like communicating with Him. When I do the brisk walking every morning, I do it as my emotional and spiritual therapy to what I have lost just recently, my beloved husband who is now with God’s embrace. It is not only daily exercise, but a routine and renewal of spirit. That inspite of my lost, every morning is still a new day, a new hope and a new spirit. “For as we grow older, we loosen our grasp on trying to be always correct. We realize that it’s more important to be human and happy than to be perfect.”
The New Year is a constant reminder of God that He created us. Whatever we were in the past, for what we are today and what we will be tomorrow, we still owe HIM our life, our being, our everything.
One constant reminder is our VIRTUE. Virtue builds a person up. St. Peter in his second letter, “Strive diligently to supply your faith with virtue. Our virtue with knowledge, our knowledge with self-control, our self-control with patience, our patience with piety, piety with fraternal love, our fraternal love with charity”.
With all kinds of temptations around us, dirty politics in our society, war here and there, we still need some spiritual renewal indeed. We need to look back at our virtue, for a start.
May this 2006 brings us closer to God with stronger faith, care and love for HIM. Let us hope that this year will bring us peace and goodwill, and will usher us in a prosperous 2006. Whatever our opinion or our reflection this New Year, “let us become genuine light-bearers, announcers and defenders of the truth amidst lies and falsehoods that tempt our community and the society as a whole.”
There are things in life we question a lot, but little do we realize that answers come when we stop asking and complaining. That’s what we call FAITH. Let everyone have a renewed spirit and thanksgiving. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
By: Megs S. Lunn
How was your Christmas Day? For me, it was not the merriest of my life, but there were things I want to thank for. For one, I truly had peace on that day.
Well, speaking of New Year’s Day, did you find it strange, even funny, that every new year’s day, you have your New Year’s Resolution, in an almost mindless routine every year?
What we must think and remember always that to capture the true spirit of New Year is to mainly understand the spiritual aspect. I tell you what, having been away for two weeks and spending the holiday seasons in the city, was not very much exciting at all, not much of a fun anymore. It was more on meditation and reflections; walking with God in the serenity of where I had been. The obsession of the new year’s resolution is passed to me already. It’s a matter of maturity.
When we were wishing for too much and went to the “misa de gallo” for our wish to come true is but a childish thing to do. Father Jessie Guillergan, Jr. said on his homily one morning of the misa de gallo, “if you go to church to complete the 9 days misa de gallo, hoping your wish will come true and later did not is a disappointment to the one who did it. Maybe it’s not God’s will, not yet, for your wish to be granted.”
Disappointment for not having our wish to come true is an immaturity. “God promised, it will be granted in HIS own beautiful time. Someday, in HIS time, whatsoever we asked will come true. It may not be in the exact package we wanted, but it will be what God thinks is best for us.”
New year’s resolution like history, repeats itself. Isn’t it every year that we wish or even promised we will be a renewed human being comes new year’s day? It is but rather an obsession and not a resolution.
But the true spirit of the New Year is somewhere else. As one of the MP viewers of its website commented, “It is in the recognition that we in this life will always need a constant renewal that life long process of having to begin and begin again.”
Walking with God is like communicating with Him. When I do the brisk walking every morning, I do it as my emotional and spiritual therapy to what I have lost just recently, my beloved husband who is now with God’s embrace. It is not only daily exercise, but a routine and renewal of spirit. That inspite of my lost, every morning is still a new day, a new hope and a new spirit. “For as we grow older, we loosen our grasp on trying to be always correct. We realize that it’s more important to be human and happy than to be perfect.”
The New Year is a constant reminder of God that He created us. Whatever we were in the past, for what we are today and what we will be tomorrow, we still owe HIM our life, our being, our everything.
One constant reminder is our VIRTUE. Virtue builds a person up. St. Peter in his second letter, “Strive diligently to supply your faith with virtue. Our virtue with knowledge, our knowledge with self-control, our self-control with patience, our patience with piety, piety with fraternal love, our fraternal love with charity”.
With all kinds of temptations around us, dirty politics in our society, war here and there, we still need some spiritual renewal indeed. We need to look back at our virtue, for a start.
May this 2006 brings us closer to God with stronger faith, care and love for HIM. Let us hope that this year will bring us peace and goodwill, and will usher us in a prosperous 2006. Whatever our opinion or our reflection this New Year, “let us become genuine light-bearers, announcers and defenders of the truth amidst lies and falsehoods that tempt our community and the society as a whole.”
There are things in life we question a lot, but little do we realize that answers come when we stop asking and complaining. That’s what we call FAITH. Let everyone have a renewed spirit and thanksgiving. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
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