Memories & Feelings Unleashed….

I was never keen on having a music video attachment in my profile mainly because i did not like the video part itself. Last night a friend and I started tinkering around looking for just music without video. And so I got music now in my profile without any video…just the way I wanted it to be. And the song I chose?

GREATEST LOVE OF ALL
By: Whitney Houston

I believe the children are our are future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be
Everybody searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to
I never found anyone to fulfill my needs
A lonely place to be
So I learned to depend on me

Chorus:
I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone’s shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can’t take away my dignity
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me

I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be

Repeat Chorus

And if by chance, that special place
That you’ve been dreaming of
Leads you to a lonely place
Find your strength in love

Meaningful song huh! This has been my favorite song since I was in grade 5. Yes grade 5!!! I know this is one thing my friends don’t know. I still remember the time when I decided that this would be my favorite song. That was in our old house, early evening with my dad, in the living room, listening to the song and I go… "Da, mula ngayon ito na ang favorite song ko for life." Hmmmm the reaction I got then was just a laugh from him. This song would fade as new songs came into the scene, then a re-make of the song was again there by another artist and then again…. hmmmm naklaro na akong idad nuon da! And though I have also liked other songs this has always been in my mind.

Funny but it was only last night when I decided to  put music in my profile and of course chose this song that I realized a lot of things…. things that I have been doing and things that I have always wanted to do all along.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

~ Marianne Williamson~

"There was a man that hated his footprints and his shadow, so one
day he thought that if he ran fast enough, his footprints and
shadow would not be able to follow him and then he would never have to look at them again. He ran and he ran as fast as he could, but the shadow and the footprints had no problems keeping up to him.

And he ran even faster and all of a sudden he fell dead to the
ground. But if he had been standing still there wouldn’t have been
any footprints and if he had been resting under a tree his shadow
would have been swallowed by the tree’s shadow."
~ Benjamin Hoff, author of "The Tao of Pooh"

Many times we hate our problems and do our best to run away from
them, but no matter how fast we run or how far we go, our problems follow, scurrying behind us like footprints and shadows. Little do we realize that if we will just stand still and wait, breathing deep and relaxing both body and mind, the solution, in similar fashion to the shadow of the tree, will swallow up the problem whole and leave us free to celebrate.

God’s-eye view by John Fischer “For now we see through a glass, darkly …” (1 Corinthians 13:12 KJV) I had a mentor once who loved to teach about faith from a 20-foot long timeline of Bible history that he used as a powerful visual effect. He would roll out this room-sized diagram with a long line from Adam and Eve to the present day. On it, at appropriate spots, he would place little figures representing some of the well-known characters of the Bible such as Abraham, Moses, David, Ezekiel, and Paul. Then, he would walk over to where, say, Moses was, turn him toward the future, and place a dark pane of glass right in front of his nose. “This is how much Moses could see when he looked this way,” he would say, and because we had the perspective of the rest of the timeline, we could understand Moses’ dilemma, but also gain strength from what we knew lay ahead of him that he couldn’t see. In other words, in relation to Moses, we had more of a God’s-eye view of things. Though Moses could not see into the future, there were two directions he could look, both of which were useful to his faith and in turn are useful to ours. He could look back and see how God had been faithful in his own life up until then, and, most importantly, he could look up to God and put his trust in the one who sees all. The obvious lesson here is that we are in a similar place. We can only look back to the past and up to God, and remember there is a God’s-eye view of this; we just can’t see it right now. He knows what he’s doing and how the events of our lives fit into his overall purposes for us and those around us. He sees reasons we have no access to. He sees a plan that looks at best murky from our point of view. But the future, and God’s purposes for us, and the reliability of his promises are no less reliable than they were to Moses. In fact, we have the huge benefit of much more history than Moses ever had – the fulfillment of things he could only dream about. Just remember, whatever you are going through today or wondering about in relation to tomorrow, there is a God’s-eye view of this. Look up.

Best Buddies Philippines…. That’s what made my day!!! As in the whole day…. making me busy, feel tired, have muscle aches. But what the heck!!! Seeing the smiles of our special buddies made it all worthwhile.                                                           It seems like forever to me since I last joined an activity. What did I do there? Hmmmm… this and that… anything that I could do aside from what I was assigned to do from taking pics, hanging around with the kids who were my students before, just talking and laughing with them. Seems easy huh… not with the heat of the sun beating down on all of us and yet all I saw and heard were the smiles, laughter and shouts from everyone playing. On the left are some of the students I handled before. I may have forgotten some of their names (haha!!!) but not their pagka "sipat".

Our party this time was something different cause we invited 50 street children c/o Brother Paul. Pagkasipata pud pero lingaw… These are only three of the 55 children who attended our party. I honestly don’t know the names of the games they played…hahaha… but I did enjoy jumping and cheering in some of the games.

This are two of the prettiest if not the prettiest there that day. Sorry Malou… you would have been the third… And part of the Core Group with some teachers and parents of the kids. We don’t look tired do we…? Why should we? We went there, spent our time and effort, worked, played, laughed….. on our own. No one forced me to go. I went there because I wanted to and I had the time and mainly because…….

I WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF OUR SPECIAL CHILDREN…..