Thursday, 30. July 2009, 06:15:08
help, love, empathise, give, understand, teach, guide, forgive, accept, comfort, strengthen, fortify, acknowledge, conserve, respect, appreciate, share, smile, console, nurture, bless, touch, cherish, pray, thank, apologize, listen, decide, choose, refrain, investigate, study, examine, practise, foster, voice, safeguard, revere, consider, honour, explore, alleviate, contribute, participate, volunteer, enjoy
Friday, 24. July 2009, 17:10:26
I remove my masks today and I reveal my genuine self
I have appeared safely incognito before others--in many safe disguises. And I now see the danger in this, the risk that I will become disguised to myself, that I will camouflage myself with thin, pleasant smiles and superficial chatter. In doing this, I counterfeit my life, disguised both to others and to myself.
I remove my masks today, for the masquerade saps me, consumes my energy, keeps me tense, guarded and apprehensive. I take a deep breath and take the plunge. I can be me, the real me, spontaneous without disguise, intimate without masks.
I accept who I am: not a fixed, rigid, cardboard entity, but a person of many moods and emotions, a person of will and talent and energy, a person of integrity and flexibility.
I can be myself today, freely, authentically and without pretense.
Lerner, Rokelle Daily Affirmations, (Health Communications, Inc 1985) July 30 entry
Monday, 25. May 2009, 01:52:06
The courage to allow my actions to flow freely from my own heart rather than being censored to comply with public opinion. To stop allowing thoughts of having to defend my beliefs prevent me from doing the things I feel inspired to do.
I have always felt that in order to adopt certain beliefs meant that I had to give up others. For example...
You can't be a strong-minded, strong willed feminist and be a devout Roman Catholic. You can. I am.
You can't love nature, have concern for the environment and love eating meat and going fishing. You can. I do.
You can't be or do any of the above and love the art of Tauromquia aka Bullfighting. But I do.
I love and collect faeries, I walk in the forest, I listen to Spanish, German and Gaelic music on my mp3. I love the Net, PC games,used book stores with floor to ceiling shelves, fresh herbs and the Blood of Christ.
I love making lists, being organized, watching the NHL playoffs, Tim Horton's coffee and the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Every day I Pray the Divine Office, 5 decades of the Rosary, check my email, post on Twitter and Facebook, surf the Net, water the plants on my deck.
Every week I devote to 2 hours Monday and Thursday evening in the Chapel in Adoration of the Blessed Sacrement. Every week I go to Mass, sometimes once on Sunday, more often on Friday evening as well. I sometimes watch CSI NY, The Mentalist and House.
I watch Feria TV online and check the websites of my favourite Toreros. I vote for the Green Party.
Friday, 15. May 2009, 06:25:23
Monday, 11. May 2009, 01:59:24
It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life - daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
Viktor Frankl (1905 - 1997)
Source: Dr. Victor E. Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning, Simon and Schuster, NY, 1963, p. 122.
So time to stop taking and start giving. Time to think about what I am capable of giving to the world. Where am I called? Well I know I that this is one place.
Nanaimo Community GardenTime to think in terms of service to the community and what I am capable of giving rather than what I stand to gain.
VikTor Frankl says a lot to me today.
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
Viktor Frankl (1905 - 1997)
Source: Man's Search For Meaning
Don't aim at success--the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run--in the long run, I say--success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
Viktor Frankl (1905 - 1997)
Source: Man's Search for Meaning, Page: 16..17
And finally ...
A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
Viktor Frankl (1905 - 1997)
Source: Dr. Victor E. Frankl in Man�s Search for Meaning, Simon and Schuster, NY, 1963.
All I need to do is take the advice of Rubén Darío, in his “Little Poem for Jesus." It goes like this.
Todo lo que dijo, Jesús, se podría poner en dos palabras. Ponga atención.
Friday, 8. May 2009, 05:02:38
Que canten los niños, que alcen la voz,
que hagan al mundo escuchar.
Que unan sus voces y lleguen al sol,
en ellos está la verdad.
Que canten los niños que viven en paz,
y aquellos que sufren dolor.
Que canten por esos que no cantarán
porque han apagado su voz.
Yo canto para que me dejen vivir.
Yo canto para que sonría mamá.
Yo canto porque sea el cielo azul.
Y yo para que no me ensucien el mar.
Yo canto para los que no tienen pan.
Yo canto para que respeten la flor.
Yo canto porque el mundo sea feliz.
Yo canto para no escuchar el cañón.
Que canten los niños, que alcen la voz,
que hagan al mundo escuchar.
Que unan sus voces y lleguen al sol,
en ellos está la verdad.
Que canten los niños que viven en paz,
y aquellos que sufren dolor.
Que canten por esos que no cantarán
porque han apagado su voz.
Yo canto porque sea verde el jardín.
Y yo para que no me apagen el sol.
Yo canto por el que no sabe escribir.
Y yo por el que escribe versos de amor.
Yo canto para que se escuche mi voz.
Y yo para ver si les hago pensar.
Yo canto porque quiero un mundo feliz.
Y yo por si alguien me quiere escuchar.
Que canten los niños, que alcen la voz,
que hagan al mundo escuchar.
Que unan sus voces y lleguen al sol,
en ellos está la verdad.
Que canten los niños que viven en paz,
y aquellos que sufren dolor.
Que canten por esos que no cantarán
porque han apagado su voz.
Que canten los niños, que alcen la voz,
que hagan al mundo escuchar.
Que unan sus voces y lleguen al sol,
en ellos está la verdad.
Que canten los niños que viven en paz,
y aquellos que sufren dolor.
Que canten por esos que no cantarán
porque han apagado su voz.
Que canten los niños, que alcen la voz,
que hagan al mundo escuchar.
Que unan sus voces y lleguen al sol,
en ellos está la verdad.
Que canten los niños que viven en paz,
y aquellos que sufren dolor.
Que canten por esos que no cantarán
porque han apagado su voz.
Wednesday, 6. May 2009, 03:00:37
Monday, 4. May 2009, 21:15:47
Praying the Divine Office and the Rosary has become such a part of my life I can't imagine being without either one. The same is true for the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrement twice a week, along with Mass at least on Sunday but more often than not, on Friday evening as well. It is strange how this process evloves. Before I had a formalized prayer life this would have seemed to me to be extreme, now I find myself longing to go to Mass earlier in the week. It now seems like a very long time between Mass on Sunday morning until Friday evening, even though I am at the chapel on Monday and Thursday evening. I believe, that given the opportunity, I could easily progress to attendting daily Mass and not find it in the least burdonsome.
Divine Office is definitely the anchor. I would strongly recommend to anyone who is seeking to develop a life of prayer to make the effort of purchasing and praying the Divine Office. It is more than worth the investment in both time and money. There is quite an initial learning curve, but the guide that comes with this addition is a wonderful gift to beginners. Even with the guide, you will feel that you are stumbling around for awhile. But if you stay with it the process soon becomes clear. At first you will find yourself more concerning with ribbon placement than with reading.
But as long as you are forgiving to yourself and accept your fumblings as part of the process it all does come together. It has enriched my life in ways far beyond my expectations.
This is the version I use and love:
This is the version I use: http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Christian-Prayer-Catholic-Book-Publishing-Co/9780899424064-item.html?ref=Search+Books%3a+%2527christian+prayer%2527
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