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Wednesday, November 29

Morning

"He who loves you will be happy if he can share your burden, provided you let him share it."

If this is not an offer of friendship, then what is. =)

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posted by Graciana@Home at 7:35 am

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Friday, November 24

BEING HUMAN

It is only shallow people who say they do not judge by appearance. This world is tangible and visible world, we are humans and too 'humanly stigmatized' in seeing. Of course we dream of transparency, and transparency is most liberating. To experience the luminousness of someone, of people being what they are; that is the greatness. But deceit is what we practice every day, even to ourselves. Are always enclosed in this terrible varnish and carapace of false familiarity with self and world, which is not only hard to break through, but will be always there. These burdens of pride. And pretence. And artificiality. Cease imagining that one can be truthful, but realize that all of us are hypocritical fakes. Only when one has done this realization that perhaps it is possible to move into a more genuine affinity with mankind. There are burdens we must carry together.

Labels: Christian Living, Love and Friendship

posted by Graciana@Home at 6:21 am

it used to be that what's inside is more important, but these times are image-driven indeed. so much so that what's inside is sacrificed to hone outside appearance to pitch-perfection.

and indeed those who would be against the tides of the age will sustain some sort of inconvenience, or even injury.

but let it suffice now as before for us to know that God does not condone hypocrisy. and that God, then as now and always, is perfectly capable of miracles to wreak havoc on the ordered course of nature. even if that slice of nature is called the self of a weak human being =).

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Anonymous : 9:45 am

Thank you for the reminder, anonymous =)
Yes, while humankind shares brotherhood and are companions in misery, the ones in Christ are bonded in mercy and blessedness and hope =)

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Wednesday, November 22

Process = Vicissitudes

(I know it is always better that we know what we are doing.)

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posted by Graciana@Home at 5:15 pm

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We want to see something where we would otherwise not see it. If after so many looks we still can’t see something is there, we conclude that it is not there. It would not occur to us to say that it is there because someone else says it is there. (Yet it is also well-known that our perception can be influenced by what we expect to see, and especially what we have been stigmatized for not seeing.) If something must be seen only by someone who already believes that it was intended to be there, then that something must not be there at all in the first place. A condition for something to have faith for is it must not be there in the first place. It needs faith to see and to receive what is given.

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posted by Graciana@Home at 10:08 am

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To love her

I have always meant it sincerely. Now I can only reject and resent one's truculent response. If in one's eyes I am one who doesn't love, then let me be that to her.

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posted by Graciana@Home at 10:04 am

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Monday, November 20

Is S safe?

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posted by Graciana@Home at 4:06 am

May be safer.

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Help me discern.

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Wednesday, November 15

I like to be alone, too.

I often say, 'I like to be alone.' Perhaps these days, more than a few, I'll be receiving replies like 'I like to be alone too. Why not be alone together?'

Labels: Love and Friendship

posted by Graciana@Home at 5:24 pm

iya, for ppl to be alone at the same time is okay, what :P ?

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Friday, November 10

Postmo Art observed.

Postmo sees life as contradicting and not easily reduced to logical consistency while leaving it undecided and ambivalent. No way of discriminating between real and apparent, each suggestion is always encountered by opposite suggestion, and to the extent that all forms of pleasure reap despair. I am thankful that with Christian faith as foundation I grew more and more comfortable with paradoxes, those that seem contradicting yet in essence are not. 'It got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.' (GK Chesterton) While the rest sees extreme ends in life as not able to stand each other, in Christian faith one extreme involves, compliments and must stand with the other.

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posted by Graciana@Home at 6:19 am

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To me, I am an ‘I’. To you, I am a ‘You’. This is deep enough distinction between each other. I need to be me, you need to be you. When we are friends to each other, I help you to be you, and you help me to be me. With the help of God and each other, we shall become ourselves. Friends help each other to fulfill the duty to be more ourselves, and not less. In the world to come, I shall not be asked, ‘why were you not someone else?’ I shall be asked, ‘why were you not G.G?’ We become more ourselves by realizing the ‘selves’ God originally intended for us. And it always begins with trust that God’s is best.

Friends also help each other to be more like each other. Not in the manner of fashioning self to the other self, but to find and imitate the Creator who is in and above each other.

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posted by Graciana@Home at 4:58 am

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Saturday, November 4

To love

The lesson of loving is hard. I shy away for the lack of faith. I creep away in hurt and disillusionment. I turn aside in willful disobedience. I remembered the disciples' words, ‘This is hard teaching, who can accept it?' and 'You do not want to leave too, do you?’, Jesus asked. ‘Lord, to whom shall I go?’ That, for me, is the bottom-line answer to why I am still around. I admit the reason I stay is the lack of good alternatives. Lord, to whom shall I go? See, the only thing harder than to love is not to love at all. There is only one thing to do if my reservoirs of love run dry, to go deeper into Love.

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posted by Graciana@Home at 3:54 am

yea...it's tough...love is always tough...but through love, men can be willing to do anything for their loved ones...e.g. to tolerate, to change for the better, to wait, to forgive, etc...Really a mysteriously powerful and godly quality.

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I'm starting to wonder if it's also bcos of the lack of good alternatives for me :P lolz

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To love is hard because we are creatures who love poorly, or rather, cannot love.
But to cease loving simply means to cease living too, we do not have options. I pray that every day loving will have deep grounding in the love of God. That ‘We love because He first loved us.’ And I need to pray every day too, that may loving God and loving others come hand-in-hand. That may God Himself be love’s reward. =)

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Meditation:
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great
and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love
your neighbor as yourself.
-- Matthew 22:37-39 (ESV)

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Quotation:
The one supreme, unchangeable rule of love, which is a law
to all intelligent beings of all worlds, and will be a law to
all eternity, is this, viz., that God alone is to be loved for
himself, and all other beings only in him, and for him.
Whatever intelligent creature lives not under this rule of
love, is so far fallen from the order of his creation, and is,
till he returns to this eternal law of love, an apostate from
God, and incapable of the kingdom of heaven.
Now if God alone is to be loved for himself, then no
creature is to be loved for itself; and so all self-love in
every creature is absolutely condemned.
And if all created beings are only to be loved in and for
God, then my neighbor is to be loved, as I love myself, and I
am only to love myself, as I love my neighbor, or any other
created being, that is only in and for God.
... William Law (1686-1761), The Spirit of Prayer,
1.2-38,39,40 [1749]

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Quiet time reflection:
Lord, implant in my heart the love You have for my
neighbor.

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Thursday, November 2

Friendship

Be Thou alone exalted over my friendships. And that You alone stand between me and my friends.

Labels: Love and Friendship

posted by Graciana@Home at 3:22 am

I read something similar yesterday. It was from 1 Samuel 20:42. "Jonathan said to David, '... The LORD shall be between me and you ....'"

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