While singing in StarMaker (because I am a frustrated singer, yes. Hahahaha!), my Mom asked me for a little favor. She told me to go to Sta. Lucia Parish to schedule her for a mass offering tomorrow since it's her birthday. I didn't refuse considering that I am doing a not-so-important stuff. When I arrived at the Parish Office, it's already closed. Then when I saw a mother butler, I immediately asked her if what time did the office closed. She said that it's a "rest day" for the office and it will resume its work tomorrow at 9am. I was saddened that time not because I went there for nothing, but because Mom won't be able to make a mass offering on her special day. Well technically, she still can but on an evening mass, not on a morning mass.

I went there for the purpose of scheduling a mass offering for Mom. No more, no less. But suddenly before leaving, I felt the urge of having a me-time inside the Church itself. I went inside. Knelt down. Made the Sign of the Cross. And started to pray.

After praying, I felt lighter. Lighter in a sense that I have already threw up again the grudges that I had for these past few days. I also felt blessed because I was able to have the opportunity to thank Him again for all the graces He has given me.


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REALIZATION:


For me, prayer is not simply as something Christians do from time to time, but it is the very essence of our Christian life. Prayer is talking with God. It is an ongoing dialogue with God that keeps our relationship with Him. In its essence, prayer is a communion with God.

Prayer is certainly not persuading God to do what we want God to do. It is not said just for emergency purposes. Prayer is, however, much more than merely asking God for something. We get to know God in a manner of talking with (not only to) Him. 

Let's be reminded to keep our prayer simple. So often when we pray, we have this inner urge to share everything to Him as much as we can. But what we really need to do is to be still and know that He is God (Psalm 46:10). He already knows what's in our heart. We need not to say a lot, we should just simply allow ourselves to be loved by Him and to be present to Him.

Every day, take time to to be silent with the Lord. You may start with ten minutes, and then increase your prayer time gradually. Eventually, you will realize that it's not so much about you saying a lot of words to Him, it's more about Him saying beautiful and sweet words to you. :">



Inhale love, exhale hate!
♥ KIN ♥

*LATE POST*



APRIL 23. 2013

This morning, I was in front of my laptop doing my internet routine. Suddenly, there's someone who's knocking in our store. My cousin was supposed to go to our store, but since he was doing something in the kitchen, I volunteered to assist the buyer.

It was a little boy who's knocking. He's not familiar to me so I thought that he's just a visitor of one of our neighbors. He's some kinda dark-colored, has a hair which looks like a "coconut husk" as they say, and you can say that he came from an average type of family.

And our conversation goes like this..

Me: "Ano yun?"
Him: "Pabili po ng biskwit, isa."

Our biscuit costs 6php, but I saw the little boy holding only a 5-peso coin. Then I told him..

Me: "Ay, 6php isa nito. Kulang pa pera mo ng piso."
Him: "Ay sige po. Candy na lang po."
Me: "Ilan?"
Him: "Limang-piso po."

Then suddenly, something knocked inside my heart. I don't know what it is or where did it came from. It seems like the feeling of being compassionate became alive at that very moment.

I went inside our house to ask my cousin the real price of the biscuit. He told me that it's really 6php. When I get back to our store, I asked the little boy...

Me: "Anong biskwit ba? Ito ba?" (while pointing to the jar of Fita)
Him: "Hindi po. Yung katabi po nyan." (while pointing to the jar of Magic Flakes)
Him: "Salamat po."

And I ended up giving him the biscuit that he wanted. :)

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REALIZATION:

The biscuit is worth 6php. The little boy has only 5php. Instead of buying biscuit, he'll just buy candies worth 5php because he knows that it's the only thing that's enough for his money.

After that incident, I was able to reflect about what I did. The reason that I gave the biscuit worth 6php for only 5php is because I wanted the boy's tummy to be somehow contented, even though not that full. Imagine him munching 5 candies for breakfast? Ugh. That's not enough. I told myself that I'd rather pay back the difference of 1php than see that little boy endure his hunger. :)

It feels like heaven to help other people, most specially those that you don't know personally. It feels good to brighten another person's day by doing something thoughtful or nice. Kindness is a way of showing others that even in the face of hostility nowadays, you are making a good stand for kindness. By doing good deeds to others, you do not know that you are helping to build a kindness-aware community that values generosity of spirit towards other people. Remember that you don't need to wait for someone to initiate a day, a week, or even a month of celebrations to practice RAK. You can do it anytime, anywhere! :)



Inhale love, exhale hate!
♥ KIN ♥

“Being in a relationship doesn’t always mean a happy life. It requires some fights, bitterness, jealousy, brokenness, and everything numb will happen. But then, couples must be aware that love itself is life. It can sometimes go wrong. But whatever it is, people should be considerate and understand what they’re into, and should make the very ugliest thing into beautiful together and won’t let go of each other no matter what.”

Inhale love, exhale hate!
♥ KIN ♥