A Quote for the Day

  With the hunger of God welling in my soul, a soul cannot help but come back to Him again and again that he may bask in His glory, even if only in the glory of His Presence.

Certain people like former US Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney just lack insight on people, and read them like reading writings on a paper, seeing only the writings and not the soul behind those letters. As a consequence they misunderstood the letters, and missed on the people.

There is no other way towards a lasting peace of soul than this--accepting God's will whatever it maybe, wherever it may lead even to the portals of death (who can escape death anyway). Lay your troubles before his feet. You may have to do your best. But the outcome will always be a gift, may it be failure or success.

Like a rush of water let go from its mountain source and overwhelms everything on its path, curiosity can kill the soul.

To be of peace, a person must renounce the option towards violence. Self-defense becomes a search for means to subdue violence without using force that destroys the attacker. To be in peace, a person must renounce the voices of arrogance and selfishness that destroys the tranquility of the soul. Instead, he lets the peace-giving presence of God consume his soul each moment each day for the rest of his life.

In simple things comes the deepest of happiness, the joy of the soul.

The sad, and many times painful, hollow inside ourselves is a grace that invites a person towards the river of living water that only Jesus can give. Our emptiness is our looking glass revealing before our eyes the fleeting satisfaction we can enjoy from all created things. Like thirst and hunger that returns after few hours of the previous meal, emptiness visits us, and invites us to seek the presence of God in our lives from where we can draw a filling of our souls that will never be exhausted.