wheeeeeeeeeeee!

i have a new niece! so that explains the title..hekhek.. she was born two days before my first niece's first birthday. aint that cute? that reminds me, my birthday's on the 30th so that makes three pretty little girls in our family January babies! so kewl!

from my philosophy teacher

WAS I IN HEAVEN OR HELL?

Reflections in my philosophy classes these past few days on DEATH gave me a "gift of insight" on the real issue concerning heaven or hell. We often wonder whether God will take us to heaven or to hell after death. We most probably think of ourselves as good people deserving heaven but with humility, senses that we failed also in so many ways, big or small, and hence can only ask God for grace and forgiveness to be admitted. If we were evil, we pray that God will forgive us anyway since He is a merciful father and then we will still be given permission to enter heaven after a shorter sentence in purgatory. In the other side, the choice can no longer be ours as humans but God's. Our final resting place is God's Choice alone.

The real issue for us humans, today and everyday, must rather be whether we live each day in the most "humanly and heavenly way" with the limitations of material nature and human freedom. The question is instead "Did I "live" heaven today?" "Did I behave in such a way that my life creates a heaven on earth because of the love that I share to the least, last and lowly?" "Are my intentions, choices, speech, work, thoughts consistent with spiritual values?" Or "do I choose ways that fits only animals and demons because my choices are selfish and materialistic?" "Do I curse even the already little good things, or give praises and exclamations of joy to testify to the abundance of little miracles and blessings that we often neglect?" Bigger miracles rarely happen and are a special privilege of those who were chosen as examples.

In the end, if we follow the road less traveled which is often thorny, rocky, windy, dusty, and stormy WE ARE ALREADY IN HEAVEN. The spirit is hidden perhaps behind the thick dark clouds to surprise us when the glory of its brightness is soon revealed. How beautiful!

The smooth and easy road of wealth without work, pleasures and extravagance without conscience, knowledge and degrees without character, business profit without ethical consideration for humans and nature, scientific and industrial development without humanity for the third (fourth and fifth) worlds, religion without sacrifice in oneself and for a neighbor, and politics without principles of justice and mercy – these darkens the soul and clouds its true lights from emerging to glory.

It is possible to create more traffic in the road less traveled. We can Pass Forward the idea and the motivation.

Live heaven everyday. If we do not, we have been dead long before we die; prayers may be too late. Good Work is a silent prayer everyday.

>> i really like this piece of insight so, i thought everybody deserves a chance upon this.

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this is all your fault! where in the world are you?!

happy new year!

cheers for the new year!

no 2006 resolutions for me! well, not yet. i don't really make my list on new year's day, i do it on my birthday..to be different and more meaningful. for me, that is..

by the way, my borthday's some time at the end of this month, i still got lots of time to make my list, it'll be ready for implementation by then..i hope! ;-)