spiritual reveries: H O P E

here's the situation....

you have zero balance in your bank account.

your boyfriend cheated on you and left you.

your family is a mess.

your grades in school are going downward.

your jobs is like hell.

you're lonely and sad,

you're loveless,

you're moneyless,

you're hopeless....

but have you ever thought of other people's difficult struggles?

here we are, we're whining about money when other people are in the hospital just praying for another day to live?

here we are, we're crying about a guy who ran away and didn't love us back and there are people on the streets who can't even eat once a day?

here we are, we're bitchin' about our chaotic families but have we ever thought of the street children who just wants a family to call their own?

here we are, we're worried about getting good grades and getting decent paying job, and other people are dealing with the pains of losing a loved ones?

how selfish are we? how selfish that we just think about ourselves? how selfish are that we only worry about the clothes we wear, what restaurants to go to, what place to travel?

how do you tell people who struggle to find hope in a life filled with misery?

i cried today after reading an email of a person close to me who felt hopeless. i cried because i felt like i can't help her. last night before, i went to bed, i am sombered by a news of a girlfriend who told me the health condition of another girlfriend. i'm saddened by it becaused i know the signs and symptoms and the prognosis of that condition. just minutes ago, tears fell from my eyes again because i know another friend of mine is still constantly healing after a loss of a family member. and i asked myself, "how do i help her?" and i realized, i couldn't. she has to heal on her own...in the right time.

and i'm thinking of a jerk who broke my heart? i felt stupid.

SHAME ON ME.

and then out or nowhere, i found myself typing these verses to one of the people i mentioned above...

"they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles. they shall run and not be weary; they shall run and not faint." (isaiah 40:31)

"strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees."(isaiah 35:3)

"i will not leave you comfortless; i will come to you." (john 14:18)

that is all i can do. all i can do is pray for them...pray for life, pray for health, pray for healing, pray for HOPE.

in my difficult times, and when i am tired and weary, i always think of the wonders around me. and then i remind myself (the same way i ended my response to that lonesome email), as long as there is a sun that shines, as long as the wind blows, as long as the birds fly, as long as the rainbow comes after the rain, as long as my heart beats, and i breath...with all these every day blessings and miracles, and more....

i certainly believe there is H O P E.

when all is gone and out...

there will always be H O P E.

so keep praying for those who needs it.

but above all, keep believing.

PRAYER: Lord, when the our world is in gloom and we feel tired and weary, may we realize the miracles of your love for us. remind us that as long as there is a breath of life, then there will be hope. if there are trials and bad days, give us the perseverance to remember that "this, too, shall pass." sorry for our selfishness and forgive us for our shortcomings. i asked you this in your most precious name. AMEN.

posted by pinay freestyle @ 11:13 PM

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