Tuesday, April 29, 2008

turning from attachment to >> desire

So much of the journey forward involves a letting go of all that once brought us life.

We turn away from the familiar abiding places of the heart, the false selves we have lived out, the strengths we have used to make a place for ourselves and all our false loves, and we venture forth in our hearts to trace the steps of the One who said, “Follow me.”

In a way, it means that we stop pretending: that life is better than it is, that we are happier than we are, that the false selves we present to the world are really us. We respond to the Haunting, the wooing, the longing for another life. Pilgrim begins his adventure toward redemption with a twofold turning: a turning away from attachment and a turning toward desire. He wanted life and so he stuck his fingers in his ears and ran like a madman (“a fool,” to use Paul’s term) in search of it.

The freedom of heart needed to journey comes in the form of detachment. As Gerald May writes in Addiction and Grace, Detachment is the word used in spiritual traditions to describe freedom of desire. Not freedom from desire, but freedom of desire . . . An authentic spiritual understanding of detachment devalues neither desire nor the objects of desire. Instead, it “aims at correcting one’s own anxious grasping in order to free oneself for committed relationship to God.” According to Meister Eckhart, detachment “enkindles the heart, awakens the spirit, stimulates our longings, and shows us where God is.”

With an awakened heart, we turn and face the road ahead, knowing that no one can take the trip for us, nor can anyone plan our way.

(The Sacred Romance , 149)

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Few of my fav Homeboy pics

even people like him crack up pretty often...we're human afterallll
God bless him richly!!!



Thursday, April 17, 2008

Silly but true: One Tree Hill

most people who know me long enough, know that i loved to watch One Tree Hill.. i was always there at 8pm on thursday getting ready at StarWorld. Unfortunately the season stalled at Season 4..and i miss it even now. My fav character on the series was Peyton Sawyer. The lovely Peyton who would do anything for people she loved.

Then i did this random test on Tickle.com on
Which One Tree Hill Character Are You?
and to my amazement this is the test result:

Michelle, you're Peyton Sawyer

Sure, you're one tough cookie, but that doesn't mean you're tough at the center. When it comes to the things you're passionate about, you probably don't mind letting your feelings show. Most of your friends think of you as someone who's with them through good and bad. You usually do your best to be good to the people you care about, even when it means making the really tough decisions.Okay, sometimes you lose your way (and maybe your temper, too) and things end up more complicated than they need to be. But one of the best things about being totally hard core is being able to bounce back no matter what. In the end, most of the people you love know just how much they mean to you even if you don't always know the right way to show it.

when i got the result i was like ..."yesssssssssssshhhhh! muahahahah"

silly to be so excited about things like this right?? haha its becoz that SO ME.. =) hehe

Friday, April 11, 2008

"Shadowfeet" by Brooke Fraser

sorry guys... i cant get enough~ but this is for myself anyway =P
do let the lyrics speak to your heart!



"Shadowfeet"

Walking,stumbling on these shadowfeet
toward home,a land that i've never seen
I am changing: less and less asleep
made of different stuff than when i began
and i have sensed it all along
fast approaching is the day

[CHORUS]
when the world has fallen out from under me
I'll be found in you, still standing
when the sky rolls up and mountains fall on their knees
when time and space are through
I'll be found in you

Theres distraction buzzing in my head
saying in the shadows it's easier to stay
but I've heard rumours of true reality
whispers of a well-lit way

[CHORUS]

You make all things new

[CHORUS]

[CHORUS 2]
When the world has fallen out from under me
I'll be found in you, still standing
Every fear and accusation under my feet
when time and space are through
I'll be found in you

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

"Albertine" by Brooke Fraser with Children in Rwanda

God had led this great gal yet again to write about what is on His heart. Get ready for this in our own lives. Get ready !



"Albertine"

I am sitting still
I think of Angelique
her mothers voice over me
And the bullets in the wall where it fell silent
And on a thousandth hill, I think of Albertine
there in her eyes what I don't see with my own
rwanda

[CHORUS]
now that I have seen, I am responsible
Faith without deeds is dead
now that I have held you in my own arms, I cannot let go till you are


I am on a plane across a distant sea
But I carry you in me
and the dust on, the dust on, the dust on my feet
Rwanda

[CHORUS]

[BRIGDE]
I will tell the world, I will tell them where I've been
I will keep my word
I will tell them Albertine

[CHORUS]

I am on a stage, a thousand eyes on me
I will tell them, Albertine
I will tell them, Albertine