Sunday, February 26, 2006 

my ultimate journey


Mine and yours, actually..

I have initially had had no reassurance passage for this trip. In certain respects at any rate, I have as yet not made even a single step on this journey. The sheer folly of how this sounds like is that the journey is simply towards home. In certain respects, for me to even be able to do a step on this journey is to say that I have then passed from this world and plane of existence. Ergo, my real home is not here in the here and now. Yet I have equipped myself with a compass and a guide.. And like the travails of Frodo.. I have been granted an uncanny fellowship of also unworthy companions on this odyssey.
So then, what do I use as my home now? Or in maybe posing another line - where am I? One also needs to ground oneself first and know his position relative to his world-at-large in order to move onto the desired destination.
For now, the here and now is "home."
For the here and now, there is just a multitude of issues and demons and crossroads one needs to face and overcome.
For the here and now, it's something about how God has moved (read: disturbed) this journey in this my world again tremendously.
Still, life must go certainly.. Mayhaps with more caution now.. But it must go on with certainty. The call remains to remain in the faith always and more so especially to be true. Also it has been said, "So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead." No greater work is there than to love. And yet to love more so. And there is so much to love in this journey grace-filled.
Indeed, life must go on certainly still. In this world where I am at especially.
So it must be then, in mine and yours, actually.

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Thursday, February 16, 2006 

Pag-aalay Sa Aking Natatangi


ON this day, a most beautiful Day celebrates once more a life blessed. A life blessed unto us all and to me. And to me indeed this is a most beautiful day as also she is my beautiful Day.
When we were wed we declared to each other solemn oaths of love and prayer and the following is mine..

Inaalay ko ang aking buong pagkatao
unang-una sa Panginoon sa ating pag-iisa na ngayon.
Kinikilala ko na ikaw ang kaganapan
ng Kanyang lubos na pag-ibig din sa akin
at isasabuhay ko rin ang Kanyang pangako para sa atin.

Nasimulan na ang mga araw na mas higit pa
kitang mamahalin at sa buong panahon ay pasasalamatan
at pangangalagaan ko ang pag-ibig na dulot Niya.
Dasal ko na lubos na magyabong pa ang ating pagmamahalan.

Sa gitna ng hapis at ligaya at san man tayo maparoon
ay ako ang iyong mapagmahal na katuwang at kaibigan
at butihing ama sa ating magiging pamilya.
Igitna natin lagi si Hesus sa sentro ng ating pagsasama
at lahat ng pangamba ay ialay natin sa kanya.

Walang pangamba sa pag-ibig na ito na dulot Niya
at maging dasal ng pasasalamat ang bawat saglit ng ating pag-iisa.

And I hold to these words sacred and true to you, my dearest beloved Day. May God help us indeed for our life together in His love and care. I offer you most to Him whom gave you to me - my true gift. A true gift is said to be a great gift given so but even yet undeserved. Only God can fathom how much a true gift you are to me.. may today you have indeed a most blessed and joyful birthday, my Day.

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