HOPE

HOPE is the thing with feathers 
that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words

and never stops at all!

-Emily Dickenson- 

May we never lose hope 
despite the pains, difficulties and struggles
that we might encountered in our lives!
Let us always trust in our abiding stronghold,
in our God-Who-Is-Always-With-Us...

GOD'S SEEMING ABSENCE AS GOD'S PROFOUND PRESENCE

"Dark Night of the Soul" is a profound feeling of God's seeming silence
and distance to everything that craves for deeper union with God

I have experienced the "Absence of God" so  profoundly

and that this "negation" has gradually became 
God's New Presence in my Life! 
May God be Praised!

EVER PRESENT GOD, 
THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME 
THAT YOU ARE THE GOD OF DARKNESS AS WELL.
EVEN IN MY DARKEST MOMENTS, YOU ARE THERE,
SEIZING ME AND LOVING ME.
I PRAY THAT I MAY ALWAYS FIND YOU
IN THOSE MOMENTS 
WHEN I AM UNMOVED TOTHE BEAUTY OF CREATION, WHEN I AM FROZEN TO THE LOVE OF COMMUNITY, WHEN I AM OBLIVIOUS OF YOUR ABIDING PRESENCE. AMEN.

You made the night your cloak,
you covered yourself in a canopy of storm clouds.
Psalm 18:11

You are the Light of my Life

"Yes, You are the Light of my life;

You shine through my darkness.

Yes, with you I can do all things;

and my spirit soars like an eagle.

Your way lead to wholeness,

O LOVING PRESENCE;

Your Word in me is Life;

How tenderly You live in my heart!"

Psalm 18

-Nan Merril, Psalms for the Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness

GOD'S GRACE DURING OUR DEEPEST NEEDS

GOD'S GRACE IN TIME OF OUR DEEPEST NEED

"There are so many ways that we feel God's tender touch in our lives,

but it is in time of loss that we discover the deepest meaning

of His tenderness" - Roy Lessin

In whatever difficult circumstances we may have found ourselves on our life's journey, it is my prayer that we may always find our own meaningful consolations and that we may come out in deeper hope and trust in God!