Thursday, October 31, 2002

on love...

Sometimes we close our eyes and just listen to the echoes of our hearts. We all fall in love and there are times when we love so much that we lose ourselves in our own emotions.

More often than not, we wonder why there are love that grows, and love that grows cold. We would start to search for answer and try to find where love has gone wrong. But in the end, we find ourselves where we started for we cannot question love when it has its own reasons. Love will always be as it always has been.. silent, mysterious and deeply profound.

Many of us believe that love is forever, that love never dies, only to be disillusioned in the end when we find our hands empty and our hearts longing. We mistakenly have looked at love as a need to be fulfilled.

But love is only a gift given to us. We should not hold it in our hands for we may never find strength to let it go when it decides to leave. We should only embrace its warmth and glow while it last and then freely open our arms when its time to say goodbye.

When we fall in love with someone, we don't want that feeling to end for its everything we are, everything that we wanted to be. We pray that love will stay and grow in our hearts. But, if it doesn't then we should never let our lives be taken by it, for life should not end where heartaches begin.

There is always a reason why we have to move on. When we have to say goodbye to the feelings we wanted to stay forever, let us not have our hands with heavy heart. For love will have to set its wings free and find the place where it belongs. We may have lost it but then again, when we close our eyes and listen to the echoes of our hearts we will hear that feeling resounding silently forever.

Then we'll know that it has never left us, for the good that we have become of love will always stay. It will always be there reminding us that we should be thankful and happy, not because we have lost love, but because, for once in our lives that feeling lived in our hearts and made us happy.

Wednesday, October 30, 2002

C R O S S R O A D S

Sometimes, when I look back and think of all the

could-have-beens in my life,

I often wonder:

Did I make the right choice....

Did I miss a road sign....

Am I on the right track....



C R O S S R O A D S.....

They happen all the time,

Saying goodbye to some,

Choosing only one.

Letting go, holding on...settling for now,

But facing what must come.....



Yes, in life we all reach a crossroad sometime. We make painful decisions and take some risks as we pursue our dreams.

But one should not stay at the CROSSROADS too long. For even the birds have to leave their nests sometime & learn how to fly.

Life's road is long & rough, and there are stretches when one has to do it all alone.

And should you meet the cross at the road, be consoled.

Yes, more often than not, the road less travelled will surely bring you home.

Face the light and the shadow falls behind you.

Turn your back & the shadow stays in front of you.

Indeed, the truth hurts, but it will surely set you free.

The bitter pangs of parting will give birth to

another moment called GROWING.



So grow on.....until it's time for you to move

on....and face the crossroads again,

Knowing that God loves you and is in control of everything.

Be strong at the crossroads.

Embrace the CROSS at the ROAD.

The Lord is at the cross, at the road,

at all your CROSSROADS......