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Category Archives: Nature
Some Amazing Lessons
So much of life’s meaning can be gleaned from ordinary elements. Earth. The soil on which we plant that by which we live is nothing but clumps of earth. The hill and the mountains that we look up to for … Continue reading
We Are One
One of my first impulses in meeting new people, specially fellow Filipinos, is to find connections and common bonds. In so many ways, I ask where they are from, where they went to school, where they have worked. Then, I … Continue reading
The Two Sons – The Prodigal and The Dutiful
Great music always has a familiar sound to it. The melody sounds like something we have heard before even if we are hearing it for the first time. Great truths also have a familiar ring to them; because we already … Continue reading
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My Life As A Stalagmite
Stalagmites are formed by the constant dripping of countless water droplets rich in minerals from the ceilings to the floors in caverns. They are formed in the silence and the darkness, deep in the bowels of the earth. Droppings, darkness, … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Change, Discipline, Miracles
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God is in His Heavens
Yesterday was a God-is-in-His-heaven-and-all’s-right-with-the-world kind of day. It indeed reminded me of Pippa’s song by Robert Browning: THE year’s at the spring, And day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The hill-side’s dew-pearl’d; The lark’s … Continue reading
Who Would Have Thought?
Man is a rational animal, philosophers tell us. Yet, try as he does to always live by this truth, man often comes the edges and limits of his existence where reason does not make sense and rational logic is replaced … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Blessings, Gratitude, Serendipity
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Perspectives
Prayer beads or worry beads have long been used by various cultures such as Asian, African, Middle East, Anatolian, Ottoman, Turkish, Greek and Indian for meditation, protection from negative energy and to relieve stress. It must have been from these … Continue reading
Breaking Bread at the Commons
Bounty and abundance have always been the Law of Nature. Natural shortages such those brought about by droughts are often temporary. Man-made shortages such as those brought about by hoarding happen because man takes from nature out of greed instead … Continue reading
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Creation Spirituality is About Harmony
The Navajo Indians lived with beauty and bounty daily. They reverenced the sacredness of everything around them. Their outlook in life was to live in harmony with this beauty, this bounty and the sacredness of their surroundings. They were aware … Continue reading
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Creation Spirituality in Practice
I see Creation Spirituality very much alive among native American Indians. They are totally one with nature. They see their surroundings alive with the same vivifying principle that keeps them in existence. They see the desert and everything that is … Continue reading