Pursue Loyalty

This morning I was reading my email and I found this and it caught my attention. Because we live in an era where loyalty and integrity is missing and that is sad.

"Have you ever noticed that righteousness and loyalty go together? In other words, if we're not being loyal to - our family, friends, country, job - then we aren't going to experience God's best. Loyal people are honorable people. When you're loyal, you stick with someone through thick and thin. When you are loyal, you keep your word to people - even if you get a "better" offer."

"Loyal people are respectful of their country and leaders. Loyal people honor their parents and defend their family. When you are loyal, you are a person of integrity. You build trust with others. Is this an area where you can rise higher? Are you faithful in the things you're committed to? Don't let the distractions of everyday life keep you from being dedicated. Look for ways to show honor to those around you. Is there something you need to set aside for the sake of a loved one? Show love by staying loyal."

Joel Osteen

Keep Trying

Sitting meditating on the imprudence of life. So many years choosing to do the best. But at the same time feeling the passage of time. Dreams not achieved, mental fatigue. Seeking to achieve a dream but at the same time looking at the distance and recognize how far is that dream.

It will be stubbornness on my part, ignorance or self-denial. But I keep trying, maybe for rebellion, to find that world that really fills me, a place where I really feel part of it. Because that is life...never give up.

And even if there are days when my ships wrecks, there will be always a lifeguard, an exit or an opportunity to keep trying. Maybe a new dawn or a beautiful sunset that will recharge me again to take the next step...and keep trying.

Ever I Love You

https://youtu.be/ZItHAG_TSIE

Waiting for a Message

"At times we realize that we can interpret a message as negative when is only an invitation to expect, but as will not know at the time, we must drop what anchor us and follow our lite path luggage, hoping that were are going in the right direction and it has to be in our life to make us grow, to align to our happiness, to stay for ever or for short time, will be without force"

"If you are waiting for a message  that does not arrive, that is also a message"

By Sarah Espejo

http://rincondeltibet.com

Love in Action

One night a man came to our house and told me, "There is a family with eight children. They have not eaten for days." I took some food and I went. When I finally came to the family, I saw the faces of those little children disfigured by hunger. There was no sorrow or sadness in their faces, just the deep pain of hunger.

I gave the rice to the mother. She divided in two, and went out, carrying half of the rice with her. When she came back, I asked her, "Where did you go?" She gave me this simple answer, "To my neighbors - they are hungry also."

I was not surprised that she gave - because poor people are generous. But I was surprised that she knew they were hungry. As a rule, when we are suffering, we are so focused on ourselves that we don't have time for others.

- Mother Teresa

Malaika

https://youtu.be/SXDoiNWuVCI

See it Through

When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face;

Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet and take a brace.

Lift your chin and set your shoulders,

plant your feet and take a brace.

When it's vain to try to dodge it,

do the best you can do;

You may fail, but you may conquer,

See it through!

Black may be the clouds about you,

and you future may seem grim,

but don't let your nerve desert you;

Keep yourself in fighting trim.

If the worst is bound to happen,

Spite of all that you can do,

Running from it will not save you,

See it through!

Even hope may seem but futile;

When with troubles you're beset,

But remember you are facing

Just what other men have met.

You may fail, but fall still fighting;

Don't give up, whate'er you do:

Eyes front, head high to the finish,

See it through!

By Edgar Guest

Illumination of the Heart

https://youtu.be/qjvBzlJkE8M

William Ackerman - The Bricklayer's Beautiful Daughter (2004)

https://youtu.be/9Cpaqo0GCMQ

Being and Breathing

One warm evening may years ago...

After spending nearly every waking minute with Angel for eight straight days, I knew that I had to tell her just one thing. So late at night, just before she fell asleep, I whispered it in her ear. She smiled - the kind of smile that makes me smile back - and she said, "When I'm seventy-five and I think about my life and what it was like to be young, I hope that I can remember this very moment."

A few seconds later she closed her eyes and fell asleep. The room was peaceful - almost silent. All I could hear was the soft purr of her breathing. I stayed awake thinking about the time we'd spent together and all the choices in our lives that made this moment possible. And at some point, I realized that it didn't matter what we'd done or were we'd gone. Nor did the future hold any significance.

All that matter was the serenity of the moment.

Just being with her and breathing with her.

The moral: We must not allow the clock, the calendar, and external pressures to rule our lives and blind us to the fact that each individual moment of our lives is a beautiful mystery and a miracle - specially those moments we spend in the presence of a loved one.

Written by Marc Chernoff