A Dream to Wish Come True ~ Poem

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Begin to Hope

One famous fable by Aesop tells about a thirsty crow that flew all over the fields to look for water. When the crow finally chanced upon a jug of water, it was unable to drink from it because the jug’s neck was too narrow and too heavy for the crow to push down. The crow was about to give up when it was suddenly hit by a good idea. It started picking up pebbles, dropping each into the jug. As more and more pebbles filled the jug, the water level kept rising. Soon it was high enough for the crow to drink. The plan worked!

Beyond the value of trying and trying until you succeed, the crow’s story tells us that with every challenge, we should not lose hope. If the crow had given up, it would not have found the jug of water, and it wouldn’t have thought of a great plan to quench its thirst.

Sometimes life is like that. A problem should present itself as simple and uncomplicated or it could unravel and reveal a myriad little challenges that you have to deal with before you can consider it as truly solved.

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Orphan stars shine – 1

Good morning everybody. When I’m reading some books, magazines, newspaper or anything, I always read first about youth, kids, children. And every time I read some bad articles happened to children, I thought that for a long time and asking myself why those instances happened to children. They are innocent. They still don’t know what is life all about and this happened to them. I want to share what I have read with reference to The Sunday Times (one of our newspaper).

Performance can be so important in the spiritual, emotional and intellectual development of children. They can carry the ideas and skills acquired from singing, dancing and acting into the classroom, and from there, onto the stage of real life. For children who call an orphanage home, these gifts are even more critical.

On October 25, the young residents of The Children’s Haven, an orphanage located in Cordova, Cebu, débuted their theatrical talents in a play titled Noah’s Ark as part of the Shining Stars program of the Bigfoot Asia-Pacific Foundation.

Founded in 2002, the Bigfoot Asia-Pacific Foundation’s mission encompasses educational, socio-economic and humanitarian outreach projects in and around the province of Cebu. “Developing the children’s interests and skills in the performing arts empowers them and allows them to believe in their own abilities,” says Kacy Andrews, CEO of Bigfoot Entertainment, the Foundation’s parent company. “We are happy to give our performing arts mentors, as well as our other company volunteers, the chance to share what they know with these wonderful kids.”

Fiona Cross, an employee of Bigfoot Entertainment, was the writer and director of the play, and also served as acting coach for the children in the show. When asked about her inspiration for the play, Ms. Cross said, “I wanted to produce a show that had themes which were relevant to their lives. I chose the biblical story of Noah’s Ark because of its messages of hope, survival and re-birth.”

A diamond for the youth - 2

We all get to a point in our lives where our vibrant dreams suddenly turn into a dismal blur. Some would instruct us to do our part then leave it all to God. On the other hand, some would insist that your human abilities are just not enough. So which is it, really? Is it because you lack the faith and fervent prayers to back your aspirations, or are you really not capable of receiving what you long for because of your lack of skills, patience or education? I guess that certain elements will always come to play when it comes to the achievement of things that we hope for. The first is your actual qualifications.

Ask yourself, are your credentials, training and experience sufficient for whatever goal you want to achieve? You cannot be the CEO of a large, multinational firm if you didn’t even finish college. Some may argue that there are still some people who make it big even without the necessary education, as seen in the success stories of dropouts who have become tech magnates or street children who have metamorphosed into boxing superstars. But this is simply a myth; one way or another, these people have paved their way to get there. They did not simply wake up one day with the hand of God casting them from the slums to the big time. They had to work long hours, developed virtues and self-studied to know how to get to where they are now.

And now you wonder why you have all it takes and you’re even overqualified, but you still don’t seem to be getting anywhere. Here’s where life’s most important aspect comes into play—making a huge effort where it matters most. There are those who might not be as talented, but they have excelled more because of their perseverance. After all, diamonds are simply bits of coal that stuck to their jobs. I admit that I am one of the many people who are guilty of the lack of this—I allowed myself to drift from one job to another, not focusing on just one thing because I thought that I could do everything. I also confess that I’ve considered immediate gratification rather than knowing the ropes and then earning my wings to orchestrate the show. Like most of the young people, I’ve sought acceptance, popularity and easy money. We all forget top build up on the essentials and never run out of excuses for not sowing yesterday what we could be reaping today.

Forgiving our mistakes and pledging to get better is the first way to get somewhere right. There’s a fine line between keeping your mess and fixing up straight. Your decision today will determine your tomorrow.

ref: inquirer.net

The Theme ... All Saints' Day - 1

The Roman Catholic Tradition of honoring the dead underscores the paradox of earthly existence and the needs of communicate with the mysterious parts of being. The theme confirms the universal longing for the ultimate knowledge. It subverts the science that governs the mind, for it announces that we live in order to die and die in order to live. Millions who follow the light of the belief continue to rely on its promised benevolence. We honor the dear because we want to be honored when we die. The ritual materials with which we manifest our belief – flowers, candles, prayers, vigils, meditations – strengthen our resolved and fortify our spirit, so that we vanquish without complaints the hardship attendant to the c celebration. We sweat through heavy traffic and under the noonday heat, we bear the din and the foulness of the marketplace into which the cemetery has been turned, we suffer the blast of radios and vocal chords that fracture the essence of our prayer, but these are insignificant when considered against the magnitude of hope that their toleration gives us.

For tolerance of pain is a desirable form of salutary martyrdom. It is loss with the promise of gain, or pain to be washed away by pleasure, of something emerging from nothing. But first there must be the realization of things as they are, rhapsodized by Wordsworth thus: “The rainbow comes and goes,/ And lovely is the rose;/ The Moon doth with delight/ Look round her when the heavens are bare;/ The sunshine is the glorious birth;/ But yet I know, where’er I go,/ That there hath pass’d away a glory from the earth’- before the vision comes of things as they will be: “Though nothing can bring back the hour/ Of splendor in the grass of glory in the flower;/ We will grieve not, rather find/ Strength in what remains behind.” In the theology of hope, every suffering accepted is a digit toward the required sum for salvation, for “God doth not need/ Either man’s work of His own gifts: who best/ Bear his mild yoke, they serve Him best.”