20/01/2016

Learning to win life...

        Looking at daily missal readings of this week, we are left with our mouths open by the immense and great teaching we are given on how to win life.  
        Nice things do not happen always. Like the day which shines or rains at times, there are unwholesome matters that come unpredictably in our way. Good memories are ever there for sure, but bad moments also come in our lives. the days, the sun, the moon, the week, the earth will never stop their rotation or motion just because we are in bad or in good moods, health or not, happy or sad, life goes on and we need to hear these words to keep head high: (1 Samuel 16, 1)...the lord said to Samuel, " how long will you grieve over Saul?...Fill your horn with oil and set out..."
        When we are born, we all cry as a sign of welcome to the world - the world is a war zone; a battle field; life is a journey of battle. But to win life, we should understand that our power is minute to tangle the enemies of life, we need extra power from God because the battle is His: (1 Samuel 17.32-33, 47) David said, " The Lord, who saved me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, will save me form the hand of Goliath...For the battle is the Lord's..."

“On Death and Dying“

The idea of death makes one aware of one's life, one's vital being – that which is impermanent and will one day end.   When ...