Wanna cheat?

For the lessons of life
are only those that add to life.



What's
the secret to success
at the University of Life,
commonly known as
the School of Hard Knocks?

Cheating. 

Yes, cheating.

All exams taken here
are better taken - together -
with other students of the universe
and with open notes.

Because by listening
to some of each of our own life's lessons,
we can learn - together - to grow and surpass
those phases in our lives that keep our spirits
stagnant and non-responsive to the drive
that inexorably drive all living beings
toward peace and ultimate happiness.

Wanna cheat?
---<--@

Far Shores

When love is near to us,
everything in our love draws close
to our hearts: Far shores become near.



Life lived in their moments
are more precious than life lived
in their seconds.

For all moments in life
are but natural to our living,
they have no count...
being by God
blessed.

But seconds can be counted,
even by its fractions, even by its sums,
being a thing of man-made measure
and are therefore,
fleeting.

For all things without count
are all the things that truly matter
to the heart of Man.

Starshine,
which one contains the other?
---<--@

Recovery Cat

Recovery cat enjoying the gifts of recovery...
ordinary cat life is so freakin' awesome!

'Tis bettre than drugges, savvy?

---<--@

Love that thou might live

Starshine, may we always be in love.



Life is all too beautiful,
all too precious, and all too short
to be wasted on hatred and all those species of un-love
that leads one's soul unto ignorance of what matters
the most... here in our time, Now in this life.

Those who live for anger
know that the alienation of hatred
is permanent.

For theirs are those whose spirits move
from wilderness to wilderness
finding neither company
nor safe abode.

But those who live for love
know that, through one may become angry
and restless for a day,
one may always return to love
and find peace.

- selah -

Fugitive to thy own heart!
Exile to thy own longing to return,
live no more for hatred and find safety -
love Now that thou might live.
---<--@

Tricky Angel

Addiction is cunning, baffling and powerful.



"Make peace with your addiction, 
find a place for it in your life, you can do it!
Everybody does it, it's harmless, no one will mind...",
the strange impulse said to my innermost self.

I struggle for answers like Peter sinking in the water.
Many a times I gave in to the temptation and drowned.

But if I held firm, if I stay put, if I trust and not panic...
something else comes to me... in many different guises,
in persons - mine and others, events, places, creatures, things,
above all - through Eucharistic bread and wine - my Savior,
my blessed Savior, my Jesus comes and finds me!

"No, my Jesus will! He will mind. For I am of His flock.
How will I explain this (in confession and in the communion of prayer)
to my most loving God and Giver of all good things in my little life
if I place upon His Throne in my heart a pretender to my love
such as you - Tricky Angel?", I thought to myself.

- selah -

Tricky Angel,
I know you and I know your tricks.

I know you from your mouth - laden with lies,
your tricks from the rottenness of its fruits.

I understand you not and desire of you
no understanding whatsoever.

In the Name of my most blessed Lord Jesus Christ,
highly to be adored and praised, my Savior, my God,
exalted above all the heavens and across all the earth,
by His Blood, by His Wounds, by His Passion, and Cross -
I command you to leave, begone from me!

I choose Jesus.