reflections this holy week...

taken from recent posts at the egroup...

(from Tere Contreras, 23 March 2005, 9:40am)

"If God gave you a dozen roses and you ask why there are no thorns, He would just smile, show His bleeding hands and say, "I took them away so you wouldn't get hurt.

Lenten diet : l. Eat your words, 2. Swallow your pride, 3. Digest God'steachings, 4. Eliminate your ego, and 5. For dessert, indulge in prayer.

Faith is like water in a riverbed. The more you have, the smoother it flows over the rocks of hardships and difficulties.

(from Menchu Carrasco, 22 March 2005, 10:13am)

"Lord, help me to reach out to others today to demonstrate comfort and compassion. Make Your hands extended to a lost and hurting world" - Charles Stanley, Into His Presence

(from Lucy Bravo, 22 March 2005, 7:48am)

..."when someone has gone through more than a soul can endure it is not up to us to know the answers. It is not in our hands, nor in our position to explain the purpose of God. God Himself will have to explain Himself - in His time, in His way, to the very person who undergoes such bitter pain that forces the question “Why?”

It is a time when God alone can work out a way to comfort, soothe, console, strengthen - in ways that escape us. We have no idea how,
when, where, or through whom. Least of all do we know how or why. It is times like these when we say, “God is God, and man is man. In between these are all the things we cannot know, and all the ways we can only leave to God to reveal to each individual soul”.

God is more than everything that man has ever conceived, thought of, or understood. Trust that He is God, be still and know that He is God, enter into the mystery of Him being God, fall into His arms as God.” Because God is who He is. With this are the many things in life best left in His hands to work out and explain, if He so wills, when He so wills. We leave it all with Him..."

(from Tina Eddun, 21 March 2005, 3:48pm)

..."Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want; it is the realization of how much you already have.

When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches."