As the year 2008 draws to a close, we ask ourselves how we have been during this year.
Was I hopeful or lacking in hope?
Was I happy or not?
Did I make the right decisions or have I acted on impulse?
Did the goals I set for myself and my family come true or did I not take the risks involved?
Has my faith been tested? Did I believe enough?
We look back and we learn.
We hope, we pray for a year better than the years past. These do not only take time to be fulfilled, it needs acceptance of the challenges ahead and taking the risks with our dignity intact.
Are you ready for 2009?
I am.
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GreenBucks: Thoughts for 2008
Teacher Julie: Thankful for the Year that was 2008
Tags: 2008, 2009, introspection, New Year, thoughts
Christmas is an excuse to indulge excessively, if you ask me. The spirit of giving to other and to the self is interpreted differently.
Sure, its nice to give (and to receive) but at times people equate this with price tags.
Christmas should be a day of thanksgiving, of introspection of what we can do in our small ways to “heal” the world.
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I wrote this comment in Lynn’s blog post when she answered my Weekly Question about Christmas traditions.
I know I am a bit overboard in my expectations of how Christmas should be spent. Maybe I was a bit annoyed when neighbors had their music blasting pop songs before the strike of twelve during Christmas Eve. For once, can’t people enjoy songs that lift the spirits, songs that sing about hope and love and about the reason why we are celebrating this special day?
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Tags: Christmas, introspection
Co-sleeping is one of the practices parents have when they have newborns. This is also being called as attachment parenting.
Here in the Philippines, it is a given to some families that children co-sleep with their parents even if they are way past being infants.
We co-sleep with our children till now when they do not feel well. Sometimes they just fall asleep on our bed and we don’t bring them to their own beds in the other bedroom. Sure, sometimes, its cramped but it just feels right for me.
Co-sleeping has its own pros and cons.
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Tags: bonding, parenting, sleeping
“Thank you”
Two small words that mean a big difference. In one of my other blog among others, I get a lot of inquiries. There are those who write “Thank you” “God bless you” whenever they end their queries, even if they are not sure that I will answer them.
Of course, I do answer, no matter how these inquiries were written.
Read on.
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Tags: good manners, gratitude
Why do you call on God? Why do you pray?
Do you call on God when you want to have a favor granted?
Do you talk to God when you want to ask for guidance before any decision is made?
Do you talk to God only when you are besieged with problems?
Do you talk to God to offer thanksgiving because He has been great to you and has made your life wonderful?
Do you talk to God just because? Whenever you feel like it, whenever you feel His power speaking to you, His greatness making you gush with awe and admiration, you talk to God.
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Tags: introspection, prayer, reflections, thoughts
