Like A Sunflower

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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do. ~ Helen Keller I know there's not much truth in the notion that the sunflower keeps changing it's direction based on the movement of the sun. However, I'm prepared to take on board any advice from such a woman as Helen Keller. I don't know about you, but I know I can certainly learn something from the sunflower. But sometimes, I'm dense and I don't learn my lessons well enough.  So I allow myself to be … [Read more...]

An Easter Reflection

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This evening I was asking my mom how come we didn’t have any recollection in preparation for the Easter triduum. I felt my soul dry and asked God for relief. I rummaged my treasures from my memories and the books I read and three things came to my mind… Of Crabs, Onions And Caterpillar Columns: An Easter Reflection By: Melissa Tandoc I remembered my grandmother, when I was three, recounting Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Onion,” a fable from The Brothers Karamazov: Once upon a time … [Read more...]

Fame! I’m Going To Live Forever

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Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere. ~Mark 1:45 During my preteen and teen years, my bedroom walls are plastered with posters of pop music artists whom I adore. Idolize even. Oh, what I wouldn't give to meet just one of them! My adolescent fantasies hope, wistfully, that I, too, can one day be as celebrated as they … [Read more...]

Beauty is a light in the heart

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When I was a little girl (oh so many years ago!), my Mum would tell me the following story: Centuries ago a great artist was engaged to paint a mural for the cathedral in a Sicilian town. The subject was the life of Christ. For many years the artist labored diligently, and finally the painting was finished except for the two most important figures: the Christ Child and Judas Iscariot. He searched far and wide for suitable models. One day while walking in the city he came upon some children … [Read more...]

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