...JUST TO SIMPLY MAKE YOU SMILE...

Inspiration:    Matthew 6:19-23; Philippians 1:20-24

Dearest Lord,

I took so many turns in my life.

I followed Your voice anywhere You called me.

There were times, I got lost

But You never allowed me

To go astray so far from You.

I walked through paths

Winding, steep, smooth, easy…

There were those less travelled

But I took them because You said so.

Even if I shed tears or roared laughter

As long as I journeyed with You,

I took the path…

One day, ever dearest Lord,

At the end of my journey,

I dream of being with You,

To spend my eternal life with You…

Aaah, that’s the ultimate dream I have…

I see death before as something so scary,

A snatcher of life…

But what is the beauty of this world

Compared to the magnificence

Of being cradled in Your arms,

Of seeing You face to face?

Thank You for Your light.

Now I see death as the only doorway

Towards my being with You.

But for now that I still live in this world,

Dearest Lord, my greatest dream

Is to “simply make You smile.”

If I fulfill this dream each day,

Then I shall be rewarded

Of my ultimate dream

Of eternally being with You.

My salvation is of great importance,

But life is all about You

And simply making You smile each day,

For me, is the essence of living…

Hugz tightest, my Beloved,

‘til the day we meet face to face.

Amen.

Have a Twinkling Soul!

-luisadelacruz 

A MOMENT OF PAUSE

Ever dearest Father,

by Your grace I am alive

but if right at this moment

You stop breathing Your breath in me,

I humbly ask,

please send Jesus to fetch me…

Ever dearest Jesus,

my Beloved,

before I close my eyes

and leave my body behind,

please help me forgive those I cannot,

and forgive me, too, for all my sins.

Wash away in me with Your Most Precious Blood

what is in me that is not pleasing to the Father…

Ever dearest Spirit of Love,

please pour Your joy and peace

upon my love ones.

May love heal their pain

that they mourn

in just a little while in my absence,

but more so rejoice

that I will be with You in eternal life…

Ever dearest God,

if I only make it in purgatory,

please inspire my love ones

to pray for me that I may soon

be with You in heaven.

Death may bring me pain

but if it is the only doorway for me

to finally see You face to face

and spend eternal life with You,

then I shall welcome it,

 for what I desire most in my heart

is to eternally rest in Your bosom…

 Dearest Mama Mary,

please pray for me

at the brink of the moment of my life

as I stop breathing…

Amen.

- luisadelacruz

MY SIMPLE DREAM....

My life's dream is just simple….to know God and love Him each day more than the day before. If I can achieve this, I will know His ways and I can possess habitual sensitivity of the Lord and introduce Him to people in a personal way, many will genuinely love Him.

A simple dream, but it is so hard to achieve because of the many temptations that force me to be pulled away from this dream of mine….It is just great that God is so patient with me and never ceases to forgive me. His arms are always open to receive me....to accept who or what I am....Where can you ever find that kind of love? 

When i die, that is the ultimate fulfillment of my dream because I can really be with God. I can truly see Him face to face and fully know Him. That is my joy....My simple dream....

....I (Jesus) will see you again,

and your hearts will be filled with gladness,

the kind of gladness, that noone can take away from you.

John 16:22 

THE BEAUTY OF DYING

My dear Papa was hospitalized for months. He was diagnosed with cancer. It was a shock for the whole family, especially to my beloved Mama. They had been married for forty-two years and blessed with four beautiful daughters (that includes me, of course). Through life’s ups and downs, our family stuck together with Jesus as our guiding light.

When my dear Papa died, wow, that was huge for me. I thought I was ready for any death in the family because for me everybody would die sooner or later (knock, knock…our life here is just temporary, you know). But I found out, I’m human…..with a soft heart…..prone to pain. He was supposed to check out from the hospital for his condition was improving, but complications found a way in his body. I prayed for his recovery with all the sincerity I could put into it (pls, pls, pls Lord). I cried. I begged. I danced (just kidding). But then, I saw him in the ICU helpless with so many machines and tubes attached to him. I went to the chapel and I cried like there was a waterfall in my eyes (spplllaaasshh). I didn’t mind the people having mass. All I care that moment was my dear Papa in the ICU (a woman pitied me that after the mass she gave me a postcard of Mama Mary). I prayed again with all the sincerity I could put into it. But this time, I asked the Lord to fetch my dear Papa and welcome him in His kingdom with open arms. Jesus did fetch him. I still cried. It is still painful, but I know he is better off there rather than here with a hardheaded daughter (hey! It is a joke. Ha, ha, ha!)

We had a hard time telling this to my beloved Mama. We didn’t know how. She had a heart ailment (in fact she took seven kinds of medicine for it). We even asked her closest sister to assist us in breaking the news to her. During the first months, she missed him so much (wow, it was really true love). Friends and relatives would come to appease her, until she had accepted that it was the Lord’s will. After seven months, she had a heart attack. She died peacefully. I also cried. It was painful, too, but I know she was happy to be reunited with my father and her Creator. She deserved to rest in the Lord’s bosom with my dear Papa. She had been so very good, not just with her family but with other people, too. She had helped so many of them in her lifetime. Her leaving was painful but should be with applause (Clap! Clap! Clap!). Her life here on earth was a job well done.

Oftentimes, we see death as a lost. We cry so much. We mourn so much. We are in great anguish. It is normal because we are human with a fragile heart. But what we do not see is the beauty of dying. Yes, we will miss the person. We can’t imagine how we will live our life without them, but this is what we feel. We grief for a while, but later, instead of moping around for their physical absence in our lives, we should be happy for them. We should stop thinking of ourselves for a moment and think of what will happen to them.

They are much blessed than we are because they will be at the bosom of the Lord. They are with Jesus. Forever they will have eternal peace, no worries, no problems and most of all they are literally beside Jesus in the whole sense of its meaning. What is greater than that?

Have you ever thought of the beauty of being beside the Lord eternally? Of being in paradise with Him? Oh, wow! We always focus in our lives here on earth. We seem to think that life here is endless. We are so much attached to everything that we have materially. We are so much attached in our life here.

Well, it is about time to think of our life after death. Our existence here is just a preparation for it. How we live here will determine our worthiness of being with the Lord after we die. We should always be aware of this and let our loved ones and others be aware of it, too. Let's strive to live our life without shame in the Lord’s eyes and behold . . . experience the beauty of dying..

-luisadelacruz