Sculpt the happy days on the stones of life

The waves erase the words on sand

I want to try to make a reflections on the life that is made of happy moments and difficult days to deal with grit and determination.
In fact, I think that if we learn to write our hurts in the sand, where the winds and waves of forgiveness can erase the all that is sad and unfortunate we can overcome, but remember to engrave on the stones our joys, where nothing and no one will eliminate every now and come back to affect them and again sculpt something positive.
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Live the adventure of life

Live the adventure of life

Let's try to make some reflections about the adventure of life.

Death, is the only adventure that I will never tell, but for the rest of his life is an adventure, it can also happen to get lost.
This will not happen, if every time we stop to look at where we are and we study the next location.
If, in diving in the open sea of life, we happen to lose direction, let us go and face everything with courage.
Only then we will come out stronger and more winners.

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We fill our neighbors with caresses

Theresia and Raya

The holidays are also used to take up the most obvious actions of life: look sincere and love towards those around us, a handshake, a caresses, a hug, a kiss or a loving relationship.

One thing is certain, not let them become simple gestures, repetitive, empty of meaning, but let us ourselves, with all the passion and energy that sets us apart, so as to make those simple gestures, extraordinary moments.
We fill our neighbors with caresses.
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Happy Easter joy of the the resurrected

Happy Easter

So many thoughts were heard in these days, I stop just to the term "transition".

Easter is the change from all that is evil and makes you feel bad, all that is good and does well.

Easter means pass from sorrow to joy, to pass from death to life, passing from slavery to freedom, go from disgrace to grace.

The crucified and risen Jesus who builds the bridge over the abyss and that's why we speak of the Lord's Passover!

Easter is the almighty power of God attached and accessible to each of us.

The Passover of the Lord is the energy of Almighty God, who created everything that exists, now applied to heal every wound has been inflicted by human beings and transform any evil has entered into human life or lurks in the heart of every man.

Why is the Lord's Passover is effective in us, we must have the courage to lose the previous one because there is a transition to a new one.

So the hope that enter our lives the light of a new life.

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Holy Saturday: silence and the tomb

Holy Saturday: silence and the tomb

Holy Saturday is the day when each of us stop in front of the tomb and also remembers all the love ones who lie like him in the same place; is a day of silence and absence.

Jesus and I miss my love ones; there is no Eucharist : the empty tabernacle is a blow to the heart.

And for a little, but enough to make me understand what my life would be if it was not always so.

So I like to say, we are now paused.

Jesus rested in the tomb, each type of task is finished is dead, it seems there is nothing more to do.

As the silence surrounds the meaning of the word, so the break preserves the meaning of the action. 

The act without pausing to action devalues ​​himself; to any kind of act : even the Church to action.

If you stop working when you do not know what to do and you get the fear of emptiness and nothing you seem so interesting and 'full' as they work, it means that you are already poisoned.

So it is with the Church; when to close the oratory, do not meet , do not pray, do not celebrate just seems empty, then it means that the Church already lost the meaning of what he does.

If life is music, music is rhythm and pauses.

Holy Saturday teaches us to take breaks: break in relations with others, break with his own anxieties, fun and rest break in, break even in prayer.

On the seventh day God created the rest and pause.

For our lives and for our faith this teaching of Holy Saturday is not trivial.

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The champion builds of defeat

The champion builds of defeat

When you come out losers in any field of life and the game, the only answer is: try harder to be able to arrive at the result that we resolved then plan objectives in the short and long term. 

Observe, assess, understand what's been useful, and what is important in the performance of repair, however, you can improve.
So all in all, the defeat is always useful to make an assessment of its resources, strengths and at the same time, critical issues.
The true champion comes from every defeat with more desire to redeem himself, to do better, to improve aspects, areas in which he showed lack therefore be willing to admit he made mistakes, he claimed, had been underestimated, not have considered.

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Live in our house

Live in our house

Where is our house?

Our house is where the heart is , where is the head, where you can find the warmth and understanding.

Even when you are away from house, you can take with you anywhere , because the house is the place where you understand and if one side are the people around you that make a difference , are you, that you have to choose which you want to be understood, that you want to remove your house from the suitcase, with everything that's in it , and choose a corner of the earth to support it and start to live there and slowly allow people to approach and help you take care of it.

Of course to do all that there is need to meet the smile of a people, to find that a friend can hide anywhere, and that in time of need , even if the language creates problems, you have someone to talk to and someone who can help you.

If you try these things and live these sensation your heart fills more and you can't help but think about it and want to live next to these people.

It took me a bit of time and a lot of life lived to see that our home is a smell, a voice, a smile.

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Prudence in our lives

Prudence in our lives

Today I want to talk about the caution that many believe a value and passed by people of a certain age.

Instead prudence serves at any age and it is always useful in every circumstance of our lives.

First prudence so that it can take good decisions , it must be clear where to go and where to go.

Who does not have ideals and goals to be achieved in one's life is likely to sail adrift of caprice and to be governed by the frivolity and superficiality.

Of course they are correct and necessary goals is essential to treat the formation of a scale of values ​​to guide our feet into what really is good and brings light in our history.

In fact, a prudent people knows how to use calm and do not hurry, you know ask for advice, observes the consequences of his actions, makes decisions quickly enough and has a correct scale of values ​​that guides its implementation.

I give you a few tips that I have put into practice over the years and I think very useful:

Train yourself to ask for advice.

Write down some of the experiences that they may serve others and to himself in the future.

Think about the consequences of concrete action, to learn how to keep them in account other times.

Order a room is an exercise in order and even training to decide quickly (in one place or the other).

This is good or bad? This simple application helps you to make good decisions and good Porsel many many times during our days.
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The Easter and Christmas

Toraja: the dead are alive

Every year we celebrate Christmas and tells everyone that is born in our hearts the love that God comes into our lives and our world history, then comes the Easter gives us a God mocked, crucified, who calls us to live the love, sharing and conquering death and deaths due to the many inner darkness that often surround our lives and rise again with Him in the blessed life.
Each of us believer and non-believer should find in these festivals of opportunities for joint reflection on the world to come, about the world that we will deliver the new generations who call us the right to return to their enthusiasm for life.
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The courage to restart

The courage to restart

Many times we believe that the courage it is taking actions that challenge the limit and then we jump off a bridge for bungee jumping or we run into a waterfall of 200 meters high.

But it is not so that proves to have a courageous spirit.

The courage when you see it in front of an extremely painful situation you are able to get up, to restart living again and sometimes even shoot a smile.

Is brave who sacrificed his life for others struggling every day to those who have no voice, who after a story he considered the most beautiful of his life is left, but manages to pull out the power that's inside and the courage to the point of stop suffering, who makes breakfast in the morning with his mother, but at night crying over his dead body and has the desire to continue on his way to not throw away the lessons that she has given him , who is recommended by the son: "go up and come home soon!", but in the middle of the night gets a call that will never forget and has the courage to recognize the body's own beloved, who is expecting a baby around the building upon his arrival their own future but it has a miscarriage and must find the strength to start to think about life without him, who must find the courage to reorganize their own life and that of her daughter because coming home unexpectedly one evening finds her husband with another girl, who ended up in jail by mistake, but do not have the money to prove it and has the power to serve a sentence that does not deserve, but that will mark him for the rest of his life, too long for those who suffer abuse and decides to fight this injustice while knowing that the consequences could ruin him, who discovers he has cancer but can not do anything to stop the process and decided to make the most of every moment of his life because any moment might be the last , who by an ultrasound will discover that your children has a birth and the difficult choice whether to keep it or to deprive him of a different existence decides to take care of him for a lifetime .

The way of the heart is the way of courage: it means to accept to live in insecurity, love, hope, and always to head into the unknown.

Having courage does not mean not being afraid.

It simply means to challenge it and not allow it to direct our lives, to paralyze our imagination, to block our outbursts of love.

The way of courage leads to set out on dangerous paths, because life has always been and will always be dangerous.

Accept everything that life gives us, the risks, difficulties , in pain, without flinching , this is courage.

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Delicacy in judgments

Delicacy in judgments (Marco, Paolo, Mauro, John)

Delicacy in judgments, in the way we do and say. 

Perhaps the word delicacy is failing our environments and in our communities. 

How nice to get into the life of each toe to toe with the greatest courtesy and respect, then we are letting the days go by to ripen great friendships, to grow a passion for being neighbors and brother. 

Unfortunately, most of the time instead we're getting used to being invaded, violated by anyone who comes into your life just to gossip, to steal something or someone and to use you. 

Strong words that are contrary to the purity and delicacy in dealing with others. 

I hope that these words come into the heart of each and may bring the right inner change and sensitivity towards anyone around us.

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Tables and chairs in the square

Tables and chairs in the square

Increase in the world the news of riots , violence against women and children and the people who lead a normal life.

Violence that is consumed in their house and in the streets that does not stop in front of anyone, who no longer ashamed to be seen.

But there is an answer to all this? Can you stop?

Of course the mentality of I want everything now that you feel safe in our environment is not good and the isolate, the no longer tolerate their neighbors and brothers and only use the weapon of the complaint and not the lissen, of love one another, to be eating together and inviting us to each other.

Unfortunately, the desire to dominate others, to put others at their service is growing in every area of ​​public and private life.

Violence is also the result of the mentality which honors and reserve than the "stronger", the "smarter", in essence, the most violent in the new generation comes forward mentality of boredom, disinterest and disrespect for life, distrust of the family, society and the state.

Let us pause, reflect and begin to act in our small communities in our areas and our parishes we increase the moments together, conviviality and diminish all those bureaucratic rules that are breaking the sense of togetherness and closeness.

We carry tables and chairs in the square we share what we have prepared and eat together and if someone stops to public policy or because we do not respect the dietary table.

We also offer lunch to him with a smile and let's understand that being together is the solution to many problems and violence that can be felt in the world.

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Quiet friend

Quiet friend

Every day we run, we try to give the best, you also do many things together, but then there are small situations that you call in questions and make you think that life is a long chain made ​​of moments and all we can do is to try to live them and enjoy them one by one. 

This morning, I stopped to fix a poor man dressed only in rags cheerful whistling pulled his cart full of scrap to take to the "old iron" and obtain some money.
Looked at me with a toothless smile, but intense and full of so much joy and said: 
"Quiet friend, rest assured that life is beautiful and everything is resolved: if not today, then tomorrow!"
He had something that I do not have it anymore.
In a joke taught me three great things: quiet, waiting and happiness.

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Resident of this Earth

Resident of this Earth (mountain in Indonesia)

I am writing to you resident of this earth , it is time to stop destroying our planet.

Why do you continue to pollute the rivers and the air by using harmful substances, in the clearing of forests, to drill the earth's crust, to dig wells to extract without measure oil, gas and other minerals.

Our Mother Earth is desperately trying to protect us and to keep alive the precious life that is in and out of her.

But the damage that leads to incredible speeds are not excessive and we aren't even giving the time to regenerate.

Our dear beloved Earth, he struggles and squirms, however, strives to heal, but when it does, it ends up destroying the life that exists on its surface.

On Earth, it is only attention to politics and economics , the territories are becoming simple areas, spaces dehumanized everything is purely mercantile without respect for anything or anyone, not even for themselves: we are only able to create boundaries and create for ourselves the our world.

Dear resident, you are looking to go beyond nature, to decide everything, take everything, to be master of the whole world.

Remember, that we come from the earth and the earth we return.

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Reviewing our lives

Reviewing our lives

Let us try for a moment to stop and imagine sitting in front of a video that conveys our lives and that continues beyond the present. 

Of course we would be tempted to press forward, to see the future, but in spite of curiosity, we would be afraid to know before what can we expect in the future life. 

So I think that each of us prefers to focus on the past, reviewing the most interesting parts of our lives and be happy. 

The moment of birth, with the mother who embraces us and we cuddle and dad that lifts us up and smiles. 

We would spend to cover all the beautiful moments, continuing to pause and instead would bring forward every day more sad and more delicate moments. 

Of all the joyful moments we would like to print a summary in our mind and make sure that all of the times that there will still be days of sorrow we can have that tape that helps us to move forward.

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The fun

The fun

Each of us wants to live their lives while having fun and the first rule is to make sure that everything that you do you live with a smile and putting passion. 

What fun it would be then, if I could have anything I want without any problems? Would have no value.
In fact I am convinced that every day life and fun go hand in hand.
Were one to spend a whole year always on vacation, having fun as it would be stressful work.
The secret of our success is to make sure that our vocation is our fun, knowing even out of the box and the rules not to miss all the fun. 

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The house in the heart

The house in the heart

Our emotions, our passions all starts from our hearts and from where we want them to leave. 

Our true house is in fact where you will find our heart.
We may be close to any people, but if our heart is somewhere else near each becomes far.
The board is to decide our course and face the sea of ​​life that is not always calm and quiet, treasuring the advice of friends and not abandoning the people who really love us and leave us alone.

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Questions and answers

Questions and answers: Batunona Indonesia

How many questions arise in life and give you as many answers even if every answer is always limited, temporary and unsatisfactory. 

The questions are the true protagonist of human activity: a man who does not do you any questions, or who is content to just give answers, do not go far enough. 

Several questions: minutes pass and years, then life gives you the answer, it is the life and the everyday life that will continuously transmit the right answers to questions that sometimes we never place or that we were never able to give us the answer. 

Finally, many times we do not do requests because we are not yet ready to listen to the answers, or simply because we are afraid.

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Serious or seriousness

Seriousness (Island Banana in Indonesia)

Use the seriousness or be a serious people. 

The real maturity of man lies in the seriousness that children put in the game.
We learn to live life and not take it too seriously, but seriously.
Work seriously, but not taking the complaints that are made to us in a personal way.
If you take yourself, you are angry and you will lose our advantage.
If you take them personally, you put you against them.
Instead, make sure you draw close to people and to life using the seriousness and commitment to accept all situations and work to ensure that you are happy with what you do and how you live.
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Happy Sunday

Happy Sunday

I wish you all a Sunday simple, made ​​of small things.
A happy Sunday to spend with our family and have the time to look at them with eyes with wonder and amazement, as if it were the first time.
Caress the face of those we love, we embrace who we have in our hearts and if we live in time for lunch in the company and together with all our love ones.
I still remember the polenta at my grandparent's house and lunch together with family and friends, with the usual motto: add a place at the table.
Let's hope a Sunday extraordinary ordinary things made ​​up of many small, where each of us should not go in search of the meaning of things, but they are things to find their way.
Let's hope that one Sunday, opening the windows of our house and breathing the morning air, we can feel in our heart a great sense of gratitude for life and all that surrounds us.
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