La vie en rose

Eyes that bring down mine
Des yeux qui font baisser les miens

A laugh that gets lost on his mouth
Un rire qui se perd sur sa bouche

This is the portrait without retouching
Voilà le portrait sans retouches

From the man I belong to
De l’homme auquel j’appartiens

When he takes me in his arms
Quand il me prend dans ses bras

He whispers to me
Il me parle tout bas

I see life in pink
Je vois la vie en rose

He tell me love words
Il me dit des mots d’amour

Everyday words
Des mots de tous les jours

And it does something to me
Et ça me fait quelque chose

He has entered in my heart
Il est entré dans mon cœur

A slice of happiness
Une part de bonheur

That I know the reason
Dont je connais la cause

It’s him for me, me for him in life
C’est lui pour moi, moi pour lui dans la vie

He told me, swore it for life
Il me l’a dit, l’a juré pour la vie

And as soon as I see him
Et dès que je l’aperçois

So I feel Inside me
Alors je sens en moi

My heart beating
Mon cœur qui bat

Nights of endless love
Des nuits d’amour à plus finir

A great happiness that takes its place
Un grand bonheur qui prend sa place

Trouble, sorrows fade away
Des ennuis, des chagrins s’effacent

Happy, happy to die
Heureux, heureux à en mourir

When he takes me in his arms
Quand il me prend dans ses bras

He whispers to me
Il me parle tout bas

I see life in pink
Je vois la vie en rose

He tell me love words
Il me dit des mots d’amour

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Finding God

A good message for reminding me to find God in all things.

Put my attention to what God wants for me, instead of my will, my ego and my desire.

It never easy. I need to ask Him daily for everything I do.

 

This message teaches me to look back at my mind,

” Do I really put my attention to Him?”

What’s the result in my daily life?

What do I do?

Because sometimes, I just want it but never do it.

Thanks for the message, dear x.

 

 

Source:

Fall in Love

Our Lady of Fatima

National Pilgrim Virgin of Our Lady of Fatima Statue

Daily Prayers

Make of everything you can sacrifice, and offer it to God as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended, and in supplication for the conversion of sinners. You will thus draw down peace upon your country (Angel of Peace, 1916)

Pardon Prayer

My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love you! I beg pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love you (Angel of Peace, 1916).

Reparation Prayer

O my Jesus, I accept and bear with submission whatever sufferings God permits in my life today, for love of you, for the conversion of sinners, and in reputation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Our Lady of Fatima, July 1917).

 

*The prayers are taken from The World Apostolate of Fatima, USA (www.bluearmy.com)

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too:

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

 

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same:

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;

 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss:

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much:

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

 

“If” by Rudyard Kipling*

*Strüfing, S. (2014). Humble Leadership: Relevance to Employees’ Creativity and Innovation Under the Consideration of Time Pressure. University of Twente, The Netherlands.

 

 

The Superhero

Who’s the superhero in your life?

HIS TIME

God’s time is never late or too quick. It is always in time according to His plan. As a human, I learn to believe in His plan and not my plan. It takes the time to bring me to this understanding.

We have a lot of plans, dreams, and hopes in our life. To be an efficient person, we also have a timeline for that. However, in reality, it does not always happen as we planned. Do you just remember the event that comes up in your mind? What is your first response to the situation like that?

I have one of the biggest dreams in my life. It is never easy to pursue it. I need to take a long time to continue it, but I never give up because I believe there is a way to get there until it seems no way. I dreamed it in my mind in ten years ago. I just realised to make it a reality in three years later. I was not directly to get into my dream, but it took me go around in somewhere else. Until the day came, I could say that in three years ago, I need to start it. It is not like other people; I did not arrive it as my schedule.

Was I stopped and depressed? For a moment, yes. Otherwise, He always is there for the people who I met. The people that helped me to try it again, again and again. From those experiences, I learned about being human in the following insights:

1. Prayer is the best way to know and understand His plans
2. Thank the person who always supports you and does not do that. You got two lessons: to know the real mate and to forgive the opposing one.
3. Keep practising and do what you can do.

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart, yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” -Ecclesiastes 3:11

Scotland The Brave

This song lyric makes my day!

Whatever happens in your life, be brave my friend!

Because we never know what God plans for us 🙂

Thank you, Lord!

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Hark, when the night is falling
Hear, hear the pipes are calling
Loudly and proudly calling down through the glen
There where the hills are sleeping
now feel the blood a leaping
high as the spirits of the old highland men

(Chorus)
Towering in gallant fame
Scotland my mountain hame
High may your proud standards gloriously wave

Land o’ the high endeavour
Land o’ the shining river
land o’ my heart forever
Scotland the brave

High in the Misty highlands,
out by the purple islands
brave are the hearts that beat beneath Scottish skies
wild are the winds to meet you
staunch are the friends that greet you
kind as the love that shines from fair maidens eyes.

Source: Metro Lyrics –  Traditional – Scotland The Brave Lyrics | MetroLyrics

12 Awe-Inspiring Quotes

1. The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. -Morrie Schwartz
2. Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go. –Oriah Mountain Dreamer
3. Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. -George Sand
4. We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility. -Angeles Arrien
5. Don’t ask yourself what world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is who have become alive. –Howard Thurman
6. Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same – with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead. –Mother Theresa
7. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others’? – Martin Luther King, Jr.
8. Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.  – Jimmy Buffett
9. I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. –Edward Everett Hale
10. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. –Emile Zola
11. It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. –Albert Einstein
12. Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think. –Albert Einstein

*Source: Daily Good – News Inspire You

Life

The unexamined life is not worth living. -Socrates

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. -Martin Luther King Jr.

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone. -Wendell Berry

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. – Albert Einstein

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. -Simone Weil

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. -Maya Angelou

It can hurt to go through life with your heart open, but not as much as it does to go through life with your heart closed. – Jim Doty

There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. -Alan Paton

The task of healing is to respect oneself as a creature, no more and no less. -Wendell Berry

It is only by holding, not forcing, that we can find our feet again and secure solid ground when everything else is shaking. In a world where productivity rules, this in itself is true resistance. -Janey Stephenson

Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful through you have considered all the facts. -Wendell Berry

We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from Children. -Native American Proverb

 

*Have a lovely day, folks

 

*Source: DailyGood – News that Inspires

25 Lessons To Be Learned

I looked my notes on Facebook that I wrote three years ago. At 22 years old, I learned a lot about the ‘meaning of life’ especially from 2008-2010. The value, principle, and philosophy of life is began to be formed and renew again.

At that time, I said, “Regret it or not, it’s all the passed”.

And I said, “Now, it’s time to learn and to begin forming what my life would be in two, three or five years later.”

I do not realize this is a time. In this year-2013, I want to put more in my lists that I have already learned in life.

25 Things in life that I learned

1. What I sowed, it’s also I harvested.

2. Giving is beautiful, include when I have nothing.

3. Accept what has happened and never regret it.

4.  Forgive my mistakes, mistakes of others, and continue to live. Life is not perfect, and nobody is perfect.

5. Life is not always easy, and also not as difficult as people think. Keep trying and believe. Everything is possible, dude.

6. Most wonderful book to explore and to interpret is BIBLE.

7. Person that you love most, it can become the person you hate. And also, the person that you hate most, it can be the person you love. So, just love peoples around you, whoever, whatever they are. Keep loving your neighbor evens though the enemy.

8.  Love is the most beautiful thing and sometimes it can be horror.  So, just Love God 100% because He is the perfect one, He never make mistake. And love the human like Him, but never expect anything.

9. Know myself and love language of others is important. Read the book of The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. I recognize my love languages are quality time and words of affirmation.

10. Pain is hurt. If I can request, I do not want to feel it. But Thank God, I had many experiences through the pain. From the pain, I can see the beauty of life. It is not about the object, happiness or painfulness. It is about learning to do not attach whatever the situations and still thankful.

11. Happiness is coming when I able to accept myself, accept others as they are, and do not expect anything.

12. Life needs to struggle and to sacrifice. Just do it, keep persistence and enjoy the results.

13. Life depends on HIM. And you never are disappointed. Just keep patience to wait His time.

14. Nothing is too late in life.  When I realize that I was wrong. Sit down, be quiet, reflect, evaluate, get up, and do it again!

15. When I said that I know everything. I need to realize that is time that I need to learn more.

16. Do not think too much. Do, practice, learn, and do it again.

17. It is a time to open my heart and enjoy the life.

18. Process of our experiences are not being described. Feel it, enjoy it.

19. In the end, make priority of my life: Lord, family, work, ministry, friends..

20. He gave me blessings and graces so I can continue my life. He guides me, leads me to be a woman of Him.

21. Learn, learn, and learn. Never ever stop learning.

22. La vie est jolie – Life is beautiful

23. Be in the moment – enjoy right here, right now.

24. I will put one more for my priority list: find the partner life based on Him

25. Keep praying and believe in Him. It needs practice and Holy Spirit to do that. I hope, I will.