Author: Mier Rivera

have you ever had those days when your mind won’t slow down.. like those days when there are a lot of things are going through your mind and it’s hard to focus and complete the task at hand.. or like those days when you want to sleep but you can’t so your mind drifts and starts actively thinking? (I don’t know if I’m making sense here. hopefully I am)
I have a lot of those days.. the mind just loves to keep working haha
but don’t get me wrong.. it’s a good thing the mind is working, it’s a part of living.
however there are those days when the mind needs to tone down a little so information can be processed and organized.

For me, one of the ways that helps me calm my mind is worship or singing (ha! hehe).
When there are things happening and thoughts going through my mind like school, responsibilities, family, people, emotions etc.
blasting some liveloud songs, Hillsong songs, kari Jobe etc. eases the traffic jam and lagging going on in my hard drive hehe
it allows me to get rid of the doubts, worries and negativity and place them into His hands.
“give your all in the tasks before you and leave the rest in Him.”

current song: Find you on my knees by Kari Jobe

This reflection is from my drive earlier today
hopefully it makes sense. if it doesn’t, sorry po..

so driving during rush hour.. heading home.. crazyyy!
cars over taking, cars not moving, clogged intersections, cargo trucks.. crazyy! hehe
a 15min drive can become almost an hour plus drive
but taking your time to get through the traffic.. a gift.
Safety. Patience. Time.
..gift(s) from taking your time po 🙂

Safety- caring not only for the your own safety but for those around you too
cutting off cars can put you in harms way or cause another person to go on a road rage (raging driver on road=unsafe)

Patience- “smell the roses and blow the candles” (c/o Kyle Beley) relax.
learning it and developing it can help us in the long run.
Good for the health and good for the soul. Also, it opens up ways for more gifts and talents po.

Time- it’s understandable that sometimes you’re catching a time (work, school or next episode of HIMYM)
but take your time, either way you can’t make your car fly hehe
the hour or so jam is a gift to develop a virtue or to reflect and think of this reflection or pray 🙂

I guess this can relate to life (hopefully..)
many times we’re always in a rush to get something and get some where.. that we forget to appreciate the opportunity given
take the chance to be sensitive to others, caring for them.. their safety. Love. (Jn 13:34)
take the chance to develop the bountiful gifts we’re given (Mt 25:14-30)
take chance to bask in His moment in time (which is not existent because we know He is eternity. Rev 22:13)

To be honest, I was and still am guilty of rushing.. in both driving and life.
I am learning and trying to take it slow.. but I still have a long way to go hehe

God bless.

“O Lord our God,
grant us to trust in your overshadowing wings:
protect us beneath them and bear us up.
You will carry us as little children,
and even to our grey-headed age you will carry us still.
When you are our strong security, that is strength indeed,
but when our security is in ourselves, that is but weakness.
Our good abides ever in your keeping,
but in diverting our steps from you we have grown perverse.
Let us turn back to you at last, Lord, that we be not overturned.
Unspoilt, our good abides with you,
for you are yourself our good.
We need not fear to find no home again
because we have fallen away from it;
while we are absent our home falls not to ruins,
for our home is your eternity.”
-St. Augustine of Hippo
(The Confessions, 112)

Video reflection: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GwIi5JGn0HA

Many times when we are stressed, pre-occupied and all over the place, we lose sight of Christ. We are taken over by stress and emotions that we forget to pause and listen.

Don’t be scared to ask Christ to stay and be with you. Allow Him to manifest in the things you’re working on especially in work you’re struggling in the most. Find joy and happiness in everything you do po 🙂 hehe

God bless to all the students writing exams po 🙂 Fighting! hehe