For 'M'. Thank You!!

Red is for 'M'.

I just spent the last 15 minutes updating my blog site thanks to M's email with the instructions for editing the sidebar. She's cooler than cool! She's the coolest! Rah Rah! Yay!

I sometimes think back on how she and I met and I must say, it's circumstances like those that have no explanation except for divine intervention. She may be somewhat of a skeptic and cynical when we talk about it, but I think somewhere deep down she acknowledges that the coincidences and circumstances behind our meeting are too random to be random (yes, you read that correctly) and that sometimes in the midst of the life choices we make during those critical junctures in life, some of the best friendships are forged.

I'm really honored that she chose to share with me the things that she has. During those moments she may not have realized it was a choice to share, or did she? Whichever the case, be it a decision or be it a reaction to her circumstances, out of all the people we come across in the world, her life path has intersected with mine. How long this is to be is unknown. All I know is that she has left an imprint on my heart, regardless of the paths our future may take us.

So, M, I thank you for adding more depth to my life journey. May you come to believe and see yourself in all the wonderful ways that I do. :-)

Travelling Hopefully

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
- Robert Louis Stevenson


This quote is the latest entry in another blog I've got. That other blog is full of quotes and thought-provoking tidbits I find here and there. If not profound, then at the very least they've resonated with me to some degree worthy enough for me to make note of them. In due time I'll be sharing them with all of you over on this here blog, so have patience, young Jedi!

Hope has become an interesting concept to me these past few months. What is it about hope that keeps our spirit alive and gives us the energy to persevere towards the seemingly unobtainable goal? Is it not a fine line between fantasy and disillusionment, or is that just me? Can hope ever really be present and rooted in reality? If reality was 'as good as it gets', then why would we really need hope in the first place?

As I grow in my infinite wisdom (ha ha...), those deep desires I have within my heart become more and more elusive and yet, ironically, at the same time I've become more certain that someday I'll "know-it-when-I-find-it", whatever that 'it' really is.

The real trick is taking your reality and living as if you were certain in the things you hope for. I guess that is the essence of faith, isn't it?. Faith in action and living by faith. Nebulous concepts, but part of life nonetheless.

"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."
- Hebrews 11:1 (NIV)