Excerpts from "The Gardener" by Rabindranath Tagore

Love, my heart longs day and night for the meeting with you-

for the meeting that is all-devouring death.

Sweep me away like a storm; take everything I have;

break open my sleep and plunder my dreams. Rob me of my world.

In that devastation, in the utter nakedness of spirit, let us become one in beauty.

Alas for my vain desire! Where is this hope for union except in thee, my God?

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Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet.

Let it not be a death but completeness.

Let love melt into memory and pain into songs.

Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest.

Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night.

Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence.

I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.

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Hands cling to hands and eyes linger on eyes: thus

begins the record of our hearts.

It is the moonlight night of March; the sweet smell of henna

is in the air; my flute lies on the earth neglected and your garland of flowers

is unfinished.

This love between you and me is simple as a song.

Your veil of the saffron colour makes my eyes drunk.

The jasmine wreath that you wove me thrills to my heart like praise.

It is a game of giving and withholding, revealing and screening again; some

smiles and some little shyness, and some sweet useless struggles.

This love between you and me is simple as a song.

No mystery beyond the present; no striving for the impossible;

no shadow behind the charm; no groping in the depth of the dark.

This love between you and me is simple as a song.

We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; we do not raise our

hands to the void for things beyond hope.

It is enough what we give and we get.

We have not crushed the joy to the utmost to wring from it the wine of pain.

This love between you and me is simple as a song.

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Your questioning eyes are sad. They seek to know my meaning

as the moon would fathom the sea.

I have bared my life before your eyes from end to end, with

nothing hidden or held back. That is why you know me not.

If it were only a gem, I could break it into a hundred pieces

and string them into a chain to put on your neck.

If it were only a flower, round and small and sweet, I could pluck itfrom its stem and set it in your hair.

But it is a heart, my beloved. Where are its shores and its bottom?

You know not the limits of this kingdom, still you are its king.

If it were only a moment of pleasure it would flower in an easy smile,

and you could see it and read it in a moment.

If it were merely a pain it would melt in limpid tears, reflecting its

inmost secret without a word.

But it is love, my beloved.

Its pleasure and pain are boundless, and endless its wants and wealth.

It is as near to you as your life, but you can never wholly know it

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I have plucked your flower, O world!

I pressed it to my heart and the thorn pricked.

When the day waned and it darkened, I found thatthe flower had faded, but the pain remained.

More flowers will come to you with perfume and pride, O world!

But my time for flower-gathering is over, and through the dark night

I have not my rose, only the pain remains.

TL Ako Sa'yo

Goodness.. If i knew a song like this exsisted I would have downloaded it earlier..
oh well.. im just posting it now coz I like the new version by Kitchie Nadal. Its sounds grool.ü

but daymn.. if I heard this song..."back then."
it would be like... *ouch*

anyway.. here it is:

Ewan ko ba kung bakit type kita
Di ka naman guwapo
Kahit malabo ang pagpili ko
T.L. ako sa ‘yo

Panay kantiyaw pa nga ng utol ko
Dehins ka raw bagay sa kagandahan ko
Malabo nga ba raw ang mata ko
At na-T.L. ako

[Chorus]
Kalyeng liko-liko ang takbo ng isip ko
Sabi ng lolo may toyo ang utak ko
Sabi ng lola ay humanap ng iba
May porma’t mayaman, T.L. wala naman

Ewan ko ba kung bakit type kita
Di ka naman guwapo
Kahit malabo ang pagpili ko
T.L. ako sa ‘yo

[repeat Chorus]

Ewan ko ba kung bakit type kita
Di ka naman guwapo
Kahit malabo ang pagpili ko
T.L. ako sa ‘yo

T.L. ako sa’yo
Ikaw ang true love ko...

He is more than enough

( Heres the unedited preview of the feature article for Jchron. this febuary.ü hope you guys like it. I learned from it a lot while i was writing it.. so i hope a lot of people will learn from this too! XD )

happy valentines, by the way. Enjoy.


Febuary: The month of love.
But really... what is love?
People these days tend to misinterpret what love really is. Some people view it as hurtful, sacrificial and one-way. A lot of others think of it as the mushy-yucky stuff. And to us Christians, this is the deep love that we have for God.
In almost every way, the world tries to teach us that everybody needs somebody. Through movies songs, tv shows, novels/books, or magazines, they ave convinced people that love is centered on and was made for "the couples".
But lets see how God defines it in 1 John 4:10:
"This is what real love is: It is not OUR LOVE FOR GOD; it is GOD'S LOVE FOR US in sending his Son to be the way to take away our sins."

Man's love can be so limited at times. As Christians, we try our best to show the love Christ wants us to show, the love that He perfected. Love that is not centered on things that would satisfy OUR needs, and OUR wants; but one that is selfless, a love that looks out for the welfare of others.
Once, a friend asked me to replace the word "love" from 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 with my name. But then, I just turned out to be a liar. The, she asked me to replace it again, but instead of using my name, I should use God or Jesus. - It made perfect sense!

Jesus exemplified genuine love. We have learned that we were made in the image and likeness of Christ. If we were made to BE like Christ, we should LOVE like Christ.
"We love beause He first loved us." - 1 Jn. 4:19
And since he loves us, we dont need the love or acceptance of anyone else. Because God's love is so great that it us more than we could ever need.

So rather than letting 1 Corinth. remind us of a love we cannot produce, let it remind us of a love that we need to follow, and one that we can simply cannot resist. - God's love.

Lets face it: God is crazy about you!
One of the sweetest reasons why He saved you is because He is fond of you. He likes having you around. If God had a picture of you, He'd carry it everywhere He went! He'd put one in His wallet, one stuck to the fridge door, one on His desk at the office... I bet there'd be even little hearts doodled all around your face!
He sends you flowers every spring and dedicates the sunrise to you every morning.When you talk, He listens. He is so rich and powerful, He can live anywhere in the world if he wanted to... in fact, He can live anywhere in the universe!

But He chose your heart.

Some of you crave for this kind of love.
Those who should've loved you didn't. Those who COULD have loved you didn't. You were left alone. Left with a broken heart. You were left asking youself: "Does anybody love me?"

Here's what I have learned from a book I am currently reading:
"God loves you. Powerfully. Passionately..."
as we have learned, love is a choice. And God chose to love us.
"Others have promised to "love forever" and have failed. But when God promised to "love forever" He meant it. He loves you with an unfailing love, and it is MORE THAN ENOUGH."

To close, lets see what Paul has to say in Ephesians 3:17-19:
"..and I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to fully understand how wide, how long, how high and how deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge- that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."
A friend once texted me that love was so misunderstood that it should be called "the Ultimate Cliché."
As the verse says, may you have the power to fully understand God's love. And view it as more than just the lovy-dovy, mookie-mookie couple sort of thing. Nor see it as selfish, and hurtful. Rather, as something beautiful. Something to treasure. Something to share.

Love month may be almost over... But God's love never ends. It is so great that it overflows and we have more than enough. May we all learn to love the way jesus loved. And may we learn to share this love to others.ü

-references:
"A Gentle Thunder"
"Experiencing the Heart of Jesus" by Max Lucado
The Holy Bible.ü

Memoirs...

why did I have to click that button..

in life i have learned (and am still learning) that it is full of risks..
mainly because, we always a have a choice.

a choice we have to make eventually.
according to bekah..
"every challenge has an opportunity, as well as every opportunity is a challenge."

there are only 2 effects for "taking that risk"

the first is satisfaction.
and the 2nd one is regret.

right now im feeling the latter one, because of a choice i made.
I dont know what i was thinking when i clicked that button.
I didnt know what would happen if i did..

but as the saying goes. "curiosity killed that cat."
in my case, it killed my blog.

so.. here i am, creating my first post in an-all new blog.
I wont go blamming Blogger since i lost my old blog. After all, i did bring this upon myself. Therefore, I must suffer the consequences.

but allow me to be a little nostalgic for a moment:

i treasured that blog. I had a lot of important posts in there. Most of the turning points in my life were noted there..
*haaaii* im sure gonna miss it..

oh well.. as i was told. ""lets not dwell in the past."

so, without further ado,
my new blog.. in remembrance of my old one..





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