To quote:
"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you." ----- Oprah Winfrey
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🌿So what is our calling? Have we ever stopped to figure that out?
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🌵Honestly, sometimes we don't know it. Some discover it in midstream alongside something else going for them. Sometimes it comes to others later in life, much later. But then again who can tell why this is so? Why God so chooses what time you should or shouldn't? Yet the goal is still the same.
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🌴The essential thing, I guess, is to do what is being asked of us as best as we can. That is after we have found out what it is, of course. That is the challenge and task HE has set out for you.. me.. and everybody to do. And pronto!
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🌱No, it's not to be another Oprah Winfrey or a Helen Keller or a John F. Kennedy or other highly esteemed personality who have made their indelible mark on us and on the world. But then why not? - That too is something fantastic and on a grander scale yet.
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🍃But usually it is in being what we do best with what life and God has given us. Just as we are in our ordinary puny lives. And that could mean being a ...... mother, leader, priest, father, son or daughter, friend, student or teacher, bus driver, carpenter, sailor, pilot, employee or social worker, nurse or care giver, businessman, NGO, street sweeper, etc. But this also means that we give it our best shot, whoever we are-whatever we do. If it be a street sweeper, be one that does an excellent job of sweeping the streets that when people walk by your street they will admire the work of the hands that did it!
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🍃It is in knowing that what we have is not there for keeping. It is meant for something much bigger than you and me.
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🍂I've said this before, I know.... and you will always hear it from me a hundred more times, my dear friends. But I really do believe that each one on this planet has a task to do to better this life or help better this world.
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🍃Yet let us not forget, too, that we are our own enemies because we are so inclined to forgetfulness. We forget a lot of things we should be remembering and tend to take a lot more for granted......... like birthdays, anniversaries, grandparents, good old friends, appointments, favors, believing in the greater good, hope, faith, trust, courage, standing strong on our values, not following the herd, refusing the bad that mess up our lives, being thankful for those wonderful memories which lend meaning and reason to our otherwise ordinary mundane lives.
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☘We often forget to be kind, friendly, compassionate, sympathetic, generous, helping, understanding, tolerant, human and humane, non-judgmental, forgiving, trusting where trust so inspires, believing in a greater good, to aim to build and not destroy, savoring the simple pleasures of life and living.
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🌾We forget to learn where and when learning presents itself. Parang bang sinasabi natin na okay na ako kasi graduate na'ko eh.
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🍀We essentially forget that we don't belong to ourselves. The I - Me - My - Mine of life and living has a limited shelf life. Better for our own good to understand soonest that we are here for a higher purpose. And our world revolves on this.
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⚘Like we also forget to remember to thank HIM for HIS blessings then and now and too in the future yet to come, if we be allowed to see that far..
🍁Let's find our calling. Know our calling. Embrace it. Enrich it. Make it our gift back to God.
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Blessings to you all, in Christ.
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