Christmas greetings

May Christmas bring you all the love, peace, joy, happiness, and all the blessings of the season!
Christ is born!

Prayer for the Souls

Here is a new card containing the paryer for the souls as we remember all our departed love ones during these special days - All  Saints Day and All Souls Day.

Pursue your dreams

Walt Disney is really one person who pursued his dreams and made them come true. I find this quote so inspirational because it shows what kind of person he is.

This is a photo which I turned into a painting like image by using artistic filters in Photoshop.

tomorrow and God

This quote from an unknown author is believed to have been based on the verse from Matthew  6:33-34. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. 

Also from Matthew 6:25-34-

 

 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ...

Discpline, Goals and Accomplishment

I like this quote from Jim Rohn. It is both inspirational and motivational.

Jim Rohn's full name is Emmanuel James Rohn. He was a well known motivational speaker and is believed to have influenced other motivational speakers and authors like Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen as well as Brian Tracy. His own rags to riches life story is also inspirational.

Happy Father's Day

To celebrate Father's Day, I am sharing this card that I made. The scene is a typical day in my favorite island, Boracay.

On a clear day, you will see several of this sailboat in the waters of Boracay. It's fun to ride one and join an island tour.

My dad went to heaven several years ago. I still miss him though, especially during Father's Day.

Imagination and knowledge

    
                                         The power of our thoughts and dreams is well voiced out by Albert Einstein in this quote from him.

success and happiness

Helen Keller is such a positive person, that's why I admire her. This quote from her about success and happiness is so inspiring and motivating.

Adversity, failure, and heartache

Napoleon Hill is one of the most influential authors in our time. His book, "Think and Grow Rich" has remained on the best seller list and has been reprinted several times over.

Holy Week

Jesus' humanity is shown in this Bible verse from Luke 22:42.

This is a photo of a painting in one of the churches here in the Philippines. I just added the verse from Luke to transform this into a photoquote.

I wish all of you a blessed Holy Week.

Reality starts in the mind

Whatever we see as reality actually started as ideas in our minds or in someone else's mind.  This is what Robin S. Sharma reminds us in this quote - that "everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality."

Robin S. Sharma is a writer and motivational speaker. He was born in India but has since then acquired both Canadian and Mauritian citizenship.

Faith and Non-violence

I like the way Mahatma Gandhi expressed the importance of faith in non-violence.

If we espouse non-violence, we indeed need to have a double faith... faith in God and faith in man.

We really need faith to be able to accomplish things. We cannot just rely on ourselves alone or also in God alone. We have to do our part and God will take care of the rest.

Pope Francis

Welcome to the Philippines, Pope Francis!

Happy New Year

Wishing you all the best of this coming 2015! Happy New Year to you!

The photo is a Christmas ball on a table cloth with a bokeh of colored lights in the background.

gift of Christmas

I love this quote from Pope Francis. We are all eagerly awaiting his arrival here in the Philippines next year.

Christmas Wish For You

I just have a simple wish for you and your loved ones...
May your Christmas be filled with blessings and your New Year full of hope and Abundance!

The photo is a sunset scene at Corregidor Island here in the Philippines.

The beginning of love

"Let those we love be perfectly themselves..." I love this quote from Thomas Merton. If we truly love somebody, then we love them because they are themselves and not because we think we can change them to be what we want them to be.

Thomas Merton is a Trappist monk who is a writer, a poet, a mystic, and a social activist. He is best known for his best selling, autobiographical work - "The Seven Storey Mountain." It is said that many trooped to the monasteries after reading his autobiography.

The photo I used here is a curled fern frond that I converted into a mirror image in Photoshop.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement

I find this quote from Napoleon Hill so true. If we don't have desire for anything that we are doing, then we will never succeed. We will only end up with something that we might not even be proud of.

The background picture is actually a fireworks photo that I played around with in Photoshop using various blend moods.

When man is with God

There are many ways of praying and I like how Karl Rahner describes what praying is.

Karl Rahner is a German Jesuit priest who has written so many books. His theological views are considered as very influential.

The photo is a sunrise scene of the Cordillera mountains here in the Philippines.

What Happiness Is

When I thought about the times in my life when I was happy, I tend to agree with Thomas Merton. Yes indeed, those happy times represented times when there was balance, order, rhythm and harmony. Maybe I should also add here, that we also experience happiness when we are at peace.

Thomas Merton is a Trappist monk who wrote many books.  I first encountered him when I read his book "The Seven Story Mountain." I love his deep insights about many things. You can read more about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Merton