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.