From a greeting card

I can't gEt you out of my mind.

I keep thinking about how Much I enjoy talking with you.

I daydream about you off and on all day, replayiNg pieces of our conversation.

And I catch Myself smiling when I imagine what will happen the next time we're together.

You must be something really speciAl, because I can't remember the last time I felt so strongly about someone.

Even though neither of us knows what the future holds, I kNow one thing for sure - you're one of the very best things that's happened to me in a long time.

~ Renee Duvall

SIGH

i want to let go ... just don't know how

I AM

The fact that I am
Is amazing and wonderful.
I can move about.
I can think, love, and choose.
I can grow -
In wisdom.
I am yours, God.
Your beloved child.
Gifted as you see fit.
For sharing.
For loving.
For bearing.
In utter reliance on You;
In trust,
Totally secure.
Totally loved.
Totally yours.

~ Sr. Virginia Flagg, MM

SONG OF THE MOMENT

Someday
by John Legend

As days go by
And fade to nights
I still question
Why you left
I wonder how
It didn't work out
But now you're gone
And memories
All I have for now
But no it's not over

We'll get older
We'll get over
We'll live
To see the day
That I hope for
Come back to me
I still believe that
We'll get it right again
We'll come back
To life again

We won't say
Another goodbye again
You'll live
Forever with me
Someday, someday
We'll be together
Someday, someday
We'll be together
I heard someday
Might be today

Mysteries of destinies
They are somehow
And are someway
For all we know
They come tomorrow
For today

My eyes are open
My arms are raised
For your embrace
My hands
Are here to mend
What is broken
To feel again
To walk on the face
I believe there
Is more to life

Oh, I love you
Much more
Than life and still
I believe
I can change your mind
Revive
What is dying inside
And someday, someday
We'll be together

Someday, someday
We'll be together
Someday, someday
We'll be together
We'll be together
We'll be together
Someday

WAIT, MY CHILD

Wait...My Child

Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried.
Quietly, patiently, lovingly God replied.
I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate,
And the Master so gently said, "Child, you must wait!"

"Wait?, you say, wait!" my indignant reply.
"Lord, I need answers, I need to know why!
Is Your hand shortened? Or have You not heard?
By faith I have asked, and am claiming Your Word."

"My future and all to which I can relate
Hangs in the balance, and You tell me to wait?
I'm needing a 'yes,' a go-ahead sign,
Or even a 'no' to which I can resign."

"And Lord, You promised that if we believe
We need but to ask, as we shall receive.
And Lord, I've been asking, and this is my cry:
I'm weary of asking! I need a reply!"

Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate
As my Master replied once again, "You must wait."
So, I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut
And grumbled to God, "So, I'm waiting...for what?"

He seemed then to kneel and His eyes wept with mine,
And He tenderly said, "I could give you a sign.
I could shake the heavens, and darken the sun.
I could raise the dead, and cause mountains to run.
All you seek, I could give, and pleased you would be.
You would have what you want...but, you wouldn't know Me."

"You'd not know the depth of My love for each saint;
You'd not know the power that I give to the faint;
You'd not learn to see through the clouds of despair;
You'd not learn to trust just by knowing I'm there;
You'd not know the joy of resting in Me
When darkness and silence were all you could see."

"You'd never experience that fullness of love
As the peace of My Spirit descends like a dove;
You'd know that I give and I save ... (for a start),
But you'd not know the depth of the beat of My heart."

The flow of My comfort late into the night,
The faith that I give when you walk without sight,
The depth that's beyond getting just what you asked
Of an infinite God, who makes what you have last."

"You'd never know, should your pain quickly flee,
What it means that 'My grace is sufficient for thee.'
Your dreams for your loved ones overnight would come true,
But, oh, the loss! if I lost what I'm doing in you!"

"So, be silent, my child, and in time you will see
That the greatest of gifts is to get to know Me
And though oft may My answers seem terribly late,
My wisest of answers is still but to wait"
-- Author Unknown --

OUR TIME WILL COME

I lovE you so much ...
I guess that's why sometimes I get impatient waiting,
wondering when we'll finally be together all the tiMe.
I understand that it has to be this way for now,
and I really believe we're doiNg the right thing.
I trust that our love is strong enough to see us through
and that soMeday soon we'll be able to talk and touch
and love each other the way we've wanted to for so long.
It's just difficult for me sometimes becAuse I want you
so much now, by my side and in my arms.
I kNow our time will come, and when it does, it will be right ...
and very, very beautiful.

~ From Greeting Card

FLATTERED

Last Friday, as I was leaving my fraternity family dinner, my phone buzzed to notify me of the receipt of a new email. I checked it and it was a notification from Facebook that I have a new friend request. The name did not sound familiar to me at all, so I logged on to Facebook and saw the message, "Are you the Venus from WYD 2002?" And I was surprised.

I met so many people from all over the world at WYD 2002 in Toronto, Canada. And I forgot the names of many of them already (even those who I went with from the Archdiocese of San Francisco). I was not able to keep in touch with a lot of them, sad to say. So it came as a nice surprise that someone from Trinidad and Tobago would remember my name and look me up in Facebook. It's flattering. =)