What are your values?

When I was in highschool, one day the topic of the class was about 'values'...we were given questions about what we value in life and why...it was interesting how everyone had different set of values and how that affected the way they lived....In fact it's a set of questions we must ask ourselves everyday because they shape every thought and every decision we make (and hopefully every action)...they shape who we are...

"what do I value?"....

"what matters to me the most?"....

"what are my priorities in life?"....

I value living for God and for Him only....

I value purity, honesty, sincerity, integrity...

I value love and forgiveness...modesty and humbleness...and many more things...

what are your values? 

Lessons from a rotten apple

Yesterday I had an apple..a small, ripe, yellowish-red apple ready to be eaten..

I was looking for a snack...and I saw my apple in my bag...

I took a bite, it was sweet like heaven...juicy and full of flavor...

I had a second bite...very satisfying...I was chewing fast, realizing how hungry I am...

Then a third bite...but this time the taste was different as I took a bigger bite...bitter...the apple was rotten on the inside...I looked at it...it was brown and disgusting...oh, in a moment, I was disappointed!

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It brought me to think. At first the apple looked (and tasted) fine and even tempting but the core was another story.....Can that happen to people???.....

If the focus of our lives is centered on the look of things rather the core, what happens?

If all we care for is the external part of things, what happens to the internal state of things? 

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We wash our bodies, our hands, our faces.....but don't we also need to wash our souls?....

If the body is neglected, it could catch a disease, but what happens to the soul if it's neglected?....

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How can we "wash" or care for our souls?...

For me that would be to connect it with its only Source, the Creator of the soul and the Source of all souls, The Origin of every Soul...Perhaps a few moments of meditation on Him and remembering our Purpose, is the best soap for the soul....

Time to Re-start

Some days, you just can't do it...just can't focus and can't be as productive as you wish to be, as you planned...all you want is to not think, to just breathe...when I'm like that, there is a sad feeling too, from somewhere in my heart...it's lack of interest to do anything and a feeling of melancholy....

Whenever my phone slows down, I restart it...so do I when my mind is in that mood...I feel like we tend to open many small 'tabs' here and there in our minds and we fill it with different unnecessary thoughts and worries and anxieties that after a while, it can't take it anymore...then I know, it's time for a restart...I need to take a moment and close all the tabs...and see what I've been consciously and unconsciously telling myself...

The mind is a complex thing...it obeys what it is told...it becomes what you put in it often...it becomes your thoughts...and we sometimes forget that...to take time to clean it, to organize it, to let it breathe....

I restart by thinking about all that's been lingering on my mind for a while...yes thinking about them again to figure out why they matter, and what is not solved...I write down all the issues, problems, worries, or anything in my journal, then I compromise with myself...I make peace with all the situations I can't solve and I forget all the ones that are unimportant...I plan for the unfinished tasks and deadlines...so basically, I need to take time for my mind...and then, I feel refreshed....and I thank God for when I remember He is near me all the time, I am filled with all the love in the world...some days, it's okay to take it slowly and give yourself more time...