Sifting Through the Temporal and the Eternal

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  My name is Rica Peralejo-Bonifacio. I am a Filipina celebrity, a Lit Major student, and proud wife of Joseph Bonifacio.

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  • 4 months ago

  My prayer always is that God won’t allow me to look at others condescendingly when they do things that are not of my preference, or if they do not meet my standards. I’d like for Him to remind me always that even if I feel like I’m right, or that I’m being wise and practical and brilliant and superior in those moments of discovering the difference, there’s still nobody better to know the full potential of that person I’m considering to be wrong and inferior but God and God alone. Let only genuine concerns arise, and let the truth be spoken in love. I want always for my eyes to be open to the possibility that my very own knowledge may grow old and stale, and that this might hinder my ability to accept another’s take even when it is valid. Let me be refreshed by the newness of others’ ideas, and learn to learn from them. Remind me that even if my life “works perfectly,” that it isn’t the only way to do life. Only Jesus can reveal the way one is fashioned to pursue his/her destiny, so let that be my only standard and not mine.

  Such a wise pastor once told my husband and me, “Different does not mean wrong” (Pastor Shaddy Soliman). The Bible also says, “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves” (Philippians 2:3). And according to a favorite author, “All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal…it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit- immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously- no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption” (C.S.Lewis from “The Weight of Glory”).

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      My sentiments exactly.

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      Wow. Wow, wow, WOW! You managed...put into words exactly what God has been revealing

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