Lenten Series: Mar 9

Some downtime, finally!
Sometimes we tend to overcomplicate and overanalyze our troubles that we blow them out of proportion. In the process, we unwittingly overlook or fail to accept the simple solutions. Life is not as complicated as we make it out to be. Often the problem is not in finding the solution, but in actually having the faith and getting the courage to execute them. We feel our troubles are too big that a simple solution just couldn't possibly fix it. And we get paralyzed.
Last Monday we had The P&G Women's Symposium and I had the opportunity to hear a number of amazing women talk. One of them was Rebecca Bustamante - Mills of the "Maid to Made" sensation. She exemplified turning ripples into tidal waves. These are the things I learned from her story: (1) Your troubles are as big and insurmountable as you choose to make them out to be; (2) Be positive. Find the silver lining in every dark cloud; (3) Just do it ... one hurdle at a time. Next thing you know, you've climbed a mountain; (4) Have faith - in yourself, in other people's goodness, in your country, in God; (5) Help. The Filipino CAN, so the Filipino SHOULD.

 From Monday's 1st Reading Intro:
"God has the power to turn our simple actions into miraculous ones."

From 1st Reading - 2 Kings 5:1-15:
"The prophet sent him the message: 'Go and wash seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will heal, and you will be clean'. But Naaman went away angry, saying, 'I thought that he would surely come out and stand there to invoke the Lord his God, and would move his hand over the spot, and thus cure the leprosy ...' But his servants came up and reasoned with him. 'my father', they said, 'if the prophet had told you to do something extraordinary, would you not have done it? All the more now, since he said to you, 'Wash and be clean', should yo do as he said.' So Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times at the word of the man of God. His flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean."