Prayer

"May peace dwell in you. May you know and trust that you are exactly where you need to stay. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that arise through the faith in yourself and in others. MAy you use your gifts, and pass to others the love that you've received. May you be happy to be the person you are, as you are now, in this moment. Let this awareness to penetrate to your bones and give to your soul the freedom to sing, dance, pray and love. All this is here for each and all of us. "

Thanks Martina for sending to me this prayer. I want to share it because it’s a treasure.

An unespected suggestion

I was turning over the pages of a fashion magazine, when I found an advertising of a bag. Something attracted me: on the bag there was a sentence. I asked myself if it could be a quotation, so I looked for it on the Web and I discovered that it was by Jim Morrison.

He said (I’m translating from italian):
Sometimes the winner is simply a dreamer who never gave in.

I thought in a while at all the times I have desired something, but I didn’t believe I could reach it. Maybe my unsuccesses are dued only to my mistrust. When I was a child I was a great dreamer. I dreamt to work for the Walt Disney, drawing cartoons. And it was not so impossible, because my school once organised a lesson with an illustrator who worked for them. But I didn’t take part to that lesson, because my mother convinced me it was no worth. I don’t know what I would be doing right now if that day I had gone to school, but I know I’ll never let someone to steal me another dream.

A little letter for Christmas

Dear Infant Jesus,
today is Christmas’ Eve, and I’m happy because even this year Christmas is here. And it doesn’t worth if I’m ready or not, how I lived this year or what I did today, if I was good or bad. I know you don’t mind of that. Chistmas is here, and nothing else. I like that so much.
In the last days I listened to a lot of different opinions about this feast. Most people are looking forward to relax for a while, and this is good. A lot of them says that Christmas is a consumeristic feast, and this can be true (however I like to give and receive presents). All these words make me feel a little angry and a little sad.
I was lucky, because I heard a special word while I was playing the orgue in the church. We usually think that Advent is a period during which we have to wait in a more intense way the Lord who is coming: we have to make an effort. Don Marco said something that inverted the perspective: Advent is the time in which Lord is coming near.
Then I ask you this present: I’d like that everybody (it doesn’t matter their religious faith) stop a while and feel God close to them.
Cheers

Federica

I want to share a present

Every Monday don Marco sells to his friend a short tale, as a wish for the next week. I'm part of the group. so today I receive a present and I want to share it with you. The tale ended with this sentence:
«I believe in you» is much more than a declaration of love. It's the purest power that exists.
I think so and I liked it so much that someone reminded it to me.

You can find the complete tale here (italian):
http://www.pensieridelgufo.it/Eilgufodisse187.htm