Whisperings Under The Maple Tree

  Coffee Musings Under the Maple Tree (Part 27) Reflections of Dharmazeus   Thank you for your special friendship and making yourself always feel present with your constant communication and availability. Special moments are created when you are around. New memories treasured and cherished. You are love indeed. Smile – the secret of growing old gracefully.   When you walked away, I chased you. You never looked back. I kept on calling your name, but you never seemed to hear me. My heart was in pain. My mind was at a loss. I got tired and fell. Someone picked me up and helped me. The wound of losing you started to heal, the pain eased. I am now in better hands. Had you not left me, I would not have met a very loving and caring person. Thank you for walking away. I wish that ours wouldn’t be just part of my yesterday’s memories … that we would still be dreaming a future of togetherness. Yet, our today remains uncertain, no label, filled with questions and answe...

  Coffee Musings Under the Maple Tree (Part 26) Reflections of Dharmazeus When you are in a relationship, you need to learn the art of compromise. It is when you are able to express your concerns, plans, hopes, and dreams as much as you are able to know the same things from your other significant person. Listen to each other. Discuss and work things out. Come to an agreement that is acceptable to both of you. Remember giving way for the other is not surrendering your own values. It is valuing what is more essential in the relationship – LOVE FOR EACH OTHER MORE THAN YOURSELF. Always remember the magic phrase in a relationship is LET’S FIX THIS. I have loved very dearly. I got hurt so painfully. I cried so many sleepless nights. I tried to move on and let go of the sad memories. I prayed. I forgive. I am ready to love again. But this time with learnings from yesterday. Tears were shed. Unable to sleep, Heart bleeds. Mind ached. The thought of you. Lessons learned. Tomorrow...

  Coffee Musings Under the Maple Tree (Part 25) Reflections of Dharmazeus   You may be gone but definitely not forgotten. The love we shared remains aflame in my memory. Your love will always be cherished in my heart. You may be in heaven but your heart rests in mine. Forever loving you. If you’re unwilling to take responsibility for your actions and words, no one will do it for you. One day you will find yourself alone and lonely. Regret comes late when you realize the mistake of letting go of the person who truly cared for you. When I was broken, you helped me pick up my broken pieces. When I was crying, you gave me a handkerchief to dry my tears away. When I was alone, you sat beside me and whispered, “I am here.” When I was lonely, you smiled and said, “I love you.” My life had never been the same since. Sabr. I will wait even if it takes forever because I love you. I will be patient. I will hope. As the day nears its end, I thank the Lord for the gift of y...

  Coffee Musings Under the Maple Tree (Part 24) Reflections of Dharmazeus Still trying to search for your footsteps even through my memory. Apparently though, they’ve been swept away like the waves touching the shore. Footsteps in the sand gone forever. At a far distant shore, in the vastness of the sea, I searched for you. Even in the recesses of my memory, you were nowhere to be found. I tried to find you, even chased you when you silently walked away. Today, I will just patiently wait. Sabr. Until you learn to forgive and reach out again. If you wait for the storm to pass, you’ll just feel awful and pained. Learn to dance in the rain and life will be more kind and fun. Rainbow will be more colorful than it already is. Smile. Be happy. Nothing is over until God says it is. We can only let go that which God destined us to do so. We are at God’s mercy and direction. He alone knows what is best for us. Trust. Believe. Patience. Pray. Keep the faith. It hurts deeply bec...

  HOLY WEEK REFLECTION (March 27, 2024)   Reflection Question: Why did Jesus ask the Father to “forgive them”? Why did He not say “Father, I forgive them for what they did to me?” My Reflection: Could it be because at the time of the Crucifixion, the people who did harm to Jesus have not realized that they made a mistake, and it was such a grave mistake before God? It was the human Jesus who was severely suffering the pain and indignity of being crucified that was speaking from the depths of His wounded heart, a wounded soul, His deeply wounded feelings. Such reality emphasizes the importance of acknowledging one’s guilt for doing wrong to others as a mandatory step towards forgiveness. Forgiveness is given to those who acknowledge the wrong they did, recognize the effect of their malicious actions to others, express sorrow and have a contrite heart for the wrongful deeds, seek and ask to be forgiven. Only then shall forgiveness be received. The human side ...

  THE CROSS: A Personal Reflection on the Holy Week (March 25, 2024)   The Holy Days of recall on the Paschal Mystery (Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Christ) has begun. Indeed, what an opportunity for us to take time for vacation not for fun and frolic but from the concerns of the world to the concerns of our spiritual being, which is actually the foundation of our existence, the basis and meaning of our life. It is very timely, or so it seems, that a very challenging situation is set before me involving my personal life. The knowledge of it even came after I formally turned over the Holy Relic of the Cross as a donation to the Parish of the Holy Cross received by the Parish Priest. Now I am beginning to see and, hopefully, understand the significance of such a move. Am I giving up the “crosses” of my life? Am I surrendering the “crosses” in my life to God? Is God telling me that it’s about time to allow Him to appropriately take charge of my life? My Refl...

  Coffee Musings Under the Maple Tree (Part 23) Reflections of Dharmazeus   If only I could stop the waves from rushing to the shore just so that yesterday becomes today and that tomorrow as we dreamed becomes now, then my memories shall only be the ones with smiles and not with tears…and my heart will only beat about love at the thought of you, my Dear.   While it looks good and fascinating to watch the waves rush to and from the shore, love and affection shouldn’t work that way. True love is like a stream of water – murky and muddy sometimes but it flows continuously upstream or downstream until it clears like a sparkling crystal and joins into the vastness of the seas.   We had the chance. We did not nourish it well enough to last. If only you did not walk away and phased with me a bit more. But the past is all gone. Even memories erased, lessons learned, tears shed have dried up. Another chance? Maybe. Afterall, true love never dies but only fades...