ANGEL...............Waiting for one

                                                    Hiiiiiiiiiii !!!!!!! It’s nice to see YOU here….

I had written this poem when I was at a stage where I had to make a firm decision. I was a little bit confused. Writing your feelings do help, so I did the same. I am posting this poem, because it makes me look back on life and sets me thinking and thus renews my life. It can help someone………
Who knows how God works!!!!  So here is the poem for you………

    Angel....... waiting for one

To come into my life

And lighten it with all that she has

The Power, the Smile,

And most of all – Love

That only She can provide.

 Love and not lust, that I seek,

To express

And in this beautiful process

Bare out my heart, my feelings,

My whole self, all that I am.

I know, somehow I just know

That there is THE ONE waiting for me

Is it a game?

Do I have two lives?

Commitment !!! This word loaded with meanings

Haunts me, for I have already given

Myself to THE GREATEST ONE

Yet I believe that HE knows my heart

That I want to spread HIS love

To the whole world.

To see the radiating happiness in people’s faces

Is my wish. I hope that will be

My battery to continue HIS work.

But I long to experience love, first.

I know that THE GREATEST ONE  loves me

But I – a normal human being

Want to feel it in a tangible way.

Could it be possible that I am

Mixing up the two?

Immature though my wish be

I am happy that I could atleast bring it out.

Words!!! Can you do this for me?

To express what I really feel?

Religious Life, so holy, so family like

This was my previous presumption

I guess that no one can escape the jungle.

Man is an animal, the intelligent animal

But yet an animal after all

You fend for yourself,

Remember your stomach is yours,

Your life is yours,

Your heart is yours, not someone else’s.

Happiness, like a magnet, attracts many.

Am I a tissue paper? Use and Throw?

Where and how doesn’t matter.

You have value only when you are of use.

‘We don’t need a human being,’

That’s the feeling I receive.

 A human being who has feelings, emotions

Who can spread happiness by simply being.

But what People need

Is not a ‘Being’ but a ‘Doer.’

They seem to give worth or rather weigh

A person by the many things he can DO.

God, my Love, THE GREATEST ONE,

Send down your Angel

Or teach me to look into the Heart

And help many to do the same.

I’ll wait, till I die,

Atleast then will I be assured of meeting YOU,

My GF......

MY GREATEST FRIEND,

THE ONE,

THE GREATEST ONE.

You are Intelligent….Well, what do you say?

“The first rank goes to….” Surely, when the class teacher exclaims these words as she announces the results, there will be three or five students, with their heart in the mouth beating louder than the loudspeaker, waiting to hear the next few words. These pupils will be imagining their name being pronounced and the thunderous applause from the students following it. “Who will it be?” What about the rest of the class? Yes, some will be eager to know from whom to get the next party from. While some maybe just disinterested, thinking that those privileged few are ‘out of their league.’ And few students will be restless, wanting the teacher to finish it as quickly as possible so that they may just rush out of the class.

One may find oneself or recollect being in a situation discussed above. I have a question to ask you. Is it that those who are called ‘rankers,’ are the intelligent ones? What do you say? Another question, have you called or rather heard someone calling another person as ‘stupid, idiot, and dumbo’? Think about it. Is it that these people are not intelligent? Where will you put yourself? Do you consider yourself as an intelligent person? Well, well, I have good news for you… You are intelligent.

Yes, you are intelligent!!! You may ask ‘How?’ Because there are different types of intelligence. As there are different professions so too there are different types of intelligence. Each of us is unique. We work in a specific way. The way we think, reflect, judge and act are specific to us. We shall see the different types below.

(Please Note: 1}We have all the types of intelligences in us. Only that some are stronger and some, we need to work on. 2}The points are taken from ‘Multiple Intelligence Theory’ presented by Howard Gardner from Harvard University.)

1*  Linguistic Intelligence

The ability to read, pen down your thought onto paper is derived from Linguistic Intelligence. It helps one to play with words and communicate in a creative manner. The ability to speak effectively and persuasively comes from this intelligence. It includes people who enjoy solving crosswords, play with anagrams, cryptograms and acronyms. Poets, orators, authors, journalists and comedians are strong on this intelligence.

2*  Logico-Mathematical Intelligence

People who are strong on Logico-Mathematical Intelligence have a great ability to calculate and to reason out. Their mode of thinking is highly logical. They prefer everything to be in order as they like to be very systematic. The ability to put things in different categories is greatly enhanced in these people. To solve puzzles, riddles, playing with numbers, reaching conclusions logically followed from premises can be considered to be their hobby. These skills are highly developed in accountants, economists, scientists, engineers and detectives.

3*   Visual-Spatial Intelligence

Visual-Spatial Intelligence empowers a person to think in terms of visual that is pictures- to see their plan in action in their mind. They have a great ability to visualize things and act accordingly. They get new ideas as they play with their imagination and the fruit of such activity is creativity. They are not only able to imagine but also to imagine in concrete space, which is an outcome of their spatial ability. Architects, sculptors, photographers, strategic planners and artists would be high on Visual-Spatial Intelligence.

4* Musical Intelligence

Have you felt that certain songs touch your heart? Does it make a difference if the same song is sung by two different people? Yes! Because some are high on Musical Intelligence and some are not! Musical Intelligence buds forth in a person with the ability to compose music. To sing songs well at the correct speed, keep the rhythm, the tone and the pitch requires the use of Musical Intelligence. Even to understand music and critically appreciate it calls for Musical Intelligence. It includes sound engineers, composers, musicians and all those who have a ‘ear for music.’

5*   Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence

 Bones are hard, isn’t it? And a normal person has 206 bones in the body. Then how come some dancers are so flexible? Have you thought about it? How can someone lift his body to the height of 2.45m for a high jump, or throw his body 8.95m for a long jump or for that matter carry his body 100m in 9.58 seconds? Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence draws out the ability to use one’s body skillfully. It can be used on the stage or on the screen to bring out emotions in another person and present new ideas. Athletes, actors and dancers enjoy a high Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence.

6*      Interpersonal (Social) Intelligence

As the name suggest, this intelligence helps one to work effectively with others. PR (Public Relations) skills are highly enhanced in these people. To be able to relate with other people, to display empathy, to understand another person together with their motivation and goals comes naturally to them. They include therapists, teachers, religious leaders, facilitators, salespersons and politicians.

                                                       7*   Intrapersonal Intelligence

Socrates, the great philosopher once said, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” What did he mean by that? Where do you want to go? What do you want to become? How will you know this without knowing form where have you come from? They key to make plans and set goals derive greatly from the ability for self-analysis and reflection, which comes from Intrapersonal Intelligence. It helps a person to be able to quietly contemplate and assess one’s accomplishments, to review one’s behavior and inner most feelings. Many counselors, peak performers and philosophers orient their  way of life by Intrapersonal Intelligence.

8* Naturalist Intelligence

Did you have any interest in seeing a butterfly coming out of its cocoon? Have you tried a hand in planting trees? Some people can tell you how much manure a certain tree needs or which soil is good for certain plants. These are the people who have developed their Naturalist Intelligence. They are able to recognize flora and fauna, the flow of seasons in connection with birds and animals and to make consequential distinction in the natural world as in hunting, farming or biological science. People of Naturalist Intelligence include farmers, botanists, biologists and environmentalists.

9*  Spiritual Intelligence

We may have never heard about this one. Take some time out and just think about this question – Is there something called as co-incidence? Or is there something more to it? Our champions who are high on Spiritual Intelligence have the ability to relate to God, to pray, to recognize God in oneself, to see God in nature and in one’s fellow being. They have a tremendous ability to trust and to surrender oneself to God. These champions are the Saints and Holy people in our religions.

                As said earlier, all of us have these nine intelligences developed in various degrees. We are people of various intelligences. To be successful in life, all you have to do is know which type of intelligence is strongest in you, put your heart in it and choose a suitable profession. In other words – Do what you love to do. In doing so, always remember to think as a person of action and to act as a person of thought.

                                              So, you are intelligent!!! Now, what do you say?

What is it to be Holy???

“You’ve got to find what you love,” said Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios. Joining the Seminary, wanting to serve the Lord by spreading His love to all people, I wanted to taste holiness. Within some weeks, I was lost because my idea of holiness was taking a roller coaster ride, visiting areas which I never dreamed of.

Well, what do you say? What is holiness according to you? Will you consider a person holy, who sits in the church all day, mesmerized in his conversation with God? Or will you call a person holy, who has a heart for all people? Yes, I do want to become holy. But how, that was the question pricking my mind.

It was only later, in my living the consecrated life that I grasped the concept of holiness and now I am working to embrace it and become one, or rather being open to His Grace and allowing it to work in my life. I am happy to share it with you.

Prayer is important, firstly. That internal connection once established, it will automatically push you to be loving, to be kind to all peoples. Because once tasting the Lord, no one can but want everyone to have the same experience. In the sharing of this wonderful experience, one may feel his energy drained out. It is then, prayer acts as a battery charger. The internal relationship blossoms forth in our external relationships.
Now, here comes the tricky part. We are not all same. We have different genes, different looks, different tastes, different interests and different likings. Why? Because each one of us has a mission to make this world a beautiful place, which no one else but oneself can do.  Just to give an example, in a management crew, each person is trained for a specific work to do. The effectiveness of the whole group depends on each member. 

In the same way, we all have a specific mission by which we can contribute. In doing so one becomes holy. Just look around, people have different interests in which they can blossom to the full. How to fulfill this mission and be holy? 
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. 
They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Be a live bomb, living life!!! Not to destroy and spread hatred but to LOVE  and heal all broken hearts. 
BE A LOVE BOMB !!!