DAY 40 - Memory scars.

Please look and see who I truly am.

Certain dramatic events affect your present view of self, people and the rest of life.

One and the same dramatic event may cause the downfall of a person or a people but simultaneously the rising of another. 

Take the bombing of Pearl Harbor for instance. That event changed the course of world history, in particular the American's. The Pearl Harbor event entails the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombing. That was America's retribution a thousandfold. 

From then on Americans became an all-can-do kind of people. The individual Americans are also high-spirited world conqueror, not just this world but even the world of the quantuum and the outer space! Until . . . . that horrible day in 2001. 

Once again that event changed the course of humankind, especially the American people as well as each individual. It really changed everything. 

You see, those events create memory scars in our lives. 

We breathe, we live, we eat, we move, we sleep, we think, we plan, we build, we work, we react, we organize our life, time and behaviors - in view of that horrific September day. We're no longer the same. That terrible event forces us to reveal who we truly are and reflect on what we should be and behave in the present.

On a deep level, behind every dramatic event there are people. In fact, in history it was people who created or rather brought about the dramatic and horrific events. Isn't it true?

Ask yourself the questions: Who was behind Pearl Harbor? Who was behind Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombing? Who was behind the 911? 

We all know the answer: people. 

It was, is and shall ever be people who affect events. Then events affect people's lives. Then all become a communal memory or history.

Do you have a dramatic personal event that changed your life, yourself and worldview? 

Do you know the person standing behind and manipulating that dramatic event?

Is that event and the people or person behind it still affect the ways you think, feel, act and behave?


For instance like the death of a loved one? An accident? A near-death experience? A confrontation with your enemy and survive? And many more alike . . .?

There is one ultimate event that utterly changed the world and human lives forever. It was the event that shook the universe on all levels, the inner and outer, the upper and lower, the frontal and behind, the physical and meta-physical, the intellectual and emotional, the natural and supernatural, the ontological and spiritual.

Whosoever lives, moves, exists and breathes on and because of this event, is blessed for eternity. 

Instead of breathing on any particular event or person that affects our lives, we breathe with this ultimate one. 

Please look at me and see me for who I really am.  Don't you know who I am?

You probably know what I'm talking about already. It's the Crucifixion of Our Lord and Most Holy Redeemer Jesus Christ.

That should be the ultimate event and He should be the ultimate person who determines the course of our lives and actions.

When we breathe on, in, out and with Him and His passion, we are truly world conquerors and an all-can-do people of the Resurrection. We are not merely high-spirited people but Holy Spirited people. 

Breathe out now . . . into the realm of the all-encompassing and everlasting life-giving generous Holy Spirit.

God bless y'all.