Tomorrow

TOMORROW

by: Lope de Vega (1562-1635)

LORD, what am I, that with unceasing care
Thou did'st seek after me, that Thou did'st wait
Wet with unhealthy dews before my gate,
And pass the gloomy nights of winter there?
Oh, strange delusion, that I did not greet
Thy blest approach, and oh, to heaven how lost
If my ingratitude's unkindly frost
Has chilled the bleeding wounds upon Thy feet.

How oft my guardian angel gently cried,
"Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see
How He persists to knock and wait for thee!"
And oh, how often to that Voice of sorrow,
"Tomorrow we will open," I replied,
And when the morrow came I answered still "Tomorrow."

This English translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow of "Tomorrow" is reprinted from Hispanic Anthology: Poems Translated from the Spanish by English and North American Poets. Ed. Thomas Walsh. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920.

If you want to know more about Lope de Vega, you can read more here.

How Geek are you?

I took this test, pretty funny. Some questions were like ??? Anyway. Take it if you have nothing to do. Sad, I'm 16 % geek!!! I thought that wasn't even part of my DNA... Sad.

You are 16% geek

OK, so maybe you ain't a geek. You do, at least, show a bit of interest in the world around you. Either that, or you have enough of a sense of humor to pick some of the sillier answers on the test. Regardless, you're probably a pretty nifty, well-rounded person who gets along fine with people and can chat with just about anyone without fear of looking stupid or foolish or overly concerned with minutiae. God, I hate you.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

My mom, Bere and I (enjoying a Mexican churro) 

Bere & I 16 Christmas ago 

Dad and sister. I'm the one playing with the plant at age 2. 

Psalm 19

As my Christmas break starts, I often tend to sleep in, and just wander around the house trying to do something productive with my life. But I want this year to end as full of God as I possibly can. Today I was reading Psalm 19 and there were two verses in particular that called on my attention. And then, I started praying within me, "Lord, may this also be my prayer, I want to my every thought to be of your approval, I just don't want to wander, I want to live my life ( to the very last second) thinking about you, and meditating upon Your Word."

Meditating includes reading the Word of God, memorizing it, and knowing it. I want to finish this year with the Word of God in my mind and heart in order for His Word to flow out of my heart and life naturally, more than just breathing it, but also living His every Word.

Keep back Your servant also from

presumptuous sins;

Let them not have dominion over me.

Then I shall be innocent of great

transgression.

Let the words of my mouth and the

meditation of my heart

Be acceptable in Your sight,

O Lord, my strength and my

Redeemer.

Ps. 19: 13-14

Change in blog name

I had to change the name of my blog, because yesterday my sister told me that the name Songbird was also the name of a cheesy song "we all hate to love," so I just thought of changing the name of my blog to the name of my favorite flowers: Lilies.

I need some feedback. How do you like this new name?

ASD

Pretty girls 

A letter to my dear...

I'm reading a book by Jane Austen, Persuasion. The novel is great, and since I've read most of her books my heart palpitates faster than ever because she just has these male characters who are just wonderful, and so romantic.
I might sound like a fool to you, but I believe there are men out there who can be just as wonderful as these male characters, or even better. I have been given wings, now I must fly. I am a believer of a greater manhood, as originally designed by God, and I know that there are thousands of young men out there who don't conform to the world standards of what a guy should be, and that they rise to the challenge to become the men God created them to be.

So here's a letter that one of these wonderful characters wrote to his beloved she. His name is Frederick Wentworth, and yes, he's cute, wonderful and very much in love.

'I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you almost broke it eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, and weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone I think and plan. - Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes?- I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice, when they would be lost on others.- Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating in

F. w.

'I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.'

So, there's a little bit of what makes me faint, and dream, and sends me out flying among angels and humming birds.

ASD

Experiencing daily passion, and thinking about my epitaph

At your request Warrior-Poet…

Continuing on with the seven questions I intended to answer from If you want to walk on Water you have to get out of the Boat, I’ll proceed to give my answer to the following two questions.

How much passion do I experience in my daily life?

If you would have asked that question a couple of years back, I would have told you that I experience a lot of passion. That I feel that everyday is a new day to bless other people, to pray for other people, to be blessed…

But since I’m here living in the NOW, I must make another confession: I don’t experience a lot of passion, or at least, no the kind of passion I would like to have.
Sometimes it is just too easy to wake up, lift up a prayer of “thanks Lord” here and there, and then, move on to do everything else mechanically as if programmed to just exist, but not live. A person can be passionate about his/her day only on the surface.

We can get too acquainted with the worldly things and the worldly people that we fool ourselves into thinking that because we’ve interacted with them and pour out our heart into it; we’ve lived that day passionately to the point of finding them satisfactory, here’s where the danger lies.

But when you go home, then, you realize how superficial and lifeless you are, that the things you consider worth it are nothing but just a blur, rubbish…That gives me no reason to live and to experience godly passion throughout my day.

I want to be passionate about life. I want to wake up everyday with wings of eagle.
Those who live a passionate life, are those people who change the world because their passion is so contagious that people around them are compelled to change, to live, to be passionate about God, life and others. I want to be a 1 Chronicles 29:28 person, knowing that I’ve lived my life passionately because I did everything I was called to do.
As my favorite Bible verse says it, “I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus,” (Philippians 3:14)
I have every reason to live a passionate life: God, family, friends, health, destiny, purpose…

That leads me to the third question from the book: What do I want my epitaph to say?

I want my epitaph to be something like this:

Here sleeps Abelid Sarahi Dominguez, a powerful woman of God who fulfilled her life’s destiny.
She did everything she was called to do:

Planted churches around the world, touched entire nations with the power of the Spirit of God upon her life.
She went to Latin American nations
And became a reformer of the political, religious, and cultural system of the time
turning these nations into nations surrendered to the power of God.
In the early years of her youth, she worshiped God with all her being,
And led thousands of people into the presence of God.
She also was able to break the yoke of a young, stubborn generation
that was in captivity.
She prophesized the word of the Lord, and healed the sick and the broken hearted.
Sarahi was a humble, honorable and wise woman of God.
Abelid Sarahi ran her race and finished it, she won the prize doing everything she was called to do.
And died full of years “at a good old age, having enjoyed long life, wealth and honor…”

Live, breath, dream...

In hot pursuit,

ASD

Song of the Year

There's always a song that goes to the heart. A song that speaks to you, and that is often played on your head everyday. As this year comes to an end, I like to think about the one song that made my day, that touched me and even changed my personal view on how God likes to relates to us mortal beings who have been rescued from "eternal damnation."

This year, that song is "Take all of me," so here it is my 2004 song of the year:

You broke the night like the sun

and healed my heart with your great love

any trouble I couldn't bear

you lifted me upon your shoulders.

Love that stronger

Love that cover sin

and takes the weight of the world.

I love you

all of my hope is in You

Jesus Christ, take my life

take all of me.

You stand on mountain tops with me

with you I walk through the valleys

you gave your only Son for me

your grace is all I rely on.

I love you so, and I give up my heart to say

I need you so, my everything.

Marty Sampson/ Hillsong Publishing 2003