Devotional for friends // Devocional para as amigas

I’ve been reading the Lord of the Rings (now I am on the third book – The return of the king), so there is this part when Pippin looked far to the land from a high place in Gondor and he has this glooming feeling where “hope seemed to wither”. And for a quick moment I wonder how many times we feel that way even when we look from a high place and see no good; everything around seems dark, and a war is about to break, and for a second all of our hope vanishes. And if we don’t pay attention, we tend to freeze right in this moment of despair.   But the story didn’t end there, that happened in the very first chapter of the 3rd book. So much is about to happen. And how many times in our lives we forget that too; that our life is just beginning, that was just a chapter. We don’t know what is to come. Sometimes we, I included, just assume that is the end. It might be the end of a chapter or just a full stop.   “Then, suddenly Pippin looked...

  Is it possible to be sad and happy at the same time? Is it possible to be angry and yet at peace at the same time? You know, these emotions do not depend on the absence of one to the other exist. They are totally able to co-exist. However, you are the one who chooses which one is controlling you. You can be sad for something that didn’t happen or did happen; however, you can choose not to let that happening take over your thoughts and emotions. After all, we are humans and we are allowed to have feelings hurts and mood swings once in a while. Although we can choose how to react, there is something harder to achieve that comes first in our mind before making a decision. Our thoughts. Our thoughts, actually, are the ones who lead us to choose what reaction and emotion we are going to get. So, before feeling any joy or peace, it is needed to control the thoughts. Maybe believing that controlling the thoughts is something impossible to ac...

  It’s been a while. I know. I would like to redefine me. I would like to be softer, more lovely. I would like to reach people’s hearts with a word, a smile, a hug. Sometimes, these are the simplest things that we cannot do. I want to, but when the opportunity finally comes, something goes wrong in my head, and … the opportunity was wasted with my poor choice of words, I mix up all the problems and say things to the wrong person, or with the wrong emotion. And the real intention had never come up. One more time we feel like **** I think that we are useless, we are unable to do anything right. There are so many reasons that what I want is not what I do. So, what can I do about it? Actually, I don’t see anything else but keep on trying. One day, who knows… my brain just gets it. Or, I can respond to such reactions differently. Imagine that a simple conversation goes wrong. How?? Who knows? I just know that right in the middle of it, out of nowh...