what my priest taught me

It was a cold chilly morning and as usual I headed to St. Paul’s Christ Academy. I was enthusiastic about my 2 hr class as I knew that my voids would be filled. The Mass commenced on time and on the sight of the minister for the day I already felt my anticipations. His name was Fr. Big. He was the usual wise, cool calm and collected but very well researched priest…..What would he have for me that Sunday?????? My thoughts ran wild. Something inside convinced me it would be a sunny day in all aspects. The sermon began with reflections about Faith….All the definitions that Faith had been defined in by the English dictionary and in the church doctrine were in the Pamphlet. That I had heard before. I was thirsty for something different. Could he quench it? Logical meaning yet contemporary. This priest would not disappoint me and one thing I knew for sure was that the priest was a good teacher. A good teacher, he said, is someone who teaches one something and relates with it. A bad teacher, as your guess may be, is one who transfers knowledge from written books and transfers it to the Medulla Oblongata and it evaporates/ sublimes soon after. That was his lesson # 1.He now proceeded to the layman’s understanding of Faith. He used the one thing that Architects, carpenters, kindergarten children and many other professions must use. It was a Pencil………”It can’t get better than this” I said to myself. I was having an internal monologue and the more I tried to think, the more I found myself pondering about a pencil. He didn’t keep us waiting. At that point everyone had lent him their ear. He stated them with brevity and conciseness.

A pencil must be held

A pencil must be sharpened

A pencil treasures its inner fountain

A pencil always leaves a mark

A pencil’s error is easily erased.

I had never thought about all that. Talk about taking trivialities for granted. It left me thinking. What a simple way to fulfill one’s purpose. What an easy definition of faith! What a great teacher! What a lesson it was! Fr. Big had done it again. This was my motivation every Sunday that I felt sleepy. I had to run to my 2 hr class called mass because it would sure be a sunny day.

CONFUSED

When I have a vision
The high deity gives me a provision
When I ask in prayer
The answer cometh like a rain blessing
When I have a longing
I look forward to the fulfillment in the offing
How then does a great dream like this?
A dream that I knew would come,
On its arrival comes along hesitation
Does that make me confused?

All along I was sure
The deal is very sweet
The eventualities maybe sour
Should I commit?
Should I follow the conscience?
Should I seize the moment?
Could it be an answered prayer?
Or is it a test of faith?
Help me figure it out
Deliver me from my confusion

BEYOND YOU

Know who you are?
Know why you are here?
Know where you want to be?
Know when you will be there?
Know what to be while there?
Think aloud
Surpass your understanding
Be what you were made to be
Build Your Own Universe

My Frustrations....

Frustrated in thee I feel
You know not how to acknowledge
The efforts I engage
The strains I endure
Effortless to your conviction

All the brain drain
All the wasted muscles
To achieve what to you is fit
The upshot still remains
Effortless to your conviction

My body is exhausted
My brain is fatigued
No matter how much I toil
You excel in your foil
Remaining effortless to your conviction

The yoke is too profound
Much toil without respite
Let me be for a while
Rejuvenation I need
An ease to keep at bay
Your effortless conviction

My heart bleeds................................

i sit here
i try to look
i can't concentrate
i look into the horizon
nothing seems to work
one by one
a trickle and another
tears flow down my cheek
for a while i let them
its a bit comforting
i just want to be there
crying my sorrows away
my source of joy they have taken
a distance they have kept
they have taken my dawn company
the smile that brightened my morning now gone
i can only try to cheer up a little
but one fact remains
my heart is bleeding
Cherished moments will keep me going
hoping that every day the sun rises
it shall be a meeting in the offing

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