Missing My Friends

Just this morning, Bro. Marc Will handed me a book on St. Francis of Sales with a bookmark on a chapter on friendship. I was so inspired with what I read that I fell into a trance of remembering my friends since I started to walk this earth. The sloppiness that I've felt this morning was blown away by the vigor brought about by thinking of friends.

Looking out our study hall window and gazing upon the green lush of tree leaves swaying outside, I can see the open Laguna sky. I know I am quite distant from the place where I grew up, yet right now I am aware that I belong. Friendship binds us in unity. I cannot imagine how I would have grown, and I believe I would be much different from who I am now, if I have not met my friends.

Thanks to the powers of technology, I still was able to visit some friends in Facebook. I am amused at their goings on in life. Without being physically there, I share their sorrow and joy. I travel with them as I browse through their pictures. I read their minds as I read through and in-between their poetry and prose lines. May we be able to fully utilize the interconnectedness of the world by wire and wireless communications in order to truly make the world smaller and closer through the interconnectedness of persons and friends.

Jesus Flevit

JESUS FLEVIT

For you they fall, falling down to earth

Tears that sing my sorrow, sorrow for your worth

For you failed to see the day I knocked at your door

How I long to keep you under my wings

Your day of visitation comes today

Close not your eyes to the light of my day

Come back my children return to me

Open up your hearts, return to me

Break not my heart, my lovely spouse

For without me beauty fades from your house

My love will urge you on though times be dark

My love will keep alive your spark

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Bro. Keith J. Amodia, SDB

Lyrics, Music, Vocals, and Video

Bro. Vince Michael Sabal, SDB

Piano

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There were only two instances in the Gospel when Jesus wept. First, was when He wept for His friend Lazarus. The second, was when He wept for Jerusalem. This song was inspired from Luke 19:41-44, when Jesus wept for Jerusalem because she failed to recognize the day of His coming.

Many times, we too fail to recognize the coming of the Lord: in our daily relationship with him, in our brothers and sisters, and in the goodness that is inherent in each one of us. We are blinded by our own worries and cares that we fail to see the light of salvation breaking the walls of our own Jerusalem. So He sheds tears of sorrow and sighs his wish to gather everyone in the shelter of His wings.

The Passerby

Thanks for passing by, I had a good time
Thanks for passing by, I found my light
For truths that hurt, for kindness rhymed
And winds that blew which taught me flight

You came by, though short your stay
It seemed long enough for me to smile
As you further walk I bless and pray
You find your light each step, each mile

The sound of wind rushing through my soul
Balms the trimmings of a shaggy heart
Still I am grateful for your passing role
Unforgettable despite short a part