^~^DAILY GOSPEL REFLECTION^~^

 1. Map

Map represent guide to our journey. Without them, we'd get nowhere. The same thing in life... What kind of guide do we have with us as we set forth in the greatest journey of all?

  a) Our Values

What we value in life helps us to determine where we're going. It helps us to avoid the things that are not important to us, and to give priority to those things we most resonate with.Do you value education? Then your map will point you to the paths that will increase your knowledge and help you in your career. or do you value your family? then you will be most likely guided towards things that will improve your relationship with your family and people.

  b) Our Dreams

Dreams give us the sense of purpose we need in orfer to continue in our journey. If we use a map, dreams point to the destination we wish to arrive at....eg... getting the job we want... or marrying your ideal partner or maybe fulfilling the mission God has given us.

  2.Cash and Credit Cards

Cash represents the provisions we will need to have  our journey. If we have dreams, these are the resources we need to have in order to fulfill them. They represents the material wealth needed in order to physically manifest our desire.

  3) Rosary

A Rosary represents prayer. It represents the spiritual resources we need in order to have a meaningful journey. This is our higher source of Wisdom and of strength when we fell weak and down and that we will unable to carry on.... Feeling of security... I should say.

  4) Kindle Fire

I have my favorite music and videos as well as books and movies in my kindle. Whenever I felt bored or fraustrated or down and low, I just listen to my favorite songs or watch a movie or reading a novel and I am back on track again. Songs represents the needed positive thinking...and develop a sense of humor that we should carry in our life's journey. Smile often, laugh more. It could greatly make our burden lighter and will help us in focusing back to our mission .

  5) Camera

I love taking pictures when I travel. It is like taking a piece of my journey back, and savoring it again and again. I love to watch and review what had been transpired in my journey. Camera represents the memory of my journey I make. What kind of pictures am I taking? Are these the kind of pictures I will take when I go home?

  6) Mobile Phone

 One of the most important thing I bring with me is my cellphone. I use it to stay in touch with family, relatives and friends where ever I may go. Keeping in touch.....That's one thing we could do to make our journey happier and worthwhile. If we could always bring our family with us, then it could be better.

Life is indeed a great journey. Sometimes you may go up, but sometimes you may be down,.... or you maybe feel good, but sometimes feeling bad. But whatever uncertainties we may have to face, we must remember to bring along Jesus Christ Our Savior in our hearts  that will surely make our life's journey joyful and meaningful.

And so we must travel light... how?   by leaving these behind....

1. Anger

Anger weigh us down so much that unless we could let it go, we couldn't go so far in our journey. At first we may feel that it is pushing us intensely to do something, but later we'd realize that it is really holding us back from doing the things we trully desire to do. Let go in anger. Forgive, if not for the person who hurt you, but for our own peace of mind and healing.

2. Guilt

When we are not able to let go of guilt, we will only sabotage our own success. We will hold ourself back from our own happiness. It is not that we shouldn't do anything to make up for our own mistakes. In fack that's what we should do. We should do all we can to ask forgiveness, to make up for our mistakes and to correct them. But then there will come a time when we too should forgive ourselves as God has forgiven us.

3.Greed

Another thing that hinders us from travelling light is greed. When we are so concerned with the material things that we are bound by them. Instead of being helped by such wealth, we become victims of our own greed. Greed is trying to get more than what we need. It is carrying more than what we want to carry. It also steals the time we should have spent with the people we love.. because our time just couln't be enough to amass and hoard all the money we could get.