Great Day, Sunshine!

Live each day with a purpose. Engage in various activities that fuel your interest. Make a difference in your life and in other’s. Do not monitor what others do. Just enjoy acting upon your personally determined purpose.

 

As long as the sun shines, the plants survive and serve their purpose. In the same way, as long as our hearts beat, we can move and make a positive difference of any degree. When we do good things, others who benefit from them, and even those who just observe us, find hope in us and through us.

We must be thankful everyday we are alive! We have our faculties functioning well. We can move. We can think. We can talk.

I am inspired by the living testimonies of our “these abled” brothers and sisters, who, despite their physical disabilities, manage to make a positive difference in their lives—and even leave an impact on other lives, without these special persons knowing it.

Some enjoy their gift of life by doing good in sports like in Paralympics. Others eke out a living to help their families by doing handicrafts, massage services, and even professional jobs inside the modern steel-and-glass skyscrapers. Still others serve the people through non-governmental organizations, governments posts, or self-initiated services—sweeping their surroundings, cleaning their houses, and the likes.

There are also those unsung young heroes who never let their poverty hinder them to reach for their stars with flying colors.

Yet, many of us so-called normal people complain about life, as if we have no power to change the status of our lives, or worse, as if we are not blessed.

So now, what makes the difference between these special people and us normal ones? Disposition! Because of their gratitude and humility, they give off more love, pronounced hope, and infectious joy.

They are grateful they experience the wonder of life and are humble enough to acknowledge their need for a God to strengthen them and other people to teach and assist them. They don’t compete with and envy their mates.

Instead of looking at their deficiencies, these special people are zealous to learn, willing to take challenges, and appreciate their circumstances. They accept their situations as they are and take off from there.

So to us born complete, let us not puddle ourselves with laziness, anxiety, or envy.

Do not stagnate. Achieve! Do not criticize. Inspire! Do not regret. Enjoy!

As long as you breathe, you have the power to maneuver your life to the direction you want to go. Even though going there doesn’t happen in a flash, you are guaranteed to benefit from a fruitful and joyful journey if you just wake up each day gratefully, pray faithfully, learn earnestly, work passionately, share cheerfully, decide justly, respond humbly, love genuinely, and go to bed peacefully.

We don’t have to be caught in a snag or to go through permanent challenges in life just for us to learn and appreciate the beauty and goodness of life.

Live each day with a purpose. Engage in various activities that fuel your interest. Make a difference in your life and in other’s. Do not monitor what others do. Just enjoy acting upon your personally determined purpose.

One day you’ll just be surprised how much you have learned, how far you have gone, how much you have improved, and how many people you have awakened, if not inspired.

Remember that each day is another day to live in the moment with our God, who provides us with everything we need. Just up to us how we will utilize our blessings.

Time is the only thing that everyone—regardless of abilities, race, sex, and social status—is equally blessed with. While you have time, utilize it doing the things that you love, maximize it for learning, optimize it for service that bears eternal good fruits, and spend it letting your loved ones know how much you love them.

Our general purpose: pass on the light of goodness God has planted in our hearts by utilizing them. Be a torch that lights up long-lasting hope to one life at a time.

Ignite the light in your heart. Bring light and warmth to the people you meet. Reflect Jesus to others.


Great day, sunshine!