Keeping the fire of faith burning

The Lord Is My Chef Sunday Recipe, Week XXVII-C, 06 October 2019

Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 ><)))*> 2 Timothy 1:6-8 ><)))*> Luke 17:5-10

This “screen grab” is the accompanying photo to a post of a very good friend expressing his doubts and frustrations about his efforts in deepening the faith of their students at Dr. Yanga’s Colleges in Bocaue, Bulacan.

Oh, yes! That is one of the most innovative schools in the country you must have heard winning top honors for the country in almost every international robotics competition these past ten years or more.

And the very good news is how its president, Sir Michael Yanga, credits all the fruits and successes of their school to their strong emphasis on faith and values formation of students and faculty despite their being non-sectarian. Every year they celebrate a “God-centered Week” while every Monday, Sir Michael holds deepening sessions of the gospel with their students. Below is his post that struck me so much after he felt low last week when God uplifted his spirit with that photo he received.

Of course, I “loved” the post and commented, “this is God writing on your student’s palm, Mike, using you as his pen and ink.”

The following Thursday, I used his post for my homily and blog.

And I am using it again today because it is more than a homily but a gospel– a “good news” so good that must be shared with everyone especially those feeling weak and tired, even doubtful in their faith in Jesus Christ like the Twelve.

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” The Lord replied, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

Luke 15:5-6
Photo of a flower of the mustard plant in Israel during our 2017 pilgrimage.

After narrating the parable of the rich man and Lazarus last Sunday, Jesus continues teaching his apostles about the demands of discipleship, foremost of which is the need for a firm faith at the start of St. Luke’s 17th chapter.

In four verses, the Lord warned the Twelve of the many temptations to sin they would face as they followed him. Without mincing any words, Jesus harshly told them how it would be better for any one of them to be tied with a millstone around his neck and be thrown into the sea than to cause others to sin. He also admonished them to rebuke those who sin but asked them to be forgiving to those who repent even if they repeatedly commit sin.

This is the context of our gospel today which is also directed to us that surely like the apostles, we would would have reacted to Jesus with the same request, “increase our faith, Lord” for it is so difficult to be good with all the tensions and complexities of life these days. We might even complain to him like the Prophet Habakkuk in the first reading in exasperation with all the evils going on as we strive to remain firm in our faith in God!

How long, O Lord? I cry for help but you do not listen! I cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not intervene. Why do you let me see ruin; why must I look at misery? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and clamorous discord.

Habakkuk 1:2-3

God never takes it as sin on our part when we complain to him like Habakkuk or when we ask him why bad things happen to us despite our efforts to faithfully follow his commandments. God knows very well and understands our cries within as prayers and expressions of our deep faith in him!

Sometimes, God allows us to hit rock bottom to make us stronger in our faith so we would love him more and trust him more. See how when we are so down and feeling weak when God would suddenly come to our rescue at the “nick of time”, sending us someone or something to remind us of his presence and fidelity like the Facebook post my friend received to assure him his talks are bearing fruit, that in fact, he likes them very much!

This is the reason why in explaining his teaching about the powers of faith, Jesus narrated this parable about “unprofitable servants”. In some older translations, the word used was “useless” that sounds so harsh and insulting. But, when seen with the eyes of faith, it is something so beautiful because our faithfulness as servants of God is a grace in itself he gives us so that we can do everything for him!

Whenever we are able to continue with our mission against all odds, with much difficulties even with pains, it is pure grace from God as our hearts are purified and made clean that enable us to see him in love as we reflected last Sunday in the attitude of Lazarus. And whenever there is grace and gift from God, there is always joy like the servants who have done what they are obliged to do.

“Who among you would say to your servant who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field, ‘Come here immediately and take your place at table’? Would he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat…’? Is he grateful to that servant because he did what was commanded? So should it be with you. When you have done all you have been commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were obliged to do.’ ”

Luke 17:7-8, 9-10

Desolation is always a prelude to consolation.

Photo by Chester Ocampo, ICS Chapel, 2015.

Whenever we cry to God with our doubts and complaints at how things are going as we fulfill our mission to him, we actually express our faith and love in him. Rejoice because that is all due to him who is within us, reassuring us of his reliability and help in everything. Let us heed St. Paul’s call through Timothy to “stir into flame the gift of God” we have within us (2 Tim. 1:6) through prayers and constant struggle with our faith.

When things get difficult for us, when trials threaten to overwhelm us, look into Christ crucified who cried to the Father with “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me” (Mt.26:47) before he died. Jesus was there first to suffer and die for us before our sufferings came. May we have that faith in him to rise to new life again. Amen.

Ang mabuting balita ng karukhaan

Lawiswis ng Salita ni P. Nicanor F. Lalog II, 04 Oktubre 2019

Mula sa Be Like Francis Page sa Facebook.
Minsan daw ay nagimbal
kaibigang Kardinal ni San Francicso
na banal 
nang kanyang malaman
dukha nilang pamumuhay
na sa kanyang palagay
labis na kahirapan hindi naman
dapat nilang pagdaanan.
Katuwirang ipinaliwanag
ni San Francisco kay Kardinal Hugolino
kay gandang pagnilayan 
sa malalim nitong kahulugan:
"kung tayo'y maraming kayamanan,"
aniya ng ating banal
"kakailangan din natin mga sandata 
upang mga ito'y ipaglaban at pangalagaan." 
Sa kanyang isipan 
at banal na kalooban,  
ang pag-ibig ay namamatay 
kapag tao'y nagkamal maraming ari-arian;
hanapin kanyang paliwanag
kung masasagot kanyang mga katanungan 
na tila bugtong di lamang sa isipan
kungdi pati na rin sa puso at kalooban:
"Mapagnanakawan mo ba
na tao na walang ano man?
Maari mo bang gutumin 
ang nag-aayuno?
Mayroon ka bang sisirain
sa taong namumuhi
sa parangal at pagkilala?
Ano nga ba magagawa sa taong aba at dukha?"
Para kay San Francisco
ang mga dukha ang tunay na malaya
kayang ipaubaya lahat
pati sarili sa Bathala
upang makagawa 
ng kabutihan sa kapwa
na siyang simula ng ating kapatiran 
at ugnayan pati sa kalikasan.
Mula sa Reuters.
Sa ating panahon ngayon
karukhaan ay pinag-uusapan 
batay sa kawalan 
ng ari-arian na kabaligtaran
ng kung ano mayroon 
ang mayayaman na kadalasan 
mga bagay nabibilang 
at nabibili gaya ng kapangyarihan. 
Ngunit kung ating pagninilayan
ano mang mayroon ang mayaman
ay wala pa rin o "NOTHING"
kung Inglesin natin
dahil ang higit na mahahalaga
ay hindi nakikita 
ni nabibili o nabibilang 
gaya ng pera at iba pang kayamanan.
Gayun din naman
hindi masasabi ng sino man
na siya ay dukha
at "walang wala" ika nga
dahil kung tutuusin natin
ang lahat ay palaging mayroon pa rin
o "SOMETHING" 
kung Inglesin din natin.
Harinawa'y mapagtanto natin
sa pagdiriwang ng kapistahan
ni San Francisco na butihin
ito mismong buhay natin
ay dakilang kayamanan 
na dapat ipagpasalamat natin
sa karukhaan ng loobing maialay 
gaya ng Panginoon Hesus natin.
Ang Krus ng kapilya ng San Damiano na isinaayos ni San Francisco batay sa tinig na kanyang narinig habang nananalangin doon. 


	


	



			
				


			

			
To listen like St. Francis of Assisi
		
	
	

		

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Friday, Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, 04 October 2019





Baruch 1:15-22  ><)))*> 0 <*(((><   Luke 10:13-16





One of the scenes from Benozzo Gozzoli’s series of frescoes from the life of St. Francis (1450) that captures the saint’s “Sermon to the Birds” and the dedication of his basilica at Assisi.  Photo from Google.





Praise and glory to you, Lord God our loving Father for this week about to close with the celebration of another great saint, Francis of Assisi.





Two things I wish to thank you in giving us St. Francis of Assisi.





First is his total dedication in listening to you alone.  





St. Francis accomplished so much for you and had so much impact not only to the Church but for the whole world until now because he intently listened to your voice, to your calls, and to your instructions.










It does not really matter if he got your words literally or figuratively speaking like when he was praying inside San Damiano chapel and heard your voice saying, “Go, Francis, and repair my house, which you see, is falling into ruins.”





Or, when St. Francis finally found his vocation in life after listening to Matthew 10:9 in the Mass and felt you Jesus speaking directly to him to go preach the kingdom of God without extra clothes and money that right after that, he threw everything away to preach penance, brotherly love, and peace.





How ironic that in this world of modern means of communications, the more we have become fragmented than ever because we have lost the values of silence, prayer and listening to self, others, and you, O Lord.





Jesus said to them, “Whoever listens to you listens to me.  Whoever rejects you rejects me.  And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”
Luke 10:16





Teach us, dear Jesus to be poor and empty like St. Francis so we may always open our ears and our hearts to seek your voice, to listen to your words, and most of all, to follow your will.





From Be Like Francis at Facebook.





Second thing I am so grateful with you Lord in giving us St. Francis is his deep sense of gratitude to you that he was able to see our universal brotherhood in you God our Father.





Did he really preach to hundreds of birds and told them to be thankful to you dear God for their freedom and for your care to them?  I believe it must be true because where there is gratitude, there comes peace and serenity that attract than dispel people and animals alike.





Teach us to be grateful with whatever we have, Lord because the moment we learn to thank you and anyone here on earth, then we we realize our being one.  In his gratitude for your wonderful gifts to him, St. Francis not only embraced you Jesus on the Cross but also saw everyone as family with brother Sun and sister Moon, brother Wind and sister Water.  And even cousin Death.





Again, O Lord, in this age of affluence, the more we feel empty and lacking as we tend to acquire more of material things.  Teach us to repent for our sins like St. Francis and Baruch in the first reading, to acknowledge everything we have including our sins.





It is only in being thankful that we are able to realize who truly reigns in us like St. Francis.  Amen.









	


	



			
				


			

			
Prayer to understand God’s word
		
	
	

		

The Lord Is My Chef Breakfast Recipe for the Soul





Thursday, Week XXVI, Year I, 03 October 2019





Nehemiah 8:1-4, 5-6, 7-12  ><)))*> ><)))*>  Luke 10:1-12





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Our loving Father, today I pray to you for more understanding of your words like the first reading.





Twice successively Nehemiah told us how





Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly which consisted of men, women, and those children old enough to understand.
Nehemiah 8:2, 3





Then, a few more verses, your prophet tells us





Ezra reads plainly from the book of the law of God, interpreting it so that all could understand what was read.
Nehemiah 8:8





Until, finally, Nehemiah concludes today’s reading with a solemn pronouncement:





Then all the people went to eat and drink, to distribute portions, and to celebrate with great joy, for they understood the words that had been expounded to them.
Nehemiah 8:12





Dearest God, I pray for all who read and pray our blog each day.  I pray that they may understand your words.  





Most especially, I pray for us priests and lay preachers to always read, study, and pray your words.





Let us be the first to understand your words by praying that you, being the “harvest-master”, to send more laborers for your harvest. 





Most of all, to truly understand your words, O God, let us be emptied of ourselves so we may only be focused on Jesus Christ, the word who became flesh.  He alone is the one we must preach and share in word and in deed.  Amen.

	


	



			
				


			

			
Seen Zone, Sin Zone
		
	
	

		

The Lord Is My Chef Recipe, Memorial of Guardian Angels, 02 October 2019





Exodus 23:20-23 >0<  >0<  >0<  Matthew 18:1-5, 10





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“See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father.”
Matthew 18:10





Almost all the religions in the world believe in the existence of guardian angels who guide people and protect them from harm.





From the Greek angelos that means “messenger”, angels are exactly that:  messengers from God or “divine apps” who work like Messenger!










Last summer break, I have learned something “millennial” and at the same time very theological or spiritual when some of our former teachers in a school where I used to be assigned reprimanded me – even scolded me – for putting them always on “seen zone”.  If you are a dinosaur like me, seen zone is when you send somebody a message (PM) and that person sees it but refuses to give any reply, to the extent of ignoring not only your message but most of all, you.  I still have contentions against this but, that’s how most of people take a seen zone:  a kind of disrespect, that you are not important.





What was so embarrassing with my new learning was the realization of how stupid I have been until recently when I would “seen zone” people with pathetic late response saying, “sorry just saw your message now”.  How I wish I could turn back the time…





Anyway, I have learned my lesson so well that since May I have been very careful with “PM’s” as I tried to be more kind and gentle in Messenger.










But, there is something very interesting in this popular app in relation with our celebration today of the memorial of the guardian angels.





So many times, we give our guardian angel or God’s messenger with the “seen zone” like in Messenger.  We ignore the angel’s admonition to avoid sin and do what is good.  Like in Messenger’s seen zone, we totally ignore and disregard our guardian angel until we get into the “sin zone”.





Ignore what you have read in Messenger, you go into a seen zone that may be temporary and not really that serious at all.  But, lo! worse is the “sin zone” when you ignore the Divine messenger because you ignore God who sent us his angels with his messages of love and mercy, peace and salvation!





Today we are reminded that inasmuch as we try to behave properly in social media where we interact virtually in real time, God and his angels do relate with us in real time but not in virtual but actual reality.





If we try hard doing everything not to hurt our friends with seen zone, all the more we must try to avoid the sin zone that have more serious repercussions up to eternal life.  Amen. 





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Angel of God, Reminder of God
		
	
	

		

The Lord Is My Chef Breakfast Recipe for the Soul





Wednesday, Memorial of Guardian Angels, 02 October 2019





Nehemiah 2:1-8  ><)))*> ><)))*> ><)))*>  Matthew 18:1-5, 10





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Your gospel today, Lord Jesus, brought me with mixed feelings of embarrassment and joy.





Embarrassed because like your disciples then, until now we are still preoccupied with the same old question of “who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” (Mt.18:1).





How funny – and shameful too, Lord, that as we grow older, the less we believe or at least disregard your guardian angels assigned to each one of us.  As we get older, we feel we know everything, we can do everything, and we can be on our own.  





How sad that in similar manner of dismissing our parents and elders as guardians, we have also abandoned belief and acceptance of angels.





Thank you for never abandoning us despite of this attitude, O dear God!





Thank you most of all, dearest God, for not withdrawing from our side our guardian angels!





Joy fills my heart today on this feast of the Guardian Angels that even if so many times in the past I have turned away from you, my guardian angel never left me, guiding me back to you in those many instances of discovering your wonder anew.





Our guardian angels remind us O Lord of your great love for us.





I can still recall so many instances in my life how I felt someone I do not see yet so personally present with me, personally saving me from so many occasions and situations that were harmful and even fatal.





Yes, guardian angels are not only for kids but for everyone who believe in you, Lord, to remind us of you.





Teach us to be child-like, humbly admitting there is an angel on our side, and most of all, you are always with us, Lord Jesus Christ.





As your messengers who are very close to you and closest with us, teach us to be like our guardian angels always close to you too and with others guarding and protecting them from harm.  Amen.





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Love:  the great little way!
		
	
	

		

The Lord Is My Chef Breakfast Recipe for the Soul





Tuesday, Memorial of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, 01 October 2019





Zechariah 8:20-23  ><)))*> ><)))*> ><)))*>  Luke 9:51-56





White roses for you, dearly beloved devotee of St. Therese of the Child Jesus.  Christ heard your prayers and had asked St. Therese to send you these white roses as the sign you have been asking regarding what you have been praying for through our daily prayer blog, The Lord Is My Chef Breakfast Recipe for the Soul.  God bless you more today, my friend! (Photo by Ms. Jo Villafuerte at the Atok Blooms, Benguet, 01 September 2019.)





On behalf, O Lord, of the many people praying for a “little miracle” today through St. Therese of the Child Jesus, thank you very much for these beautiful white roses.  And most especially for answering our prayers!





Thank you again for the gift of another saint today close to our modern time, a woman so young, and most of all, so simple in her faith and in her ways.  Just like you, God, when she proclaimed…





“O Jesus, my love, at last I have found my calling:  my call is love.  Certainly I have found my proper place in the Church, and you gave me that very place, my God.  In the heart of the Church, my mother, I will be love, and thus I will be all things, as my desire finds its direction.”
St. Therese of the Child Jesus, from the Liturgy of the Hours





It is this simple yet profound truth of being love, of doing everything in love that we always forget or take for granted that elevated St. Therese to be the youngest and one of the only five women Doctors of the Church.  





In her life you have showed us the need to find the points of convergence of doctrine and experience, of teaching and practice in order to truly be holy and filled with God that fulfilled the Lord’s own words spoken among the crowds more than 2000 years ago:





“I thank you Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to babes.”
Matthew 11:25





Born Marie-Francoise-Therese Martin at Alencon, France in 1873, St. Therese entered the Carmelite monastery of Lisieux at the age of 15 following a special permission from Church officials.  She claimed no visions or extraordinary moments except that she followed a simple path to faith, especially after contracting TB that caused her death in 1897 at the young age of 24.  Photo from Google.





Open our minds and our hearts, our very selves, Lord, like St. Therese to humbly embrace this simple truth of love by intensely and passionately living in love, doing ordinary things in the most extraordinary way of love.  May we follow your Son Jesus as “he resolutely determined to journey to Jerusalem”(Lk.9:51) to face his passion, death, and resurrection out of love for you and for us.   Amen. 

	


	



			
				


			

			
Ang buhay na puro palabas, walang laman at kahulugan
		
	
	

		

Lawiswis ng Salita ni P. Nicanor F. Lalog, 30 Setyembre 2019





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Para sa henerasyon ngayon
wala sa kanilang isipang puntahan 
ni pasyalan mga perya at karnabal ng kabukiran;
katawa-tawa at walang kuwenta sa kanila
ang sumakay sa tsubibo at ruweda,
panoorin mga salamangkero at payaso
at mas gusto maglaro ng mga video.





Mga dambuhalang kahon ng sapatos
na ginawang pamilihan, 
tinaguriang mall naging pasyalan
kung saan natatagpuan pinagtatawanang
perya at karnabal ng kabukiran
naging sosyal na pasyalan
ng mga kabataan.





Ngunit hindi alintana, lingid sa mga mata
higit katawa-tawa mga pormahan at pasiklaban
masahol pa sa mga peryaan at karnabal
ating kalagayan nang mismo ating buhay
naging isang malaking palabas na lamang
mistulang mga salamangkero at payaso na rin tayo
inaasam-asam ay palakpakan at hangaan.





Saan man pumunta ay kapuna-puna
tila ang lahat nang-aagaw pansin 
ibig sa kanya lamang nakatingin
kaya anu-ano gagawin, iba-iba sasabihin
pananamit at asta di mawari
ngunit kung susuriin, agad mabubuking 
parang ampaw, wala kungdi hangin.





Hindi na ba natin napapansin
nangyayari sa atin saan man tumingin
tila lahat nagiging palabas na lamang
walang laman ni kahulugan mga pinagtutuunan;
nahan ang kadluan ng karunungan
at kabutihan na pinabayaang matuyuan
maubusan ng katangiang kapitag-pitagan? 





Walang nasasagwaan ni kinikilabutan 
pangangalandakan ng kapalaluan at kawalang kabuluhan
loob kinalimutan, panlabas pinahalagahan
perya at karnabal di na nga pinupuntahan
dahil tayo na mismo ang katatawanan!
Hindi ba natin alam iyan ang malagim na katotohanan
dapat tayong kabahan kung di sumasagi sa ating kalooban?

	


	



			
				


			

			
Hope for our difficult personality
		
	
	

		

The Lord Is My Chef Breakfast Recipe for the Soul





Monday, Memorial of St. Jerome, 30 September 2019





Zechariah 8:1-8  ><)))*> ><)))*> ><)))*>  Luke 9:46-50





St. Jerome painting by El Greco portrayed as wearing the Cardinal’s robe to represent his highly esteemed works and contributions to the Church as one of the Four Western Fathers along with St. Augustine, St. Ambrose of Milan, and St. Gregory the Great.  Photo from Google.





Praise and glory to you, God our loving Father!  Thank you very much for giving us saints, men and women like us who were sinners with so many weaknesses but through your grace were able to lead holy lives.





Through your saints, you give us so much hope to be become better persons despite our many imperfections like our great Doctor of the Church, St. Jerome, the Father of Catholic biblical studies who immersed himself in the study and prayer of the Sacred Writings right in the Holy Land.





Considered as one of the great theologians of the Church, St. Jerome is said to be approachable but notorious for being a difficult person too due to his temper as well as sarcasm and being argumentative at times.





I confess, O God, that I am exactly the opposite of the kind of person Jesus Christ is telling us to be like – a child.  Instead of being childlike, many times I have become childish, difficult to handle with my burst of temper and sometimes annoying sarcasm.





Like St. Jerome, fill me with your grace, with courage and willpower to conquer my irascibility and direct all my negative energies in pursuing you in prayers and good works.





Help me to follow St. Jerome in his call to “let us translate the words of the Scriptures into deeds.”





Fill me with your words, O Lord, cleanse me of my sins and iniquities so that your Holy Spirit may dwell in me, suffuse me with your holiness.  Amen. 





My favorite depiction of St. Jerome by Italian painter Antonello da Messina (c.1430-79), “St. Jerome in his Study.”  Again, we see St. Jerome in red robe and hat like a Cardinal at his study desk with his faithful lion in the background which tradition says he had helped in the forest by removing a thorn in its paw.  At the foreground are two birds:  a peacock which is an ancient Christian symbol of eternal life that our saint meditated often (reason why he always has a skull in other paintings), and a partridge, a reference to St. Jerome’s notorious temper as the bird often represents jealous rage.  Photo from Google. 

	


	



			
				


			

			
“Beautiful in My Eyes” by Joshua Kadison (1994)
		
	
	

		

The Lord Is My Chef Sunday Music, 29 September 2019










Our gospel today speaks a lot about our eyes, of what we see and recognize, of sights and vision.  For the third straight consecutive Sunday, we hear again another parable by Jesus proper only to St. Luke called “the rich man and Lazarus”. 





Jesus said to the Pharisees:  “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day.  And lying at his door  was a poor named Lazarus, covered wit sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table.  Dogs even used to come and lick his sores.  When the poor man died, he was carried away by angels to the bosom of Abraham.  The rich man also died and was buried, and from the netherworld, where he was in torment, he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.”  
Luke 16:19-23





The rich man went to hell because amid his affluent lifestyle, he did nothing to help the poor Lazarus.  He was so blinded by his wealth that he was so oblivious of the plight of Lazarus.  Sadly, the same scene continues in our days despite the social media around us.





The famous blind American Helen Keller wrote, “the only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”





Very true!





Many people are like the rich man who only have sight that can only see what is material and temporary, failing to see the face of God especially among brothers and sisters in need.  Only a few people are like Lazarus with a vision who dare to look at things beyond what can be seen, even beyond time.  They are the visionaries who dream with eyes wide open, working hard to make their dreams a reality.





Having a vision, of seeing beyond what is material and physical is essential in being a Christian tasked with a mission to lovingly serve others especially those living at the margins of the society.  





No one can truly love and serve without having a vision, of seeing beyond the ordinary and the present moment.  This is the reason why I always tell young people in choosing a wife or a husband, choose someone with a vision who would always look beyond sights and time.





This is the message too of American singer-songwriter Joshua Kadison’s 1993 hit “Beautiful in My Eyes” that delighted the romantic side of us Filipinos in 2009 and 2007 when Christian Bautista and Jericho Rosales respectively covered the song.





The song speaks of the great vision of the lover in seeing in his beloved everything wonderful and lovely.  Most of all, the man is also a dreamer and a visionary who could see their future as a couple still in love because she’s always “beautiful in his eyes”.





You’re my peace of mind,
in this crazy world.
Your’re everything I’ve tried to find,
your love is a pearl.





You’re my Mona Lisa, you’re my rainbow skies,
and my only prayer, is that you realize,
you’ll always be beautiful, in my eyes.





The world will turn,
and the seasons will change.
And all the lessons we will learn,
will be beautiful and strange.





We’ll have our fill of tears, our share of sighs.
My only prayer, is that you realize.
You’ll always be beautiful, in my eyes.





You will always be, beautiful in my eyes.
And the passing years will show,
that you will always grow,
evermore beautiful, in my eyes.