According to Rabbi Brickner many of our disappointments over prayers can be traced to our anthropomorphizing God. God is. We do. I understand this to mean that God can’t be expected to bring say, justice into the world. It is man’s responsibility to bring about justice. God inspires.

That being the case, the pragmatic thing to do is use the Ho’oponopono healing strategy. By this I cleanse myself of all programs of fear and frustrations. But how long will this take? Meantime am I meant to endure all the objects of my fears and limitations?

According to the Ho’oponopono strategy once I am cleansed of my fears and limitations then I will be able to hear God’s inspiration and act accordingly. Then I can enjoy heaven on earth.
What a burden of responsibility I will have to carry once I stop ascribing to God human characteristics that will allow me to blame Him for my own human failures.

This essay was inspired by an incident report on a mother-daughter sensitive exchange I read on Facebook last July 30. The report was written by a former college student of mine in her early 30s.

The report brought back poignant memories revolving around my own sensitive exchange with our own daughter who was then a graduating student in high school.

I had been diagnosed with severe clinical depression after weeks of visits to the emergency room and hospital confinement due to hypertension. Our daughter was devastated. Her supermom had feet of clay after all.

Generously, Cynthia Patag, sent a close friend, an ex-nun to help our daughter process what was going on in our lives. She had to grow up. She had to accept my limitations.

My former college student who wrote on Facebook must have raised her daughter in a progressive manner. For how could the daughter have retorted if the atmosphere at home was oppressive.

Unlike my former student, I was already in my 50s. I didn’t even bother to pick myself up; I was too sick. I didn’t have the energy to defend our daughter from critics who didn’t understand our way of parenting. Our daughter was reared in an open-communication way. What others considered as sassy comebacks were deemed normal expressions of ideas. As long she didn’t harm anybody nor herself!

I didn’t feel the need to defend my turf. Even as a depressed mom, I felt I didn’t have to prove myself to our daughter.

Our daughter has grown up. She is now London-based as an HR Director of a multinational company. I pray that the daughters and sons our daughter and of all my former students will cross over into adulthood in a normal manner and whenver and wherever possible in joy!

  The Law of Pragmatism makes energy workers of all varieties to stick with methods that produce results, regardless of whether these make sense to hostile observers. This can explain why for months I have been using the Ho’ oponopono mantra. After all  it attracted back to me an important book I misplaced twice!. I has made my nightmares less frequent. It has helped me with my anxieties over our daughter’s high level demands at work.

However, recently the Ho’oponopono healing stratagem has failed to relieve our daughter from seemingly insurmountable problems at work. It has affected even her health.

One night in near desperation I took hold of a novena to St Therese given by a well-meaning friend. I placed my cell phone on top of the novena and went to sleep. Hours after I was awakened to the sound of my phone. Goodness! Finally our daughter chose to connect.
Silly! But I enjoyed wrapping a rosary blest by the pope around the ankles of St Calungsod to heal the sprained ankle of our daughter. I even said one rosary. All of these, simply because they used to work for me.

This tops them all. Some evenings ago, our daughter called our landline. I couldn’t put in a word. She triumphantly announced her “very good” rating from her very demanding boss.
I was jubilant. How can I not go back to saying the rosary! It works wonders for pragmatic me.

As you enter into the Spiritual Zone, you will learn that in awakened consciousness, every action no matter how small, will intentionally support your end result. (Gary Quinn)

Metaphysically, the earth is shifting into the 4th dimension. We are moving from fear to love, from doubt to trust, from limitation to potential, from problems to opportunities, from competition to cooperation, from struggles to joy, from conflict and polarity to harmony and integration. This is from Gill Edwards

Nowadays when I admire cute babies inside their strollers I mindfully shift my fearful thoughts about their futures to their potential lives hopefully to be made more convenient with technology. I wold like to believe that the children with their mastery of the alphabets, colors, numbers etc will find more joy in learning than we had during the rote memory era.My wish is that education even in the public schools can give the individual learner opportunities to celebrate life as he/she develops as much as possible according to his/her pace.

According to “We Are Teachers” on Facebook, technology may be the answer. Recently my husband and I visited a bank. Our transaction ha to be done on a machine. I wanted to protest; I expected the personalized intervention of a bank employee I got earlier from another bank. My husband who is at home with technology readily complied guided by a bank employee. I realized changes for the better entail some sacrifices on my part.

Will students learn more without the structure of academic honors? Will children be compassionate even without the fear of punishment? How can learning be pursued without the cramping of too many subjects or topics into academic semesters or years? These are tall orders for existing structures designed for mass production. However, nothing can be manifested if it has not been thought of or dreamt of at first. Forming according to Martha Beck gives physical form to things that previously existed only in thought.

As long as I harbor resentments, blocks and limitations I won’t be able to allow God to give me my heart’s desire. I may be sabotaging myself by feeling unworthy of God’s blessings. For years, I thought I would be more pleasing to God if I deprived myself of what I truly wanted. I believed in a harsh, punishing God the. God was a stingy dispenser of goods then.

Nowadays I believe in a benevolent God. Many of my books cite many problems of the universe; some even hint at a godless universe. However I have even more numerous books about the goodness of God that shines through the chaos in the universe.
I have observed that ever since I believed in a benevolent God even my nightmares have become less frequent. Ever since I cared for more people, my world has become happier.

I have noticed improvements in what  used to worry me. Nowadays I witness non-teaching staff of colleges like SJDDios undertaking advocacies on their own. It’s heartwarming for me to learn that activities like tree planting are not required by a specific subject in college from where points can be deducted from those who fail to participate.

I don’t think I’m happier now because I have retired from work. For an introvert like me it is surprising that my relationships with several former students have become stronger.

Technically, I have less money now that I have retired. I conscientiously live within my SSS retirement pension but I never feel poor. Both my husband and our only daughter would consider it a crime If I live in deprivation.

I wish I had the time and the patience to use Rabbi Brickner’s “tools of biblical criticism, archaelogy, and modern-day cosmology” to carefully study the fate of Adam and Eve. I wonder what “valley of tears” means to humanity now with all the progress in the context of salvation and the Gospel of love.

Several observers, myself included, are wondering why my interest in and concern for SJDDios college lately. Honestly, I don’t know why.
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