We have just finished having our annual Tagalog retreat we call Tagalog Mission. Fr. Arlo Yap SVD is a truly amazing Retreat Master. Truly overwhelming, hope you will all be blessed too.... ang di ko na lang ma-share is the relections and jokes (which really filled the church with so much laughter) he prepared during the whole 2 hours no dull moment ... this may be long but worth reading.... God bless to all!
email from my colleague tess....
He (Fr Arlo Yap) says “maraming namamatay sa maling akala” - a lot of people die because of wrong thoughts or thinking and it’s all in the mind!
The way we think is the way we feel
The way we feel is the way we BECOME.
Happy old age for you and for your parents means enjoying the fruits of your labor.
Four Considerations to have a Happy Old Age
Four Considerations to have a Happy Old Age
1. Take good care of your Health
You have a lot of money to buy food of any kind but you are not allowed to eat what you want because you have diabetes or other diseases, you have a very huge farm/ hacienda but you can’t enjoy it because you have rheumatism or you’re blind etc. You really work hard to earn and get all you wanted in life but at the end you can’t enjoy it, how can you say you have a happy old age?
2. Take care of your family
A. Take care of your children
It’s the way how parents teach their children by example. The legacy parents can give to their children is not really a good education it’s only secondary but knowing that before you leave this earth you are so sure that your children are helping and loving each other and you cant see any selfishness in them, enough for you to have a peace of mind in your old age.
B. Take care of your Spouse
Sooner or later even you have a dozen children, you and only your spouse will end up living together, your children will soon have their own family to care of. Learn to nurture more the sweetness and love you have when you’re only in your courtship or GF/BF stage. It’s really good to know that you have somebody TO GROW OLD WITH, to add to this try to listen to a song Grow Old with you with these lyrics:
I want to make you smile whenever you're sad
Carry you around when your arthritis is bad
All I want to do is grow old with you
I'll get your medicine when your tummy aches
Build you a fire if the furnace breaks
Oh it could be so nice, growing old with you
I'll miss you
Kiss you
Give you my coat when you are cold
Need you
Feed you
Even let ya hold the remote control
So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink
Put you to bed if you've had too much to drink
I could be the man who grows old with you
I wanna grow old with you
3. Take care of your Properties
For parents, divide/arrange the properties you have for your children before your children ask you to do it for you, as if they wanted you guys to die, hehehehe =) and learn to save for you and your spouse for your old age so whenever you need something to buy for a medicine, hospitalization etc, you don’t have to ask your children.
For sons/daughters, what ever you received is your privilege not your want. Never ask your parent’s decision especially when it comes to inheritance, they know what’s best and who need most of that.
4. Serve the Lord in all the way you can
Remember whatever you have : material things, talents, family, friends, job, colleague, struggles in life, lessons are all from God and God alone!
Well, that’s all for Talk 1
For parents, divide/arrange the properties you have for your children before your children ask you to do it for you, as if they wanted you guys to die, hehehehe =) and learn to save for you and your spouse for your old age so whenever you need something to buy for a medicine, hospitalization etc, you don’t have to ask your children.
For sons/daughters, what ever you received is your privilege not your want. Never ask your parent’s decision especially when it comes to inheritance, they know what’s best and who need most of that.
4. Serve the Lord in all the way you can
Remember whatever you have : material things, talents, family, friends, job, colleague, struggles in life, lessons are all from God and God alone!
Well, that’s all for Talk 1
Rowena Salvador
