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Losing something hurts, how much more losing if it is a person you love. It can't even be described. There is No Title to it. A couple of weeks ago, I lost my youngest brother. One day more from today is my mother's death anniversary.

There is nothing more I could write about it, not even to create my own prayers that I can post here. Do not get me wrong.  I still pray and my love and belief in God's love and power has never changed. What I did then was to google a prayer ready made for departed souls. Here below, I share with you the prayer fromtheangels.com which the site made available in Google Search:

 

Powerful Prayer for the Departed Souls 

"God our creator,

By Your power, we are born. Your perpetual guidance directs our lives and by Your word we die. Lord, though the departed souls are no longer with us in flesh, I believe that their lives do not end.

I pray on behalf of the souls of my beloved departed and for the dead only known to You. May the departed souls enjoy the company of Christ, who died and rose again. May they rejoice in Your Kingdom, where their tears are wiped away.

Unite us in Heaven one day to sing Your glory forever.

Amen."

 

From The Angels (credit to fromtheangels.com) 

 

A good friend has told me that prayers are the food of the souls of the dead. It never occurred to me such thinking. But then, I agreed. As she said, the dead hope and needs our prayers for them to rest in peace with God.

So I invite you to join me. Let us pray for our departed loved ones every time we pray. To dedicate a prayer on the date they left us, monthly, yearly or whenever we remember them and on the All Soul's Day especially. But, never forget to pray for them. 

 

May the Lord be with us all, the living and the dead.

         @simplemethepen 

 

The Fifth Year!

 

 

 The Fifth Year and still going!

August 2 is the Anniversary Date of this blog.  Though today is already the 6th. But a great day! Today, the 6th of August is the birth date of my bff (best friend forever) as long been termed for lasting friendship. A golden friendship. Yes! to my counting, 51 years!

So, Happy Birthday Hermie!

 Hopeffully with God's blessing, the same lasting friendship I'll have with you, my readers,  through this blog. Well, of course, it depends on Blogger of Google. HaHa. Let's pray and hope for the best.

First, I want to thank you all, those who still keeps on following or maybe peeping on, once in a while in this blog. As long as you are there, The Pen lives. You are the breath, so to speak.

To celebrate the Fifth Year, let me share with you my "Secret" as described by Ralph Spaulding. This is the version I have noted and copied way long ago. If you google his name, you'll find the most updated, but here, these lines have been "my secret": 

 

SECRET

By Ralph Spaulding

 

I meet God in the morning

When my day was at its best;

And His presence came like sunrise,

Like glory in my breast.

 

All day long His presence lingered,

All day long He stayed with me;

And we sailed in perfect calmness,

O'er a very troubled sea.

 

So I think I knew the secret,

Learned from many a troubled way;

You must seek Him in the morning,

If you want Him through the day.

 

 

There it is. Finally posted in my blog. 

 

Above all, seek and find GOD first. Without God, nothing is possible nor impossible. 

 

Jesus himself urged to ask, as it is said in Matthew Chapter 7: 7,8:

 

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks,the door will be opened." 

 

Here more, I share the words of Henry Kaiser:

 

"First, decide what you want to do. Then have the courage to start toward your goal

no matter how impossible it looks."

 

More from Frances de Sales:

 

"Whatsoever happens, abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God."

 

Last, but not the least, Simple-Me's slogan from Oliver Goldsmith:

 

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

 

There they are, my dear readers, some lines I could share with you. May all these

comes at the right moment and time in your live's space. 

 

God blessings, guidance and protection to All, and to The Pen.

 

 

More Coming From The Pen. Stay Tuned!😊💝 

 

 

 

@simplemethepen

 

 

 

 

 

                                              

A New Year Hope

A New Year Hope

It's 2025! 

Exactly this day of writing, the 6th of January, below reminder is what I found in the online bible reference site of my favorite morning cup of spiritual fillings. Something in me has convinced myself to share it with you. 

Happy New Year!

Reference: Bible Gateway (NIV version)

1 Peter: 1 - 12

A Living Hope

"1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,

To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, ² who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood:

Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

Praise to God for a Living Hope

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, ⁵ who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. ⁶ In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. ⁷ These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. ⁸ Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, ⁹ for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

¹⁰ Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, ¹¹ trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow. ¹² It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things. "

Well, my dear readers, I believe that if this reaches you, it is for you to know and be reminded. May this refreshes your soul and strengthens your mind and body as well, filled up with the Holy Spirit as this new year stretches its days till another one comes. 

May God blesses all those who reads this and be saved as the Son of God has intended to, the reason for his coming. 

The Pen hopes for another year of your companionship. Have a prosperous and blessed new year under God's blessing. Thank you.

@simplemethepen