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This is just short post. But today, I want to thank for SILENCE.

Sometimes, it’s just best to listen with our hearts and just think and feel.

Sometimes, it’s just best to listen with our ears and not say a word however tough that may be.

I guess there’s some comfort in just listening.  And there’s always a lesson we pick when we open up our hearts and just listen.

Then, there are really times when it’s just best walk away and retreat in silence.

Words have a way of hurting our feelings -and can sever relationships, sometimes permanently.

Somehow, there’s some comfort in just staying quiet until things come in better perspective.  And until there’s some good in what I say, I feel it’s just best to stay silent.

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They say that you will get to know a person better if you travel together. I so believe in that. From experience, traveling with my friends, indeed, (and I’m pretty sure they will agree with me) has given me more insight in their lives and their characters. And you create a special bond with them- even with just one trip.

Recently, I have been in short trip abroad - with my immediate family (although my sister and a friend came with us). It’s not totally disastrous but there had been pits in the trip- these I cannot elaborate more but suffice to say that it’s been a learning experience for me. It’s been an insightful trip- not so much with the place we’ve visited but with our characters.

There were things that caught me by surprise -as I hadn’t expected to see a different side of someone I thought I knew from head to toe. One impulsive action, few spoken words. Somehow, these gave me a totally unexpected view of one’s personality. I was reeling with the discovery -and it was all too much to take all at once. Shocking wouldn’t be an overstatement.

Even as I write this, I am still trying to steady myself. Still trying to take things in -slowly. Too scared to discover more. It’s been an emotionally draining discovery -one that could create so much possibilities. Scared as I am, I am still trying to put everything on an even keel.

Maybe in the future I will laugh- or maybe cry in remebrance- of what had happened while in Hongkong. But I hope the experience will make us all better persons.

-this post was originally intended/autoposted for Photohunt but I failed to  edit the image and retract this before I set off for HK. However, the title  seem apt for this post now so I’m not changing it.

MY entry for this week’s Photohunt may be found here. Happy Saturday!

I have been teaching my son to pray but the prayers are more like a litany of thanks.

I’ve been teaching him to give thanks to the Lord for the food, the water, his milk, his vitamins, his medicine, his toys…

Sometimed I’d start off our prayer of thanksgiving and I’d encourage him to say the things he’s thankful for. Almost always, I am just surprised to what he comes up with.

…thank you for the TV… the aircon… thank you for Barney… 

Sometimes it’s not even coherent to me.

…thank you for the switch.. the door…

But really, I’m thankful for having a thankful kid. Lately,  he’s been in a habit of telling me ”thank you for us” whenever he’s happy. I am not even sure what he means by that. But I’m thankful for having a thankful kid.

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