I’ve been lucky I had a the time to bloghop last week (which is somewhat of a luxury these days) and I just feel so blessed to have stumbled into this Blogger’s Prayer which Father Cuyos wrote.

I so love it that I had to share it to those who might chance upon my blog.

 

Anyway, three years ago, I had never heard about blogging. I didn’t even have a clue that such a word exist! Never knew that one day I’d get addicted to it and it would totally consume me (past tense? :->).

 

Fast forward. So I blog now (and true, there’s even one point in my life when I totally got addicted to it). Blogging has actually brought wonderful gifts in my life. Apart from being able to practise writing, I’ve learned and seen new things online. Learning html and php code is fun,  albeit headache-and-nosebleed causing (a perfect excuse for being too lazy to break codes at times!).  Through  blogging, I’ve seen a glimpse of the other people’s lives. I’ve forged friendship online. Quite unexpectedly, I’ve even earned some cash because of blogging (I’ve missed opps but got some to take care of some “extras”).

 

On a personal level, in a way, blogging has made me understand myself - and my feelings and my priorities better (I hope that makes sense).  I might not be blogging as  much as I’d love to  -or bloghopping and commenting - but this is also because of these priorities. (And I appreciate all of you who still visit and comment).

 

Through the pits and peaks of blogging, I’m grateful for everything. For what it has brought in my life-  still brings and will hopefully bring.

 

To wrap things up, I want to quote few of my favorite lines from the Blogger’s Prayer:

 

Make our hearts meek and humble that we may treat our readers as friends, not as unique hits, that we may strive to change ourselves for the better more often than we pimp our site templates, that we may find more time to ease the pain of someone in our own home than to reply to comments left by strangers, that we may interact with our next door neighbors as often as we chat with our blogrolled friends, that we may be more concerned about helping the less privileged than about the number of subscribers to our RSS feeds.

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