GIVING MYSELF A VISION

Commitment is giving myself to my end, to my destiny!

Earlier in our celebration of the Second Manila Archdiocesan General Pastoral Assembly we saw what a desire within a vision could do. A vision teaches and clears the path to what we all wish to attain to be, like also what God wants us to be ---humans with fullness of life and ever bringing God’s goodness where s/he goes.

How could we ever break away from what inspires us and drives us to be what we and the Almighty want self to be? We could not even imagine a re-commitment for the very reason that we cannot take a vacation from what we long to be, human persons with the gift of fullness of life and fraternity with others of kindred longings.

I give myself to this vision. And I beg the Lord that daily I grow into its wisdom, that I may get caught up in its love. I pray that I may mature as I bask in the spirituality of the vision, in the life where the Spirit is given absolute freedom to guide and inspire and pray in me.

A little notebook will help me where daily/weekly I jot down in one phrase what I learned of the vision.

On another occasion I write in one phrase what or how I lived the vision that day.

I will become a daily master of one-liners where I am sum up a gem from a lived morsel of my vision.

I believe what a writer once wrote that when a vision --- like a principle --- is caught, there is no longer a difficulty in applications, forty or forty thousand are just as easy as one.

Two years from today we will gather together again, for the celebration of, please God, MAGPAS III.

Then we may breathe in more deeply and freely a better defined, and a more richly intra-structured spirituality of the vision. Next time, many of us may even be able to pray the verses of the vision, framed within the fashion of their personal experiences. Maybe by then there already are written prayers (certainly vocalized prayers) that may have arisen from life’s daily episodes.

We will stand together for MAGPAS II where, with humility and full trust in God, we shall measure ourselves against what we always longed to be. Our vision.