What would I do without Pinterest? 🙂 Happy Hump day everyone!
I believe in family meals so much. What better way to reconnect with everyone at the end of the day with a nice home-made meal. I say turn the TV and gadgets off for the sacred, intimate moments shared at the dinner table. That’s what we do around my home.
I also believe strongly in teaching kids responsibility and the value of work early on in their lives. They’ll thank you for it one day.
ALL NIGHT
I stayed up all night,
pondering and pacing,
with sweaty palms and heart racing;
what to do what’s the next step?
You don’t care, this I know.
All that concerns you,
is your one man show.
I stayed up all night,
pondering and pacing,
with sweaty palms and heart racing,
What are you gonna do girl?
You are here and he’s in another world.
I stayed up all night,
pondering and pacing,
with sweaty palms and heart racing,
4 young souls looking at me,
they all seek an answer.
I stayed up all night,
pondering and pacing,
with sweaty palms and heart racing,
Why are you so mean?
Won’t you ever come clean?
Alas, sleep came ever so sweetly,
I fought her I did,
sleep came ever so sweetly,
weighing down both my eye lids,
took my cares away and I left the scene quickly.
Eva Santiago © 2012
JUST ASK AND BELIEVE
I believe in the power of prayer. Do you? I have been praying over the years, for my uncle in whose home I grew up in. Praying for him lead me to forgive him for having failed me like he did during the years when I lived with him. Praying for him helped me see him as 100% human, thereby helping me see him as flawed and frail as me. Praying for him changed me and all I have left of him now are the few good memories of those years. Â A few years back I found out he had prostate cancer. Well, I kept praying for his healing and even though I never heard any news of him, I persisted in praying for him. Today I was talking to a good friend of mine and she told me she had recently heard that he was now a religious fanatic. Well at first I chuckled and then I remembered that when I found faith in Christ and started walking my faith journey, Â people said the same thing about me.. So I realized that my uncle has found faith in God and that my many years of praying for him DID indeed pay off!
If you have been praying for someone or some thing, NEVER stop. I tell you the truth, God DOES answer prayer and the petitions of the righteous avail MUCH!
My daughter wrote this..please read it and pay attention to the youth because they are way more in tune with life’s events than most people will give them credit for.
I am a senior in highschool…YAY CLASS OF 2012! I am proud to proclaim that I have been homeschooled all my life. Throughout my years of learning, my mother has instilled in me the skill and love of reading. And not just reading regular writings, but literature. And all through highschool, my mom has had me read to her. I have read and discovered all sorts of works, like that of Edgar Allen Poe, Shakespeare, John Bunyan and so forth. I have even read literature from Ye Ol’ English, dating back to the infamous Beowulf.
Though I have read some bad things, along with the good works, I have grown to love literature. It’s become my favorite subject. You learn about yourself when read things like these. You learn and find where your morals, and views stand…you self-discover essentially. I have grown to love poetry a great deal. It has inspired me to write some of my own. Through reading literature, you gain culture, knowledge, and a well-rounded  vocabulary, which you use in turn to write works of  art. My mother always taught me the value of communicating well. Not sounding like an idiot when you’re speaking to somebody…whether it be for a job interview, or in a social setting among educated people. It’s important to have this…because you never really know where you’ll be, or when you’ll need it.
I hope you enjoy!
Bleeding Sacrifice
Your body, feels good next
To mine,
As I run my fingers down your Spine.
Your body, feels like it’s in its
Place,
Everyone questions
They think us a disgrace
Forget them Love,
Live a little.
All we have is the now,
There’s no turnin’ back.
I see you,You see me.
They think us Crazy.
We’re each other’s baby.
We see each other as
BEAUTY!
No one can see our
Pain,
See our veins,
Dripping with the blood
They make us.
We come together now
Healing each other’s
Wounds.
In our weakness,we gain strength.
In our fight to save
Each other.
We fall,
Joining another paradise.
Elena Brincat
BE GLAD!
Rejoice! Rejoice and be glad!
For you see,
being a nobody isn’t so bad.
We’ve all been lied to,
conditioned and misinformed;
told us that in order to be loved,
we must get and acquire and do.
So they put us all on a treadmill.
We became a horde of scrambling rats,
scurrying at break neck speed.
The rat race was where it was all supposed to be.
Then one day you stop,
realizing you were made for a higher purpose;
for in all your getting and acquiring,
you’ve become a bankrupt soul.
That’s when it all starts unraveling.
Suddenly you find yourself traveling-
down a long slippery slope.
You see what you’ve known all along:
that rat race you’ve been running,
takes you nowhere after all.
That’s when you meet The One,
He says to us all,
“ Come follow me.
Stop all your senseless activity.
I’ll make you an original,
just what you always dreamed you’d be.”
So Rejoice! Rejoice and be glad,
Rest assured and hear me say,
” Stay on course. Don’t deviate from the straight and narrow.”
If you do, you’ll only be a misguided arrow.
Trust Him, abide and stay put.
You’ve come this far,
you don’t want what others seek-
to be a fleeting shooting star.
All that He has is YOURS: The riches of His kingdom.
Eva Santiago © 2012
Today was fun! I went with my two oldest daughters prom dress shopping.  I have taught  my kids that the mall isn’t the best place to shop. Everything is high-priced and not even worth the amount on the price tag. Besides there is a cool thrift store where we live called Savers and you can find some very nice gently worn second-hand clothes there at great prices. Just a few weeks ago I found  a beautiful pair of Gucci high heels  at a crazy price! So were were in Savers and my girls were having a blast trying on dresses. Some were great, others left a lot to be desired. We didn’t find the “it” dress yet but we still have time. Did you enjoy your Sunday? I sure did mine!
Today I was having a hard time coming up with a post. Then my 11 year old daughter said,” Mom just go on Pinterest and find something on there to blog about. You don’t always have to use YOUR WON photos you know! ” HA! So off I went 🙂
This picture reminds me of the times I have told my uncle in whose home I grew up in, ” I love you.” And his response has always been,” Thank you.” When I met my husband and I told him that, it freaked him out. I just didn’t think anything of it because that’s how he raised me. Thankfully, I see it all differently now. Have a superb week-end blog world!! 🙂
FRAGILE by DESIGN
We are all fragile by design.
Some act tougher than what they are.
Some whip themselves into shape,
still others fall one step behind.
Then there are the “might oaks of righteousness”.
Don’t be fooled by such,
it’s all  a cover up,
a disguise for a great hoax.
With their many words, they give themselves away;
pretty soon you see their many words don’t line up,
with the way they walk.
Always making grandiose plans, dreaming away their lives,
always forgetting that planning is futile,
when they leave out the master planner.
They order their steps without Him;
from on high He looks down and laughs.
He knows without Him,
their chances in life are slim.
So then there are others who lead quiet lives,
only doing what they see the master do.
Eva Santiago copyright 2012
Yesterday I blogged about how a very dear friend of mine passed away this past Sunday. What caught me off guard were the strong emotions I felt when I heard the news. Then I realized that you don’t have to talk to a friend everyday or even see them to feel close; when a  dear friend passes away you’ll feel the loss just as strong . Then I remembered the letters I received from her and I took them out and re-read them to my kids. There was my healing balm. Re-reading them after all these years, I felt her love all over again.
I just received news that a wonderful woman I knew passed away today. She was the midwife who assisted me in delivering my 4th child in a lovely home birth. I wrote this poem a while back about her and I’m posting it here today in remembrance. R.I.P. Sweet Kaye…
I post no actual photo today but in its stead, I’ll paint you my word picture of this precious soul.
KAYE
Blue eyes that tell a story,
of loves’ loss,
tinged with perhaps a bit,
of yesterday’s glory.
Eyes of azure,
tinted with sadness;
azure,cerulean, lapis-lazuli,
oh why have they not seen their jubilee?
Hiding behind a curtain…
…seen way too much?
perhaps losing hope?
is it too much with which to cope?
Life and death situations abound all around,
one day up, the next, she’s low to the ground,
and still Kaye hearkens her ear to the sound….
…. phonic, sonic, supersonic faith sings her resounding song.
Not a faith based on what is seen,
but on trust and belief,
that only comes once,
from the secret place.
Kaye will dwell ,occupy and reside,
in the secret place of The Most High,
she’ll abide and remain under His shadow,
proclaiming Him always her refuge, her tower, her strength!
-Eva Santiago copyright 2012
Eva Santiago 