Ako'y Iyong Hinirang, Isang Tula Para sa Pasalamat 2019

Ako'y Iyong Hinirang
guestpost by Lanz Aidan

Ama na aming Diyos, purihin ka!
Sapagka't isang taon muling iningatan,
Isang taong muling kami'y pinagpala,
Na hanggang ngayo'y iyong hinirang.

Ngayon ay nagdiriwang ang iyong bayan!
Umaawit kami ng papuri mula sa aming puso
Nang ika'y mabigyan ng ibayong kagalakan!
Kami'y mananatiling tapat sa piling mo.

Sa iyo kami ay nagsusumamo, Ama, dinggin mo.
Hirap at hinagpis ay iyak ng sanlibutan
Ngunit, kami'y patuloy na tinulungan mo,
Kami'y pinagpapala sa kabila ng kahirapan.

Salamat, Ama, hindi mo kami itinatakwil
Sa kabila ng aming maraming pagkakasala at karumihan.
Sa iyong pagpapahinuhod, hindi ka tumitigil,
Banayad mong nililinis kami sa aming kasalanan.

Ama, kailanman ay hindi kami naging dapat sa iyo,
Sa iyong pagmamahal na dalisay,
Ngunit kami'y minarapat mo.
Aming buhay nagkaroon kabuluhan at saysay.

Ama, muli mong ingatan ang iyong mga anak.
Tulad ng aming inawit, muli kaming maglalakbay.
Ama, iyong masdan aming mga yapak,
Nang aming marating ang inaasam naming tagumpay.

Ang tahanang inihahanda mo sa amin,
Na aming pinaka inaasam marating,
Ito ay tagumpay sa amin,
Sa Bayan Banal ikaw ay aming makapiling.

Lanz ®️

for Year-end Thanksgiving 2019

Epigrams from The Picture of Dorian Gray (Part 3)

This is my 2nd installment capturing the epigrams and thought-provoking passages from Lord Henry and Basil Hallward from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Read on and have a great delicious treat. I had this categorized for two characters - Lord Henry and Basil Hallward.

CHAPTER 1

Lord Henry's:

"for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about"

"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face"

"But then in the Church they don't think. A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful"

"He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in summer when we want something to chill our intelligence"

"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties."

"Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose i know"

"Ï want you to explain to me why you won't exhibit Dorian Gray's picture. I want the real reason."

"And as for believing things, i can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible"

"Consience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Consience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all."

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one"

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects"

"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.

"The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

"The probabilities are that the more insincere the main idea is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices."

"I like persons better thanks principles, and i like persons with no principles better thanks anything else in the worlds"

"It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue"

"It is a sad thing to think of, but Genius lasts longer thanks Beauty"

"The worst of having a romance of any kind is that, it leaves one so unromantic"

"Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies"

Basil Hallward's:

"there is fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings"

"It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play."

"Ïf they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live, undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquite."

"If I like people immensely, i never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy"

"Secrecy... It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us."

"The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it"

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion."

"It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the colured canvas, reveals himself."

"The reason i will not exhibit this picture is that i am afraid that i have shown in it the secret of my own soul"

"Ï have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put on his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day"

If you've enjoyed this from Chapter 1, go ahead and continue the epigrams from my first installment by clicking this link.


and here's the part 2


Until next time.



ˆbillymacdeus

Lola's Death Anniversary - Missing You

Socorro
isang tula para sa isang mapagmahal na Lola

antagal na kitang di naramdaman,
ni kahit sa panaginip di ka man lang dumadalaw
kahit sa gunita, parang nakalimutan mo na ako...

2012 - nang ikaw ay pumanaw...
ako'y nalungkot, umiyak at humagulgol
akala ko'y wala nang katapusan-
ang nadarama kong kalungkutan

subalit totoo pala ang sabi ng ilan-
ang panahon ay nakakapaghilom
ng sugat...
mga sugat na iniwan ng nakaraan

ngayo'y bigla kitang naalaala,
nagmessage ang nanay ko-
sinabing death anniv mo pala
ako'y nabigla at napatigil...

parang kailan lang, nang ikaw ay pumanaw
dagli kong naala-ala
ang yong suot na mahabang saya
sa tuwing may pagsamba

kayganda mong pagmasdan-
pinuri pa nga kita noon,
habang tayo'y papunta sa kapilya
naglalakad, at ikaw ay napatawa

nagunita ko tuloy ang 'yong ngiti
na siyang nagbigay sakin ng pag-asa
pagkat kung may lumbay at hapis man noon
yaon ay pawang nawawala, sa 'yong masaganang pagkalinga

malapit na akong grumaduate noon sa college,
pangako ko sa aking sarili, ililibre po kita
itre-treat sa jollibee, lalabas at kakain at mamamasyal
subalit di mona pala ako maaantay...

bigla kang pumanaw,
ni dika man lang nagpaalam...
ngunit ako, ako'y naging saksing buhay
kung paano mo kami iniwan.

masakit man sa aking damdamin
subalit kailangan kong tanggapin
ngunit masaya ako, sa kabilang banda
pagkat natapos mo ang 'yong takbuhin

alam kong naging busy na ako...
di na kita nadalaw sa 'yong puntod
tuwing ako'y umuuwi sa probinsya..
pasensya kana..

nais ko rin sanang sabihin
na kung andito kalang...
ikaw' sana ay lululan
sa aking sasakyan

di kana maglalakad,
papunta sa palengke
o pag bumisita sa 'yong mga kaibigan
pagkat ika'y ihahatid ko, upang dikana mapagod

pero alam kong payapa ka na diyan
kung saan ka man nakahimlay
ang alam ko, magkikita pa rin tayo
pagsapit doon, sa bayang banal.

ˆbillymacdeus ®️
(why am i being so emotional while writing this?, i thought the pain and heartache have long gone but the truth is, it's still there. Or, am i just feeling emptiness and longing?) - 🤜🤛 tell me your thoughts!

INC Year End Pasalamat OOTD Day1 (Saturday)

Today marks the #IglesiaNiCristo Year-end Pasalamat (Thanksgiving). 

Allow me to capture the shine and luster of #OOTD of the brethren posted in #instagram.

Since it's a two-day event, posting this initial installment referring to this Saturday event.

@kayeacekeypee

@iamlian_inc

@shieshiedoll

@rvncobile

@nix.as.infinity

@famouslivindead

The feeling of gratefulness is beyond immeasurable. And what do you do if you feel that way? Your heart is full diba?


And your mind oozes with so much emotions, down to your heart, radiating to your body. Which is all the more just right to prepare your clothes, or outfit on that special occasion - the Thanksgiving day.

@enchientrress

@thisisrichelle

@pulchtritude

These pictures are solely owned by the sisters/brothers in Instagram. Affixing their own usernames captioned on their picture for credits.


Pasalamat is an event of the Iglesia Ni Cristo happening worldwide simultaneously - it's a special worship service themed in exultations of hymns and praises, of offerings, of listening to a special sermon, and of prayers - because of His great abundance of love, mercy, and compassion.

@renlyn_12

@schellahh

@balongvalerio

@emanvarquez

For it was tasked to the people of God, in Romans 12 verse 1, "I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship"

@piacon

@aczarinarinarina

@theariellereyes

It may not be as lavish as this world has to offer, but content of the heart does matter the most. For this is just an initial or part of the preparation worthy to His sight. Be of a living sacrifice before Him.

Happy Thanksgiving brethren, salamat in sharing your pics via IG. Be proud of your election.

Tomorrow is my tupad, ako naman. 

ˆbillymacdeus

Roads and Conversations

billymacdeus' poetry ®