and for today's breather...a reflection on The Secret of God!

So much for today's issues for no matter how I try to live my life ideally in a community of multi-cultural, and multi-racial Religious fiigures still there will always be issues and sweet conflicts that will come along my way, so let me give myself a break from all these by pondering on the issues on the secret of God.

Public figures, especially movie and TV personalities in the field of entertainment, love to complain about how their privacies are oftenly publicly scrutinized. They love to complain how they've lost their private lives to the scrutinizing eyes of the public: their fans, their supporters, their detractors, their constituents.

Yes, we often hear these laments not only from celebrities but as well as from the public officials, candidates for electoral posts, basketball players and sports celebrities.

The general public indeed just cannot get enough of these famous personages. Anything they do is a sure content of rumors and gossips from the rumor mill. People talk about their romantic involvements and entanglements, what they wear for the day's noontime show, what they eat at public restaurants, what their family backgrounds are, even their skeletons in the closet: their identities and sexual preferences- ...their dreams..their ambitions...these are just but a few to mention.

We monks and you people out there who live simple lives are not subject to these public scrutiny but somehow we feel the same way in a lesser degree.
We don't like other people probing into our private lives. We don't want them forcing themselves into our lives. We want people to respect our own affairs. We preserve our private lives lest we feel like ending up becoming shallow persons.

The mark of a deep person is his ability to preserve something of himself. He is able to say: "This is private and this is something between God and myself."
That is why when people entrust to us a part of their private lives and intimately tell us their secrets, we must take that with much secrecy and sacredness. What they are actually telling us and sharing with us are sacred secrets of their lives and we should hold and keep them to ourselves only with much respect until the last breath of our lives. That is why when you expose yourself to a priest or pastor in confession, he can never violate that sacredness and seal of confession because it is holy and it belongs to God.

Let me tell you this: that God has a public and private life. Years before Christ came, people were too preoccupied with getting intimate with God. Abraham and Moses failed because God did not choose to unveil Himself to them full.
But in Jesus Christ, God unveils Himself. In Jesus Christ, God shows Himself. In Jesus Christ, God shows His face without any cover, without any veil, without any mask. That's what I am telling you about: the secret of God.

Now I ask you; "Are you willing to lay down your life for the intimate information God has given you?" Would you be willing to live even an hour of your life completely for God?