You wanna know what's romantic? When you don't know the future, when you don't know what's going to happen, when all you know is that the current reality makes perfect sense in every aspect of the word.
You wanna know what makes a wonderful romance? The moment when you face God and realize that now, tomorrow, and even two years from now is uncertain; nothing is secure, and nothing is guaranteed.
You wanna know what makes a wonderful romance? Learning to fearlessly trust with your heart that The Lord knows what He is leading you towards, making every moment of that dance with Him completely, totally and Truly the romance that you were made to have. It's where Happily Ever After is not a future thing to look forward to but is rather a perfect peace of today and this moment. It's there, do not deny it; it's in that smile, it's in that joke, and it's in that little tear in the corner of your eye that you try so desperately to hide.
~Esa Cita
Monday, April 30, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Boss
My paper is lacking an introductory paragraph, so I typed one up really quickly:
I think I'm off to a great start. It has come down to this. After all these papers in college, you would think that it's all easy. Nope, suddenly the environment is difficult to want to like anymore.
Senioritis.
~Esa Cita
Super awesome intro sentence for a wonderfully perfect introduction paragraph because you’re really good looking. Just write something that touches on everything yet says nothing at all so that you are forced to read the entire paper and make others think that they have to give you the time of day. Earthquakes and the environmental health implications from it are in this paper. People want to read this paper a lot, dangit. Why? Because I’m a boss, and I’m ridiculously good-looking.
I think I'm off to a great start. It has come down to this. After all these papers in college, you would think that it's all easy. Nope, suddenly the environment is difficult to want to like anymore.
Senioritis.
~Esa Cita
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Not another corny topic
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends; as for prophesies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in the mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Make love your aim, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
-1 Corinthians 13-14:1
Love is the only perfect thing that exists. No relationship, statistical analysis, person, final paper, or cause of greatness is more perfect than Love itself. It stands alone on its own rating, its own standard, its own truth. It is the only true and pure and perfect thing. The Truth says so.
So as I write my health paper and study international law, I can have hope that there is perfection, there is beauty, there is something worth being joyful about without submitting to senioritis. That perfection is called love, and today it stared me straight in the face through friends, loved ones, and those beautiful stars I gazed at when I returned home tonight from school.
~Esa Cita
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends; as for prophesies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in the mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Make love your aim, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
-1 Corinthians 13-14:1
Love is the only perfect thing that exists. No relationship, statistical analysis, person, final paper, or cause of greatness is more perfect than Love itself. It stands alone on its own rating, its own standard, its own truth. It is the only true and pure and perfect thing. The Truth says so.
So as I write my health paper and study international law, I can have hope that there is perfection, there is beauty, there is something worth being joyful about without submitting to senioritis. That perfection is called love, and today it stared me straight in the face through friends, loved ones, and those beautiful stars I gazed at when I returned home tonight from school.
~Esa Cita
Monday, April 16, 2012
Everything
Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in a love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings, what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.
- Pedro Arrupe, S.J.
- Pedro Arrupe, S.J.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
hm,
In about a month, your entire world is going to change.
When told that this morning, I gave a little nod and a bit more thought. Yes, yes. This is true. It's one thing to come to terms with it, it's another to understand it as reality. Like knowing that you have to buy clothes, change your home address, pay for rent, find ways to pay the rent, make a move to two different locations throughout the summer, and meet lots of new friends.
Today, my best friend called me with stories of finals week down in Florida and to talk about her summer plans. It's getting SO close, I'm getting so pumped for her! Six or seven years of best-friend-ship and now we are both heading off into similar journeys in which we get to share the our lives once again in a super awesome way. God is pretty cool like that.
So here I am, three and a half hours later at work, talking to people about their thoughts on life, and it is now time to start doing work. There are three weeks left of school and I need to do that thing called graduation. From time to time, I like doing that.
~Esa Cita
When told that this morning, I gave a little nod and a bit more thought. Yes, yes. This is true. It's one thing to come to terms with it, it's another to understand it as reality. Like knowing that you have to buy clothes, change your home address, pay for rent, find ways to pay the rent, make a move to two different locations throughout the summer, and meet lots of new friends.
Today, my best friend called me with stories of finals week down in Florida and to talk about her summer plans. It's getting SO close, I'm getting so pumped for her! Six or seven years of best-friend-ship and now we are both heading off into similar journeys in which we get to share the our lives once again in a super awesome way. God is pretty cool like that.
So here I am, three and a half hours later at work, talking to people about their thoughts on life, and it is now time to start doing work. There are three weeks left of school and I need to do that thing called graduation. From time to time, I like doing that.
~Esa Cita
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Library?
Out of character thing that only a person about to graduate does: walk through the reference section of the library in hopes of finding answers to life's questions.
Check.
I couldn't help myself. As I count down the weeks in my head I can't help but think about how my GMU password will no longer get me access to all those books that I haven't read while attending here.
Only a graduating senior would think these thoughts.
Okay, time for bed. Classes, meetings, and ministry events await me. Here's to Thursday!
~Esa Cita
Check.
I couldn't help myself. As I count down the weeks in my head I can't help but think about how my GMU password will no longer get me access to all those books that I haven't read while attending here.
Only a graduating senior would think these thoughts.
Okay, time for bed. Classes, meetings, and ministry events await me. Here's to Thursday!
~Esa Cita
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
I go back to now
This morning when I woke up, there was something new in the air. There was a freshness, a joy, a lightness that's even way better than coffee.
I woke up with a smile on my heart and turned my head to the side. There, in front of my eyes, was a photo of the face of a person that I love so much. I couldn't help but smile with my lips.
With many country songs playing one after another, I peeked out my windowsill to get a glimpse of the sky. My favorite color smiled at me, and told me that I was going to have a great day. "I love you sweetheart," whispered my comfortable bed, and I immediately thought of loved ones that make me smile every single day. Blowing a kiss to the photo, I cuddled up with my pillow to the thought of my 10AM goal before my 10:30 law class. There's a lovely place waiting for me, why not jump on out of bed with joy?
Easter is in the air. It's in the sky; it's in the souls. Amen, Alleluia. What more could one want?
College has given me four more weeks to be a student before I'm supposed to walk around this world, informing all whom I encounter that I was educated at a university in the same way that a Big Mac is cooked, and therefore am worthy of your time. Nonetheless, as prestigious as I am convinced that a Happy Meal education sounds to strangers, I do not see a need for pretending to be the mature person whom I am not.
Today, I slapped my co-worker on the bottom because she slapped me 3 times. I also quoted Mulan word-for-word at my house, bounced like a five-year-old during the first twenty minutes of a holy hour, and sang my heart out on the road back home. Most significantly, I changed the computer background image to a picture of Charmander to spite whichever sibling decided to have it set to a photo of Squirtle. Life's pretty serious these days.
I have recently been hit with a little challenge: glorifying my last days as a college undergrad. There aren't many more chances for me to do this, so I aim to do a lil somethin' somethin' on a daily basis.
My dear friends should expect pranks, laughs, smiles, and jokes.
Happy Easter!
~Esa Cita
I woke up with a smile on my heart and turned my head to the side. There, in front of my eyes, was a photo of the face of a person that I love so much. I couldn't help but smile with my lips.
Easter is in the air. It's in the sky; it's in the souls. Amen, Alleluia. What more could one want?
College has given me four more weeks to be a student before I'm supposed to walk around this world, informing all whom I encounter that I was educated at a university in the same way that a Big Mac is cooked, and therefore am worthy of your time. Nonetheless, as prestigious as I am convinced that a Happy Meal education sounds to strangers, I do not see a need for pretending to be the mature person whom I am not.
Today, I slapped my co-worker on the bottom because she slapped me 3 times. I also quoted Mulan word-for-word at my house, bounced like a five-year-old during the first twenty minutes of a holy hour, and sang my heart out on the road back home. Most significantly, I changed the computer background image to a picture of Charmander to spite whichever sibling decided to have it set to a photo of Squirtle. Life's pretty serious these days.
I have recently been hit with a little challenge: glorifying my last days as a college undergrad. There aren't many more chances for me to do this, so I aim to do a lil somethin' somethin' on a daily basis.
My dear friends should expect pranks, laughs, smiles, and jokes.
Happy Easter!
~Esa Cita
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