MY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

Today is my birthday...February 24, 2009. I celebrated this in a very simple way. No funfare whatsoever. I started the day with my regular morning visit to an Adoration Chapel before going to my office...have lunch alone...played billard for an hour and went to my favorite charity house by 4:00pm to bring few boxes of powdered milk and noodles to feed the old...abondoned...and sick senior citizens. I found this Missionaries of Charity of Mother Teresa in 1993. It is run by nuns. I brought an old man whom I called Lolo Floro last March of 2008. I found him staying and sleeping along Roxas Blvd near Baclaran church. I thought he was dead then. But unfotunately, he passed away a month after. Sister Margaret informed me and I paid my last respect for him before he was laid to rest the following day.

After I turned over my gifts...I asked Mother Superior if I could possible join the nuns who were praying at the prayer room. The place is so quiet...that you could feel inner peace. I experienced a different happiness today. My friends and relatives were offering me treat/s but I politely declined. Instead, I asked them to simply give me cash so I can buy some items the charity house needs. I thanked them for their kindness and generosity. I left after an hour to go to our Parish Church where I will serve as a lector during the 6:30pm mass.

This year...I don't have special food for my birthday but I feel spiritually full as the day ends because I know... today, I live as heaven is on earth.