Living 500 years apart but circumstances still the same...

It is now close to 3 am in the morning and I am sort just happen to be awake at this time of the day and so decided to blog...I slept earlier at about 9.30 pm and now I am awake..so I chose to blog on something that we all face in our daily lives especially at our work place. It is politics...you can chose to stay clear of it (like myself) or be part of it. But if you chose to stay clear of it like myself, you may have to pay a high price for it...like I did! Just take a look at myself, I joined NY in June 2001 and now is close to 7 years since I join....now comes the next part which may sound a bit astonishing...my salary is exactly the same since the day I join ( not a single dollar or cents increase!) and I am still doing the same thing as I did the day I join my current workplace. Many have joined later and have already been promoted and some have left (resigned). With this little sharing, I hope that if you are victim of this circumstance, I hope you can take comfort in my situation. Don't give in for your reward shall be great in heaven. Christ was tempted in this aspect during His fasting of 40 days. For me, I stick to my faith ever resisting the temptation of jostling for status, power and politics at my work place, so I end up watching from the sidelines - just like watching a footbal match.

I seek comfort and draw strength from St John of the Cross...though we lived in a complete different era about 500 years apart but circumstances are the same - time is immaterial whether you lived in the year 1550 or in the year 2008, human nature is indeed all the same...

Here is an insight of what St John of the Cross went through who is a victim of the infighting among the priests in his order then....in Spain

....and during his term of imprisonment he wrote the most beautiful book ever.....

So in the light of the Lenten Season, I prayed to the Almighty God and to St John of Cross to give me the strength to continue to resist the temptation of power struggle at work, circumstance of which is similar to that of St John of the Cross....Living 500 years apart but circumstances are still very much the same..

Good nite or (izit good morning?)...I going back to bed now..yawn...yawn..zzzzz

God Bless!

Albert Y