Written by Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Kayla Arroy
Founder & Owner of: Essencentral
Millionaire’s Digest Team, Contributor and Successful Living Writer
“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
– Denis Diderot
Continue reading Passion as Purpose (4 min read)
Written by Millionaire’s Digest Staff Member: Aui V.
Founder & Owner of: Aui’s Den
Millionaire’s Digest Staff Team, Editor and Author of The Booze Stole My Son: Don’t Let It Steal Yours
I am wondering how many of us made an effort to write where we are heading this year. Plenty of evidence supports the tremendous power there is in writing our goals and yet too few realize this.
Continue reading Write Your Goal and Make It Happen (1 min read)
Written By Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Heidi Allen
Founder & Owner of: Positive People Army
Millionaire’s Digest Team, Contributor, Family & Life and Successful Living Writer
This couldn’t be right.
I ran our Jays tickets through the scanner again, but the message was the same: DECLINED. Written in big red letters so as to accurately convey the seriousness of the situation.
Written by Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Ellen Percival
Founder & Owner of: It’s Ellen Grace
Millionaire’s Digest Team, Contributor, Beauty, Blogging, Family & Life, Successful Living, Travel and Writing Writer
I know what you’re thinking, surely having long hair isn’t that much aggravation? Well, think again, it’s not all sassy hair-swishing and cute hairstyles…
Written by Millionaire’s Digest Staff Member: Kalin W.
Founder & Owner of: KDS
Millionaire’s Digest Staff Team, Author and Writing Writer
Have you ever wanted something for so long but you then find out that you can’t have it? After hearing about that thing you’ve wanted for so long but then find out that it’s not obtainable for the time being, you start to think about how sad it is for you to not have what you wanted. Your thoughts start to fixated on that one thing you’ve wanted and as time goes by, it keeps getting worse. That’s something known as Dwelling. Continue reading Don’t Dwell: It’s NOT a Good Path to Take (2 Min Read)
Yesterday’s gospel reminds me again of the reason why He came: in order that we might have a life- life in its fullness. But what is a life that is full after all? How can we measure if a life is full, half-full or as we often heard it, empty? Continue reading Living a full life
A sense of powerlessness over death wraps my whole being right after my brothers’ burial. I felt vulnerable wrestling with something nobody will ever win. The thought of death immobilizes me for the first time after several losses of people I love the most.
The nights that followed was filled with dreams about death and dying that it bothers me at times. I prayed hard in trying to figure out the meaning of it all and a deep feeling of fear about losing someone emerges. The threat of a deep loneliness over losing a loved one again was stronger than the fear of death itself.
Memories came crashing one by one with every loss I encountered since childhood. It starts with the death of my grandfather who made me feel I was his favorite. A few years after that, I went to a more profound sorrow losing my Dad. My mom’s leaving to sickness many years later does not create the same impact I had over the losses during childhood even those of my grandmas. The most devastating of it all is that of losing my son three years ago.
The strong resistance of going back to those unbearable feelings gave light why tears won’t come during my brother’s wake. I created an automatic shut off from deep within because I am not sure if I was capable of going through the same feeling again. I shielded myself with numbness and rage.
Then I realized it was not death but the feelings of being left by someone I loved that scared me the most. This was the strongest sensation embedded on my being that I would not want to go through again. This is what I am so afraid of that I could not make peace with.
There was a voice within me saying that my loved ones do not really leave. They just go to the next dimension where there is a loving God who connects everything. This is the beauty of my faith; life never ends here. There is life before, there is life now and there is life in the hereafter.
Accepting that death is a part of life just like birth is liberating. The knowledge that a loved one who dies does not leave at all dissolves the feelings of hopelessness and disconnections. Death is a great teacher of life. It teaches us to live every day to the fullest as if it is our last and if it is, there is an assurance that the next life is far more exciting than what we have here today. It was a promise we can claim if we believe in God.
