(the thoughts and ideas was an attempt to respond to a question posted as a status bar on facebook by a friend... just thought of answering... hahaha)
these are questions often asked by a lot of people in their own unique and perfectly imperfect life journey...
but i guess, the process of finding the answers to these "wounds" is part of the healing process... the PROCESS of getting the answers could be the answer itself.
the journey to healing a broken heart can be perceived in so many ways, others would say "forgive and forget" while others, "yes, i can forgive, but I will not forget, it is best to remember the lessons learned from whatever experience". As movies would mention, "matibay ang puso". I would like to believe in that. That even if a heart is broken, it can love. That no matter how wounded a heart is, it can find ways to multiply love. No matter how little the experience one has of love, the heart can teach the person to love. Yet, when it gets broken, no matter how the mind teaches the heart to heal, i believe that it will heal and forgive and be whole again in its own good time, at its own pace. So yes, nurture the heart, nurture one's heart. How? Do not forget to love oneself a bit more everyday. As we love others, let us also love ourselves by respecting ourselves and acknowledging our dignity as persons and that there is Someone greater than us who loves us and will always do even if the world has turned it's back on us. Let such love SUSTAIN us.
When the spirit weakens, most likely, the body can weaken. When the spirit loses direction, the body may function but without passion, without focus, without clarity. Without a sound spirit, the body is just a mere container that functions physically, but within, there is just a void that exists, and empty space. How do you revive an unsound spirit? How do you wake a sleeping spirit? How do you calm restless spirits? I do not know, really! But i personally believe that when a spirit is restless, let it find rest. PAUSE. And when a spirit is drowning and fading away, start a spark and make it new.
The pause is important. That necessary STOP will allow oneself to get back to his spirit. I remember a story shared in the past, and one of lines in the story said, "let us allow our spirits to catch up with our bodies". Maybe we have moved too fast. Maybe we have done so much, maybe we wanted a lot that everything ends up being tossed up and scattered. The PAUSE you make, in whatever form will allow your body to catch up, to be one again with your spirit.
A lack of faith? This is a toughie! But whenever I could not understand what FAITH calls for, whenever I could not comprehend what it means to see things with the eyes of faith, I go back to what I learned in the past, by breaking down faith into three other concepts: believing, trusting and obeying. I guess one needs to go through the experience of believing, in whatever it may be and to be believed as well. For one who has lost faith, one must understand and experience what it means to trust and be trusted as well. And to be capped off with the experience of obeying and to be obeyed. With the concrete experience of believing, trusting and obeying, may it be from the simplest to the most complex experiences of it, one would again rediscover the virtue of faith
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