Our Lady Of Good Counsel

Is your heart still beating? Well, I guess so because if not, you might miss hearing the message of the Advent Season. Now and then, I hear relatives and acquaintances say that their heart has an irregular heartbeat. It could only mean one thing; physical health is not normal. A regular heartbeat means a healthy heart, and this could be a result of a healthy lifestyle filled with joy and peace.

But we could hardly find that these days when we are so overwhelmed with our financial stability, carefulness of our health, and the pursuit of riches and maintaining our possessions. Besides these things, we are also bothered
by our family problems, job instability and more. All
these will give us an irregular heartbeat and soon enough it
affects the whole being.

A Joyful Heart is not without any trials and challenges. Reality presents to us that life has its ups and downs, joys and sorrows, strengths and weakness and laughter and tears. What makes the difference is how we handle difficult situations
when they come into our lives. How we face them and how we
address them.

It is for this reason that the Season of Advent stirs our minds and hearts to look where our focus in life should be where we can find strength when we are weak, where we can find peace when bothered and where we can find true joy when low. These days of Advent help us discover where our direction in life should be. That a Joyful Heart is found not on things or anything the world offers but rather found in a person, Jesus. ╬