Protect yourself

 Pride afflicts many people. A disagreement that can easily be resolved by a humble and heartfelt admission of fault turns into an ugly conflict because people value their pride more than peace. Be a person of humility and peace, and you will experience the blessings of being a child of Mine. – prince of peace , GOD

Many relationships have been destroyed by this thing called pride. The truth is, this is one of the secret weapons of the devil himself. It is one of the top four most dangerous, toxic power that the devil uses to bring mankind away from God. The other three are greed, lust and self-rejection.


They said pride is tasteless, shapeless, colorless, odorless, but it is one of the hardest thing to swallow. I say, well if it is hard to swallow then turn pride into a chicken meal like KFC did, then turn it into Kentucky Pride Chicken. Delicious!

But seriously, believe me, I too fell victim to this kind of attitude. And honestly, I still sometimes experience this poison inside of me.  I am not ashamed to admit it. I'm speaking to you now not as the perfect, 100% good and angelic person. I am speaking to you now as a normal human being, a sinner just like everybody else.  

The battle is in the inside

I turn to God.  I asked God for Him to take away my pride.  Guess what? God replied. He said, “Son, it is not up to me to take it away, it is for you to give it up.”  The battle between good and evil is not on the outside, it is inside ourselves. Our core being.

Let me share with you something I have learned from our religious community called The Feast today. There is an old fiction story about the city of Troy. This city is heavily guarded and  the gates are very secured. For many years, the Greeks tried so hard in invading it but to no avail. They were heaving problems in attacking the city because of its giant walls. For ten years or so they tried so hard without success, until one day, the people of Troy called the Trojans saw that the enemy battleships started to leave. The Trojans then celebrated , thinking that they have won the war. 

Then they saw something the Greeks have built and left behind. It is  a huge, giant statue of a horse. This statue which was later on known as the Trojan horse, was brought inside the city. The Trojans thought of keeping it as a symbol of victory, like a trophy.

Little did they know that inside the wooden horse were greek soldiers hiding, waiting for nightfall. And they also didn’t know that the Greeks on the ships only pretended to leave, they actually made a u-turn and came back to Troy. So when the Trojans slept that night, one by one the greeks piled out of the statue and opened  the gates of Troy for their fellow Greeks to come in. In short, Troy was conquered.

This story represents ourselves. The city of Troy is our inner  feeling.  The giant walls are like God’s love  protecting us, guarding us from evil.  The problem is that we have let in a “Trojan horse” within our body, our soul, our life and have evil soldiers open the gates for pride to come in.

Friends, many times we look at our problems from outside ourselves, we try to change things that most of the time have no control of. But in fact the battle is within us. We allowed evil to come in. 

Protect yourself. Defend yourself.  Love yourself. Strenghten your walls with God's love be humble to admit your mistakes.

God said, if you humble yourself before Me, I will exult you at the proper time.

Aim high, live life, love God

Ludwig Weigand

God should always be part of the equation

It had been a wonderful and exciting month. You see I’ve been working in a call center for about 6 years now and the airline account from which im connected to has decided to pull out their office in manila and return it back to the US. 

During the past few months, there were some mixed emotions with my fellow employees, some of them have bitterness, anger and the feeling of being abandoned by our company. These is because some of them, after working hard for so many years feels like they do not know where they are going after the account ends. Many of them are like me, who have worked there for at least 3 years or more.

The worst thing is that most of them, after working so hard  for so many years actually admitted that they do not have any savings at all. You see these are the mistakes that most of us employees think. We feel that our boss or the owner's of the company we work for has the responsibility to take care of us and make us rich. Sometimes we fail to realize that out boss’s job is not to make us rich, our boss’s job is just to give us our monthly salary as stated in our contract. It is our job to make us rich.

However, this is another topic that I may write on in the future. The sad part is that, when we do have these commotions in our lives, we tend to panic. We forget who we are.. We blame other people. We sometimes stop trusting God.

You see I don’t really call myself a religious person, But one thing ive learned from this past few  years is that, if we do not include God in our everyday lives, if we do not put him as part of the equation, we would never really succeed. 

When I was studying engineering in college we had tons of calculations, so many mathematical formulas, a bunch of trigonometry, algebra, differential equation and calculus. We always have to follow a certain equation to come up with a right answer. The critical part in these is that, one slight mistake in your equation, one wrong number or figure, would likely result to a wrong answer.

Success and luck is the same. They say that the formula for luck is  O+P = L=S. Opportunity plus Preparation equals to luck equals to success.  This is true for the most part but I have derived  with a better formula and that is G+O+P = L/S.

Love of God + Opportunity + Preparation = Luck = Success.

Add God in your life, give him your undivided attention and subtract your worries, you will see your blessing multiply a hundredfold!

Aim high, live life, Love God.

Ludwig Weigand

Learn to open up

Be disturbed if the people who love you the most are the people who know you the least – John Maxwell

There are times in our life when we feel like not sharing our innermost thoughts and feelings with our love ones. We feel like it’s best to keep it to ourselves. I could only think of a couple of reasons why we do that.

First is because we are afraid.  We’re afraid that maybe they would not agree to what we may say.  We are afraid to let them know our biggest fear,. We are afraid to show them our weakness. If you’re a man, I believe you can relate. Sometimes being a man, we always feel that we should be the strong one. Like we believe that it’s not normal for us to be afraid. Our ego get’s in the way. We may look strong and and courageous on the outside but inside we are trembling with fear.

Second is we feel like the other person would just ridicule us or put us down. Like if we have a big dream or if we want to start a project, we feel like the other person would just simply reject our ideas and laugh at us.

Third is we feel that we always think that if they really love us, they should know how we feel. Like as if they should have a secret power to read our thoughts. Like a witch or something. hehe

Although this feelings are true and valid, I still believe that if we really want true happiness in our lives we should be able to make our relationships strong. And we could only do that if we learn to open ourselves up to the other person. If the other person truly loves us, he/she would understand what we have to say or feel.

In the movie the pianist, starring andy brody. It’s a story of a man and his family’s ordeal during the Nazi era. On one scene when this guy named splitzer, (a pianist played by brody) were marching together with his family to the train that would take them to the Nazi concentration camp. After which they would be exterminated., as they were walking he took the hand of his sister and told her, “ I wish I have known you better”.

Friends, I believe that for our relationships to work, we should learn how to communicate with our feelings to our love ones.

If you want to be a better husband, better wife, better parents to your kids, or even a better son or daughter, brother or sister. I suggest you be a better friend first.

Learn to open up.

May you be a blessing to others 

Aim High, Live life, Love God,

Ludwig Weigand

God fills up empty spaces

If you want better things to happen in your life, some older things will have to go first. Perhaps a relationship ended. Perhaps you lost your job. Perhaps your company folded up. Thank Me and believe that something better is coming your way soon!  - God

It has been proven scientifically that the Universe doesn’t like empty spaces. It always finds a way to fill up something. Like for example an empty swimming pool. The pool is designed for you to fill up with water in order to enjoy the full benefits of it. Now let’s imagine that you drained water out of the pool in order to clean it. However an emergency happened in your family or maybe you got sooo busy at work and you got distracted with your everyday life and completely, as in completely forgot about your pool. What do you think would happen? Soon maybe after 6 month or more, you take a peek and you see maybe water due to the rain filling it up or dust and lots of dirt starts to appear. What do you think would happen after a year or so? If you don’t want to swim in your pool, something else will. Like frogs hehehe..

The principle applied here is the same with other thing in our life. The Universe does not like empty spaces. So if you happen to loose something in your life, like a job, love one be prepared. Get excited!  Because sooner or later you would be able to find a new one, a much better one.

Create spaces and let God fill in for you

I’ve a got a story to share. It’s about this lady who is struggling to find a loving husband for her. What she did is she consulted an expert with the Law of Attraction and she was advised that first she visualized herself happy, in love with and living with someone, and just try to imagine and closely think about every small detail on what life would be everyday to be with someone she loves.

One morning, she noticed that when she looked at her closet, it is simply full of clothes. Her clothes. So what she did is, she half-emptied her closet so that there would be space for her husband’s clothes.  During bedtime instead of sleeping in the middle of the bed, she now sleeps on one side of it. She did the same on her garage, instead of parking in the middle, she gives space for her partner’s car to park.

Guess what happens, after six months, she met someone in her office. They liked each other. One year after they got married.

God has a way to fill empty spaces. He said that, when I empty your hand, it means I’m making spaces for more blessings!

Have faith. Be brave!

Aim high, live life. love God!

Ludwig Weigand