Let the Master step in

Did you bump into someone you wanted to talk to badly? Did a door of opportunity just open when you need it? Did you discover some money to fill in a shortage in your budget? Nothing happens by chance. I order all things to provide for what you need at the right time. - The One Who Turns All Things Unto Good , God

Let me tell you a story.


There was once this little child who loved playing the piano. He was only 5 years old. Nobody ever thought him how to play, never had any formal training. In fact the only musical piece he knows is “Chopsticks”.


So many people have been discouraging him. They are saying that he was too small and too young to play. However this little kid did not mind. He just kept on practicing everyday. One day his father surprised him with two tickets on a symphony concert on their town. There is this world renowned Italian pianist as the main attraction. This pianist, not only is he so popular but he is also so talented. He is often called the master.

When concert night came,  as father and son walked through their seats in the big auditorium, the little boy saw, behind the curtains. the biggest, most beautiful grand piano he had ever seen. He was grinning with sheer delight when he saw it. Excited as he is, he snuck out and went to the piano and began to play his favorite tune “Chopsticks”.


Engrossed by his playing, he didn’t know the curtain has risen. The audience expecting to see the master pianist was shocked to see a little boy hump over the piano. Suddenly the kid realized where he was and felt so petrified, he was about to stand up and leave but he felt two giant arms around him. It was the master pianist. He told the little boy, “Just keep playing”, then the master joined in with a beautiful Beethoven symphony scored in the same cadence and the same key.


With the master’s guidance he then signaled for the orchestra in as well, first the woodwinds, then the brass, then percussions. The music was so beautiful. So relaxing. The father who was seated and watching all of this was getting teary eyed. He could not believe that a simple, elementary rendition of “chopsticks” that he hears everyday in his living room could ever be turned into a beautifully  orchestrated Beethoven symphony.


How did this happen? Very simple: the master stepped in.


Friends, did you ever sometimes wonder how lucky you are? If you look at your life closely, all the little things that you have right now, have you ever asked yourself that once upon a time, all the things happening into your life was just a dream, a fantasy.

Maybe this morning you were just simply busy doing your laundry, come afternoon you receive a phone call that your US visa was released.


Or, maybe yesterday you are so dead worried about your household bills, then today you receive a text message that your loan was approved.


Or, a month ago you are looking for a way to increase your income, then today a friend of you came and invited you to an opportunity meeting and suddenly you are so excited because you now have a chance to fulfill your dreams.


Or maybe ten years ago you where just a simple student, living in a small house with your parents, the house is so small that one step forward is your living room, one step to the left is your rest room, one step to the right is your bedroom, and now you are working abroad with a nice rented apartment with air condition provided by your employer.


We ask ourselves, how did this happen? Where did this lucky breaks come from? How did I get here? This is not suppose to happen, I’m just ordinary person.


I bet sometime you do think of yourself as ordinary  We think of ourselves as someone who has average skills, average talent, average intelligence.


When I was young the immediate goal was to finish my studies. Life back then was so simple, but let me tell you, come our periodical exams, life for me was so hard. I mean with all the memorization, calculation, reading, writing, listening to your boring professor, acting behave with a terror teacher, man these were all hard work.


I asked myself. “How on earth could I pass these subjects?”  I’m just an ordinary average student.


The answer is very simple. The Master, our God has stepped in.


I believe He gave us our natural talents, natural gifts, natural intelligence, but along with
 this He added his super. Yes, he has turned our natural into supernatural. Our simple music into a grand orchestrated symphony.


Look at the richest man of our country Henry Siy, once upon a time he was just a simple boy who shines shoes, sells goods in carriedo. An ordinary person, average. But something happened. The Master stepped in and turned his ordinary into a super extraordinary, that little “super” made him build his businesses and then later own the country’s most popular mall, Shoemart. Last week, I was seating beside his giant ferris wheel at the Mall of Asia. As I stare at this ferris wheel, I can’t help but wonder, how on earth could a former shoe shine boy could ever own something like this?


Luck? Chance?


I believe what people may call in as luck or chance is actually “The loving hand of God”


He will give us supernatural breaks. And just like in the story, he would bring in the brass - the right people, the woodwinds – the right opportunity. Then later on we would be playing our grandest symphony that would make the world wonder with ahhhs and oooohss.


Don’t lose hope. I suggest we continue doing what we are good at, use our natural gifts and let God stepped in to bring his “super” and then turn our gifts, our blessings as supernatural.


Let the Master step in.


Aim high, live life, Love God,


Ludwig Weigand

Time is indeed gold

Today I give you the gift of 24 hours. It’s like a lump of clay that you can make into anything you wish it to be. You can let time pass you by idly or you can spend every minute enjoying life, loving others and serving Me. So what will it be? - GOD

I’ve met a lot of people thru social networking and I am amazed at some of the stories of people who at their middle age find themselves living a life of emptiness. Some of these people are like zombies. Lifeless… Not knowing where they are, not knowing where they going. If life is an airplane, they are the pilot, but they are the type of a pilot who runs the plane automatically, in other words auto-pilot. They did not even know how they took off much less where their destination is. They simply do not have any goals.


I believe life is a series of goals.  As a student many years ago, like just 10 years ago. (haha). I remember when I was in in grade 6, my ultimate goal at that time was to finish grade school and graduate so that I reached the secondary level or high-school. Now let me ask you something, did you also have the same goal as I had during these times?


When I reached high school, with all the excitement of having “barkadas” and crushes, my ultimate goal at that time was to graduate and reached college. Again, did you again have the same goal as I had during these times?


Now college came, I took up engineering, it is a 5 year course. Let me tell you something, I really didn’t know why I took up this course. You know why? Because it was all math!! I’m not good in math, but I love airplanes and really wanted to be a pilot but I felt that my parents could not afford to make me study flying so i took up engineering instead. 


Here is where I realized that in college you don’t really need to be always smart or “matalino”. Because most of the time, you just need to be “mata-linaw” to pass. You need to have 20/20 vision in order to look over your seatmates test papers. (guilty?) I had a great time during college, lots of crazy things happened during those days. But behind the fun and excitement, I still did not loose my focus on my goal, and that is for me at that time, to graduate and finish my studies.  So with sheer effort, blood, sweat and tears, I passed the course and got my degree.


After college, I’ve set a goal of finding a job, and after just a few months, I got hired as a passenger service agent and worked at the airport.


The next question hit me


What next? Ito na ba yun? This is it? Am I stuck here for next 10, 20 or even 30 years of my life. I was able to ask that question because one of my boss who I believe at that time was already in his 60s is still, working for the company. Dito na ba ako tatanda? (Am I going to grow old here?) When I asked these questions to myself, I suddenly became afraid, and because of my fear I began to be paralyzed.  


Now  the reason why I shared my story to you Is to let you know that, we should not let fear stop us from our setting goals. Their is a saying that the poorest person on this earth is not the man who has no money, but the man who has no goals.


Start setting new goals. It is hard to get thru life without ambitions. Just imagine you getting dressed up in the morning wearing your fancy clothes and expensive perfume, your hair neatly combed, shoes shined then you go out the garage and you ride your BMW. The problem is inside the car, with engine running you ask yourself, where am I going?


Seize the day


There is one thing that both rich and poor people have in common. That is time. We all have receive 24 hours in our life each day. Nobody has 25 hours. The only difference is what do with our time.


Do we spend the whole day just staring out the window? Daydreaming? Wishful thinking? Or are you like some of the employees I know who just simply go to work with a zombie face, doing things like clockwork, thinking to themselves, “what on earth am I doing in this company?”. They spend a lot of time looking at the bad, either they’re gossiping or complaining, they complain about their husbands and wives with their office mates Then after shift ends they go home to complain again. But this time they complain to their spouses about their boss. Ironic isn’t it? But the problem doesn’t end there. The problem is they continue to do this everyday. As in day in and day out.


Friends time is a gift, I suggest you live your life and the only way to do that is that you have to be intentional. There is so much joy to give, so much love to share. God has given us a lump of clay which we can mold to whatever we want. He has given us this wonderful gift called time. Let us not waste it. Please do not forget that we are all living in borrowed time.


Time is the only commodity that no amount of wealth in this world can buy.


Aim High, live life, love GOD!




Ludwig Weigand