The Unbitten Sound...

yes, i did -- lots of times last week and today. i'm loving me -- my whole self -- as a single, trying hard independent woman and as a growing career-oriented individual (or maybe).

why wouldn't i love being me these days when i just realized that i can be myself alone? the feeling is extraordinary. i love it when i wake up in the morning and the wake up calls and messages would come from my Mom, Tita or my ever makulit na sis. i more so love it when i watch TV and move around the little sala freely while cooking my favorite merienda, pancit canton, and would eat alone in peace. haha. i love it when i'm running out of stuff and would run to the supermarket to grab my fill alone. and god... i love going home from work without waiting for anyone to pick me up and take me home.

i love this kind of freedom and the spices of life it gives me. it gives me the opportunity to decide, slowly but surely, about gigantic things that affect me universally. it makes me realize that, afterall, i'm a strong person. it makes me think that behind that willfull persona i have (masking the weak side of me) is a personality that i can rely on come hell or high waters.

why am i saying all these just now when actually i've been single for two years exactly today? oh, well... it's never been easy going through life when i've been steady for a 4-year long relationship straight.

it was my first relationship and i was hoping it's going to last forever -- because i thought that there was nothing wrong and everything was going easy and under control. well, things aren't exactly what they seemed to be. here was a relationship where i've learned to gain confidence and fight life with. here was someone who tought me to not eat alone because he was coming to join me. here was a person who said that i wasn't suppose to go to the mall alone as he was dropping by to pick me up and run about the counters with all those things i need. here was him who made me smile under the rain and made me feel fresh under the sun. here was a guy who made me feel everything was ok no matter how i looked, no matter how i dressed. here was my bestfriend who tought me to gain access to my real world and discover what i can do from what i can't. here was paul with me, not just as a significant other but was a confidante and most of all, a bestfriend. one that i'll never give up friendship and communication with.

we don't have much in common. he is an A-List intellectual; i'm just an average birdbrain. his family is an elite and is politically-inclined, mine is just a farming prop. he was a prominent student leader and as a corporate individual right now, he's one significant person behind all those coolers and cold rooms at Rustan's Supermarket, SM Hypermarket, Shopwise, Makro, Gateway, etc. He is a technical manager who managed to design some of the electrical setup of the North Luzon Expressway. and me? a trying hard associate who climbs up the ladder so dumbly to earn an honest buck. he is someone a girlfriend can always be proud of given all his negative and positive make up. me? i guess, by simply remembering his mother's single wink last time, was a little lady brat who didn't know anything about life.

(to be continued)

 

 

 

Yes. I think I have found my McDreamy. Literal definition - maybe I can just dream about him as he has someone special. Someone special who can be his girlfriend, fiancee, maybe the mother of his kids or... maybe his boyfriend. I don't know! And who can help me know? I don't know. All I know is... he's my literal McDreamy. Too close to me yet too far too be reached.

Good for Meredith he's got the chance to be with McDreamy and even won him back... Me? How about my McDreamy? I don't know. Sigh. Sigh. Sigh. I can only sigh.

Oh...Sigh. McDreamy. Would you ever talk to me? Would you ever set your eyes on me? Would you ever be interested in me? Could I possibly become your McPrincess? Sigh.

 

here i am, moon, stars, skies, heavens.

good morning.

will you greet me back?

i will have to.

A seraph (Hebrew שׂרף, plural שׂרפים Seraphim) is one of a class of celestial beings mentioned once in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh or Old Testament), in Isaiah. Later Jewish imagery perceived them as having human form, and in that way they passed into the ranks of Christian angels. In the Christian angelic hierarchy, seraphim represent the highest known rank of angels. There are only two angels in the canonized Greek and Hebrew Bible mentioned by name: Michael (who is described as the archangel) and Gabriel.

Seraphim in Isaiah

Isaiah (6:1–3) records the prophet's vision of the Seraphim:

"... I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and His train filled the Hekhal (sanctuary). Above Him stood the Seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew."

In the vision the seraphim cry continually to each other, '"Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory"' (vi.3). The "foundations of the thresholds" of the Temple were moved by the sound of their voices.

This is the sole occurrence of the word "seraphim" in the canonic Hebrew Bible as heavenly beings.

Seraphim in Judaism

Seraphim are part of the angelarchy of Orthodox Judaism, and Isaiah's vision is repeated several times in daily Jewish services, including at Kedushah prayer added as part of the repetition of the Amidah and in several other prayers as well.

Seraphim occupy the fifth rank of ten ranks of angels in Maimonides' exposition of the Jewish angelic hierarchy.

Conservative Judaism retains the traditional belief in angels, including references in the liturgy, although a literal belief in angels is by no means universal among Conservative Jews.

Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism generally do not believe in angels, although they may retain references for metaphorical purposes.

In medieval Christian neo-Platonic theology, the Seraphim belong to the highest order, or angelic choir, of the hierarchy of angels. They are said to be the caretakers of God's throne, continuously singing Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, i. e. "holy, holy, holy"—cf. "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts, the whole earth is full of His Glory" (Isaiah 6:3). This chanting is referred to as the Trisagion.

The early medieval writer called Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite included seraphim in his Celestial Hierarchy (vii), which helped fix the fiery nature of seraphim in the medieval imagination. It is here that the Seraphim are described as being concerned with keeping Divinity in perfect order, and not limited to chanting the trisagion. Taking his cue from writings in the Rabbinic tradition, he gave an etymology for the Seraphim as "those who kindle or make hot":

"The name Seraphim clearly indicates their ceaseless and eternal revolution about Divine Principles, their heat and keenness, the exuberance of their intense, perpetual, tireless activity, and their elevative and energetic assimilation of those below, kindling them and firing them to their own heat, and wholly purifying them by a burning and all-consuming flame; and by the unhidden, unquenchable, changeless, radiant and enlightening power, dispelling and destroying the shadows of darkness" (Celestial Hierarchy, vii)

Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologiae offers a description of the nature of the Seraphim:

"The name 'Seraphim' does not come from charity only, but from the excess of charity, expressed by the word ardor or fire. Hence Dionysius (Coel. Hier. vii) expounds the name 'Seraphim' according to the properties of fire, containing an excess of heat. Now in fire we may consider three things. "First, the movement which is upwards and continuous. This signifies that they are borne inflexibly towards God. "Secondly, the active force which is 'heat,' which is not found in fire simply, but exists with a certain sharpness, as being of most penetrating action, and reaching even to the smallest things, and as it were, with superabundant fervor; whereby is signified the action of these angels, exercised powerfully upon those who are subject to them, rousing them to a like fervor, and cleansing them wholly by their heat. "Thirdly we consider in fire the quality of clarity, or brightness; which signifies that these angels have in themselves an inextinguishable light, and that they also perfectly enlighten others."

With the revival of neo-Platonism in the academy formed around Lorenzo de' Medici, the seraphim took on a mystic role in Pico della Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man (1487), the epitome of Renaissance humanism. Pico took the fiery Seraphim—"they burn with the fire of charity"—as the highest models of human aspiration: "impatient of any second place, let us emulate dignity and glory. And, if we will it, we shall be inferior to them in nothing", the young Pico announced, in the first flush of optimistic confidence in the human capacity that is the coinage of the Renaissance. "In the light of intelligence, meditating upon the Creator in His work, and the work in its Creator, we shall be resplendent with the light of the Cherubim. If we burn with love for the Creator only, his consuming fire will quickly transform us into the flaming likeness of the Seraphim." [1]

Bonaventure, a Franciscan theologian who was a contemporary of Thomas Aquinas, uses the six wings of the seraph as an important analogical construct in his mystical work The Journey of the Mind to God.

Seraphim are also mentioned in the Book of Revelation to be forever in God's presence and praising Him constantly: "Day and night they never stop saying: 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.'"

As they were developed in Christian theology, seraphim are beings of pure light and have direct communication with God. They resonate with the fire symbolically attached to both purification and love. The etymology of "seraphim" itself comes from the word saraph. Saraph in all its forms is used to connote a burning, fiery state. Seraphim, as classically depicted, can be identified by their having six wings radiating from the angel's face at the center.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraph