Other Experiences of an English Language Teacher

  We can be happy. God has a wonderful plan or design for us his children, his sons and daughters.  First he has created us, say, perhaps through evolution, ok. He has called us to life. Even more, he has done so to be his children, as I said before. And he wishes we be happy, in this life, and then after that, in eternal life for ever and ever.  When you recognize and realize he loves you, this is, you are loved by him with tenderness, then you can behold life with confidence. When you also realize you are his son or his daughter, then life changes to better, and you can entertain yourself by talking to and with him.  Prayer is so important for us modern people. I have been to Gibraltar for a lot of times, a lot, and last time I was glad there was a chapel on Main Road with the Host, the Eucharist on the monstrance, for anyone who wants to stop and talk with him. Amazing.  In other words, God has wished we can participate in his supernatural life, beyond anythi...

  I think that the verb trust is transitive, I mean, you may trust someone , right?  And also I think with Jutta Burggraf that who trusts God, eventually can trust people, persons I mean. And that person gives another one like a second chance.  For example a teacher. He or she can have a transcendent view of life, and can trust God. After that he or she will be able to trust their students, although these ones can provoke some distress to that teacher quite often.  And when reprimanding a disruptive kid aside, not in public, that teacher will likely give the kid a second chance: the teacher by no means will toss or disqualify the kid. It’s so because that professional trusts God and subsequently trusts men and women.  He loves God and he loves his students. He believes in men and women. He is not nihilist at all.  I have seen this in education, and you may have some similar experience of things. The true teacher does not throw out anybody – nobody is to be...

  When someone has something good, like a great joy, more often than not that person tends to tell that joy to his or her family, perhaps their friends, colleagues, neighbors, and the like.  Well, you know, we Christians have something so great, which is the Person of Jesus Christ, true God and true man. For example Pope Leo XIV constantly talks about him.  And also I would like to transmit and pass on the experience of treating him, of talking to him, also with him, for he may respond to your queries and questions, and he really does, as he used to do when we could see and hear him two thousand years ago in old Palestine.  It’s something so great I cannot stop saying things about him and what he did for us – he redeemed us from our sins by dying on a cross, and resurrecting after three days. As well he redeemed us through all his life on earth, both some thirty years in his hidden life in Nazareth, while working as a carpenter, plus some three years of public life, ...

  You want to be happy and make others be happy too, perhaps your family?  I’ve lately read and thought a bit more on happiness, and now I’m trying to give you some tips that might hopefully help you.  The first premise, and according to Spanish psychiatrist Marian Rojas Estapé, happiness doesn’t depend on what occurs to you, but the perception you have about what happens to you.  If you try and have a positive view of what occurs in your life, well then you may start to move on happiness road.  Happiness is not what happens to me, but how I interpret those things that happen to me. That’s on page 115 in her book Cómo hacer que te pasen cosas buenas (2018, and there’re quite many editions of that bestseller). It’s up to you. You decide between being happy or … not, and I presume you want to.  I know some people who are just positive about their lives. And those same people might have chosen to interpret life things in a negative and pessimistic way. You de...

  As you have already seen, in this blog I write also about our father God, who has dad and mom’s love to us. To each one of us.  And for me – and many people alike – his existence is almost evident, for we firmly believe in him and talk to him – and with him – at any moment.  It’s so also when you think that he exists, because somebody must have made all this, this wonderful world, and each person. And the universe, which is unfolding itself on NASA’s last discoveries.  Also because we may have seen John Ford’s The Searchers (1956) and there ensues the idea of one God, after each person’s thirst for plenitude and happiness, and family.  When you admit his existence, even more, when you treat him personally, well, then, everything makes sense, and you may feel satisfied. As well life’s pains and sorrows have sense.  Otherwise if we suppress God, as Paul Sartre did, then all ends up without meaning.  Well, faith is a gift. A gift by him, but one every...

  Today I wanted to write on some perspectives on happiness from what I’ve read and thought of lately, and pushed in some way by the pursuing of happiness everyone commits to.  Happiness is something one cannot try to accomplish on its own, but something you encounter when you live with plenitude and in accordance to your nature.  If someone seeks to be happy, that person may not reach it – it’s more something that ensues when you fulfill what you are for, when you live in accordance to what you are.  You know, great Aristotle used to say that you are happy when you acquire virtues, like hard-working, love to others, sincerity and honesty, fortitude, joy, solidarity, generosity, endurance capability, abnegation, professionalism, etcetera. Virtues let you carry out a life that is worth living it. They let you carry out what’s good and that with facility and liberty. You can choose what is upright just because you wish to do it.  Alejandro Llano was a Spanish phil...