This document provides preparatory material for participants in the Ninoy & Cory Aquino Leadership Journey program. It invites participants to reflect on their lives, desires, and relationship with God. It encourages quieting the mind, reflecting on a Bible verse, and listening to two songs to gain insights about oneself. The overall message is discovering one's deepest desires comes from knowing God and letting God guide one's life.
2. It is just a few more days before we
undergo the NCA Leadership Journey.
We will be meeting new friends, be with
like-minded people, be sharing moments
with kindred spirits.
We will be meeting our God.
3. Have you prepared yourself?
Have you spent time with yourself?
Have you started reflecting about your life?
Are you ready to look and reflect upon your
life, your life’s work and choices?
How are you?
4. That is why we invite you again to quiet
down, have some time for yourself.
Take away those burdens, those concerns,
those problems.
Put down your masks, your facades, your
badges and emblems.
5. Let the true self surface – the bare
self that is away from all those defenses
and coping mechanisms.
7. Have you been the persona of the song –
lost, tired, burdened, confused?
What image of yourself is formed listening
to the song?
8. 3 Trust in the LORD and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture
4 Take delight in the LORD,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way to the LORD;
trust in him and he will do this:
6 He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn,
your vindication like the noonday sun.
7 Be still before the LORD
and wait patiently for him;
Psalm 37:3-7
9. Reflect/meditate on the Bible verse.
What feelings surface while reflecting on
the verse?
What words/phrases strike you?
What does the verse mean for you?
What does it say to you?
Reflection / Meditation
10. As you look at your heart, as you seek your
core and as you contemplate on your life,
what are your deepest desires?
Why are these your deepest desires?
Have you asked for these? Why? Why not?
11. Have you discussed your deepest
desires with Him?
You may want to talk to Him about it.
12. The Power of Your Love
To end our last preparatory activity, kindly listen
and watch the song after this slide.
Again, try articulating the following:
Feelings and Thoughts
Insights
Images of the self
Message it wants to convey to you
13. It is in knowing our deepest desires
that we find God; and it is in letting
God lead our lives that we find our
deepest desires.
14. However difficult or confusing life
gets, the constant invitation for us is
to see through our experiences as
moments of love.
15. A love that is overflowing. A love that
will always be with us in our journey
– embracing us, filling us from
within, assuring us of its constant
presence.
