✨ My mother, Martha De La Cruz, gave her whole self to every role—from the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater with Miriam Colón to Bad Boys (1983). Forever proud. Forever remembered. 💜
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When in disgrace… I all alone beweep my outcast state.
This sonnet finds me every time.
Today, I read it — for you.
🎭 Sonnet 29 / Soneto 29
🎙️ William Shakespeare, read by Peter De La Cruz
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This is good 💯
Pope Francis wrote this in the Hospital.
“The walls of hospitals have heard more honest prayers than churches...
They have witnessed far more sincere kisses than those in airports...
It is in hospitals that you see a homophobe being saved by a gay doctor.
A privileged doctor saving the life of a beggar...
In intensive care, you see a Jew taking care of a racist...
A police officer and a prisoner in the same room receiving the same care...
A wealthy patient waiting for a liver transplant, ready to receive the organ from a poor donor...
It is in these moments, when the hospital touches the wounds of people, that different worlds intersect according to a divine design. And in this communion of destinies, we realize that alone, we are nothing.
The absolute truth of people, most of the time, only reveals itself in moments of pain or in the real threat of an irreversible loss.
A hospital is a place where human beings remove their masks and show themselves as they truly are, in their purest essence.
This life will pass quickly, so do not waste it fighting with people.
Do not criticize your body too much.
Do not complain excessively.
Do not lose sleep over bills.
Make sure to hug your loved ones.
Do not worry too much about keeping the house spotless.
Material goods must be earned by each person—do not dedicate yourself to accumulating an inheritance.
You are waiting for too much: Christmas, Friday, next year, when you have money, when love arrives, when everything is perfect...
Listen, perfection does not exist.
A human being cannot attain it because we are simply not made to be fulfilled here.
Here, we are given an opportunity to learn.
So, make the most of this trial of life—and do it now.
Respect yourself, respect others. Walk your own path, and let go of the path others have chosen for you.
Respect: do not comment, do not judge, do not interfere.
Love more, forgive more, embrace more, live more intensely!
And leave the rest in the hands of the Creator.”
—Pope Francis
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God meets you at the level of your expectations. If you expect nothing, you’re going to receive nothing. But when you’re thirsty, you say, “God, I don’t see how, but I know You can do exceedingly, abundantly above all I can ask or think.”
Quit worrying about how everything is going to work out. God has already planned out all of your days. There’s not a problem you have or will ever have that He doesn’t have a solution. He’s the one that’s going to cause you to bloom.
The right attitude is, “God, I believe You’re going to bring me out, but in the meantime, I’m asking You to come into this struggle in my health, come into this loss that I’m going through, come into this depression that’s trying to stop me.”