A New Chapter

"I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author to correct in a certain edition certain errors of the first." -- Benjamin Franklin

Life is like a book and we are its authors. We create our own stories and make our own plot. There are times when we would want to edit something we have written but we simply can't. For the ink that writes the book of our lives is unchangeable and permanent. An error that has been committed cannot be erased. It is forever written in the leaves of the past.

Yet we can always reread what has happened and learn from our mistakes. And then, rest for a while, as a good writer does, contemplating on the lessons of yesterday, hoping to make a better story tomorrow.

This is a time for new beginnings, new experiences, and new doors. Today, as in any day, when one finally decides to change, is an opportunity to create a bestseller.

Allow me to turn the pages of my life and share them with you. To God, our lives' Publisher, be the glory and honor forever! Only He can help us write a classic. Welcome to the pages of my life.

(Book photo courtesy of Instituto Cervantes in Manila)