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Pat Garcia
Mexico
I'm an ESL teacher, a translator,an artist and a lover of peace, life and beauty. I have been fighting and living with different chronic illnesses since 1999 when I was diagnosed with a pituitary tumor. Words like Cushing's, hypothyroidism then Hashimoto's, metabolic syndrome and recently generalized postictal epilepsy ,pineal calcification and cortical atrophy have been very real to me.......I have won many battles and have lost a few but I do plan to finish the marathon of life in triumph I expect to reach the finish line,already traced for me by God's finger. Philippians 3:13-14 Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
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I drew this after receiving the adenoma diagnosis in 1999

Psalm 19

Psalm 19
Pat Garcia receiving the sunrise. Photo: Victor Alonso Martinez Garcia

The journey.....................................


marathon of life: How did all this begin?

Dioko in greek means to follow or press hard after, to pursue with earnestness and diligence in order to obtain, to go after with the desire of obtaining.

marathon of life: Surviving a brain tumor

As we face many storms faith is like an anchor that keeps us from drifting and casting away in order to continue our journey, sometimes facing frightening waves, sometimes on dry desert land or cold inhospitable weather .

Marathon of life: Finding out about Epylepsy

At least I knew what was attacking my body I knew what was happening yet it was so painful. Thyrotoxic episodes were exacerbating seizures.

In patients with established epilepsy (including generalized epilepsy syndromes), seizures and paroxysmal EEG abnormalities can be exacerbated by hyperthyroidism In other patients, focal or generalized seizures occur only during thyrotoxic episodes. Seizure exacerbations usually remit when patients become euthyroid with treatment.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

On accepting Reality

If you want to make any improvement in your life, you must first accept the way it is now. Don’t try to judge it and make it wrong. Don’t try to glorify it or distort the truth to make it more attractive. Just accept the way things are.
Scott H Young.


When reality confronts our notion of what reality SHOULD be, reality always wins. We don't like this (that is, we have trouble ACCEPTING this), so we either struggle with reality and become upset, or turn away from it and become unconscious. If you find yourself upset or unconscious - or alternating between the two - about something, you might ask yourself, 'What am I not accepting about this?
John Roger


Acceptance of reality as it is requires an act of CHOICE. It is like coming to a fork in the road. You have to turn your mind towards the acceptance road and away form the rejecting reality road.

You have to make and inner COMMITTMENT to accept. The COMMITTMENT to accept does not itself equal acceptance . It just turns you toward the path. But it si the first step.

You have to turn your mind and commit to acceptance OVER AND OVER AND OVER Again. Sometimes, you have to make the committment many times in the space of a few minuites.

B. THE CHALLENGE TO FACE THE REALITY OF OUR LIVES

One thing seems certain, a sensible spirituality must be based on reality ... the facts of life as they really are not as we sometimes pretend them to be. We must accept the truth about life before we can handle it sensibly. Dealing with life demands that we first know what it is, that we recognize both what we are and what the world is like.

As Augustine remarked: my knowledge captures the truth of my situation only when my judgments, my insights about the reality of my world correspond with the facts. (On True Religion, 36.66). Certainly that most perfect form of knowledge, wisdom, cannot rest on an erroneous idea about what the world is truly like, what I am truly like. If I claim to know that I am all-perfect, that indeed I am God, I cannot be called wise. Indeed, I am insane. Like those poor souls who laugh at a world their terrible fever has created, I am not in a happy state, a state which (if we recognized its true character) would cause horror, not ecstasy. The fact of the matter is that (again as Augustine observed):

Such is the overwhelming power of unconquerable truth, that one would rather keep one's wits and cry than lose one's wits and laugh.


17These are a shadow of the things that were to come;

the reality, however, is found in Christ.

Colossians 2:17 (New International Version)



walk on your toes
and look wide-eyed into life
believing there will always be
goodnesses to be experienced
beautiful moments to be captured
faithful friends to be discovered.
at times you will feel
as if you are lost in a dream
but reality has a way of
putting your feet back on the ground
and so you must face it once again
the sometimes cold and cluttered reality
seemingly wrapped in meaningless noise
and empty promises
but in essence reality is warm
it is silent, it is simple
in essence, reality is hope

-imago2007


Monday, October 19, 2009

Hurricane Rick in La Paz

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Saturday, October 17, 2009

A Little Longer

I can´t thank you enough.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

I have found out I need repentance, an act of humility that yields my thoughts and emotions to God´s point of view.
Sometimes without taking notice we are trapped following paths which are not the paths of our God given destiny, then we find we are becoming trapped in thoughts and circumstances that keep us away from a life of plenitude.

Depression took me by surprise

The renewal of our mind starts with repentance, repentance of our selfishness is a good start, repentance for our pessimism, repentance for our withdrawal, repentance for turning the other way.
Repentance to renew our minds in order to see like Him, to think like Him, feel like Him and show His amazing love. The amazing transforming love we have received ourselves.


"God poured out the blood offering through His son Jesus Christ because he loves us. How much more would He not give us?"

Do not be conformed to this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind (Romans 12:2).

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
( 2 Corinthians 10:5)


Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Depression has taken me by surprise again.......... I feel solitude and despair..........tears are trapped inside my eyes.

I have begun fasting to discipline my body, to discipline my thoughts to quest for my Lord´s face and guidance.

The Effects Of Fasting On The Brain

We are a physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual whole. Each realm influences and is dependent upon the others. It is no surprise, then, to realize that an effective program that restores physical health would also have great effects on our emotional, intellectual, and spiritual selves.

People routinely have a spiritual experience, an awakening, a deeper spiritual awareness resulting for several days of fasting.

Our intelligence processes are also enhanced. This should not be surprising, because we know that our brain operates on a chemical level, too. It needs to be properly fed and oxygenated. It must be freed of any toxins that have crossed the blood/brain barrier.

All this has a direct bearing upon how we respond to stimuli with our emotions. We are, after all, a complex whole.

A juice fast lifts the spirit

It is the common experience of those who take a juice fast that their spirits are immediately lifted. They have a clarity of mind, a confidence, brightness and a lightness of spirit that comes when the toxic burden begins to lift. They routinely sleep 'better than they have for years,' awaked refreshed with less time in bed, and have a more optimistic and positive attitude regarding themselves and others. They are much nicer people to 'live with.'

Faith is like a sweet elixir to the melancholy soul.
It is the driving force behind a hope that cannot be explained. It saves lives and heals the sick. It makes us better people, stronger people, closer to the divine. It is the song that the birds sing so gratefully each morning. It brings joy to all who grieve and strength to those who have none. It takes away the sting of poverty, and the loneliness of the wealthy. It does what nothing else is capable of doing, with no logical explanation whatsoever.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Mayweather Returns in Victory: Bad Night for Mexican Boxing

by patgarcia | September 20, 2009 at 08:33 am at NowPublic


Mayweather Returns in Victory


Bad night for Mexican and Mexican descent Boxers at Las Vegas.
Mexican all over the country were practically glued to their TV sets. Expectations were high in favor of our countryman Juan Manuel Marquez who lost without doubt against Floyd Mayweather.

Floyd Mayweather jnr returned from a near two-year ring absence with a punishing 12-round decision over Mexico's Juan Manuel Marquez on Saturday.

Mayweather remained unbeaten, improving to 40-0 with 25 wins inside the distance. Marquez fell to 50-5-1 with the defeat in the non-title welterweight bout.

Mayweather knocked Marquez down in the second round and was never seriously hurt by the game but smaller opponent. Mayweather was awarded the victory by scores of 118-109, 120-107 and 119-108.

Chris John beat Rocky Juarez.



Indonesia's Chris John got a late scare but retained his World Boxing Association featherweight title with a unanimous 12-round decision over American Rocky Juarez.

John was in control of Saturday's fight, despite a swollen left eye, when Juarez connected with a left that had John's knees sagging with less than a minute left in the 12th round.

An unsteady John managed to hold on and emerge with the victory by scores of 114-113, 119-109 and 117-111.

John remained unbeaten with 43 victories, one drawn and 22 knockouts. Juarez fell to 28-5-1 with 20 wins inside the distance

Michael Katsidis presented a great fight!




TOOWOOMBA boxer Michael Katsidis was confident he had escaped a broken jaw after turning in the performance of his career in Las Vegas yesterday.

Katsidis recaptured the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) interim lightweight world title, winning a split points decision against Mexican Vincente Escobedo at the MGM Grand.

While the Toowoomba boxer turned in the best performance of his career, applying constant pressure throughout the fight, the bout came with some controversy as one judge amazingly scored the bout 116-112 in favour of the Mexican.