tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80770686559082550902024-02-21T18:57:40.272+08:00Thoughts and Sensesconveyed through words, written beyond senses, a rendezvous with love...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-44161549046590009242016-11-01T23:40:00.000+08:002016-11-01T23:43:36.683+08:00The Life I Never Dreamed Of.Life always contains the word 'maybe'.<br />
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The title maybe taken positively or negatively depending on the type of person who will take it in.<br />
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Maybe, it's a life you never dreamed of because it was too good or maybe it is too bad - like the life you never wanted it to be.<br />
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But the thing is life on earth is temporary and so are the things that we desire.<br />
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As for me, I desire to travel in places that will make me feel more alive and amazed, new paths that will make me want to go excited. I want my eyes to see and feel new things. Or maybe, I only desire to be reciprocated. Maybe I want to travel because others do. Or maybe, I just want this because I am afraid to be the last in line when it comes to visiting new places. Maybe I just want my hard work to payoff.<br />
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As for me, I desire to have a perfect wedding. Just like any other girls out there, I desire to be, somehow, be a one-day princess. I want my dream wedding to come true...with these and with that...the plans in my mind. When I watch wedding videos, I seldom not cry. I cry, yes, because of the love vows, or maybe I cry because I was jealous and impatient...Jealous that they had their dream beach or something-interesting-theme wedding come true, jealous that I won't have mine anyway because of my incapacity. I get impatient and sadly embraces in my head the lowered-standard notion of wedding - the usual one, the one I never dreamed.<br />
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As for me, I want my own house and car. But I always got this thought in my head that I won't have it anyway, so why dream of it. Some people are just born with money and inheritances. Some people of my age are daughters/sons of businessmen. They are more fortunate. They can have what I want easily. That some people are born rich. Their parents have stable jobs. Work is not an obligation to them. Some are born properly and they are not breadwinners.<br />
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Surely, you can tell me that there's nothing wrong with I want. But event after acquiring/achieving all that. Now what/ What's the next thing I will chase? What's the next thing I will acquire?<br />
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A never ending cycle of wants.<br />
Satisfaction will be removed from dictionaries.<br />
It will be obsolete, as though it never existed...never will.<br />
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I am 23 years of age. Am I normal to be thinking these??<br />
Or maybe I am just overthinking.<br />
Overthinking of things I cannot and won't be able to handle myself.<br />
Or maybe I am just tired of giving.<br />
Giving and giving and just giving?<br />
Maybe I just get too focused on these things, things that won't last forever.<br />
Maybe, it's destined to be not handled all by myself.<br />
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Maybe this is my fate.<br />
Yes, it is the life I never dreamed of.<br />
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Same with Joseph, the Dreamer.<br />
Almost killed by his own brothers and sold to be a slave.<br />
Lived in the dark dungeon for so long and yet still cursing his God<br />
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And so was Jesus' life.<br />
He never intended to die for sinners like you and me.<br />
But He let the things handled by His Father.<br />
He let His creator's will prevail.<br />
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Maybe it's the life I never dreamed of.<br />
Since life on earth is just nothing compared to eternity, I'd rather rest.<br />
I'd rather not fret and be consumed worrying of the things I cannot handle.<br />
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Maybe I just stop driving my own life and give to the one who really have the key, the speed and the fuel.<br />
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Tonight I cried for the things I never dreamed of.<br />
I cried for the things I cannot possibly reached alone.<br />
I will stop comparing myself to others.<br />
I will stop thinking that my story is the same as others.<br />
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This moment, I will learn to embrace the life I never dreamed of but is the life God always wanted.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-30431876501272714832016-08-09T09:44:00.001+08:002016-08-09T09:44:52.285+08:00Dream<div class="post_content" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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I had a dream of travelling in a place I want to be.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />But I don’t know the place.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />I don’t know how I got there.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />Everywhere I look there is light.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />There is joy.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />Then I heard a sound from the sea, like the sound of waves in the shore.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />It is peace.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />The birds singing as the leaves dance - making a great harmony.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />Hope.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />Then the light became darkness.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />The sky dimmed and slowly I see.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />One by one by one by one.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />Myriad are those twinkling light.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />They outnumbered my every nerve and the sand I was stepping on.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />I see bluish black going purple painting with live lights on it.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />It flashes.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />It shines.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />I fell in love.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />I forgot that I am but a wisher.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />I forgot who I was like.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />The burdens I was carrying fell as I looked up.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />The tears I had was wiped away.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />The pain I had is gone<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />The sorrow has ended.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />As I fly.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />As I soar.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />The wind whispered.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />It cannot be heard by the ear.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />I heard it through the heart.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />A great someone not giving up on me.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />I am alive because He lives in me.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />He welcomes me.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />Well done.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />Good<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />and<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />faithful<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />servant.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />Finally.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;" />I got home.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-49015125756602650592016-08-08T17:56:00.000+08:002016-08-09T09:39:43.477+08:007 Attributes a Breadwinner can relate to...<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. Priority-driven</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The last person on your list is always yourself. You just can't save for yourself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2. Generous</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You have the heart of giving. You developed it through the years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3. Selfless</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You cannot just be yourself and buy all you want and travel all you want, you sacrifice personal pleasure for the family's future.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">4. Considerate</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You cant just 'yes' to your friends.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You really want to join them during weekends but you have bills and tuition to pay after payday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">5. Sweet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You're ready to give your little sister her wished shoes thru your savings but you'll wait for your shoes to be worn out before you buy yours.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">6. Business-minded</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You think and try things that can make extra income or you work hard for faster promotion or you always think of going overseas to earn some more.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">7. Anxious</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You feel like you just can't get married unless your partner-to-be will adjust.</span><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-80680230110769455402015-10-08T00:52:00.002+08:002015-10-08T00:55:31.333+08:00Some days.Someday I will travel.<br />
Go to a place where I can be lost.<br />
Hide in the vast of big trees,<br />
Or sleep hearing the lullabies of the sea<br />
Then watch the sky as the sunlight burst.<br />
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I wanna be drenched in the summer rain<br />
Or get cold while playing with Mr. Snow.<br />
Then, I will be dried, warmed...gazing on a fireplace.<br />
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I wanna drive and see visibly the roads to the horizon or the mountain with the sun at its back or the trees aligned by my side...with the withered leaves floating, flying as the wind whispers.<br />
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I wann be at the peak of a high mountain, look down, trace my way up.<br />
Then look quite upward and feel the clouds.<br />
I wanna be deep down the oceans to witness if corals dance and if fishes ever sleep.<br />
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Then I will go for a free fall activity, I will keep my eyes open as I fall. I will kiss the air and shout without voice.<br />
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I wanna spread my arms wide open as I lie on the fine white sand one night.<br />
Then I will connect all the starry dots my eyes can reach.<br />
I will form the first letter of my name, I will draw hearts and some polygons.<br />
I will form a smile.<br />
I will create a house.<br />
A home.<br />
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Someday I will travel.<br />
Someday I will be home.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-46121470353987838812015-06-13T13:08:00.001+08:002015-06-13T13:08:32.668+08:00An Ode to Oneself<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am a traveler.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I go to places where
my mind can have peace.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I got to places
where my heart stops beating and never beats again the same way.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I wanna go to places
where there no negativity.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">No drivers who were
impatient and shouting.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">No little kids on
street sides that were abandoned.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">No family under the
bridge who shares in a cup of rice.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am a photographer.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am aspiring to be
one.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I capture the smiles
of the people around me.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I want the happiness
to be visible and stay for a long time.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But it doesn't.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I end up taking
photo of a lonely person in cafeteria.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I end up focusing on
the pregnant woman holding a lit cigarette.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I end up seeing the
disposable things floating crammed in the wide river.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am a time-saver.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am not a
timekeeper.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yes, I do not waste
time dealing with the regretful notions.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yet, i do not save
time for the important things.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I spent time on the
temporary things.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here now, gone
later.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Joy for a minute,
tears for a whole day.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am not able to
enjoy the sunlight</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I wake up
complaining about the heat.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I find birds
chirping a noise and the warm wind disgusting.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am a money-keeper.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I keep them and say
I am generous.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I'd like to see
others above me.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yet, I feel jealous.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Rich have all they
need and have all they want.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But doesn't care
about the shelter-less.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am not GOD.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am not perfect.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I do not hold the
world in my hand.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The worlds is
neither containing me alone.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I can't control
myself though I have a choice.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I can't control the
scenes around me either.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I can't have long
lasting peace.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I do not have a
forever love.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Selah.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">JESUS.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He is the love, the
only truth that lives.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He is peace Himself.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And He wants to walk
with me.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He holds my hands
and guide me.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He cheers me while I
am running the race and keeps from stumbling.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">When I fell, He
offered His hands.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I noticed a hole.
And blood came running down His face.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Tears filled my
eyes, a nail and hammer dropped from my hands.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">No, I am not a
murderer.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I've just forgotten
my first love, my passion, the One who loves me the most.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Scales fell from my
eyes which blinded me.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Now I see the light.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The people have no
more tears, they are clothed in white.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There's a pure river
of joy by the cross bridge.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Little children sing
with the birds under the canopy of the wide-branched trees.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There is an anchor
of faith and anchor of hope.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There is LOVE.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Now, I live to see
to Jesus.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And His life
influencing.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am not a
traveler.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Not a photographer,
nor a timekeeper.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I live to be like
Jesus.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am to be Him to
others.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-65682001217593104952015-04-10T22:41:00.000+08:002015-04-10T22:49:15.261+08:00The Whisper<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A
moment please. Hear the sound...</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“You'll
know it when you're there...” that's what most people say when it
comes to love. Yes it's true. But I'd like to add something to that
phrase.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It
was one normal evening where nothing goes planned. I was happy in
deed to be just hanging out with a brother in faith. We're doing the
same thing again, reviewing the past, laughing at the moment and
hoping for the future... Ooops! This is not selfish. We talk about
life, yes. We talk about the Christian life, the new life and its
struggles. We talk about life of other person...the life of Daniel,
life of Moses and Paul and other mighty men in the past.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It
was one normal evening where nothing goes planned. I was blessed in
deed to be just hanging out with a friend in Christ who doesn't know
how I am enjoying my time with HIM and with him. We talked about music, songwriting...about talents and worship. I was talking and
chatting and at the same time thanking. I am thanking God for his
generosity allowing me to have a quality time with this person.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Little
did he know (wherein GOD greatly knew beforehand) that I was praying... pleading
for God to keep my mouth shut, to say NEVER of the things which
shouldn't.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The
whisper said to me, “This is the time. Never withhold what you wanted to say...”</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I
struggled a lot. I till keep my mouth shut.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Voiceless,
my heart is screaming out.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I
was faking my laugh, my act... coz I am so scared, nervous, confused and overwhelmed.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I
don't plan it now, never want it now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh not now. Maybe tomorrow or next week or in the next few months I guess.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But
the Whisper said so. Look at the heart. Look at the heart. Look at
the heart.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I
was reminded of how God anointed David to be a king. <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2016:7" target="_blank">1 Samuel 16:7</a>
echoed and echoed and echoed.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My
heart stopped. The words came out.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I
was so relieved that I finally said it.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I
would never regret that I obeyed the Whisper.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just
a moment please.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Teary-eyed,
I heard him say “I love you too...”</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Love? You'll
know it when you get there... You'll hear a command from up above, something like an undeniable Whisper...</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="http://www.hj-story.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpQkbuWlPv7475aIMeSW_636qM8hIXSXIUADzPFmf76VRUUicR7ciheVbeA0ac3m4LK6jh_Apci0eNs62wsWzElrzRudz7suZssB89Tv5543upG0VkTtQBy5Xx3Mjqj2PwQgmV3wVegnQ/s1600/c076601e54cc72d7bd59e3cc262aa548.jpg" height="640" width="476" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://www.hj-story.com/" target="_blank">Love is indeed the greatest gift.</a></i></span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-11722616959256823672015-03-17T23:12:00.001+08:002015-03-17T23:13:40.073+08:00Prisoner of Hope<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 100%;">Just thought of
this command before sleeping—DON'T QUIT.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Many people around
the world spent almost half of their lives working, certainly, to
earn for a living. And some people...more than half of their only one
life. The usual routine goes like this: Waking up, sleepy bath,
breakfast (I guess some may not have this), work.. work.. lunch..
work.. work.. log out, traffiiiiiiiiiiiiicc (Philippines only),
dinner, few FB checks then sleep.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A life cycle but
with no growth.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Many other people
who spent almost half of their lives working don't have joy. They
keep complaining to the work load, work environment, the bosses. They
are never satisfied. They always feel uncompensated.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I was a fresh grad,
recently grateful having a job and proud to be called an employee.
But until when will the enthusiasm lasts? Someone asked me that. Will
I still be thankful if I have this repetitive responsibility in the
company? Will I still smile to my lead when they ask me favors?</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Myself wondered
then myself wandered.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Then I remembered
my vision. I remembered my dream. It is not to be wealthy and empty
but to be in the journey of success—a continuous walk of joyful,
peaceful and full life. And in that walk I may stumble and stumble
and stumble or worse fall. But what is worse than staying down? The
worst thing is giving up.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I say to myself:
QUIT.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Quit doubting.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Quit complaining.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Quit the comforting
zone.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Quit thinking
negative things.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then this thought
sprang: DON'T QUIT.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Don't quit enjoying.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Don't quit
balancing.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Don't quit learning.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Don't quit growing.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then God said: DON'T
EVER QUIT.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Don't ever quit
praying.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Don't ever quit
loving.<span id="goog_501527375"></span><span id="goog_501527376"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Don't ever quit
believing.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Don't ever quit
waiting.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Don't ever quit
hoping (for the best to happen.)</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">
...we have this hope. If we see what we are waiting for, that is not
really hope. People do not hope for something they already have.<span style="font-size: 9pt;"><b> </b></span>But
we are hoping for something we do not have yet, and we are waiting
for it patiently. (</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8%3A24-25&version=NCV" target="_blank">Romans 8:24-25</a> NCV)</span></h3>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-10008139565355898382015-01-05T16:31:00.001+08:002015-01-05T16:50:05.441+08:00Welcoming 2015! (Part Two)<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 100%;">2014
is over. It's now the 5</span><sup style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 100%;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 100%;"> day of 2015. This I say to
myself: Only three things last forever—faith, hope and love. But
the greatest of this is love.</span><br />
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Let
us go to the second part of my extravagant 2014 for the glory of GOD.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
would be really unfair for this but I don't care. I compressed may
things in the first part of the blog but this blog will also be
compressed for just one person who filled my 2014 with happiness.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Happiness
in sight..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Happiness
in thought...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Happiness
in deed...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Sorry
but I would be selfish if I don't share this happiness! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
really really really treasure my year 2014 and he is part of this
treasure. GOD is so gracious that HE allowed me to be friends with
this person I used to call my “bespren”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">When
I met him, I have observed this: he is a serious, mysterious,
suplado-yet-cutie, not-that-approachable type of guy way back some
dates in the last quarter of 2011 at a gathering at the church (at
one of those discipleship training class). Well, he i not that
“pansining-pogi” type of guy but what was notable to him was his
stillness, his quietness, his numbered smiles (and not really
laughs). He was with the bunch of guys who's just starting their
faith that time. He was noticeably different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">And
the time goes by...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">April
2012 we joined a retreat together with some of our church mates and
we are not close. I hate his seriousness though! Yet through that
retreat, I became friends with him I guess because I get to know him
(and others too.) During those time, honestly I had a secret school
boyfriend (whom my siblings and my best friend knew) and a secret
crush on his cousin so he is far away from my sight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">During
the days of April and May, he and I, together with the new formed
band, have been together. Since we are all “tambay” those days
because it's vacation, I saw his excellency in playing and leading a
guitar.</span></div>
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“<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">That's
normal,” this thought is what I played through my mind. Well it's
not unique that some guy plays the guitar so well. It's normal. What
is not normal is the way he speaks. I don't if its because of his
mysteriousness but I'm slowly getting this: He is deep. I am not
observing him no, well in fact i try to observe the people around me.
And he tries to observe to. So what's different between what we are
doing? We both observe people but I learned that he observes the
people around him and act according to his observation. I just
observe to observe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">After
the concert, after so many days that has passed and so may coffees we
had shared together with the band members, I can say that he is wise.
He has something out of the context that is significant that will
somehow make you think. One thing is for sure. He is deep... Deeper
than what i am expecting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Date
Noted: 25<sup>th</sup> of December 2012, he helped me choose my first
guitar which I named “Algum.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">So
I continue with my life, as I get closer to GOD I realized me, my
life, my wrong... I forget some past and look ahead to what GOD is
calling me to be. In short, I realize the word “living”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Since
2011, I can say he is my friend. 2013? He is one of those I am
looking up to, in terms of discipline and knowledge. (Oooops! I may
blow your heads up when you read this but I had a crush on you since
2013) Well, to my senses it's not going somewhere. I am just a girl
with no significant talent, shallow-thinker and used to laugh out
loud. We are not “thing”! (In tagalog please.)</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Date
Noted: </b><b>14</b><sup><b>th</b></sup><b> of February 2013</b><b>
he </b><b>messaged me this around 3pm in the afternoon: </b><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><b>“</b></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><i><b>Mermaid
ka ba? :)”</b></i></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">It
is not going somewhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hello
admiration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hello
crush!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">We've
been phone messaging in the last two quarters of 2013 but not that
often. We addressed each other as 'bespren” and at some point in
time he addressedme as “sis.” I find it weird, awkward..but I did
wonder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Date
Noted: 17</b></span><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>th</b></span></sup><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>
of December 2013 he texted me this: “</b></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><i><b>Goodmorning
sis. namimi2ss kita, bat ganun, hehe, sabihin mo sakin pag may lod ka
pa, maglod din ako...” </b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Then
we find ourselves talking about gifts for each other asking me this:
</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i><b>“</b>A</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><i><b>no
nga?! KJ mo ba! hehe. eh anong gusto mo? ida2te kita? Hehe.”</b></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I
was speechless but I killed the feeling.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>January
3, 2014—the day where things became clearer. The day I will always thank GOD for. The day I knew </b></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i><b>I was beautiful... Beautifully shining in his eyes... </b></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>"<!--3--><!--3--><!--3--></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 100%;">2011
is over </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 100%;">but it is worth reminiscing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 100%;">2013 is over </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 100%;">and it's not a treasure that to be hidden but to thank GOD for.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 100%;">2014 is not over. In my heart, as GOD permits, it will be forever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 100%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 100%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 100%;">It's now the 5</span><sup style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 100%;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 100%;"> day of 2015. This I say to
myself: I will always trust, always hope, always persevere...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 100%;"><br /></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-21677256044057846682015-01-05T12:05:00.001+08:002015-01-05T16:35:26.545+08:00Treasuring 2014 (Part One)<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 100%;">2014
is over. It's now the 5</span><sup style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 100%;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 100%;"> day of 2015. This I say to
myself: You always trust, always hope, always persevere...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
really don't know how to thank GOD for my year 2014 (the reason why
this blogpost is quite late). I can't understand why HE is good, so
faithful to me (which, I know, is not for me to comprehend). I just
don't understand HIS plans nor can I grasp HIS thoughts...well surely
I can't. HE is so so so great!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">You
may ask me why. And you may also not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">It
is up to you then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The
first quarter of my 2014 is indeed challenging. I was in my fifth
year the College of Engineering then. In short, I am one of those
students classified as “graduating” yet my thesis project is not
yet defended, not yet done, not yet even working. To be honest? I
cried some tears because of this. At some points, I gave up, wanted
to start it all over again and change the whole project. At some
points, I accepted that I wont be finishing it on time and I will not
march with my classmates. But all throughout I prayed for it. I pray
for it as the sun rises, as I close my eyes to sleep, as the I work
on it with the team. In this times, I am holding to Genesis 28:15. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">11<sup>th</sup>
of April, I marched with my mom on my side...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
was a five-year DOST Scholar...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">And
for the glory of GOD, I was a Cum Laude.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The
next five months of that first quarter is really breathtaking for me.
I decided to take the September Licensure Exam and I was
environment-forced to take a five-month review. As September draws
near, my heart pounds louder and louder. The five months did not took
all the topics to be learned and that added to my nervousness. The
result of former ECE Board Exam with low passing percentage, the new
board members, the result of the dry run exam, the pressures from my
parents, friends, university andthe pressure from being a scholar, a
cum laude... These things drag me down to my senses that I cannot do
it. I can't make it.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
can't make it alone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">During
these months also, I came to know GOD deeper. I attended this ECE
Connect Fellowship wherein I did grow my trust in GOD. I am reminded
that my worth in GOD is far more than my achievements and what I can
be. I am reminded not to worry and HIS plans is definitely higher and
better than mine. I was indeed humbled yet empowered with increasing
faith in HIM.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">And
the two-day exam came. And I like to detail it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">First
Subject: MATH. It didn't go well for me. Five hours was allotted for
the subject but I didn't even finish reading and solving all the 100
questions. Many of my shaded answers are not smart guess but guess
with faith.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Second
Subject: ELECTRONICS. Major for four hours. During reviews we focused
on problem-solving and diagrams and circuits. The exam? More of
terms, principle and few diagrams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The
night came and it was the first day. The night came and as I talk to
one of my encouragers that moment, some tears and some more tears
fall. It's like I don't wanna take the last two subjects the next
day. But as he said, the battle is not yet finish. With GOD and my
trust in HIM, pass or fail, I will be victorious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">That
sleepless night passed and surely the morning came, I am expectant. I
was hoping of hope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Third
Subject: GEAS (General Engineering and Applied Sciences). This
subject comprises of economy, management, chemistry, physics, laws
and ethics, mechanics and other non-major topics. I was surprised.
This was the most difficult subject ever. I was stunned, speechless,
teary (again) after five hours. I accepted the fact and it is alright
if would retake the board exam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Fourth
Subject: EST. Communications. My hope revived! Though I was not sure
of my answers, but I have the feeling that my answers were correct.
While taking the exam, I am being reminded of the books I have read
which somehow helped me feel alive again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The
three days after the exam were the longer days for me ever. Sleepless
hoping, mindful praying, speechless kneeling, in emptiness staring. I
feel numb when people ask me “kamusta?” I feel like crying when
someone greet me as “Engineer.” I feel like disappearing when in
house a precelebration party was held.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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“<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">They
do not know what they are doing...” I said to myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">At
about 9PM on October 3, 2014, I knew that the exam result will be
released. I shut off my laptop and just listen to the noise around
the house. I was really really nervous. My phone is ringing and I
didn't take it until her 7<sup>th</sup> try I think. I don't know if
she will greet me or else comfort me. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
passed. I am now a Licensed Engineer. I know that GOD made some
adjustments for me to make it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">During
those five months, was June. My birth month. And one of the dearest
greetings I've receive is a call from a man from Canada—my almost
21-year lost biological father.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Until
now I am still amazed with how GOD worked and still at work in my
life. The last time I remember praying to see my biological father
was during grade school days when my seatmates ask me about him.
Fifth of February when I confirmed HE is my father. We see each other
face to face on skype. How did I know he is the one? I saw my sister
too which looks a lot like me. And that awkward blithe feeling came
to me knowing that I have my other half. Well, we're just like
fraternal twins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">It's
the month of march when we met each other personally. I also had a
chance to meet my relatives on his side. They welcome me warmly. My
cousins are purely Chinese, speaks Chinese, look very Chinese. I was
very thankful to GOD that HE let me experience things not normally
experienced by many. I feel like I was a protagonist in a movie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Up
to this day, I have so many more things to be thankful about—for
the families I have, for my mom, for the Church I've been attending
to, for the ministry entrusted to me and for the people who is always
for me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Above
all the things I've thankful for is my family. I feel like I became
to them this year. I don't know how did it start because I'm not that
clingy and “malambing” daughter ever. Well, I did not change but
since I got to spend more time with them, I became vocal to them.
Eventually, they treated me the same (I hope this feeling is true).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
am the only girl among the siblings—I was their princess. My mom is
the queen. My brothers are the princes and also my knights (though I
am the eldest). They have the greatest expectation of me yet the
proudest individuals for me. They didn't care about my achievements
nor my weirdest happiness. They just love being with me (sana) and I
hope they are not in regret of having me in their circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
wanna thank GOD my mom for being so understanding and patient who
didn't scold me even once whenever I arrive home at almost midnight.
I thank GOD for making her my mom who tolerates me of my crazy
hobbies. I thank GOD for making her so gentle that sometimes it's
like I am raising my voice to her. I thank her for her never-ending,
never-tiring arranging and cleaning my seemingly-snake-den room. She
is not just a part of my 2014, she was and will be my number one fan!
And I will be hers too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
also praise GOD for this wonderful friend HE has given me—my twin
sister (from another womb) in Christ. Her name is Jimell Andrea, born
six days before I was. My nursery classmate (which I realized after
several years because of an old class picture), my grade school days
buddy (na lagi kong inaasar because of her modesty) and my best
friend who loves CHRIST and HIS Church and its people (who I know
that for some time prayed for me to know HIM too). I thank GOD for
making her who she is. I thank GOD for her even though she still does
not know how to ride a bike. I thank GOD for making her thoughtful
and caring and sweet. And I am given a chance to be someone else? I
would choose to be like her.</span></div>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
may not detail all the blessings I do have right now, but one thing
is for sure: IT IS ALL FROM GOD. IT IS ALL FOR HIM. IT IS ALL ABOUT
HIM.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">HE
had made me wait for five years for me to graduate...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Five months and three long days for me to be licensed...</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Almost 21 years to be with my biological father...</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
didn't plan for any of this waiting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
am now learning.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">For
year 2015, I do have plans but I am praying for HIS will be done. HE
has so much better for me and for the rest of us too (Hebrews
11:40).</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">And
I am now ready (again) to face my mountain.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
am ready to witness how the Red Sea will depart.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
am ready to move forward before my Jordan River.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
will walk in the path GOD is making.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
will run to the prize HE is offering.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">How
about you? Will you join me in my journey? :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="SpellingError SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Oooh</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. I looked at myself. I see me chained. Locked. </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">Imprisoned.</span><span class="EOP SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCX158023981" paraeid="{9e447a8c-0d77-419b-8738-c13087f9db99}{72}" paraid="717654038" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-size: 6pt; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" xml:lang="EN-US">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">By lies. Discouragements. Faithlessness.</span><span class="EOP SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCX158023981" paraeid="{9e447a8c-0d77-419b-8738-c13087f9db99}{144}" paraid="1970639817" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-size: 6pt; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" xml:lang="EN-US">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">By fear... </span><span class="EOP SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCX158023981" paraeid="{1ce17ede-9063-4936-b290-9fae40d241f0}{227}" paraid="571645063" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-size: 6pt; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" xml:lang="EN-US">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">And I heard GOD whispered. DO NOT FEAR. BE STRONG. BE COURAGEOUS. I AM WITH YOU. I'VE BRING YOU THIS FAR NOT JUST TO DROP YOU OFF. STOP QUESTIONING. START TRUSTING.</span><span class="EOP SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCX158023981" paraeid="{1ce17ede-9063-4936-b290-9fae40d241f0}{230}" paraid="905072704" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-size: 6pt; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" xml:lang="EN-US">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="SpellingError SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Woah</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">! HE is definitely right.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCX158023981" paraeid="{8a5fd0d7-d870-44f7-b904-80e5f2dd6b2d}{158}" paraid="1745945151" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-size: 6pt; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" xml:lang="EN-US">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">STOP QUESTIONING.</span><span class="EOP SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCX158023981" paraeid="{8a5fd0d7-d870-44f7-b904-80e5f2dd6b2d}{164}" paraid="788576014" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-size: 6pt; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" xml:lang="EN-US">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">START TRUSTING.</span><span class="EOP SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCX158023981" paraeid="{8a5fd0d7-d870-44f7-b904-80e5f2dd6b2d}{172}" paraid="143638902" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-size: 6pt; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" xml:lang="EN-US">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">I deserve the best and will wait for it and will p</span><span class="TextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">ray</span><span class="TextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> for it and will work for it. I deserve the best not because of my achievements but because I am HIS daughter. I am one of</span><span class="TextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> GOD's radical daughter. I am a warrior and daily fight over the enemy's lies. I will take HIS word as my sword, HIS promises my shield.</span><span class="EOP SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCX158023981" paraeid="{07edeaa5-c6a6-4a40-911b-79976f9ebbdc}{245}" paraid="1176874942" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-size: 6pt; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" xml:lang="EN-US">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">And to those people hoping, expecting... pressuring and stressing me out. SORRY. I will not please you. </span><span class="EOP SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCX158023981" paraeid="{3144cb70-b100-48b4-9ebc-134afa966854}{219}" paraid="2022699808" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-size: 6pt; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" xml:lang="EN-US">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">I may not divide myself into three or more, but I will not give up my family and my ministry.</span><span class="EOP SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCX158023981" paraeid="{d4e6aae1-9c66-4699-8802-e0f7825d0149}{117}" paraid="1698319790" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-size: 6pt; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" xml:lang="EN-US">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">I am not after worldly riches. I am not after a life of pleasure.</span><span class="EOP SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">I am after WHO IS, WHO </span><span class="TextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">WAS and WHO IS TO COME.</span><span class="EOP SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCX158023981" paraeid="{3144cb70-b100-48b4-9ebc-134afa966854}{16}" paraid="467230716" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-size: 6pt; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" xml:lang="EN-US">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">I am after the full life HE is offering.</span><span class="EOP SCX158023981" style="-webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-51848733803379650452014-11-26T12:33:00.000+08:002014-11-26T12:51:24.461+08:00The Routine <div class="Publishwithline" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Choices. Trials. Happiness. Lie. Love. Fear. Patience. Disappointments. Faith. Distrust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Does life suck? No. Is life a cycle? Definitely, inevitably…
YES.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don’t know about you but I did grow up learning that life
is a “cycle” yet many times I do forget it. I do forget it when I am happy. I
do forget it when I am sad. I don’t remember it when I am trusting and waiting and
believing or when I am discouraged, disappointed or worst when I am a failure.
And I’m not certain that I could remember it later after I wrote this, or tomorrow
when I wake up.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love the way the wise teacher states this in Ecclesiastes
7:14 CEV,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">When
times are good,</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 5pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;"> </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"></span><span class="text"><span style="background: white;">you should be cheerful; </span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">when times are bad,</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 5pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;"> </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"></span><span class="text"><span style="background: white;">think what it means.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">God makes them both</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">to keep us from knowing</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 5pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;"> </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"></span><span class="text"><span style="background: white;">what will happen next.</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You see. Life, contrary to the norms, is NOT full of
surprises. The fact that we know that life is uncertain should make us not to
be startled with what tomorrow will bring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Honestly, right now. I feel tired. Though I don’t do
anything, I am not into studies nor in a workplace, yet I feel exhausted…exhausted
not of living nor breathing but on my life’s routine. Well, the routine I’m
pertaining to is not the physical everyday to-do-things but of the real life
itself. Yesterday was good, a while ago didn’t go my way. Now I am on a small room
in front of a four-cornered 15.6” screen, pretending to understand life and how
it goes, digging deeper where thoughts and words could meet. And this activity can happen again maybe tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the day after two tomorrows. I will never know. Amazing, isn't it?! And the same goes with life. Struggles after struggles. Giants after giants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You may think I’m crazy. And your thoughts are REALLY none
of my business. I just want to express what’s inside of me right now (since I misplaced
my scratch-like green journal). I would also like to know if I am normal (that is when someone can relate to these writings). I have no one to talk but GOD and myself. HE
knows me and my thought and my tomorrow. Maybe now I am down yet HE holds me
firmly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Maybe now I am down but this I have felt before…many times.
And many more times, I am lifted, happy, victorious. Well, this feeling should
never surprise me. It will eventually passed. I just have to remind myself. Things may not go the way I want
it but I believe it’s going the way GOD wants it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>HIS plans cannot be thwarted. HIS intentions
cannot be shaken (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+33%3A11&version=NLT" target="_blank">Psalm 33:11</a>). So should I.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My life is a wheel, not of fortunes, but of GOD’s great
love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Trials produces a more stable faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Loneliness is to prove that in GOD is the fullness of joy,
overflowing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unless my life is all about me, then it’s all up to me.
Since my life is all about HIM, then it’s all up to HIM.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Life sucks and can take you by surprise bringing you disappointments.
It is a wearisome routine, a never-ending cycle, a continuous ups and downs.
This is life not acknowledging GOD and HIS power and HIS sovereignty and HIS
great love for mankind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But life with GOD? Try it. And you’ll be drowned, not with
the raging flood of fear, bitterness, inequity and condemnation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You will be drowned in HIS calm ocean of love, peace, joy,
serenity, blessings, a never-ending grace and mercy.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">HE makes me glad. HE is singing over me every moment I am down. HE loves to sing over you too. (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zephaniah+3%3A17" target="_blank">Zephaniah 3:17</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Comparison. Girls? We don’t like
that word. I guess the gals too. More often than not, we people who live in
this fallen world, compare ourselves to other regarding our skills, talent,
personality, gadgets and every other stuff that can be compared of. Hence, it’s
either we become jealous, discouraged, inferior or we can become boastful,
superior. There could be unstoppable desiring of the things we don’t have and
when we can’t have it, we become disappointed, depressed, discontented.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Comparing? Inevitable it is. And so
were the consequences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The good thing is that we can
still compare in a better way thereby producing better results. How we are
supposed to that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Reading <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exodus+3%3A+1-6&version=NIV" target="_blank">Exodus 3</a>, the burning
bush experience of Moses, we can see that HE is just STARTing to know GOD. When
GOD called him, HE is so afraid that he hid his face from HIM. The after-verses
depicts Moses as a what-if-man, dispirited and pessimistic. He says he can’t speak,
neither become the lead. Yet after 30 chapters of the Book of Exodus, in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exodus+33%3A17-21&version=NIV" target="_blank">chapter 33</a>, HE is the
exact opposite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What did he do? Nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What did GOD do? Everything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You see, as we encounter our
Creator, we’d be different. He introduces HIMSELF to us as we continue our walk
with HIM. The 40-year journey of Israelite to the Promised Land revealed GOD’s
character unto HIS people. The journey draw Moses to be closer to HIM each day
as HE ask for guidance and listen to HIS commands. It is the same with ours
today. If we just continue our journey with GOD, we will eventually get to know
GOD. If we just draw to HIM closer each day, our desires are changed. HE
becomes our satisfaction. Our desire becomes HIS glory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So let us go on comparing—comparing
our present selves to yesterday’s. Are there any character improvements? What
are we desiring yesterday? How about today?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If we diligently seek HIM every
moment, a time will definitely come when we’ll hear HIM that HE’s pleased with
us and HE’s willing to give anything we could asked HIM. Amazingly, we will not
request for beauty, fame, riches nor our present situation be changed. We will
ask for HIM.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We will be like a child pleading
for his father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We will request this one thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We will utter this words upon
HIM.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Show me YOU.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Just a glimpse of YOU, please?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I wanna see YOU, dwell in YOU all
the days of my life and just worship YOU and be with YOU forever.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These are the amazing phrases GOD
would love to hear and HE loves to grant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And HE is really most pleased
when we are most satisfied in HIM as <a href="http://www.desiringgod.org/authors/john-piper" target="_blank">John Piper</a> quoted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">HIS presence would be enough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">HIS promises would be enough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">HIS love would always be enough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fullness. It is in HIM. It is
HIM. It is drawing closer each day to our Father who ultimately cares for us
and is crazy in love with us. It is in JESUS who came for us to have a full
life. It is in Spirit who leads us and changes us from glory to glory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">GOD wants your heart not your
performance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He wants you more than your achievements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">HE’s hurt when you are hurting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">HE cares when you are aching.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You just have to run to HIM. HE
will welcome you with HIS arms wide open.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">HE is offering HIS embrace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">HE sees you as you are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-25204468792350374002014-10-14T21:39:00.003+08:002014-10-14T21:39:49.700+08:00Some Ecclesiastic View<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Happiness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Contentment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fame.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Good works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Interconnected as they seem, yet
patterned with view of the world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Many people <i>(I myself is not exempted)</i> chase happiness. Who does want to be
sad, right? Most of the time, people of this world live merely just for their
happiness. Students go into schools and universities to earn a degree to have a
job. Then after sometime, they work 8 hours a day plus extra hours (and extra
hours) to get a big salary. Others work to impress other people, especially
their superiors to be promoted to higher position with a higher salary. THERE’S
NOTHING WRONG WITH THOSE. Yet, there will be no end for the longing. People are
always wanting for more. No contentment. No lasting happiness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When you read the Book of
<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1-12&version=NIV" target="_blank">Ecclesiastes</a>, you’ll find there King Solomon’s descriptive word for everything—meaningless.
He is a king who’s so wise and experienced everything: wealth, fame, people, everything.
He even tried the bad side of life: wine, mistress and madness. Yet after all
these, he said that everything was meaningless. Our fame, wealth, achievements
and everything else are meaningless. Am I making a point here? Well, those
things were temporary. Those things give us happiness but just for a short
period of time. Our deeds? Those too won’t be remembered a hundred of years
from now (maybe if you’re in the historical line of someone famous like kings,
prince and princesses or really did an astonishing act in your time… that would
have a chance to be remembered). But for ordinary man living on earth? I think
it’s a no.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just imagine a rope infinitely
long. You cannot see it ends and you are holding the other tip. Three inches
from that tip is your life here on earth, and from the 3-inch end boundary up
to the infinity is the afterlife, where will you focus? Most of the people were
too preoccupied with that three-inch part not thinking of the infinite part to
come. Right? You see, I’m not that old to say these things. Yet, what I want to
do, I cannot do, just like apostle <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+7%3A7-25&version=NIV" target="_blank">Paul</a>. The world unconsciously drags me away from these truth. The world
load me with worries and doubts and fears instead of trust and faith and love
for the Creator. The world gets my time. I do things on my way, not even
thinking God who has breathed life to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ponder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Why would people are so consumed with
things of the world that are fleeting when there’s a life that is eternal? Nothing
is bad in having the things we want: fashion, travel, gadgets and many more. Nothing
is wrong about getting rich. Nothing is wrong in eating, drinking and partying.
Nothing is wrong if there’s no GOD who will judge us in the end as the wise
teacher includes in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+11%3A9&version=NIV" target="_blank">Ecclesiastes 11:9</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your fame, wealth, achievements,
everything will soon be gone. Mine too. If everything is meaningless, what’s
the point of still living now? What’s the point of toiling around if happiness
is temporary?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There is. A lasting joy exist. Yet
it cannot be acquired not by your own effort works but by grace. Only GOD
can fill that hole in your heart that searches for happiness. HE has designed
that, that emptiness you feel even you have what you want. He has designed that
for you know HIM and for HIM to fill it. No matter what you do or what you
acquire, at the end of the day, it’s still GOD who made you. HE knows your
purpose for HE is your Creator. And when you get to know HIM, He’ll show you
the way to that true and undying happiness—by giving HIM glory through
fulfilling what HE has called you to do.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-68850608818647187072014-02-21T00:29:00.002+08:002014-02-21T00:35:14.088+08:00February Agony<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Love month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My mind's away, drifting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My heart is breaking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My heart is breaking not because
I am single and I don’t have a date.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My heart is breaking not because
I didn’t receive any bouquet of flowers or bars of chocolates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My heart is breaking upon
witnessing a mother talking to her sleeping-like lifeless daughter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My heart is breaking because I am
woman, a daughter and if God permits in the future, a mother too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This picture awakens me. This scene
reminded me of not just how precious life is but of how short it is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My almost one hour conversation
with that family a while ago is full of memories from a two-year old little girl
who’s life happens to be now in perfect peace. Her mom talks and talks a lot
about her. I can see in her eyes her longing. I can observe how her stories
about the child put a slight glow on her face. I can hear the agony in her
heart as she embraced me with tears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was left speechless, teary and
wandering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pondering about this thing made
me realized so many things. It made me ask myself some sort of questions I’ve
never asked myself before such as:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> What’s the purpose of my existence?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> When will my life end?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">How will people react when I’m gone?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> What stories am I gonna leave behind? Is it
inspiring? Life-touching?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">After these selfish thoughts are
the realization of how I am making my time count here on earth. Am I making the
most out of my life—life with the people who loves me? Am I treasuring them as
if it’s my last time with them? Am I leaving them a worth-sharing memory? How
will I act when one of my beloved passed away? Are they gonna be thankful for
my life?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just like in the well-known book
of Rick Warren, I asked myself “What on earth am I here for?” Am I living in
the center of the Creator’s will? Am I serving Him with all my heart and soul
and mind and strength? How am I using this God-breathed body? What am I
contributing in line with His Son’s purpose? Is there anything I’ve done or I am
doing to make Him more famous? Am I putting a smile on His face? Is He proud of
me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This little child is indeed a
gift. I can still remember how she ignores me every Sunday afternoon service
and yet manages to make me smile despite of that. I can still recall of how she
looks like, wearing that red little dress I gave her last Christmas. I can
still imagine her cute face and so-little hands that held my hand into her
forehead back then. I can still somehow hear her small voice calling me “Ninang”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“God has His own reason for
everything that’s happening in our lives. All we have to do is trust Him and
continue serving Him,” I just said to her mother and ended that "one day you'll meet again when He returns."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thanks to her who left good memories. Thanks to her, she reminded me. Thanks for the legacy she left behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In all these, indeed God has a
purpose. I pray that her family will stay on Him, still put their hope in Him. Because all things work together for good for those who love HIM (Romans
8:28).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-13586820310250172012013-12-21T21:55:00.002+08:002013-12-31T23:08:33.621+08:00Seven Things for My Future LOVE<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Last month of the year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I got few things on my mind right now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And it's not about "backing off." (chuckles)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don’t know why I feel like writing this but one thing’s for
sure, it must be blotted out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And it’s “Seven things I demand for my future LOVE.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hilarious. Funny. Mirthful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh, thoughts!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, I’m not in haste. I’m in a wait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Okay. I’m not gonna make it flowery. I’m gonna keep it short
and straight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The guy who...</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Really loves GOD </b>(A man who loves God more than anything
else, more than anybody else—even loves GOD more than he loves me)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Loves singing (and singing loves him too. Choosy it
may seem, but guys gain extra point for this)</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Has an artistic outlet (whether its singing, writing,
photography, music, painting, dancing or whatsoever thing
that he can pour out or express his emotion to)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Has a sense of humor (I’ll definitely love the
one who can put a smile on me especially on those rocky situations)</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Loves children (it can be his brother or little
sister, niece, nephew, neighborhood, any cute babies)</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Knows how to cook (well deliciously)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">A wide reader or a book lover (This is a bonus! A nerd who loves reading.)</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And that’s it—the seven things I demand for my future LOVE. ^_^</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I want the one who GETS me and won't be ashamed of me...he, who won’t just complete me but will make me a greater person and so was I to him. We’ll not just complement each other but will make each other great through God’s grace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yet above these things, I just want the “Adam” God has
planned for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Whether he met this qualities or not, well he must met Christ. HE must be his best friend first.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am not into love right now. But I’m excited about it. I’m
excited about him. I'm excited about HIM</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">—His great plans for me. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For
now I just have to trust HIM and let HIM first complete me and prepare me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%208:4&version=AMP" target="_blank">Song of Songs 8:4</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm now in love with the thought of being in love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh, thoughts!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, I’m not in haste. I’m definitely in a wait.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hopefully in a wait of being
worth the wait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Welcome 2014.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-47704252164678082392013-11-23T01:34:00.002+08:002013-11-23T21:26:26.114+08:00Priority and Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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days ago. I’ve read this in a FB page entitled “Solely Devoted”. I was truly
blessed with this excerpt.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How many
times did we ask God in this area? How many times did we ask God to fill us
with His love—a love that will overflow to the others who thirst for it? How
many times did we consult God in the choices we make? “A sheer delight rather
than a sense of duty...” What a phrase! Admit it or not, often we do things
unconsciously. It’s either we’re used into those routines or we’re just doing
things out of duty. Well, being responsible is not bad. But without love,
nothing makes sense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As Mother
Theresa said, <i>“<span style="background: white; color: #181818;">...we can do small things with great love.</span>” </i>A small
thing with great love is indeed a great thing. But how can we accomplish this “just-loving”
thing? Start with God. In parallel to what the image above says, try and
persevere to make your relationship with God your top priority. God is a loving
God, merciful, kind and gracious. He will never ever forsake those who come to
Him humbly and heartily. I don’t know if article makes sense to you who read
it. But there’s no harm in trying. Swear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Seems
like confused? A friend shared to me a while ago thru a facebook chat, that she’s
afraid she might fall...that she some friends’ help in this area. She’s afraid
because she’s not sure. She’s been in a fantasy of falling brightly in love and
a nightmare of falling with no one to catch her. But then there’s JESUS. The one
who’s always waiting for her, to fill her with satisfying love, to cradle her
in her arms, to hold her without ever letting her go...FOREVER.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
was glad to share these things to her. I even message her verse Song of Songs
8:4a. Probably, you already knew that. Do not awaken love until its ready. When
will be the it-word be ready? Only God knows. So better get close to Him so
that when He says IT is ready, we can hear so clearly. Discern God’s voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As I
write about this thing, numerous thoughts flood my mind. Am I talking to myself
too? Am I reminding myself too? Or does my girl friend who asked me a while ago
of what to do in her falling-in-love thing warns me then? Talking about the
heart, I remembered Proverbs 4:23 and Jeremiah 17:9. Guard your heart. Above all
things, it is the most deceitful.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let me
clear this stuff. This isn’t about gals only but also for guys out there. You
too have hearts, right? I don’t know how guys guard their hearts nor how they
regard God’s love. But if it’s Jesus working and reigning in their lives—focusing
on His faithfulness, contemplating on His beauty and holding on His promise—it’s
not hard for them to live in this tempting world. Talking about love and
relationship, why not be pure emotionally too? I’ve read this book written by </span><span style="background: white;">Heather Arnel Paulsen</span>
which inspires so much. It talks about well, the title itself—Emotional Purity.
It’s about preserving all of your being for God and for the one He has prepared
for you. Well beside Jesus, I fell in love with the
man on this post, guess other girls would, too:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thank
God for who HE is! Thank Jesus who gave His life for me, for you, for us. He
loves me so much that He doesn’t want me to get hurt. Because when I am hurting,
He’s hurting too. That’s how much He loves me. And so the same thing goes with
you. Why not be content with that for now? I believe that God is the one who
will make my heart; our hearts feel like there’s something missing though we
want more of Him. When that happens, then that is the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">More
over these things, there are so many things out there. More than our longings
and dreams of being with the one, there are those people who need to be reached
out. They also need love and with the love that God had in us, we can love too,
unconditionally. We can pray too heartily. Selfless. We have to be selfless and
think of others too. To those who are losing their hope, their faith, maybe God
is commanding us to first bring love into these persons. He wants us to be
molded first in a selfless love. And with Christ, we can do all things. Live.
Love. Laugh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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delight rather than a sense of duty... With a mix of love, things become new... With a paint of love, things become great.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of God. Love is overflowing. Love of others. Loving is never tiring.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“</span></i><i><span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-PH; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His
goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone
call we've waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just
the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice
His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy
with us -- you just can't resist Him. I believe there's no such thing as luck
in life, it's God's love, it's His</span></i><i><span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>―<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mother Teresa</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-69135342027180767532013-11-11T09:24:00.001+08:002016-08-08T18:05:40.302+08:00Back Off<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She realized that she’s being
back in the cycle. And she need, not tomorrow but now, to BACK OFF.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It’s a cycle. It’s a cycle that she
left behind, a circle that she should have left behind, a loop that she MUST
now left behind. BACK OFF.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What do she mean being back? Well
as she weighs her recent everydays, it’s a lie not to admit that she’s not happy—happiness
either from some words and smiley on a phone screen or an inevitably charming
jest coming from him. It may be too a happiness from some of his words of
upliftment or the knowledge of being similar to each other in many aspect. Temporary
happiness she must say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Probably, it’s her fault. Instead
of walking away from the cycle behind her, she unconsciously, found herself in
it wherein the same and same stuffs happen. She doesn’t like to play around and
she doesn’t like being played around. She doesn’t want to invest anything to
anyone. Well not because she doesn’t get anything in return. She just doesn’t want
to cause pain to anyone. Different kind of thoughts and emotions flooded her of
what and where and when and why and how. Gibberish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Back off. Back off. Back off. It keeps
echoing in her head. And probably she must start her step away before falling
completely into the emptiness or the gap between them…before some bond breaks…before
the other self will never be the same again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Too deep. Too shallow. Too wide. Too
narrow. Nonsense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To begin this plans in hear mind,
she must initiate herself not to enjoy being in the cycle. In this cycle she
felt loved yet a wrecker. In this cycle she felt judged, well judged mostly by
herself. She felt as if like she’s causing some unintentional pain to persons
who are really a family to her. She felt criticized by the people around her,
though she’s not certain. All of these were in her midst.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Today, she wanted to re-align
herself—change her focus, change her perspective. She’ll make it up to her true
blood, by fixing some broken things or strengthening the bond. She’ll focus on
her other family—children, youth and some girlfriends. She gotta establish her plans for her career too. Starting from this day,
she’ll gonna take pleasure in the love bestowed on her from above which is never
ending, never failing, always caring. Then wait for the moment the love-abounding
Heaven give her heart some deficiency that only a creation ordained by Heaven
can fill.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-83922029796937655562013-11-10T12:11:00.000+08:002013-11-10T12:18:47.009+08:00Just a Glimpse<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, I just experienced the grace
of God. Well, I probably always experience it but never acknowledge it. And
now, right at this moment I’m typing this, I just wanna shout! It feels
something like an explosion, revolution—anything similar—is within me: ALL FOR GOD’S
GLORY!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s still dark. I’m in a small
room, door closed. I woke up. It’s nearly four thirty in the morning as I checked
my phone. Very normal, very usual—I thank God for having breath, I just utter
praises to my Heavenly Father. But what’s unexpected is a glimpse of Him. Deep in
my heart, I want to see a glimpse of Him, a glimpse of His glory. I don’t know!
Maybe it’s the book I’m reading for the past days that influences me in this
longing or maybe—well I hope—it’s God, dealing with me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like Isaiah, the prophet of God in
the Old Testament times, I feel unworthy before God. I had a thought of
something close to this:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">“Woe</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-align: start;"> </span>to
me!” I cried. “I am ruined!</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-align: start;"> </span>For I am a man of unclean lips,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-align: start;"> </span>and
I live among a people of unclean lips,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-align: start;"> </span>and my eyes have seen</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-align: start;"> </span>the
King,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-align: start;"> </span>the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><span style="text-align: start;">Lord</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-align: start;"> </span>Almighty.”</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah%206&version=NIV" target="_blank">Isaiah6:5 NIV</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And yet I sense God’s embrace. It’s still His
grace. It doesn't have to do with my approach to Him, or my works for Him. It’s
Him, His unending love, His incomparable faithfulness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I read words on <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm%20115:1&version=NIV" target="_blank">Psalm 115:1</a>, thinking it over
and over and over. His spirit enabled me to realize things. This single verse
penetrated into my being and the past me. It says in the <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm%20115:1&version=MSG" target="_blank">The Message</a> version:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="text" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="color: #073763;"> Not for our sake,</span></span></span><span style="color: #073763;"><span class="apple-converted-space" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span class="small-caps" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant: small-caps;">God</span></span><span class="text" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white;">, no, not for our sake,</span></span></span></span></div>
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Your name’s</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span class="text" style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.5in;">sake, show Your glory.</span></span></span></div>
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Your merciful</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> love</span><span class="text" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">Then I asked
myself…evaluate myself. To whom am I depending? To whom, really, am I giving
the glory? Whose face is reflected my existence? Where do I find my worth? Where
do I look for fulfillment? Then I remembered what </span><a href="http://www.mattredman.com/writings" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;" target="_blank">Matt Redman </a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">says in his book entitled
</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">Facedown: </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">God is most glorified in us
when we are most satisfied in Him. Whoa! It’s like whoosh of air bumped me. I saw
me, outwardly worshiping God but inwardly worshiping myself—receiving the
glory that was to be, that must be for God. And He is a just God. Thank Him! He
is faithful and gracious too. ALL FOR HIS GLORY!</span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A glimpse
of God and everything will be changed. Just His still small voice in the
stillness of my worldly world will be enough. It is. Indeed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right at
this moment, I pray in my mind that would just help me in this journey of
knowing Him more—of having more of Him. Reminded of what Moses has asked, leading
the ever-grumbling, discontented Israelites, he didn’t pray that God would
punish neither them nor asked God for them to be just obedient. He just prayed
for only one thing. And may this be our prayer too.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Then Moses said, “Now, please <i>show me Your glory</i>.</span>”</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exodus%2033:18&version=NCV" target="_blank">Exodus 33:18 NCV</a>; emphasis mine)</span></div>
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Amen. ^_^</span><span style="background-color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-91971147365931370432013-10-31T11:19:00.001+08:002013-11-23T21:39:05.036+08:00Home<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The desire rose again. The desire
to let my emotion out through ink is within me again. Well, it’s better this
way as pushing myself to write—without passion, without love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’ve been talking to myself the
past few days or weeks rather, not with a mirror, but with a blank sheet of
paper on my lap. I wanna use some ink to articulate what is it within me, but
then, no words came. I’m having again these weird moments of my existence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Honestly, what I’ve felt is not
an emptiness but loneliness. (I know I’m not the only one who’s has felt this
way.) I feel like the world is not with me though it is not against me. Seems
puzzling right? I guess it’s better this way:<i> I feel like I’m outside this
world</i></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>—</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>out of place in this world</i>. It’s like I’m an alien beside the people around me. They’re not talking
about me, I know. They just, somehow, <i>exclude me</i> in their circle. They must be
thinking that I can’t ride on to what they’re into nor acquiesce what their
planning if ever they have one. <i>Maybe, they are correct</i> with those thoughts and
maybe, not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the thoughts and alike and
sentiments of being out of place washed over me. Then,<i> I woke up</i>. I woke from
this bad dream that almost swallowed me. If this dream could have a title, I
would entitle it “SELFISHNESS”. As you see and probably realized since the
beginning of this nonsense piece, <i>all I was thinking was myself and nothing
more but myself</i>. I think of my personal gain from others—happiness, identity,
approval —my worth. I was only thinking of me, myself and I. Nothing more,
nothing less. It was the other me, the pessimistic me, who fed me up with
notion of being alone, thus isolating myself from the people around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I open my eyes, I saw me with
them.<i> As I open the eyes of my heart, I saw me with them with an embrace, a
laugh and a love</i>. I saw real people being themselves painting on my face a
smile—real friends. And as I laugh out loud, I notice the sky—high, wide and long.
I realized that I am not forgotten, I was not alone. I won’t be alone. Though I
feel like there was no one else beside me, I was definitely in His hands. He covers me with
His hands. <b>The unfathomable sky was His hands. His palm was His love, a place of love where
eternal joy can come from. His love was my home, my true home. His love is where I belong.</b></span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-36101239233940760142013-05-05T16:27:00.000+08:002013-10-31T11:03:07.552+08:00Fluffy Madness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am in love with the clouds. And I don’t know why.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was so much thankful to God whenever I see clouds especially on a day, very white with the sun that’s very bright. I love them when they cover the sun giving them a glowing feature. I love them when the night's so deep and they join the full smiling moon and the countless stars. I love them when they dance with the horizon—a view of mountain, a lake, and a land. And through the clouds, I stand in awe of the God, the magnificent Creator.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So much with the madness with clouds, I remember Moses’ times. When God allowed Israelites to exit from Egypt, they are guided with clouds during day making clouds a representation of God Almighty. Also the book of Psalms and Proverbs had this word too: clouds. Job also had much to say about clouds and so with the book of Ezekiel, Isaiah and Revelation. The Bible had many words to describe clouds.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Okay. Clouds. What are clouds? Scientifically defined, it is visible mass of water particle in the air above the earth. In a deeper way, clouds have its purpose.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtR562dW7HcdMpJyRzko4ej8QbYIRl6_BNh-KQ81h6fpLk10TsG-0oCoY-lDCYaFutKZQAqkXpAclrn9FaKfy1kpIzLGbZ7X_x4DGQOGwhGVxdy0DnWQIwHWtIOv7PJ4KdGA0jP5MtIqw/s1600/ppp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtR562dW7HcdMpJyRzko4ej8QbYIRl6_BNh-KQ81h6fpLk10TsG-0oCoY-lDCYaFutKZQAqkXpAclrn9FaKfy1kpIzLGbZ7X_x4DGQOGwhGVxdy0DnWQIwHWtIOv7PJ4KdGA0jP5MtIqw/s640/ppp.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What do clouds do?</span></div><h4><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. Protection</span></h4><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Clouds protect us from too much sunlight which can cause skin aging, skin darkening and worse skin cancer. Its shade during sunny days gives us ease.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Very likely, God protects us from danger. In fact, much more than clouds can do. He protects us from the harm rays of the enemies. He even made a way to save us from death by having His son die for us. What more can we ask for?</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: center;"><h4><o:p><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory."</span></o:p></h4></blockquote><h3></h3><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">-Deuteronomy 20:4 NIV</span></div><h4><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. Preparation</span></h4><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Clouds make us prepare. Literally speaking, clouds help us predict the weather.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">God prepares us—our hearts and minds—whenever there are coming problems. God prepares our ways and plans for the future. </span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: center;"><h4><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"When times are good, be happy;</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">but when times are bad, consider this:</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">God has made the one as well as the other.</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Therefore, no one can discover</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">anything about their future."</span></h4></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-Ecclesiastes 7:14 CEV </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><h4><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"No one has ever imagines what God has prepared for those who love Him. "</span></span></h4></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-1 Corinthians 2:9 NCV</span></div><h4><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">3. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Provision</span></h4></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Clouds, specifically dark clouds, bring rain.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dark clouds refer to the big, seemingly impossible-to-solve problems or suffering in this earthly life. But when we cast these burdens to God, He will surely help us. And with the strength of Christ in us, we can do all things. We can make it through these problems. After trials, with God, are victories and blessings indeed.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><h4><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"But my God shall supply all your need according His riches in glory by Christ Jesus."</span></h4></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-Philippians 4:19 KJV</span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Better read <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=lamentations%203&version=NIV" target="_blank">Lamentations 3</a>, a hope for God’s love and mercy.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I certainly love clouds and loving more the Maker of it.</span><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How clouds are formed? That’s for the next talk. ^_^</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">More photos of clouds? You can add me or you can simply view them here <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200795224950195.1073741835.1450270277&type=3" target="_blank">Clouds: the Madness</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-54640337951652845492013-05-03T22:05:00.000+08:002013-10-31T11:03:07.559+08:00Whom to trust?<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuMYuvacJV2s-_bAr9nGuJ1qC_B8FAodTh03YaI8q3vfU9ewTSCr590JJTHqafUNCSUpYdw3gwfOY3uFFfq3h25M4RFuFoRdgfvkdAOg8vhQ7n05tsscd8qlyEvuaB3nlIummgSq1Um3Q/s640/pp.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">photo captured from <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20146:1-6&version=NIV" target="_blank"><i>www.biblegateway.com</i></a>; (emphasis added) </span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuMYuvacJV2s-_bAr9nGuJ1qC_B8FAodTh03YaI8q3vfU9ewTSCr590JJTHqafUNCSUpYdw3gwfOY3uFFfq3h25M4RFuFoRdgfvkdAOg8vhQ7n05tsscd8qlyEvuaB3nlIummgSq1Um3Q/s1600/pp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Read the second verse and think what it says…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As long as there is life, we shall acknowledge God. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Proverbs 3:5-6 indicates trusting the Lord with ALL thy heart…that in all our ways, when we recognize Him, He shall direct our path—surely for the best.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">God is the Maker of all things. He is that powerful for us not to be saved. He is mighty to save. He never changes and will never ever change. All things are under His control. he calms raging seas. He whisper through the air, He sends storms and lightning yet He is the Great Deliverer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When problems or negative things come our way, we shall ask God first, neither our friends nor our parents. They are all secondary with respect to the highness of God. God is still the Great Helper. He will direct us into His words or will lead us to people whom we can really talk to. He is an Omniscient Father—knows all things under heaven. Men can help but it still God who made them, right? it is only by God’s will and wisdom that He uses people to speak to us. In everything, put your trust to God and he will definitely help you succeed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Reality Check: For the days that have past, think where did you put your trust. Who do you seek first when happy or worst things come? Who do you ask first for help?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It must be God.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Check this out: Whom shall I fear by Lincoln Brewster ft. Kari Jobe. Be blessed ^_^</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/VkVznueytm4?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-8549609556680400512013-05-02T20:00:00.000+08:002013-10-31T11:03:07.566+08:00Not Ashamed<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-IYmldc8Yhj5wD7opmgcZKmECWxoupDjfs6lZLvcUiydOqi9yXxxOik_UWIZjPrAwOrJAPizZo1T0JYQk4Z9UpBgnj1tr9siNMKt8xfT-A1JQ0cgyGa715h7vLVrfoxInVB5D6WELIyA/s1600/b.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-IYmldc8Yhj5wD7opmgcZKmECWxoupDjfs6lZLvcUiydOqi9yXxxOik_UWIZjPrAwOrJAPizZo1T0JYQk4Z9UpBgnj1tr9siNMKt8xfT-A1JQ0cgyGa715h7vLVrfoxInVB5D6WELIyA/s640/b.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjofit3-tuPHGmFLjg9EJCGyfvlj__ifq4KbCdJ3pjK4yLQP9GnS2IHscGcasEX-L444hptJaIZVko9ZZZMc625L-FpGcEXxI6JM1uqozFKUc_5l4npJwM13MCTdoKAaBxIqH0HpCdBexI/s1600/b1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="95" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjofit3-tuPHGmFLjg9EJCGyfvlj__ifq4KbCdJ3pjK4yLQP9GnS2IHscGcasEX-L444hptJaIZVko9ZZZMc625L-FpGcEXxI6JM1uqozFKUc_5l4npJwM13MCTdoKAaBxIqH0HpCdBexI/s640/b1.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Q0aMvFWxc90zkP94Fdt7iImdHMMnJqZ1Cco_n1VKUDBWOUPEh_F5UnKO-yfmADB5iwJNaSSc6P7kc-ELvOiiRsyYWOBm5vd-aAE_ydYIFq-uYhaCICp9wmgtkEds7JoQ2qfcbeBVFNc/s1600/b2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Q0aMvFWxc90zkP94Fdt7iImdHMMnJqZ1Cco_n1VKUDBWOUPEh_F5UnKO-yfmADB5iwJNaSSc6P7kc-ELvOiiRsyYWOBm5vd-aAE_ydYIFq-uYhaCICp9wmgtkEds7JoQ2qfcbeBVFNc/s640/b2.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>photos captured from: <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Samuel%206:5-21&version=CEV" target="_blank">www.biblegateway.com</a></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">David danced for the Lord with all His might (verse 5). David, though he is already a king, danced for the Lord in front of his people. And he does not do it so that he can be honored but God to be honored. Wearing linen clothes (which made him look like half-naked), he still celebrated for what the Lord has done. He is not ashamed of what he is doing. David was jumping, dancing and shouting with great joy that time. And even if some people regard Him like a crazy person (like Michal), it doesn't matter as long as He is doing it for God.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sometimes or more often than not, we were ashamed of celebrating for God. We want to let it out—voice, energy, movement—but we’re ashamed of what people may say or think of us. People around us maybe disgusted. They may say weird things about us. They may laugh at us but we shouldn’t feel anything sad about it, for the Lord our God is the One who must be pleased. We must die to ourselves—a proof of Christ living in us. If it is for God, it must be all out, the very best. Do what the Spirit is telling you to do so. Do what pleases God. Do what the Lord wants. Do what will make God smile. Do what will Him proud of you. Show the evidence of how much you love God. You’ll never know which one of your moments of praising God will be your last.</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-81323440613708483042013-04-23T19:29:00.000+08:002013-10-31T11:03:07.576+08:00Resembling Water<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, water. As researches says that one can live a week without food but not with water. Then let’s talk about water and discover how great its importance is.</span></div><div class="Section1"><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember our last team building activity at <a href="http://www.re-creationcenter.com/" target="_blank">RRC</a>. Leaders and workers of our church were given a bunch of task enhancing unity through physical activities. Being one of the facilitators, I had the chance to observe this: each member of a group, old and young, gets exhausted after a certain activity or task yet before proceeding to the next station, almost all will come to stop by a water source to drink then they're on-the-go again! That is water. It refreshes. It renews strength.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I came up with these attributes of water:</span></div></div></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><ul><li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>thirst-quenching</span> </li></ul></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><ul><li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">life-extending</span></li></ul></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><ul><li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cleansing</span></li></ul></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><ul><li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">refreshing</span></li></ul></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><ul><li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">necessity</span></li></ul></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><ul><li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">needed in digestion process</span></li></ul></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><ul><li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">health-related</span></li></ul></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And God can provide all the water we need. In fact, He is indeed the Living Water for whoever the water Jesus gives, will never be thirsty again. .</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;">13 </span></sup></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, </span><b><sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;">14 </span></sup></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></blockquote><div align="right" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-<i>John 4:13-14 NIV</i></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">1. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Thirst-quenching</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water removes away thirst and the same goes with God. He alone is the water who can fill the dryness of our hearts. Like a deer that searches for the water, and so was with our soul—longing after Thee.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Then I lift my hands in prayer,</span></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">because my soul is a desert,</span></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> thirsty for water from you."</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Psalm 143:6 CEV)</span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;"></span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;">2. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;">Life-extending</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As said above, water is given much importance than food. In the same way, we can’t do anything without God. God is the true water who extends our life. Jesus came to gave us a joyful and satisfied life. (see <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john%2010:10&version=CEV" target="_blank">John 10:10</a> CEV)</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">3.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Cleansing</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As water is literally used for cleansing purposes—taking a bath, washing dishes, cleaning the house—and so as its use in cleansing our hearts. He is the one with mercy who purifies us and remembers our sins no more. His words, His truth were the very thing that more than powerful than any other bleaching solution in the world. He is the living water who washes away even our implicit dirt. Once we truly encountered the Lord, we became white as snow—radiant, glowing, shining (see <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah%201:18&version=NIV" target="_blank">Isaiah 1:18</a> NIV).</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Refreshing</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only God alone can give us a new heart. Those who are restless, troubled, brokenhearted, extremely lonely, God can and is willing to grant them a new undivided heart which only trusts God. He is more than ready to change our hearts ( see <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ezekiel%2011:19&version=NIV" target="_blank">Ezekiel 11:19</a> NIV).</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Necessity</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indeed, it is a must. Water is a necessity to live. Try to imagine if God didn’t gave us water? This implies that without God, everything will be difficult. Without God, nothing could be established ( see also <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john%203:27&version=CEV" target="_blank">John3:27</a> CEV).</span><br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>with God all things are possible</b>.”</span></blockquote></blockquote><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Matthew 19:26 NIV; emphasis added)<span style="text-align: justify;"> </span></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Needed in digestion process</span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Living Water digests what? Through the words and leading of the Holy Spirit, God make us through a time of trials. By His truth alone are we able to grasp How high, wide and deep His love is that in times of failures or challenges, we are sure that God will never ever leave us.</span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( see<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalms%2034:18&version=NIV" target="_blank"> Psalm 34:18</a> NIV)</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Health-related</span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God’s word makes our spiritual life healthy. With His sufficient supple of grace, we can come to Him in confidence—with praising heart, pleasing life and worshipping spirit within us. (see <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalms%20119:11&version=NIV" target="_blank">Psalm 119:11</a> NIV)</span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-85810100272966526622013-04-17T21:20:00.000+08:002013-10-31T11:03:07.584+08:00The Psalm 19 Pattern<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The word of God the BIBLE itself is a must for man to grow and succeed in life. I super love these verses below. Well, rhymes and wonderful words used are really awesome. God is the best. I don't know but it's just awesome of God having these Psalms wrtitten. Here is Psalm 19: 7-11 NIV:</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">7</span></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The law of the LORD<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5828010491718983455" name="1"></a> is perfect,<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5828010491718983455" name="2"></a> reviving the soul.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5828010491718983455" name="3"></a> The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy,<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5828010491718983455" name="4"></a>making wise the simple.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">8</span><span style="color: #990000;"> The precepts of the LORD are right,<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5828010491718983455" name="6"></a> giving joy<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5828010491718983455" name="7"></a> to the heart. The commands of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5828010491718983455" name="8"></a> </span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">9</span><span style="color: #990000;"> The fear of the LORD<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5828010491718983455" name="9"></a> is pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of the LORD are sure and altogether righteous.</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">10</span><span style="color: #990000;"> They are more precious than gold,<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5828010491718983455" name="11"></a> than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey,<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5828010491718983455" name="12"></a> than honey from the comb.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5828010491718983455" name="13"></a> </span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">11</span><span style="color: #990000;"> By them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.</span></span></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(via <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/psalms/passage.aspx?q=psalms+19:7-11" target="_blank">www.biblestudytools.com</a>)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;">1. It is perfect.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because of its perfection, it refreshes the soul. It is without flaws making a broken person have bliss and energy. It is perfect in terms of time. It helps increase our faith with the multitude of promises it contains. It is reviving, life-diving and restoring targeting the soul.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">2. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">It is trustworthy.</span><br /><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No one can doubt God’s words. As the earth may pass away, but His words will stand forever (see matthew 24:35). He is the same yesterday, today and forever and so are His words. In view of this, we can give our purest trust to Him simply because He never fails. He plans the best for us, He knows the exact number of our hairs, and He gave his only son just to free us. He loves us so much that He can’t leave us nor forsake us. What else are we searching for? Why not rely on Him? He is for everyone—simple, imperfect and inexperienced.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">3. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">It is right.</span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is appropriate and just. It can never be wrong. And true happiness can be attained by living according to His words, His commands, His will that if we delight ourselves unto Him He’ll give us our desire making us have satisfaction. He alone can fill the emptiness we have in our hearts leaving us true bliss. His words uplift, heal and calm.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 4.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><!--[endif]-->It is radiant.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“..radiant giving light to the eyes..” It is indeed a light which guides our way. It is the lamp that leads us to true life. It helps us see circumstances positively by faith. It leads us in roads unknown, points us from paths unsure. As we apply His words, our lives will be surely enlightened and definitely as we humble seek Him, He’ll let His light shine from us thus pointing others to Christ, the true Light.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 5.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><!--[endif]-->It is sure.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No one can change the mind of God. As He sets the stars in their place and so was our life. He knows for sure how we are going to be in the form of His likeness. Never doubt God. Keep the faith for faith simply pleases God. Trials and challenges are permitted in order to refine us not to harm us. Be solid in His words and you’ll be in last.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 6.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><!--[endif]-->It is pure.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unlike nowaday’s products, His words are not 99% pure but 100%. What is written here in verse 9 is about the fear of the Lord—not the worldly fear those children know but the holy fear. This fear is about a love together with reverence. A love knowing that He is our Father and Bestfriend and reverence acknowledging Him as our King, Master and Lord. This fear must result to the purity of our hearts and minds as we continue to walk with Him.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 7.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><!--[endif]-->It is precious.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“If you don’t have a Bible, go and sell your house and buy a Bible… ” a dialog I can recall from a teaching long ago. It is precious! The message version says that diamonds are no better than God’s words. As we grow to know God more by His words, we learn to do things that result in heavenly rewards which do not tarnish for the things of this world are just temporary.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 8.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><!--[endif]-->It is incomparable.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Riches of this world offer happiness and pleasure that will not last. But the joy of knowing God can’t be compared to those riches. Talking about sweetness, I was reminded of the book of Isaiah, particularly the 43<sup>rd</sup> chapter. It was undeniably sweet divulging more of the immeasurable span of His love for Israel, for His people, for us.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 9.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><!--[endif]-->It is warning.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As His words guides, we can experience rebukes and warning when we are doing something against His will. His words, through the Holy Spirit, remind us everything we need in the battle of life. As we keep our gaze on Christ, sin is prevented, enemy is destroyed and the victory is ours.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 10.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><!--[endif]-->It is a reward.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By meditating His words, we grow in Christ leading us to the true treasures we must have—an unfailing love, a full life, a beautiful hope in Christ and eternal friends. Living according to His words, enduring stumbles and failures that come our way, dealing with God, doing all things for Christ’s sake…who knows how proud God will be? How many crowns we’ll receive when the time comes?</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Note:</span> I also love the "<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm%2019:7-11&version=MSG" target="_blank">The Message</a>" version too. You can read try it!</span></i></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Featured song "Running After You" by <a href="http://www.planetshakers.com/" target="_blank">Planetshakers</a>: </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/vev1A3yiPNY?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077068655908255090.post-65832427310518730992013-04-16T22:17:00.000+08:002013-10-31T11:03:07.591+08:00Out of LOVE<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It is what His commands are all about: LOVE.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Love? As far as the word of God is concerned, many verses can be referred to. One of the famous is in the letter of Paul to Corinthians which typically describes what love is. Yet this morning, chapter 13 verse 8 and 9 of the book of Romans inspired me. It made me remember the basic.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAPI5UvKyMhLrFqgGJKKqW8t0IVyxqheAWm_l0PtBlT0wBh4dQ3PTenNS7IIBLp8HZOBsnYGKLHu2joHd30D_MxyvaHZNjvajS95qtmNLKkKPnXyntpoV4v6vEtp3y_2l18MUbP-sTyd8/s1600/romans+8.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAPI5UvKyMhLrFqgGJKKqW8t0IVyxqheAWm_l0PtBlT0wBh4dQ3PTenNS7IIBLp8HZOBsnYGKLHu2joHd30D_MxyvaHZNjvajS95qtmNLKkKPnXyntpoV4v6vEtp3y_2l18MUbP-sTyd8/s640/romans+8.png" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(emphasis added; photo captured from <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%2013:8-9&version=VOICE" style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;" target="_blank"><i>www.biblegateway.com</i></a> )</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As Paul had written, love is the fulfillment of the law that when one loves his/her neighbor, He has obeyed all the commandments. Think of old testament’s Ten Commandments which was given to Moses. There are these orders that say the words “dont”. Thinking deeper, all do points out to love. How come? When you love the people around you, you won’t do anything that will displease them or will cause them bad things right?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Loving the people around us is easy if they are good to us. Agree? But when things aren’t going well or when people changed their ways (especially not in our terms), do we still have the same love for them? And this is what the bible says in 14:7, that whether we live or die, it must be for God not for ourselves <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans%2014:7&version=CEV" target="_blank">click here for reference</a>)</span>. We LIVE for GOD not for ourselves. We must do things as though He is the one who will benefit, as though He is the one we are dealing with.</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKnug1GoESVdU5QlWyIa2amCKYQlDDhSZIn-KlcrDKoNmAH90yO9MdcwgQX8Ob68BEifoR6TYy2IKgEatrsaFy8By5AZKLT5yZ6JzYDUKUuW2Zbj1MiDCaNYYHM94YkeQjlqQOe8RPCXI/s1600/romans12.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKnug1GoESVdU5QlWyIa2amCKYQlDDhSZIn-KlcrDKoNmAH90yO9MdcwgQX8Ob68BEifoR6TYy2IKgEatrsaFy8By5AZKLT5yZ6JzYDUKUuW2Zbj1MiDCaNYYHM94YkeQjlqQOe8RPCXI/s640/romans12.png" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(emphasis added; photo captured from <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans%2012:9-21&version=NLV" target="_blank"><i>www.biblegateway.com</i></a>)</span></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No one can say he loves God when he does not love the people around Him, for God is invisible and man is visible. The tongues we have talking to God must not be the same tongue who carelessly curses others. This means that loving other people unconditionally represents our love for God. When we learn how to care, give, respect and please others, both Christians and people of different faith, then we really have God in our hearts. Because if He lives in us, he is the one who will give us the capacity to love. When we are filled with his love, an overflow will eventually happen, making us pour love on others.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I say, cling unto God and be satisfied with His unending love. Acknowledge His love as a gift that is meant to be shared. It is a gift from heaven that is limited not only for ourselves, for our families and friends but for everyone who lives around us. Reread Romans 12:9-21. The verses teach us how to live in harmony and peace with each other. And it all will start with a desire—desire to be filled with God’s love, desire to manifest His love, desire to exemplify His love by loving any kind of man here on earth. Let us always do thing with love and we will never be in regrets.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here is <a href="http://tenthavenuenorth.com/" target="_blank">Tenth Avenue North</a> in their song entitled "Love is Here."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/OLy-B9LuqMo?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106580655491892289noreply@blogger.com0