June 2, 2008
If your love is based on satisfying an emotion or fleshly drive, it will soon become a dead passive feeling. - www.wagmuna.com
January 9, 2007
My prof in English asked us to write, so I did. Below is the article I wrote when I was 18 years old. I then submitted it to Youngblood after 1 year and it got published on 23 May 2002. I almost fell from my chair when I found out about that! hehe
I got off the jeep and began to trudge my way back home. The road was difficult to walk on since rocks were scattered almost everywhere. Tall weeds poked all over as if ready to grab my feet. The moon shone above celebrating the beauty of the night with the glittering stars. Children were still on the street playing their favorite games; piko and patintero always fascinated young ones. If only I could join them and experience the fun they had with one another; if only I could run as swiftly as I could without being bothered by what people around me would say; if only I could do all the things they were doing on the street, then I wouldn’t be hesitant to play with them.
Finally, I neared my destination. A few meters away, I saw our house placidly standing at one corner. Everything inside the house appeared transformed. Through the window, I could see the shadow of Valerie as her fingers danced on the keyboard, playing a melancholic tune that ironically lightened up the house. Zeny’s head was bent over a horror pocketbook as she absorbed every word her cherubic eyes passed over.
When I reached the other end of our house, our white van caught my attention as it was properly parked in our garage–an indication that my parents had already arrived home from work. I pictured my Dad hanging out with my Mom inside their room as they listened to the mellow sound of the piano played by my older sister.
Outside our abode–the home where I often spent my time with my family–the music carried me away. Every scene I shared with my family slowly surged into my mind–all the trials any family encounters, all the predicaments that haunted us years back, all the sacrifices my parents made for us–then I realized that we were never torn apart. Because we loved one another.
What if I weren’t part of this family? What if I had parents who weren’t as rigorous and painstaking in their care as my Mom and Dad? What if I could no longer hear Valerie’s voice or stare at Zeny’s angelic face? What if I were really just a stranger gazing at this house?
It was then that I realized how lucky I was to be part of this family. How lucky I was to enter this house that I can always call “My Home.”
Yes! I am grown-up now. I may not be able to join the children across the street and play piko, but I can always stand at the doorstep of our house and expect to see somebody willing to open the door for me.
January 9, 2007
1 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
January 4, 2007
You’ve allowed a lot of things to pass you by because what you’ve always wanted was the best. You know that you deserve to get the best. So you waited…
Now that you’ve seen it, now that you’ve realized it’s breathing, it’s alive, it’s real, why do you doubt how too good it is to be true… and it’s really not for you! Now that you’ve seen it, you feel like running away… Realizing that the diamond you’re looking at only mirrors how rusty, how dirty, how undeserving you are. Being with this diamond may remain to be a dream…forever… but I am just glad that this thing wasn’t at all a fantasy… It exists! It’s alive!
I think I don’t deserve to get this diamond.. ‘cuz it deserves to get an equal sparkling diamond and I think… It’s not someone like me…
January 3, 2007
It’s 5:05 in the morning now.. 3 January 2006 2007. Yet, I’m still awake. I’m trying to absorb everything that was discussed during our Bible Study in Christianster channel. It ended at 2 a.m.Which kind of life do I have?
A
B
“Lord Jesus, I want to know You personally. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving me of my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be.”
January 3, 2007
Verses: (worded verses will be shown tomorrow when I edit this post)
- Matt 25:1-13
- John 1:11-13
- 1 John 1:9
- John 1:12
- Ephesians 2:8-9
- Revelations 3:20
- Isaiah 41:10
- Colossians 2:13-14
- John 10:27-30
Summary:
- Our relationship with God is a father-child relationship
- Our relationship with God is one of total forgiveness.
- Our relationship with God is eternal.
Opening Prayer by ChosenVessel
Our Father in Heaven, we praise and thank You for Your goodness, even when we are not good at times but you remain good. Thank you for sustaining us the whole day. It’ s 11pm and still we have the energy to be here and listen to Your Word and be encouraged with one another’s testimonies. God, we invite You in our conversation. May You speak to us through Your Word and through each one who are here tonight.
Bless us all, your Children, who always run to you to find strength. We know d masasayang ang gabi na to. Salamat, salamat, salamat po sa lahat. You’re the best, Lord. Thank you for filling us with your love. This is all we ask and commit in the sweet name of Jesus, Amen.
Prayer closed by Desperado:
Lord God we thank you for the assurance of our salvation in You. We thank you for You are greater than all and that no one can snatch us from Your hand. We praise you for leading us in the study of Your word. We pray that you continue to strengthen us as we continue to meet up here online to study Your Word. We praise you and glorify You.
Lord, I pray for Cherie to give her wisdom and for her to have more Christian friends. We realize the need to have Christians around us. Oh God, provide for us Christian fellowships, even outside our Chruch that we may learn from one another and that we would be able to minister to one another.
Lord, I pray that you would also give me wisdom in my decisions. I pray for my future work. Let it be for your glory. Let it be Lord. Give me avenues for me to be able to share my faith to my colleagues. In this we pary, in the mighty name of Your Son Jesus, Amen.
Desperado had to mention my name because we were the only ones left in the chatroom.
January 1, 2007
Happy New Year!
It’s 2007 and I feel like creating a new blog for this year. Blogger has evolved from Beta to something newer. It must be promising to stay with Blogger, but I think it’s time to try something different for this year. I have heard of WordPress and it is being compared with Blogger as one easy-to-manage web log. One significant contrast I can think of is WordPress’ has a feature to categorize each post. I believe Blogger Beta doesn’t have that! I don’t know about Blogger New jembulars.
I am excited to try WordPress for the whole year. Happy New Year to me and to all!
Take a peek on my previous blog: Chapter 1
