Another year has come to an end
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Posted:Dec 27, 2009 5:16 am
Last Updated:Jan 17, 2010 4:32 am 15500 Views
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I would like to say Merry Christmas and a Happy New Yr. to all of you. I would say this year has brought alot of wisdom, joy, a journey of discovery but most of all, a sense of fulfillment of finding one's purpose in life.
Another year will be ending but just because the yr 2009 has end, it doesnt mean blessing has stop. 2010 will be another year that I look forward too, knowing it will bring me and my family as well as friends lots of laughter, drama, but most of all, closer to the Lord.
I almost give up my connection to my charismatic due of searching for more financial stability as well as adventure in travelling and see other culture and places. However, I realize without God, life doesnt seem to mean at all. I dont want to sound holy or spiritualism..I simply realize that if ever i go abroad, I know my life would be more work rather than finding happiness and purpose in life. I mean, true without money..it would be impractical coz everything we use for our needs and wants are depend on our income. But is life all about career, position, stability and money? I have been working for 7yrs abroad and i tell you, I was really miserable. NOw, I tell you I am happy even I am just in Cebu and not working abroad. I just simple enjoying one day at a time, spending time with families and friends and still be able to support me on my needs. Life is short, and i sometimes wonder, with the modern ideas, belief, culture and hi-technology..people are running all the time, fast pacing..i sometimes wonder, what are they trying to catch up with? who are they trying to catch?
Sometimes, while running and working everyday trying to finish from one work to another, you started to feel like a robot, mundane work that you sometime wonder what is the purpose of all these? why are you working as if there is no tomorrow? Sometimes our goals and priorities have change, the least important become important and the most important (which is our family and friends) have been neglected due that we believe if we provide them all their needs (meaning buying them stuffs), they will love us and connect us more. Sadly,its the opposite. They want our TIME and that is somehow we cannot give due to our work.
Well, i hope 2010 will bring me more time for my family and also more wisdom and lot of faith and healing from myself and to those ppl i have lost contact with and also trying to discover myself again (i simple just lost myself for those 7yrs that I am trying to find again)...maybe for this New Yr., we should start to meditate and ask ourselves what really is important to us? the ppl or the power?
Have a wonderful blessed yr
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How you perceive your life
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Posted:Nov 24, 2009 5:55 am
Last Updated:Jan 17, 2010 4:33 am 15930 Views
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Each person has his/her own trials in life. I seen alot of my friends struggle w/ financial problems,family problems, etc. It is just a question on how you deal w/ it or how you are going to resolve it.
But sometimes in life, there are problems that has no solution or rather, we human are the one making it a problem. Let just say you dont have a house and you want to have one, and you make it a problem, so instead of counting your blessing in lifes (the 90% you have, you focus on the 10% u dont have), thats why you become miserable.
Just as the same as relationship, you are happy being single and being yourself. then all of a sudden ppl try to convince you that you need to get married and have . Then when u start believing that, and if you dont get it, you become miserable coz you start believing you are incomplete without it.
the only person who can make you happy is urself. Having family and is a joy but they are also bonus to your life.If you cannot have it, do not bang your head to the wall and be miserable coz u dont have a husband or wife to love you, kiss or hug you. Or to carry in your arms or to take care w/. Sometimes, life is just like that you have it and sometimes you dont have it..it just a question if your going to accept it as they are or trying to kill yourself and making urself miserable coz you dont have those 10% in ur life..so count your 90% blessing instead of the 10% and i assure you, ur life would be much better
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The Pressure of Being Single
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Posted:Nov 24, 2009 4:52 am
Last Updated:Dec 27, 2009 4:50 am 16158 Views
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The pressure of being single can really get into your nerves. When your mother, your relatives try to fix you or try to introduce you w/ any single chinese guy they can think of, just so you can be hitch w/. NO offense, i have no against w/ introduction, or trying to go w/ a blind date. But what really get into my nerves, is when a guy doesnt call or txt you, they (most of all your mom) would even suggest of you calling or texting the guy. For goodness sake, I am not desperate. If the guy is not interested to contact you, pls. do not attempt to contact him. It only show how desperate that you want to have a relationship w/ him. He has 2 hands and he has brain, so I am sure he is mature enough to know what he wants in a girl.
It is already enough for me to know that he does not want to text or contact me, I get the message and I respect that. I dont need to be a genius to understand that he is not interested in me. But what bother me the most is when my mom start suggesting things that it is not what I am or how i do it. Do my mom really think I'm not affected (about the guy who has no plan to contact me), if she is desperate for me to get married,and afraid I wont be hitch. I am more scared and desperate than she is (coz its my life we're talking here), I am more emotional than she is. And like any other woman, I sure would like to get married one of these days. HOWEVER i would not do something that is out of myself, trying to be someone for the sake of being into a relationship for the sake of being hitch and I will be the one doing all the pursue..trying to call, text after a stranger w/c I hardly know, just bcoz he is Chinese, just bcoz my relatives and mom think he is a good catch coz he is rich, and has a good family background..
Geez, i am really pissed, this time my mom really get into my nerves. I know and understand she just want the best of me, and I know she want me to get married and she want to have grandkids, etc. BUt pls. just let the guy do his thing, let him be the one to do the courting, not the way around. She even asked me if those guys i met and talk, am i the one trying to do the first move? I am really insulted and honestly disappointed w/ my mom's opinion about me coz she only show she does not know me well as her , and also she just show me how she sell me short for any guy she can think of who is willing to take me in. She does not even get to know the person aside from his pocket and his Chinese (dont get me wrong, my parents are well-off, she is not a gold digger, she only want me to marry a well off guy so she can see me settle down and she wont worry about my future). But as they say, you cannot choose the person you want, you can only choose those ppl who come into your life.
Everytime there is a new guy being introduce, my mom get so excited that she start asking the guy questions like where he lives, what he does, etc. I am sure w/ the way she is handling (i know she meant it to be a good intention) but she only scaring the guy off. I love my mom, it just sometimes she can really get into my nerve. I just wish she would just give it a break. If its really meant for me, then the right guy will come. The more she keep pushing, the more she keep hoping, and trying so hard to pursue the guys I met, and only later to be disappointed that there is no development between the guys I met and its not happening as she really hope to be, the more i only feel pressure about it and honestly, i really dont want any of it. I just want to met a guy whom i can enjoy w/ a interesting, decent, fun conversation without having to think if he is rich and enough to keep my mom satisfied w/ her expectation and requirement for her -in-law to be. I just wish i can enjoy a relationship w/out so much requirements that I wonder if there is such guy existed at all. Right now, I would rather be single than have to go w/ so much trouble of finding a mate that matches my families criteria.
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Go for something you believe in
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Posted:Nov 18, 2009 2:55 am
Last Updated:Nov 20, 2009 3:44 am 15999 Views
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Time do run so fast, its already mid-November, and next month is already December. Next yr. is just 1-1/2 month to go and its already 2010. And how you wish you can hold time still and hope you wont grow old each year. But life is not like that, we all will be growing 1year and another year, until we will be gone and the next generation will continue to live in this life and you will be just a memory and some ppl they dont know you. But one thing I know is that you made a difference to those ppl whom you have shared, whom you have touched in their lives. Even its just a small action or small things that you have done but to them its a big thing. I guess, this is life, sometimes it has its up and sometimes it is down. And no matter where it goes up or down, life will still continue to go on whether we have someone to share or we are single, its only the question on how you live your life to the fullest.
I am going to Dubai next mid-January and hoping to find something (which i really dont know what I am looking). All i know is that I am restless right now and I do want to travel..that is always been my passion. I want to see Europe, which i never been there. Before it sound like a dream like its too hard to reach, like its to high for me to grab. But now, i feel its not that hard, as long as you keep on dreaming but most of all, you take one step at a time to your dream. so i am going to Dubai coz they said its easier and faster to get your Europe visa. well thats what I am going to do, see if i can get a job for a few months and yrs and get a europe visa.
My parents are against of me going to Dubai coz they feel I might get in Dubai ..hehehe lolz, i wonder all those female worker in Dubai who are single, are all of them been ? I guess, you can say my parents are kind of protective since I am the only girl in the family. Even i am already 31yrs. old, they still treat me like a 6yrs. old. Sometimes its hard, when you want to do something, there are ppl trying to withhold your decision, your dreams coz they think and believe you will get hurt. However if I am not gonna try, then when will that be? When I am 50, when I am 60? I mean while I am still young and free, I might as well enjoy the things I want to do. I am tired of trying to explain everytime, trying to fight or trying to convince them that it is ok, that I am not going to get hurt, that this is the best way to reach those dreams. But my parents thinks why pursue, why do something that is out of ordinary. They just want me to stay in Cebu. Why work so hard?
I guess, each person has different passion, different beliefs, but most of all, different dreams and its really up to us to make it happen..and until we believe that we can do it, until we pursue that dream, we will be just like the rest of the crowd, waiting for something until your 60yrs. old., only you realize that your life has already pass by and you decide you want to do it, only it was too late, too old and you are already having pains all over your body, that you can hardly move and enjoy it...isnt that sad? So while you have that energy, that youth..go for it.
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spending sometime for myself...
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Posted:Oct 11, 2009 4:29 am
Last Updated:Nov 18, 2009 2:06 am 14699 Views
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past ex's/MU coming back to my life again, causing lots of emotional anxiety, confusion, etc to my peaceful life. U sometimes wonder why, where is this going? Why come back? I mean didnt they left w/ no "goodbyes"..no explaination..and here they are saying "how am i doing?"...I realize whether i like it or not, they will come and go as they please..they will make my heart beating and my stomache butterfly (just as u feel when u saw ur 1st crush)..they make ur thoughts and feelings mushy and insane..sometimes, u cannot help it but think of them w/ all those strong feelings w/c u wish would go away.
I realize you cannot keep them, no matter how much u tried to make it work the relationship to make it whole again. All u can do is be there as now...nothing to bring, nothing to expect, nothing to hope. They are just there to pass by, making ur life colorful..but they are not meant for keeps.
i'm happy now. I learn to accept as it is, not as what i feel it should be or expect that things between us will be more. i'm happy coz i am getting the hang of it as being single and enjoy txting, chatting w/out making it too seriously..(that is always been my problem, i always believe in commitment..i know, my weakness but also my strength). But most of all, i learn to appreciate myself more..love myself more before the other person..I realize giving too much of urself and not getting anything in return is not good, it does make a person empty (coz like anything..u do expect something from all the hardwork u made, only end up zero)..i realize that is life...sometimes the investment u made has something to harvest, but sometimes u are losing it..
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Interesting fact
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Posted:Sep 13, 2009 9:12 pm
Last Updated:Nov 18, 2009 2:15 am 15629 Views
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Mobile phones need battery (even u have a load or monthly pay in ur mobile), it’s still useless without battery. Just like a person we feel tired, restless, lost hope, depress, lonely, sad, etc. we need to re-charge our battery, our source is God and how do we re-charge it? PRAYER..It sad ppl forget to pray due that PRAYER has been taken for granted consider PRAYER is free, 24/7. God is there at our service, anytime, anywhere, when we want to talk to HIM, He is there..yet, we seems to forget about HIM, we are always busy (consider its free) We even value more our mobile phone (we have to pay it in order to txt or to call someone), yet we have time for it.
This interesting info which I got from our Growth seminar which I also have no idea until i heard from it w/c is really interesting and possible u guys can relate to it.
Do you know that we are on a warfare? Not with the terrorist, not w/ the Abu Sayaff, but rather w/ the good and evil. Do you know where Lucifer is ?(the favorite angel of God who later wants to be God, God punish him and we were told he was sent to hell, which is a wrong info). The truth is Lucifer was sent to earth, that’s why we (human) are easily being tempted, coz we are in the middle warfare between good and evil. Lucifer knows our weakness and he knows how easily he can manipulate human being. This is how he works.
Usually, we first go to an admissive state. For ex.: you know u have a high blood and the worst enemy is pork or lechon baboy…u walk in the street corner and u see a lechon in shop…the doctor said, do not eat..but the doctor didn’t say, u cannot go near, so there is nothing wrong to go near and just see and smell the lechon..hehe..lol,so ur in the admissive state…next, u bought the lechon, (the doctor didn’t say its bad for ur health to buy the lechon), ur just going to buy it for your and family. So you bought the lechon..now, while u were walking w/ ur lechon on ur hand..u smell and u put in ur mouth (this is not consider bad to the ur high blood when u put in the mouth, it becomes bad when u swallow it). Now, question, do u think the lechon will be out in ur mouth? Or will be in ur stomache? After its in ur mouth.. Hehee (well, that’s how temptation work).
Here’s another example, you are a married man, u see a beautiful lady, and u took her mobile# (its not wrong to make friends) then later, u txt her, stating good morning sister (its not consider sin to txt and greet somebody). Then later, txt “u take care” (not sin), Later, “I miss you” (not a sin). Later, “can we go out?” “yes” (not a sin). Then later, both feelings develop and later to adultery and u don’t know how you end up w/ such a complicated life. Now, its hard to break up w/ her.
Lucifer does not say go and have an adultery relationship w/ that beautiful lady..he will just slowly one step at a time, come closer and closer until u never thought u are already in it and having hard time to break the sin.
Situation, people, things are not consider bad, but u know and can see it where its heading (and u know, u can vision in the future what will happen and end up doing something u will regret later), however the problem is, we entertain it coz we believe that there is nothing wrong since we havent break the line of doing bad or doing immoral (we are just in the admissive state, its in the middle, w/c is not consider good or bad).
There is no temptation that is not delicious..it is always irresistible, always tempting..the only solution when u are in the admissive state is PRAYER..temptation hits u when ur low, when ur sources are down..so PRAY- 24/7, when u are working, when u r cleaning, when u r taking a bath, when u r cooking, etc. U say, “I don’t have time, I’m always busy”..there is a time in ur day that u r not busy, a place where nobody is w/ u, but urself…that is the time u go to the toilet/ comfort room (lol, ur wife/ cannot possible be with u when ur doing it)-
PRAY..God listen, and its ur armor against temptation, armor against Lucifer who will do anything to get u..whether u believe it or not, there is really good and bad in this world..we (human) are in the middle of the war. The question is which side are you? How can u protect urself, ur family, ur friends, ur loved one? And what will u do to protect urself and them? Prayer is FREE, the problem w/ us is we are lazy to talk to God, to have time w/ him..u don’t have to go to church.
Anywhere, anytime, HE listens..its only a question if we are persistent and willing to spend time w/ Him.
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Imagine this scenery...
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Posted:Sep 13, 2009 8:23 pm
Last Updated:May 16, 2024 10:19 am 14947 Views
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Imagine this scenery: You and I are on a great climb. The wall is high, and the stakes are higher. You took your first step, your first were confident and strong, but with the journey came weariness, and with the height came fear. You lost your footing. You lost your focus. You lost your grip, and you fell. For a moment, which seemed like forever, you tumbled wildly. Out of control. Out of self-control. Disoriented. Dislodged. Falling. But then the rope tightened, and the tumble ceased. You hung in the harness and found it to be strong. You grasped the rope and found it to be true. And though u can’t see ur guide, u know him. U know he is strong. U know he is able to keep you from falling.
(The moment you took your first step, the day you confessed Christ as the of God. He gave you His harness–the Holy Spirit. In your hands He placed a rope–His Word. “God is strong and can help you not to fall”- Jude 24
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What is your price? How do value as a person?
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Posted:Sep 13, 2009 8:23 pm
Last Updated:May 16, 2024 10:19 am 15013 Views
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No matter how much money, fame, power you have, all things will pass, I don’t know why ppl keep on believing and working on what the world thinks we should work on, in fact it’s the opposite to what we are asked to do or given a task to do. Yet, a lot of ppl forget the real and main reason why we are here in the first place, instead we have put priority on our earthly roles.
We will all die, that is a fact, no one can escape it , rich or poor will all die. Maybe not now, maybe later, nobody knows. Death comes like a thief..it does not tell and announce you when..so be prepare..the question is when it comes, will u be like the person who will say, I still have so many things that I have not done or the person who will say, I am ready..
what is ur price/ or ur value as a person? Is your life measured by how much u own? Is person’s worth equates w/ a person’s purse?
Is this ur equation: U got a lot=u are a lot. U got a little= u are a little.
If u are sum of what u own, then by all means own it all. No price is too high. NO payment is too much. But if anything cost u, ur faith or ur family, then the price u pay is just too high.
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We forget the basic in life
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Posted:Sep 13, 2009 8:21 pm
Last Updated:Sep 18, 2009 1:23 am 15584 Views
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We forget the basic, life journey is not always exciting, sometime is just ur everyday mundane/boring life. However, as you travel, u meet all sort of ppl, it might be ur neighbor who is a nagger, u meet a stranger who need financial help, ur mom needs someone to talk too, or your brother/sister need an advise…sometimes life is just a small, insignificant and unexciting and not much to talk about, and u feel nobody notice the little things you’ve done but God does, he sees every little thing u have done ..u might not received the praises, the confirmation of the good things you have done (then let me tell u, ur doing great..and God thinks too) In time, he will bless you back the good things you have done. I know, ur tired, u feel like giving up, u feel there is not much to live for..but just wait, He will come and u wont feel tired anymore. He will put u in His house where u will just praise and give thanks to HIM..everything from fear, doubt, anxiety, trouble, sadness, loneliness, etc.. everything will all be gone.
Sometimes doing good is boring, unexciting, unnoticed and not easy and worst, nobody has given you credit for all the things u have done..and the ppl around you instead of appreciating your goodness, they even think, talk and see you as bad (worst, they try to ruin ur reputation, gossiping to other ppl)…remember, u know urself, u know what u have done, u know who ur serving w/, just remember its God, not them who’s going to credit your work., who’s going to ask what u have done w/ ur life?
Life is only a temporary place to live by, all of us here are foreigners living on earth while waiting God to take us back in heaven. We are not meant to be happy, coz we are not made for earthly happiness but for eternal life (that’s why u wonder, why u feel emptiness, why u feel uncontentment, feel depress, etc.)..we forgot that our purpose in here on earth is not to consume, to own, to have more, but to serve and do something for others and to believe that Christ is our savior and after this life, there is an eternal life waiting for us. God will not judge us, but rather it is us. God has given us time, free will, choices to do what is good and right or to do bad and wrong. So it is up to us if we will do it on the right way or in the wrong way..in then end, we should be accountable to our action
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When Loneliness sets in...
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Posted:Sep 13, 2009 8:20 pm
Last Updated:Sep 18, 2009 1:27 am 15553 Views
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When loneliness sets in, when sadness overwhelms u. U see ppl lives progressing, happy w/ their own happy family, , financially stable, etc. while you are stuck and don’t know what do w/ ur life. How u wish u were them, how u wish also u have ur happy ending, successful and have everything in life. But life is not like that, sometimes u r alone in this world..living day by day, wondering where ur going, if there is someone out there for u, if you will be successful in life, will u live ur life w/ purpose or will u just be like the rest of the ppl who live day after day and waiting death to come and that’s the end of ur life.
Sometimes the temptation is so great, to just join the rest of the crowd, just go from one relationship unto another relationship (coz nobody wants to be lonely, we are taught that u should have somebody w/ u). Or how about ur craving for excitement in life, hoping for a quick thrill, hoping to appease that mundane/boring life/ that emptiness you had and live a life like u seen in tv/movie..exciting, thrilling life, popular, and famous to other ppl.
“You’ve heard them. They tell you to swap your integrity for a new sale. To barter your conviction to an easy deal. To exchange your devotion for a quick thrill. They whisper. They woo. They taunt. They tantalize. They flirt. They flatter. “Go ahead, its ok.” “Don’t worry, no one will know.” The world promises flashy pleasures; while Jesus promises a quiet dinner…which voices do u hear?
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