Denise is home!
My sister from another mother, Denise is finally home from her three month vacation. It was great seeing her again.
Thanks for a good day, sister! 🙂
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Day Eighty One: May 03, 2010
Joshua’s Dinosaur Kingdom
This kid is extremely brilliant.
Day Eighty: May 02, 2010
Who’s the Cutest Baby on the Planet?
Spent the day with this little one. 🙂
Day Seventy Six: May 01, 2010
The Anti-Labor Day Movement
Angelie and I were the only ones at work and it was fun.
I love Angelie, she’s probably one of my closest friends and it’s funny how we can talk about anything and everything.
I don’t think Angelie has a mean bone in her body and she’s always cheerful. I love being around her just because she’s very optimistic and very positive.
Thank you Angelie for siomai moments, for ice cream moments and everything else in between.
I <3>
Day Seventy Five: April 30, 2010
Cancelled Plans
I was supposed to surprise Denise at her place since she just got home but since it was raining so hard, I decided to just visit her the next day.
I enjoyed watching random Disney TV shows instead.
But Thank God for the rain and the Disney Channel.
Day Seventy Four: April 29, 2010
“He came so we can have LIFE and have it to the full.”
Life Conference 2010 was pretty awesome! It’s a good thing that we were able to attend even for just one day.
So much love and so much light to be found in a group of young people.
I was definitely encouraged and transformed. 🙂
I love following Christ and finding people who share the same love and passion for Him 🙂
Day Seventy Three: April 28, 2010
I was a bit lazy to upload my project 365 pictures but rest assured that I still take pictures everyday.
April 28, 2010 was a Wednesday and after work, we went straight to Pipay’s house and as usual she was a darling in front of the camera and she attacked my ipod like no other.
Believe me, she scores higher on the games than me.
We Are Never Truly Alone
The biggest lies that we are bombarded with every single day is this: we are alone, we cannot relate to other people and no matter what we do, people cannot really love us if they saw how we are in the dark.
These lies have had such a stronghold on everyone i meet, no matter how they cover it up and no matter how they pretend that they don’t care if people love them or not.
In reality, people need other people, not to meet their needs or to make them feel good about themselves, but believe it or not, we need other people not so they can meet our needs, but we need other people so we can meet their needs.
It’s pretty much like eating chocolate.
When you see it, you just want to pounce and eat the whole pack (in my case) instead of sharing it and after awhile, when all the beautiful chocolates are gone, what’s left is my big tummy and that guilty feeling.
I feel bad in all the right places and I feel like I should have just shared the calories.
The same way with human relationships. Most of the time, since we’ve been so hurt before, we start thinking that sharing our problems with other people (not for solutions but to merely feel good about ourselves or to feel that the burden has been lifted) would only cause greater heartache.
There is so much distrust in our hearts that we feel that we should keep it all inside and it would all go away.
But just like the nasty chocolate stains and the calories that they bring, the darkness doesn’t really go away.
It rots in there, along with the lies that the enemy brings and it turns a person into an isolated mess.
I’ve been battling with something in the past week and I felt compelled to keep it a secret until today, until I couldn’t take it anymore.
And while chatting with an old friend, finally being able to let out every fear and every insecurity that I had in the past week, I suddenly felt better.
Like a heavy burden has been lifted and I can finally smile sincerely.
I’m not saying that human relationships should replace our relationship with God since we shouldn’t expect from people what we should be expecting from God.
We should be completely satisfied in Him before we can truly relate to others.
But in order to heal, God uses people on earth so we don’t feel so alone.
So don’t believe the lie that you are alone because there are people who care and people who are willing to listen.
We are never truly alone.
Light
Loneliness is a lie that the enemy uses to attack people.
It’s where most of our depression lies (ironic huh?) and it is rooted in the darkest pit of our hearts that hardly no one sees.
It’s a lie that dispels most relationships and a lie that breaks a lot of people.
But of course the lie does not hold any truth to it because the only truth I know comes from the One who sent His son to the cross to take my place.
And the Father who did that to me would not want me to live in the pits every single day of my life.
He wants me to live in victory and He wants me to celebrate every single day of my life.
And it is not true that He disappears because if you look close enough you can see His glory in the little things such as a family laughing together, a baby taking its first steps, a girl finally finding the prince that she’s been praying for her entire life and people shining life into another person’s life during that person’s darkest hour.
God’s magnifience is around us every single moment of every day.
Being able to see, being able to feel, being able to smell the scent of the rain, these are the miracles of life.
Life is fantastic. We just have to fight through the lies and believe that Our Father wants nothing but the best for us.
And that hope should be able to drive out the darkness, no matter how dark it may seem in our lives.
on my own
There are days when you get out of bed and you instantly crave for something.
It’s something that couldn’t be consumed, but instead it’s something that you longed for in the deepest pit of your heart.
It’s something you want to carry around and it’s something you want to fill your heart with.
But I don’t feel it. And it’s especially hard because you’re relying on that to make your days fuller and to make you feel complete and yet it isn’t there.
I’ve tried searching and I’ve tried looking at my heart to see where I went wrong.
But I guess it’s all part of this journey that I’ve submitted myself to.
And there are times of intense longing because it is only through that longing that we seek intensively.
And it is only through that longing that we understand that this relationship is personal and should not be contrasted to other people’s relationship with Him.
That sometimes we have to learn to shut our mouth for a moment and just see Him move and hear Him speak.
Because I know despite the saddest and loneliest of days, He is there.
All we have to do is to look into our hearts and worship Him.
And believe that this is not what the journey is composed of, it is merely a stopover towards the great things that He has in store.
That He wants nothing but the best for us so that in turn, we can glorify His kingdom.
