Thank You

Just a little while longer I wanna pray
Can't get You off my mind so I came to say
Thank You Lord just for loving me
Many times as I do forget
Every need that You have met
Oh thank You Lord, I know You're showing me
You are there when I am down and out
You're holding me, Your love is so amazing
Oh it changed me

Chorus:
Here I am with all I am
Raise my hands to worship You
I wanna say thank you, oh thank you
For everything, for who You are
You cover me, You touch my heart
I wanna say thank you

I could have died in my sin but You saved me
Didn't have any hope at all
You gave me peace divine, strength to carry on
I should have been the one to pay
But instead You took my place
My Jesus, words cannot explain
Even though I don't deserve Your love for me
You look beyond my fault and You showed mercy

CHORUS

I wanna say thank you for the sun
I wanna say thank you for the rain
Everything You do is beautiful
I'm so grateful for Your love

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Echoes of our hearts....

Echoes of Our Hearts

Author Unknown

Sometimes we close our eyes and just listen to the echoes of our hearts. We all fall in love and there are times when we love so much that we lose ourselves in our emotions. More often than not, we wonder why there are love that grows, and love that grows cold. We would start to search for answers and try to find where love has gone wrong. But in the end, we find ourselves where we started for we cannot question love when it has its own reasons. Love will always be as it always has been....silent, mysterious and deeply profound.

Many of us believe that love is forever, that love never dies, only to be disillusioned in the end when we find our hands empty and our hearts longing. We mistakenly have looked at love as a need to be fulfilled. But love is a gift given to us. We should not hold it in our hands for we may never find the strength to let it go when it decides to leave. We should only embrace its warmth and glow while it last and then freely open our arms when its time to say good-bye.

When we fall in love, we don't want that feeling to end for it is everything we are, everything we wanted to be. We pray that love will stay and grow in our hearts. But if it doesn't then we should never let our lives be taken by it, for life should not end where heartaches begin.

There is always a reason why we have to move on. When we have to say good-bye to the feeling we wanted to stay forever, let us not wave our hands with a heavy heart. For love will have to set its wings free and find the place where it belongs. We may have lost it but then again, when we close our eyes and listen to the echoes of our hearts, we will hear that feeling resounding silently forever.

Then we'll know that love never left us, for the good that we have become because of love will always stay. Love will always be there, reminding us that we should be thankful and happy not because we have lost love, but because, for once in our lives, that feeling called love lived in our hearts and made us happy.

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Time with friends....

Got home from dinner with my best friends Judith and Cristy. We've known each other more than half our lifetimes, we were classmates since sixth grade and we've shared lots of memories together. Judith joined me in IIT for two and then transferred to XU and joined Cristy and finished her studies there. Cristy is my officemate since 1999 and we are now in the same department.

Its nice to have this private time, Cristy and me spend the whole with work while Judith is busy with her business and three kids.

The food was great, it was Judith's treat, theres T-bone steak, barbecue, and siszzling sisig and my all time paborito blueberry cheese cake. Wow, I just love blueberry cheesecakes. I realized we were not getting any younger, I felt young but realized that hey, Im not getting any younger but of course I wont force myself to situations the way Judith shared her struggles with family , business and marriage.It was serious stuff but I know she's strong and she can manage everything, all I can do is share my prayers for her and her family.

Lesson learned, Ill have to enjoy the time while Im single coz theres really a lot that instore ahead and I dont know if im ready to face all thats going to come when I reach that time in my life. Theres a lot of responsibility, and it takes a mature person to endure it, with all the adjustments to do and the buzz of marriage. Id rather enjoy the meal than think of things that would scare me even just the thought of it.

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Sleepy on a rainy day saturday!

Woke up very early today went to the market bought bangus and bananas for breakfast, I feel sleepy with the weather and while cooking I was thinking of bed and sleeping. Multi tasked, cooking and washing the clothes at the same time ( its always a saturday habit of mine). Woke the people for breakfast at about 6:30 in the morning I just ate a piece of banana and darnk hot choco, its just hard to eat when you are the one cooking, I just thought the daing na bangus just made the art of frying more easy, nothing fancy but the smell was just a meal in itself. Hanged the clothes and off to bed I went, wow, it rained again and I hope it wont stop

Its 9am and im all sleepy, my looking like garfield's eyes dreamy and wanting to sleep more.
I dont know if I slept very late last night, dindt know whats the time when I just lay there unable to sleep, wanting to sleep with eyes closed but mind is drifting to oblivion. The blueberry cheesecake I ate for dinner lingered on my mind luke super glue, with the sweet sour mango shake. Even now im sleepy but just cant sleep so I surfed the internet instead, facebook, read the news and was just frustrated with the sports news, Ginebra lost last night. Wow! Im just glad I went out last night and did not witness the bitter loss of my team. It hurts but I have to move on the beermen won, didnt have the inetrest to read that column.
Sleepy, sleepy....I have to prepare for my trip to el salvador and after my trip to Iligan for the Leaders Bible Study with the youth in Marawi and Iligan city and thats another tiring trip, Im not really fond of trips, I hate the smell of the bus and the not so nice men passengers (I had a not so nice experience before, so that explains why I prefer sharing the seat with a woman than with a man). I also dont like travelling alone, I love travelling and talking with someone but the seatmates are sleepers as well so often I end up sleeping or watching the dvd of the driver.

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Love is for Losers?

"You can learn a lot about a person by what his or her T-shirt says. Recently, one of these messages caught my attention as I walked through a local shopping mall. A young woman wore a bright red T-shirt that said, "Love Is for Losers." Maybe she thought it was clever or provocative, even funny. Or perhaps she had been hurt by a relationship and had pulled away from others rather than risk being hurt again. Either way, the T-shirt got me thinking."

Is love for losers? The fact is, when we love, we take risks. People could very well hurt us, disappoint us, or even leave us. Love can lead to loss.

The Bible, though, challenges us to higher ground in loving others. In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul describes what it means to live out God"s kind of love. The person who exercises godly love doesn"t do so for personal benefit or gain but rather "bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things" (13:7). Why? Because godly love endures beyond life"s hurts by pulling us relentlessly toward the never-diminishing care of the Father.

So, perhaps love is for losers"-for it is in times of loss and disappointment that we need God the most. Even in our struggles, we know that "love never fails." — Bill Crowder

Unfailing is God"s matchless love,
So kind, so pure, so true;
And those who draw upon that love
Show love in what they do. "-D. De Haan

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Duyana Ako...

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Blah blahs and a lot more

Its a wierd afternoon, after the rocky road ice cream, someone gave us a pot of yummy lomi soup which left the ice cream to melt and was forgotten. The soup was perfect to match the heavy rain pouring outside, I have do double time balancing the cash and checks and all for 5:30 is the schedule of our union meeting.
It took so much time since i have to figure out the checks, my report didnt match and have to do a whole two page review to find the problem,things really happen when we have other things in mind and making it more unbearable and making me impatientl as well.
Im a no to union individual but unfortunately the Yes to union people won and I have no choice but to be a part of that union they created to bargain and ask for more benefit and what other demands they have in mind. Its such a wierd day, with the heavy rain and the not so pleasant stare of the pro-union group after the questions that I have raised. I thought of the hot lomi that I did not enjoy eating coz I was i a hurry to that union thing, I could have stayed and enjoyed the comforting lomi soup.
I just didnt like the meeting, everything about it and hurriedly went to our highschool friend's house (another food indulging activity, since its her birthday). And after the stress and the not so good stares, Im just glad that I escaped it and enjoy the yummy food prepared. Wow, beef in cream sauce, lechon kawali, stuffed shrimp (im allergic with shrimps but how can I not eat), casava cake, strawberry cheesecake...it was a therapy, all bad vibes just faded away and fogotten. Wait, there was still macaroni salad but I was to full to even taste it. We went home with smiles and all revived by the stomach filling experience.
When I reached home the noise of the bands jamming on the ACSAT gym infront of our house. The band performers were just as annoying as they can be, it was not music but noise to my ears. How, can I sleep then with all the shouting and incomprehensible lyrics and a singing style I didnt know ever existed, ( it was like a devil shouting, the high volume that I was afraid the singers would have throat cancer after their singing or shouting spree, hehehehe). They finished at around 1:30 and now im back to the solemn environment conducive to sleeping.
It was a food filled day and tomorrow is a saturday, its now 2:03 am and have to wake up very early in the morning for im the breakfast cook.

God bless us all!

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I craved for durian ice cream got rocky road instead.

Its been days that craved for durian ice cream.I miss the energy giving scent of durian but the durian ice cream will suffice. Our manager granted our wish and gave us an ice cream treat. We asked our helpmat to buy ice cream for us. I waited patiently with good imagination of how to eat the ice cream. When itcame it was not durian ice cream but rocky road instead. It was good than having nothing but it would have been great if it was durian flavor.

My insight its that God uses people to grant our wishes but often times its really not what exactly what we craved for or hope for . While we were eating my officemate said that she wanted durian and she does not like the rocky road that much. I told her that its better than not having any ice cream at all. Its to appreciate what we have and thank God for the what we have than wishing for whats missing.

happy week end!

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Words to Remember

1. What's at the center of our attention is what has us. Whatever we give our attention to either to make or break us.

2. God loves us enough to accept us as we , but He loves us too much to leave us that way.

3. Nothing is so relevant as the eternal.

4. Attack problems, not people.

5. To change, we must want something else more than what we now have. Scriptures say we will find the Lord only when we look for Him with all our heart (Jeremiah 29:13)

6. Live for what you will not regret when you die. "What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? (Matthew 16:26).

7. The secret of abundance is found in what we have, but in what we enjoy (or thankful for).

8. Fear God - not to run from Him, but to Him.

9. We can learn more from our critics than our admirers. Some tell us how wonderful we are. Others tell us the truth.

10. "When Im the presence of God, it seems profoundly unbecoming to demand anything".

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Father's Day CArd

Made copies of this picture and gave them to fathers last father's day.
As I read those wonderful words, I remember papa.
I miss you pa.

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Back to an old template

Spent half day on the net, at first template surfing and then ended up watching Go Junpyo instead.(hehehe, He is so handsome and with those eyes that as if were looking at me, imagining I was Geum Jandi...hay!But in fairness I like Jihoo to be paired with Geum Jandi than Go Junpyo).

I got bored with the previous template and now I ended up using this old one I used before. Start all over again since I lost all the changes that I made and all the widgets and I I know its going to take me so much time and effort. I missed posting here, 3 weddings I joined, the servant leaders training and a lot more to blog about.(This would require much more time and a lot of memory recalling).I got busy with customer service work with papers here and there, but nothing that I cant handle well.

Im trying to figure out if I was able to save the html codes, and I remember I lost them when the laptop just decided to turn off on its own (which means, another nerve damaging situation that I have to endure).

Well, all is well that ends well and I will have to try again tomorrow for another blogging adventure.

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