Monday, June 23, 2014
Now I can tell why my mom's smile glows and unending these past few days. She got a golden time with her Apos Isaiah and Aaron. God just simply made it so. We are all oblivious to this great opportunity when suddenly I asked the two boys... if they knew why their flights were delayed. As polite and courteous as they are, they said no and there it is wide open the reason why is because this is the moment to bond with them both genuinely without their mom and dad who went home ahead in Hawaii. These are very important crossroads that this event shall happen among us that I believe God so engineered so well. In my heart I understood but I am not just privy to the bigger picture. But it just simply showed God's infinite glory and majesty in our lives. Really a golden opportunity is really golden even if it is mired with mud or any filth for in its extreme heat or challenges, the pureness of it comes out shining. Is it the power of or the gift of obedience. Thank you Isaiah and Aaron for giving mom your most loving and comforting gestures, for making her very special and for making her feel so loved. Thank you Ferdie and Tanya...In God's love and time, all is good.
On Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg
In this Bible study we talked about blessings.......I asked what did Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg did to have been blessed enormously? Pastor ...Herbie replied that it is what you sow. So what makes them different with other people who sow great seeds too that at the pyramid of worldly wealth, they are at the tip lording it all over 7 billion people. Incredible fate and seemed like they were singled out for this incredible feat. Yes everyone has their own blessings and one should not compare but the magnitude of their blessings is undeniably anoint them as heavily favored beings. But that conversation didn't escape my mind ...IT IS WHAT YOU SOW!!! SO what did Bill Gates or Mark Z sow?...My own thinking says their works is what they sow and the effects to the entire creations is unprecedented. It has changed the way the world do its business or daily activities in a very positive way. It has made life easy in a quantum leap. Their works have been so revolutionary that made life far convenient, mind bogglingly finger clicking easy that created life enhancing discoveries, communications so sophisticated that made a year technology easily obsolete too soon....There their works has propped up life enormously and their rewards are equally enormous. So I was thinking these guys must have thought, focused, sank their teeth to their works but little did they knew that the effects will be this spanking sophistication and revolutionary and life changing. But what I am sure now of is any work is great as long as it is dedicated for the greatest good will become like a prayer and will be answered like a prayer too. Because works that enhances and protects and works that are LIFE CHANGING are blessed in maximum grace imaginable. SO is a life in sincere philanthropy is blessed a life in sincere tithing is obedience and this renders us needless and become heirs of the Kingdom for we become givers and not receivers."
In this Bible study we talked about blessings.......I asked what did Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg did to have been blessed enormously? Pastor ...Herbie replied that it is what you sow. So what makes them different with other people who sow great seeds too that at the pyramid of worldly wealth, they are at the tip lording it all over 7 billion people. Incredible fate and seemed like they were singled out for this incredible feat. Yes everyone has their own blessings and one should not compare but the magnitude of their blessings is undeniably anoint them as heavily favored beings. But that conversation didn't escape my mind ...IT IS WHAT YOU SOW!!! SO what did Bill Gates or Mark Z sow?...My own thinking says their works is what they sow and the effects to the entire creations is unprecedented. It has changed the way the world do its business or daily activities in a very positive way. It has made life easy in a quantum leap. Their works have been so revolutionary that made life far convenient, mind bogglingly finger clicking easy that created life enhancing discoveries, communications so sophisticated that made a year technology easily obsolete too soon....There their works has propped up life enormously and their rewards are equally enormous. So I was thinking these guys must have thought, focused, sank their teeth to their works but little did they knew that the effects will be this spanking sophistication and revolutionary and life changing. But what I am sure now of is any work is great as long as it is dedicated for the greatest good will become like a prayer and will be answered like a prayer too. Because works that enhances and protects and works that are LIFE CHANGING are blessed in maximum grace imaginable. SO is a life in sincere philanthropy is blessed a life in sincere tithing is obedience and this renders us needless and become heirs of the Kingdom for we become givers and not receivers."
Now I can tell why my mom's smile glows and unending these past few days. She got a golden time with her Apos Isaiah and Aaron. God just simply made it so. We are all oblivious to this great opportunity when suddenly I asked the two boys... if they knew why their flights were delayed. As polite and courteous as they are, they said no and there it is wide open the reason why is because this is the moment to bond with them both genuinely without their mom and dad who went home ahead in Hawaii. These are very important crossroads that this event shall happen among us that I believe God so engineered so well. In my heart I understood but I am not just privy to the bigger picture. But it just simply showed God's infinite glory and majesty in our lives. Really a golden opportunity is really golden even if it is mired with mud or any filth for in its extreme heat or challenges, the pureness of it comes out shining. Is it the power of or the gift of obedience. Thank you Isaiah and Aaron for giving mom your most loving and comforting gestures, for making her very special and for making her feel so loved. Thank you Ferdie and Tanya...In God's love and time, all is good.
Life is a challenge. It is filled with incredible and overwhelming problems we face or escape everyday. It was meant that way. We try to solve each challenge where we have little knowledge or solve it with what other people say and definitely a hit and miss experience. But Pastor Bobby Schuller of Hour of Power Ministry said in a manner like this that for those who have little knowledge or relationship with God, it will be chaotic and depressing but for those who have faith in God will look at problems differently as an opportunity to grow spiritually with no fear or doubt that God is in charge. Faith is the key to grace. And to have faith is a long tedious process of self evolution and purification. It is not something you read and know and have it else you are lying to yourself. Faith is something personal that you achieve. It comes with suffering, in suffering you hope, when you hope you endure when you endure you achieve patience when you have patience you defeat your demons and when you defeat your demons you achieve peace and when you have peace you start to have a relationship with God and this manifests the faith and because of this faith you are now ready to receive GRACE... You will know sincerely if you have it. There is no short cut for this creates the real and authentic you. Or else you will just be a split personality who knew so many things, proclaiming so much yet empty inside because it is not authentic.
Saturday, May 31, 2014
On my Mother...Growing up I realized I am a tough lot. I am very competitive and driven. Very strong mind. Even at home with the family I am kind of assertive. There are a lot of issues that I have covered to understand myself. With my mom, 1001 issues. Our family was struck with a misfortune when our own rosy fortune was nipped in the bud when my dad was paralyzed. I was six. My parents w...ere at their prime but was tasked for more struggles and mores struggles. The stress level was so high that eventually my mom and me has grudging differences and resentments. I resented her weaknesses that I thought my own fortune was nipped in the bud when she "blackmailed" me to forego a very good job after graduation from a very big company that had me soaring to high heavens after being taken in among the thousands of applicants of the batch 81. So I thought.
And I spent the next 15 years in my sleepy hometown. I took the journey with all it's struggles and bitter downfalls and really they were extremes. Yet at the end of my rope it was my mom whom I called for help and she did. Yet my grudges with her was not over until I moved again in LA and started my own life and for 14 years of distance, I thought I was finally on my own. Four years ago she joined me at 74, she was almost a stranger to me and the first year was struggle. But I can not deny the love of a mother flowing from her for it is so sincere. Slowly I realized that I have to loosen up and let go of my stored contemptuous emotions and grudges towards her for these felt so limiting. For the first time, I laid down my guard, my biases and personal opinions and look at her heart, where she is coming from emotionally and from physically did she come from. I saw the love of a mother, the incredible gentleness that is inside it and her effort to let it loose on me to make me feel her warmth amidst her own limitations. Slowly my eyes were opened up how great is her will to dodge the odds and give us her greatest even until now. My heart melted at the small things she does to bridge our gaps. Small things yet her humility is reckoning. She is no longer strong and steel willed. Yet I would love to see her be her own but she'd rather let go and let God. End of whatever struggle. I have forgiven our past and so to myself that I am at bliss enjoying the incredible love of a mother. This is if we only allow and let it flow and generously it will nurture us back. Thank you God for mothers. Happy MOTHERS' Day to all moms and most especially my mom Julie!!!
And I spent the next 15 years in my sleepy hometown. I took the journey with all it's struggles and bitter downfalls and really they were extremes. Yet at the end of my rope it was my mom whom I called for help and she did. Yet my grudges with her was not over until I moved again in LA and started my own life and for 14 years of distance, I thought I was finally on my own. Four years ago she joined me at 74, she was almost a stranger to me and the first year was struggle. But I can not deny the love of a mother flowing from her for it is so sincere. Slowly I realized that I have to loosen up and let go of my stored contemptuous emotions and grudges towards her for these felt so limiting. For the first time, I laid down my guard, my biases and personal opinions and look at her heart, where she is coming from emotionally and from physically did she come from. I saw the love of a mother, the incredible gentleness that is inside it and her effort to let it loose on me to make me feel her warmth amidst her own limitations. Slowly my eyes were opened up how great is her will to dodge the odds and give us her greatest even until now. My heart melted at the small things she does to bridge our gaps. Small things yet her humility is reckoning. She is no longer strong and steel willed. Yet I would love to see her be her own but she'd rather let go and let God. End of whatever struggle. I have forgiven our past and so to myself that I am at bliss enjoying the incredible love of a mother. This is if we only allow and let it flow and generously it will nurture us back. Thank you God for mothers. Happy MOTHERS' Day to all moms and most especially my mom Julie!!!
Wonderful Facebook...it enabled me to remember so many moms today...and everyone had great stories, comments and greets for all moms...no one is perfect yet a mother's love to a child is so unconditional that I can tell it's the nearest ide...a you can imagine about God's love.....Such is the bond that a mother feels for her child(ren)....yeah let's just continue loving our moms earnestly while they are with us....I got a second chance and I thank God for this wonderful gift....having a mom with you really is sooooooooooo priceless!!! I feel blessed!! Happy Mothers'Day to all moms!!!God bless u all!!!! See More
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