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Loves hard, found the easiest

Imagine how irritating for you if someone snores or does any annoying sound. How you can't be around it or sleep with such noise. But when you heard it from someone you consider 'the one', you will laugh coz i did. My thought was, "woah, so she does this too" hahahahah. And you'll treasure it forever. Yep, that's one of her flaws but

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God’s Intervention

Dati gustong gusto kong balikan ‘yong panahon para lang mabago ‘yong mga bagay na hindi gusto, mga past na gusto kong hindi dapat nangyare. Mga nagprevent sakin para makapunta ng debuts. Pero ngayon? Gusto ko na lang bumalik kasi gusto ko ulitin yung simula, gusto kong makita ulit kung paano ko nalaman na ikaw ang itinakda.

Hindi man sa libro nakalagda, hindi man natin naiintindihan noon ang tandahana. Okay lang, nasa tabi kita. Okay lang, kasi ngiti mo ‘yong nakikita.

Nagsimula man sa salikmatang hinuha, tumutulay sa mga banging inilalagay sa tula.

Gusto ko paring maulit. Makitang muli. Marinig ulit. Tapos hindi ko paaabutin sa huli.

Simulan natin sa umpisa kung paano ka nagkwento, kung paano mo binuhos. Hinugot ang mga ugat ng nalalanta mo nang nakaraan.

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Pause?

I saw a squirrel today. As it runs holding some scavenged good, i really thought it was awesome. But then i don't have anyone right now to share it with, i remembered then, what is keeping your thoughts made me comfortable when you were not yet around. Because you know, we can't talk to each other. Do i have to lose my bestfriend, on this wait?

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Assurance that we have through Him

On beginning our walk with Christ the idea of having an easier ride, or a shorter jeepney line on your way home or way to work is not real. Kapag sinuko mo ‘yong buhay mo kay Christ, para kang na scam ng networking na sobrang sure kang mas magiging madali ang lahat at mas mabilis. Well, i’m gonna burst that bubble of yours, na scam ka. But bare with me, it’s a good scam. 

Kasi kahit ako eh, the thought that was on my mind for so long was that if I surrendered my life to Him, life would just be a piece of cake. I know, worries and hardships won’t disappear but what was on my mind is that as the path goes, it will gonna get easier and easier and easier. But this thought led me to where I am now.

Even the 19 year old me will never believe where I am and who have I become. From a while back, I thought that believing in yourself is the best thing you can do on this world, but as I go, I began to believe in me a little less and a little less each day. I learned that giving value to the unseen more than to what your eyes can see will transform you onto someone who you would not even think of, the you, that you can never compare yourself 3 months from now.

The transforming power of the one who created the oceans and earth and all that resides in it, will make you believe that He is real. With every life and stories that is being shared from within the corners of the congregation will make your heart be vulnerable and soft and submissive that the frozen part of you will be touched and will slowly melt as if you were renewed. 

As an introduction, these words are nothing but a dust from what His relationship can offer. 

God will always give you the “sakto sa’yo” and “sakto na”, in short, chemistry and timing. The world will say to you that you need to have that butterfly in your stomach, and feel the world in a slow mo, or see the moon a lot bigger than you usual do and that’s it, that’s your goal, or for others that’s love. oohhh, you were on the latter aren’t yah? no? okay.

Whenever we have a desire, it’s the best decision to surrender it to God. Pray for it. Let Him be the one to stitch the story for you so it will never be as excruciating compared if you’ve gone alone. Learn to love the process. Christ will always be greater than the gift He has given us or He has been delaying. 

Tell every story you have on that matter, speak to Him as if He is beside you. Prioritizing His will over yours. This will develop our character in Him, you will become what He wants you to be. Don’t ever forget that our very goal is not to maximize the “freedom” that the world says, but to acknowledge that our goal is to glorify Him with every little efforts that we can and every atom in our physical form.

Maybe that’s why He said wait. Maybe that’s why He said no. Always ask the question, to where the glory would fall if i received this prayer? Our hearts? our deceitful hearts that if you gently pressed would excrete a poison sludge that will surely kill a 20,000 lbs elephant in an instant. Your ego? YOU? Even king Solomon who is one of the wisest king ever lived, could not handle the gift God has given Him. He could not keep the words God has told Him to keep.

Our character, our hearts, what we can see, all these and more, can never ever give us any assurance and peace. But He can. So whenever you are about to start a dream, a goal, a simple task, a talk with someone, even tiniest thing we do, always start with the Lord. Making Him a routine will keep you away from rotting, for He is the way, the truth and the life. 

I don’t know how impossible your situation is or situations are, but in Him we find our rest and security that no matter what happens, even if it’s a yes or no, a stop or a go, an embrace or a goodbye; nothing can make our soul at home than with Him on it, with Him in it and with Him over it.

And when you understand that God has the best plan and the best picture there is, you would love na ma-scam ng ma-scam kung kay Lord naman. For i’d rather be scammed by God and lost everything from this world than to lost everything and that’s it. Because when we lose something off this world we gradually gain His love and grow in His shadows. Our loss, His gain.

ALWAYS ASK OURSELVES THE QUESTION, HAVE I SOUGHT GOD TODAY?