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Philippians 1:3
I thank my God every time I remember you
The best captures for me where the splendor of words have parched, blossomed, and rejoiced in my heart happened in my early childhood years. These captures have my soul gripping and moving to every reminiscent of childhood memories.
And Today is a good spring day to bring such hope, faith & love into Thanksgiving. I still remember vividly how as a happy & inquisitive child I was with a heart that is softened and hearkened by the divine beauty and its abundance found in Nature's warmth color & earthly scent.
My soul was and still is content of marveling "sunshine" flowers growing unleashed in the fields; watching birds whirled, chattered-- hearing their tweets as they fly before my eyes. All those early "walks" in the valleys along with the neighborhood kids & friends will always be an auspice of joy. How would you get over or get tired watching the sunrise & the sunset; the sky that remains bluer in your mind while settling in one of the sturdy branches of a fruit tree, undisturbed. Thanks to my late dad whose toils on the ground had produced plenty. He grew fruit trees, vegetable gardens, landscaped, designed and planted the surroundings of our house with perennial flowers and bushes. And mom was always there to inspire my dad's work by merely teaching us to be mindful and grateful of God's providence in us as a family and respecting stewardship. I could never think of a footage in my memory where I have to dispel, skip or mute a season of sorrow. I had many bubbly, "just right" childhood memories that I go back to--periodically, and in special day like today. These are good memories and I have plenty of them. Thus, the whole gamut of these childhood experiences have impacted me up to a point where I didn't wanna grow mature and just soak myself to unburdened, less complicated life like when I was young. I've always been a dreamer, a chaser of what has framed my young mind--words that edifies, hums, breathes inspiration within the parameters of who I am spiritually. God's grace, I believe has always been a given.
Today, it feels like that...traveling the path where it all began.
There is truth in the saying that our reservoir of childhood experiences will always be there to serve as an anchor whenever we have stormy days. We go back to the flowing of the miracle of that childhood innocence where almost everything carries and brings such aliveness into our hearts. There is no barrenness in the endless flourishing of God's glory in our lives. I believe then that God was and is in every detail of what springs beneath life's occurrences.
Just thankful especially Today that God has blessed me with parents and 8 siblings and wonderful friends and teachers that were and still are the very epitome of where my Hope & Faith & Love frolic within...But nothing can illuminate such personal experiences except the anointing of God's breathtaking wonders in our life.
Let Hope, Faith & God's Love triumph and reign your Life Today. After all, every cloud has its own silver lining. And mine never fades...it rises and rings in a beautiful song where words can hold me captive. And so do you...
You take care Always
Have a Blessed Saturday & God Bless You
"Happy Spring Break" esp. to my sister & niece in New York.
Happy Birthday
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