"What I Know For Sure..."

What I Know For Sure...

Realizing the truth that we are all susceptible to temptations and therefore our spiritual stance if we are real Christians has more weight than the unbelief... Temptations come in different forms, in various degrees and no matter how strong your moral compass is; you'll fall into trap. Now, this is where your relationship with God comes in...Where does your faith stand as a believer, as a born-again Christian-- as a child of the most high God when temptations are spearheading you?

Having accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior and Lord of my life ensues good conviction, responsibility, commitment, wisdom, patience, charity--all of which are precursors to obedience, surrendering earthly desires and unaligned dreams to His purpose for my life. Yes, it took the best of my Time, my Mind & my Heart to finally realized the Truth that even me as a Christian is very much vulnerable, susceptible & human to the devil's tactics & strategies. You see, the devil knows & plays with your weakness. Satan will use social media & flattery to your emotions. Once your enemy got an ounce of your soft spot, he will employ his strategies to seduce you where his stronghold is already within you. He has already strategically positioned your heart & mind engulfed into his deception. I, too, have been manipulated by my own flesh. I have not relentlessly and courageously applied 1 Peter 5:8 that says: Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion walketh about whom he may devour."

But...I serve a bigger God than my mistakes and wrong choices. This I know for sure. I wished I had used biblical boundaries appropriately to achieve the relationships and purposes that God has intended for me . Again, it's never too late to move forward and walk with God. There's no need for self  condemnation and guilt trappings. God's grace abounds. I just have to really be more attuned to the Holy Spirit when He's prompting me and teaching me instead of ignoring and disconnecting the seed of God's word for my life.

As always, you take care and
God Bless...




 

"Rise & Shine"

One of the days my heart attunes is to every"First " day of the month. I look at it like the newness/freshness of hope to its fullness. It's my trajectory to faith...that circumvents anything  good especially praying in the spirit of love.

The word "first" always brings me great expectancy. That's one of the things my heart never waivers despite of how the ebb of life assails me. I know now that God is for me. He is the Light that shines; that penetrates platitude--even those bound by depression; addiction, heavy laden, the broken-hearted. For the Lord is greater than our weaknesses, diseases, & illnesses.

So, I march on to that truth that Hope for every soul to come to know Him and accept Him as his/her personal Savior & Lord. And when that happens, your pain & suffering becomes His saving grace. And each time you feel like giving up and your mind hovering the clouds, think of what Jesus did for us at the cross. It would be wrong then to lose sight of victory when Jesus already paid it all at the Cross and conquered victory for all of us.

As I keep the momentum of that hope & faith, walking/jogging with my chocolate Lab in the park has never been more beholding. Even close to noon, many families were still at the field echoing their support for their children playing soccer. Cocoa seemed to like hearing the chuckles and the exhilarating sounds little children do. And that is one perceptible joy that comes with expectancy.

After all, life is looking up. Keep your eyes above the vault & the arch of the sky. For there, lies the firmament, the Heaven.

Happy first ay of March.
You take care always...God Bless

 

"In Life We All Have..."

... Whatever secret, regret, dream and the unforgettable love we have in our life, there is nothing compared to the love of God that He gives to us unconditionally. We just have to lay it down to His feet--to the throne of our hearts.

 

    As always, take care 
and God Bless

"God Is Not Finished With Me Yet..."

 

Two weeks ago I had a phone call telling me to make another mammogram appointment--to another hospital. My recent mammogram showed a finding that requires additional imaging studies, such as an ultrasound or additional mammographic views to complete their evaluation.

So I made the appointment within 72 hours. I was in a state of compounding doubts, speculations and restlessness. Having had two aunts on my paternal side died of breast cancer and my brother, first cousin and my mom's sister & brother also died of cancer, I'm considered very high risk. Plus, I've been having pressure there on & off. I just ignored it for if I could walk & jog 17 miles per week with no weight excess, no cholesterol and no blood pressure problems, and my most assurance of all-- God is with me, so I thought I should be good to go.

How do I come against human nature? I have substantiated fears...I could be next. I needed to be objective & strong. I had to put my house in order--meaning I have to make my last will of testament; make amends with what I am able to do and reach out to those who have been part of my life that somehow I lost connection with; and so on and so forth. My mind was in a battlefield for three days. My worst dilemma, how I'm going to prepare my two sons who have been my breath of life and inspiration with what could be our most challenging journey together as a family.

To my astonishment, they told me not to worry  myself to death; that I'm going to be okay; that it can't be my time because I'm not a grandma yet. That did get me to chuckle and as a child of God, I should be testifying of how God as the Healer of all diseases and illnesses. That my body is His temple and no affliction couldn't be overcome by victory in Jesus. 

And so I prayed...When King Hezekiah learned that he was going to die soon, he cried, and wept bitterly and most of all he prayed earnestly to God. God extended King Hezekiah's life for another fifteen more years. My heart came into remembrance how God made the blind see,  the deaf hear, how Jesus  healed the ten men with leprosy, how he said, "Lazarus, come forth" and he came back to life. And many more healing Jesus performed physically and spiritually.Oh, how amazing is our God.

O the day of my appointment, I was already armored with the security of God's promise. I just have to claim it and it's done.  Although I cried in my car, it wasn't a cry of bitterness. My mom was there; my oldest sister, too. We're all waiting for the result. This time it didn't feel like waiting forever, neither a propensity for the uncertainty. I believe for one thing; that I will believe the report of the Lord and I know that whatever I may go through life, I won't be alone. He granted me serenity and a new Hope. It's up to me now to use it according to His plans for my life.

God is not finished with me yet. I know I'll have more tests and trials for my faith but this time I'm  getting closer to the Heaven's door. To God I give all the glory...The second result of my mammogram was God's report. And my living testimony. God is faithful.

As always, you take care and 
God Bless

"It's Time for Uprooting Withered Shrub..."

I could still probably salvage this rose shrub but I won't do it anymore. Nine years of waiting for it to bloom favorable number of roses is long enough. Investing on good soil & fertilizer didn't seem to nurture the plant; neither watering it regularly. Pruning and transferring it to another place was a disaster and yet it still alive but not just producing more flowers as much as I've wished it should. Uprooting it will completely eradicate its unproductive exixtence.

At one time, I even thought I don't have "a green thumb." But that isn't true at all. "No such thing."

Thus,  it made me compare this rose shrub to having loved the wrong person. No matter how you've been continually shown & acted to taking good care of the one you love and still didn't work--obviously, you've got the undeserved one. And the best thing you can do is to uproot the constraint that's making your life unproductive and never think that there's something wrong with you. Uproot not just pluck what needs to be gone.

Plant a new one. Take your time to visit garden shops. Google more information which plant can weather the seasons of life; one that is low maintenance and gives unconditional abundance of scintillating flowers, greener luscious stems and beautiful all around.

The same thing on loving someone...There should be an adherence to a process or mighty steps. Make sure you are armored with good instincts. You go with what is built inside his character. And make sure his strength is derived from our Main Source: the Creator of all good gifts.  Then, he's worth of you because you are a child of God. Let the Seed & the Wisdom of His Word be your greatest barometer in choosing a life mate. With that assurance, "What God has joined together let no man put asunder." (Matthew 19:6)

"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." (Proverb 4:23)







This is more like it...It will come forth for me.

You take care always.

A Very Blessed Sunday To All

"Who Am I?"

 Listening to this song has brought one @ heart to remembrance: God sees you & me.
As always, you take care.

"Just A Simple Wish...Today"

When it comes to a simple wish, may be a "tease" to my heart's content reveals what these images concur. Beset with insomnia since college days, falling asleep to the sound of the rain even for three to four hours of sleep with you perking in my subconscious is always an element of wonder that never quite holds me to where I wish I had. However, a smile still lingers after such a thought.

This is a part of my soul that creeps in or lurks as shadows of endless quests and chases. I don't think it's formidable to think and feel this way. It just means that my awareness does not ask for its final residence at heart. Sometimes owning the truth that the human heart concedes to guilt pleasures like your untold/unspoken/forbidden thoughts help us rededicate & recommit ourselves to a better dream. Ironic though...that we choose to revere dreams that are untamed and by the time we realized its doom, we've let time passed us by. And what is left which could be fragments of your wild imagination could be wiped out or residues that could be restored to a loftier heart's desire that you deserve.

Don't take me for it. I guess, I'm still a "dreamer"-- chasing daylight..."

As Always;You take care and God Bless