Archive for July, 2006

July 16, 2006- quote from a friend

Monday, July 17th, 2006

"Hardships are one way of proving one’s strength.  So, if ur problem is extra big, be extra flattered because that’s how much the Lord believes in you."

i like this quote very much, it helps me to be strong indeed. sometimes, when i feel a lot of pressure is coming, i wish i had the strength to carry it but i found myself much deeper in the pit of darkness. This message was sent to me by my friend recently and it gives me hope… and lightens my day… i thank God for friends…they are angels from heaven:)

today, me and my mahal had a list of things to do and we accomplished everything we want to do today. we feel so happy doing things together, hope that this happiness won’t last… we need to pray always so we as a couple will be strengthened… i had a free facial spa from body shop  today…that adds to my happiness. i feel so refreshed!

God bless us all!!! Thank God for this beautiful day… be happy and grateful to God for the lives we live until this moment!

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July 10, 2006- GOD CAN!

Monday, July 10th, 2006

its a free day for us here in bangkok… no classes, no work… wow! a two day holiday which i always look forward so we cud have time for pleasure naman… we came home late from practice  past 11pm… i took a warm shower and headed to check my emails before going to sleep. I happen to see this passage from my friend, charmz marie and i’d like to write it here as well to remind me that God cares and that i am not alone… We are not alone :) this is very nice! i hope u’ll be blessed too just by reading this.

God Can 

When you feel down, unworthy & unclean,
When you think that no one can heal you,
Remember, my friend, God can.

When you think no one can forgive you for your
guilt & your shame,
Remember, my friend, God can.

When you think that all is hidden & no one
can see within,
Remember, my friend, God can.

And when you have reached the bottom
and you think that no one can hear you,
Remember my dear friend, God can.

And when you think that no one can love the
real person deep inside,
Remember my dear friend, God can.

GOD LOVES YOU!

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July 09, 2006- Cool Sunday!

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

stayed home today. mostly, sleeping and lying couch potato, its nice to have a quiet time once in a while. emailed some friends… freeing myself from worries of life :)

oh, i did talk to one of my closest friends for almost a couple of hours, nice feeling to listen to a friend talking about matters of love.

well, sometimes i think its just easy to say but really hard to do but after this remarkable love story ive heard, i realized that a man and a woman can be friends after ending a somewhat  deeper relationship if there is even one who can be strong and straightforward enough to say what one really feels… eventually things will be easier to say and u will realized that both parties are talking, letting go of the load that one carries inside.

it applies to life, being brave enough to say something that is somewhat personal if it is really necessary makes us breathe more better and face difficult situations more strongly.

its a lesson to deal with in our daily life.

well, i have some good news today and some not so good but whatever, i thank God for this beautiful day that i can ponder about myself and relinquish things i dont have control of.

its a nice feeling to check out on my friends too… i feel better tho i dont have to know whatever is troubling them… at least a thought that somebody cares is enough as well.

ok, i will leave with a nice thought today… we can consider things happening in life whether it be good or bad an extremely luck chance happening or a fate as a consequence of our doings… but whatever is it… sometimes the combination of our life’s event was far too complex for it to be merely coincidence or pure luck.

sometimes, if one link in the fragile chain of events in our life had been broken, we may not know our real self or we could not have gotten the job we want or the guy next door that we used to wait just to take a good look every morning for a jiffy… or we may not become more aware of ourselves or we may not be as good as we are today…  we may not be as happy as we are today or we may have never learned the values of life we had to learn.

I am reminded that things happen… simply because it’s the will of God. And, as it has been said many times, God works in mysterious ways.

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July 2, 2006- exposed!

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

i wasn’t able to write exactly what i have in my mind during this day but i want to write it to remind me that life is futile if we don’t make the best out of it. Best for me, is living life happily without regrets or maybe doing things to make life better… undoing the unpleasant things we used to do…

popularity, material things, great accomplishments and making trademarks in the history is fine but there are some more things in life that has values more priceless than gold.

as a couple being busy most of the time, we just spend morning in bed this day… waking up until we feel like really getting up… that caused us to wake up almost lunch hour already. anyway, we feel we had to give ourselves a break for sleeping late at night the other day so given the fact that its sunday, we just curled up in bed as long as we wanted to.

after having a mid-afternoon meal which is actually our first meal of the day, we decided to go to the mall wer we used to hang out and buy one basic cosmetic product which i run out with already… following our short rounds on some of my favorite spots in the mall, we  decided to go home after seeing that it’s already dark we don’t want to go home late.

it’s been constantly raining during the past few days and this day is not an exception so we headed home riding a cab. it’s already getting dark and the rain is beginning to pour very hard… we hugged each other gently inside while looking at the road watching for the passing cars  headed in the opposite direction.

it will take us 15-20 minutes going home…we are nearing our apartment building… we are tracking the main road which is leading to the big overpass road in front of our street.. we just have to make a U-turn so we could turn on the small street to go off the road. we are running smoothly when suddenly there came an abrupt stop… so we glanced curiously what made the sudden stop but after few seconds, we slowly track the road when suddenly my mahal told me to look at the road we are passing thru… as alarmed as i was, i stretched out my body to really look at the hazy window… the rain has gradually abated and as i looked more closely outside of it… what i saw alarmed me… my heart began to pound so heavily that i needed to catch a breath to put myself back…

unexpectedly, i saw a middle-aged man lying in the street.. 10 feet away was his motorcyle looking smashed further away from him. as we slowly passed thru the scene, i spotted a man coming out of his pick-up truck trying to figure out what happened to the man…

the man was lying slightly horizontal on the street and right there as i was looking, i saw a part of his flesh in the upper corner of his left eye.. 2 feet away from him was his compact brain lying semi-flatted in the street while the rest of the fleshy part of his head scattered in the street. i was astonished, i noticed my eyes wet with tears as we passed thru the scene. my mahal told me that he sighted that half of the head of that man was actually gone and was blown away maybe by the strong impact of the accident that happened to him. it was a shocking moment for both of us seeing a real misfortune of that man along side the road.

We are both speechless as we cudled more each other to whisper a prayer asking God to guide us and thanking Him as well for the life we live until this moment.

Life is fleeting… one moment is different from another. at a glance of an eye, things will changed… it can never be the same again.

I was being transformed into a new me… my eyes are beginning to see the things that i am not seeing before… hear the things i don’t seem to hear before or speak the things i cannot say before.

living life here in bangkok really gives me a new perspective in life. Marriage, family, work, new friends, different activities, these are the things that changed my life.

i still have so many questions, so many things running in my mind…my nursing career which is quite unspoken of, my direction.. where will i be? is this the course that i will be tracking? is this the thing that i am really good at? what are things that i can do that will benefit my fellowmen? what chances in life do i have to make even one’s life better?

there are so many things to ponder upon but God said,

"Cast all your cares upon me, for i careth for you. Cast all your burdens upon me for my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

" Abide in me and I in you. if you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be granted to you."  John 15:7

"Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God believe also in me." John 14:3

There are so many promises in the Bible that is giving us hope. i am praying so i can keep holding on cause only God knows my future. i want to put my life and the people i care about in God’s hands.  No matter, where will I be or whatever things I do, may it bring glory to the Lord God Almighty!

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