Been here before. This place really brought me back to that day in 2004.
Love the sunset!!!
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Showing posts with label reflections. Show all posts
May 28, 2009
Villa Navarro, Caba, La Union
Been here before. This place really brought me back to that day in 2004.
Love the sunset!!!
Apr 29, 2009
Apr 24, 2009
HUWAW!!
Looks like the heavens have been reading my blogs!! I hope not! They might not find my rantings pleasing!!! However, as i have just posted the other day, I would be having the chance to meet up with old friends. My former colleagues from TESDA. Wow, its really been a while since I last saw them. I left the Authority about 4 years ago, and just about the same time I last saw any of them. Well if jing has not come home from Dubai, maybe we wouldn't be even meeting up tomorrow. Thanks for homecomings and balikbayans! I'm so looking forward to meeting my good ol pals tomorrow! Hope the weather cooperates.
And hope my son gets better..Just brought him to his pedia today.. He had been having bad tummy for 2 days now and I got so worried. Fortunately, his lab test came out negative for any infections or virus.
I only have to concentrate now on rehydrating him so that lost minerals are replaced.
I have been wondering why this happened. I mean, i dont give him street food. Every meal given to my son is prepared and cooked at home. But despite this, he had bad tummy ache and LBM.. eeew.. ssorry..
It just occured to me that it might have something to do with the inefficient waste management of our City. As we all know, it has been raining for a week now and garbage is stocked here and there and every where in the City. It might have contaminated the water supply. I have stopped boiling my son's water since he turned two because i am confident that the water we dring is safe. We do buy purified drinking water.
My pedia happened to have told me that there have been a multiplying number of gastro entirities and amoebaiasis cases in children this week alone. And I belieive that it all boils down to how the City has been managing our garbages over the past few months.
I am Baguio grown, and I am so disheartned to see now that the City I grew up in and the City that I most love is now being stripped of its old glamour right before my eyes. Blame it on the City Governemnt. They should do something about this. Lest an epidemic might break out!!! Yipes!!!
Kung may usong sakit ngaun.. ayoko nang makiuso... Sa inyo nalang salamat!!
Word of the wise: Even if you buy purified water, boil your drinking water at least five minutes. We don't really know if our water has been contaminated by these loose garbage everywhere.. But why take chances? 5 minutes of boiling or a lifetime of amoeba in your system.
And hope my son gets better..Just brought him to his pedia today.. He had been having bad tummy for 2 days now and I got so worried. Fortunately, his lab test came out negative for any infections or virus.
I only have to concentrate now on rehydrating him so that lost minerals are replaced.
I have been wondering why this happened. I mean, i dont give him street food. Every meal given to my son is prepared and cooked at home. But despite this, he had bad tummy ache and LBM.. eeew.. ssorry..
It just occured to me that it might have something to do with the inefficient waste management of our City. As we all know, it has been raining for a week now and garbage is stocked here and there and every where in the City. It might have contaminated the water supply. I have stopped boiling my son's water since he turned two because i am confident that the water we dring is safe. We do buy purified drinking water.
My pedia happened to have told me that there have been a multiplying number of gastro entirities and amoebaiasis cases in children this week alone. And I belieive that it all boils down to how the City has been managing our garbages over the past few months.
I am Baguio grown, and I am so disheartned to see now that the City I grew up in and the City that I most love is now being stripped of its old glamour right before my eyes. Blame it on the City Governemnt. They should do something about this. Lest an epidemic might break out!!! Yipes!!!
Kung may usong sakit ngaun.. ayoko nang makiuso... Sa inyo nalang salamat!!
Word of the wise: Even if you buy purified water, boil your drinking water at least five minutes. We don't really know if our water has been contaminated by these loose garbage everywhere.. But why take chances? 5 minutes of boiling or a lifetime of amoeba in your system.
Sep 16, 2008
LIFE'S PURPOSE
Some things to think about...enjoy!!!! and take heart...
Short Interview with Rick Warren, (PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE)
You will enjoy the new insights that Rick Warren has, with
his wife now having cancer and him having 'wealth'
from the book sales. This is an absolutely incredible short
interview with Rick Warren,
'Purpose Driven Life' author and pastor
ofSaddleback Church in California .
In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said:
People ask me, What is the purpose of life? And I respond:
In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity.
We were made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven.
One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end
of my body-- but not the end of me.
I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to
spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up
act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth
what we will do forever in eternity.
We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that
out, life isn't going to make sense.
Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now,
you're just coming out of one, or you're getting
ready to go into another one.
The reason for this is that God is more interested in your
character than your comfort.
God is more interested in making your life holy than He is
in making your life happy.
We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's
not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in
Christ likeness.
This past year has been the greatest year of my life but
also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer.
I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go
through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back
and forth. I don't believe that anymore.
Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that
it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at
all times you have something good and something bad in your> life.
No matter how good things are in your life, there is always
something bad that needs to be worked on.
And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is
always something good you can thank God for.
You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your
problems.
If you focus on your problems, you're going into
self-centeredness,'which is my problem, my issues, my
pain.' But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is
to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.
We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of
hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal
Kay or make it easy for her.
It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has
strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping
other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him
and to people.
You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of
life.
Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is
harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when
the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very
wealthy.
It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to
deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or
notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of
ease.
So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this
money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different
passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9
and Psalm 72
First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not
change our lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases.
Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a
salary from the church.
Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call
The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the
poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation.
Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the
24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back.
It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.
We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for
possessions? Popularity?
Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness?
Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's
purposes (for my life)?
When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed
and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I
want to know You more and love You better. God didn't
put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more
interested in what I am than what I do.
That's why we're called human beings, not human> doings.
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.
God Bless!
GOD 4ever reigns. God loves you
and will be with you always. Be blessed
with the touch of God's grace, mercy, peace,
joy, and loving kindness.
Short Interview with Rick Warren, (PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE)
You will enjoy the new insights that Rick Warren has, with
his wife now having cancer and him having 'wealth'
from the book sales. This is an absolutely incredible short
interview with Rick Warren,
'Purpose Driven Life' author and pastor
ofSaddleback Church in California .
In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said:
People ask me, What is the purpose of life? And I respond:
In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity.
We were made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven.
One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end
of my body-- but not the end of me.
I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to
spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up
act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth
what we will do forever in eternity.
We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that
out, life isn't going to make sense.
Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now,
you're just coming out of one, or you're getting
ready to go into another one.
The reason for this is that God is more interested in your
character than your comfort.
God is more interested in making your life holy than He is
in making your life happy.
We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's
not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in
Christ likeness.
This past year has been the greatest year of my life but
also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer.
I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go
through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back
and forth. I don't believe that anymore.
Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that
it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at
all times you have something good and something bad in your> life.
No matter how good things are in your life, there is always
something bad that needs to be worked on.
And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is
always something good you can thank God for.
You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your
problems.
If you focus on your problems, you're going into
self-centeredness,'which is my problem, my issues, my
pain.' But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is
to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.
We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of
hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal
Kay or make it easy for her.
It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has
strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping
other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him
and to people.
You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of
life.
Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is
harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when
the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very
wealthy.
It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to
deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or
notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of
ease.
So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this
money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different
passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9
and Psalm 72
First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not
change our lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases.
Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a
salary from the church.
Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call
The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the
poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation.
Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the
24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back.
It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.
We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for
possessions? Popularity?
Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness?
Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's
purposes (for my life)?
When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed
and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I
want to know You more and love You better. God didn't
put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more
interested in what I am than what I do.
That's why we're called human beings, not human> doings.
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.
God Bless!
GOD 4ever reigns. God loves you
and will be with you always. Be blessed
with the touch of God's grace, mercy, peace,
joy, and loving kindness.
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