It's that time of the year for book lovers!
Friday, September 5, 2008
Saturday, August 30, 2008
new link
If you happen to glance at the blogs & sites linked here (lower right, please), you'll notice I've added two friends: Rhea Paredes is having fun, working & ministering, somewhere in the US; Redefine Weddings is the photog outfit of Jayson & Jo Anne Arquiza, the wonderful couple who took our wedding photos last September (enjoy their photos! - and, sorry, Ruth & I haven't finalized our pics yet, kaya wala pang album). Did I say two friends? Three pala...
Friday, August 29, 2008
tinkering
Had some time to play with the features in Blogger. The above picture was taken from Pearl Farm in Davao. Beautiful place. Some friends have been ribbing me for not trying out the swimming pool. Hehe! Next time, Lord-willing, we'll try the pool.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
mrt woes
Woe is me...I take the MRT!
That was not poetry, just sheer rant. Reports say that the MRT & LRT have reached their full capacity...more, maybe out of desperation, are taking the MRT than that boxy thing we call 'bus' (pero marami nang magandang bus, ha). Do I have the right to rant? Ang sikip, grab. When you get off, you don't feel inspired to work anymore...like you've had a full day of stressful work and all you want to do is go home and sleep! Anymore. Wahahat? I haven't started work yet!
I realize the solution here is to get up earlier...so I can take that boxy thing to work! And avoid the MRT altogether! Ugh...brilliant. Maybe a conspiracy here somewhere.
That was not poetry, just sheer rant. Reports say that the MRT & LRT have reached their full capacity...more, maybe out of desperation, are taking the MRT than that boxy thing we call 'bus' (pero marami nang magandang bus, ha). Do I have the right to rant? Ang sikip, grab. When you get off, you don't feel inspired to work anymore...like you've had a full day of stressful work and all you want to do is go home and sleep! Anymore. Wahahat? I haven't started work yet!
I realize the solution here is to get up earlier...so I can take that boxy thing to work! And avoid the MRT altogether! Ugh...brilliant. Maybe a conspiracy here somewhere.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
reading this
I'm almost halfway with Discovering the God Who Is. RC Sproul continues to remind me of the majesty, greatness, faithfulness & love of God. Here's from the chapter I just finished:
"We must not forget that Jesus was, in human form, the Creator of the world. At any moment in His ministry He could have extinguished the life of those who opposed Him. The world was made by Him, in Him, and for Him. He had the power and authority to alter that creation by eliminating some undesirable rascals. But He chose to humble Himself before those very rascals. He allowed Himself to be arrested, tried, scourged, mocked, and crucified by men whom He could have annihilated with a single glance. That is humility. Acting with less power than one has at his disposal when attacked by another displays an astonishing level of grace. This is the Jesus who is our Lord. It is precisely His mindset that Paul called us to imitate in Philippians 2."
"We must not forget that Jesus was, in human form, the Creator of the world. At any moment in His ministry He could have extinguished the life of those who opposed Him. The world was made by Him, in Him, and for Him. He had the power and authority to alter that creation by eliminating some undesirable rascals. But He chose to humble Himself before those very rascals. He allowed Himself to be arrested, tried, scourged, mocked, and crucified by men whom He could have annihilated with a single glance. That is humility. Acting with less power than one has at his disposal when attacked by another displays an astonishing level of grace. This is the Jesus who is our Lord. It is precisely His mindset that Paul called us to imitate in Philippians 2."
Thursday, July 31, 2008
amazing grace
Since Thursday (July 24) evening my sister Grace has had this slight fever. I'm not sure if she went to work on Friday but by Saturday she felt better. Certainly she was up to entertaining our Youth Group from church. Then her temp went up again last Sunday, as high as 39. So she checked in at Medical City on Monday. And we suspected dengue, which the tests at the hospital confirmed. Her platelet count last Sunday evening was 167. Normal is 150-400. Monday morning her platelet was 120, Tuesday morning 90, Tuesday afternoon 80, Wednesday morning 70.
Nixon & Joan gave us this weed Monday evening, that could help raise her platelet. We washed and boiled the leaves and Grace drank the tea. She was stronger Tuesday night, eating and drinking well, but Wednesday she again lost her appetite and was a little weaker.
Wednesday evening we were elated to hear that her platelet rose back to 80! The doctors said if it will go up again on the next test, the trend would be upward and she will pull through. This morning, Thursday, her platelet count is now 110. We're now planning to take her home, with Doctor's approval, on Friday afternoon.
Thank you everyone for praying! We really have an amazing God.
Nixon & Joan gave us this weed Monday evening, that could help raise her platelet. We washed and boiled the leaves and Grace drank the tea. She was stronger Tuesday night, eating and drinking well, but Wednesday she again lost her appetite and was a little weaker.
Wednesday evening we were elated to hear that her platelet rose back to 80! The doctors said if it will go up again on the next test, the trend would be upward and she will pull through. This morning, Thursday, her platelet count is now 110. We're now planning to take her home, with Doctor's approval, on Friday afternoon.
Thank you everyone for praying! We really have an amazing God.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
THE answer
Funny how the surest way to ease life's questions is not found in the answer to those questions, but is found in remembering and discovering again the One who oversees it all. Like Job, we end up being satisfied not with the answers but with the presence of God in our lives.
On one quiet working day afternoon, I picked up Discovering the God Who Is by RC Sproul, borrowing the book from our OMF Lit Bookshop. It's a book to be read every now and then, because we humans have a tendency to forget.
On one quiet working day afternoon, I picked up Discovering the God Who Is by RC Sproul, borrowing the book from our OMF Lit Bookshop. It's a book to be read every now and then, because we humans have a tendency to forget.
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