February: Happy L♥VE M♥nth!

LOVE is something that bound people together, something that gives peace and understanding to human kind.

Though February is our LOVE month, we should all be reminded that LOVE should be share, feel and express every single day of our life.

” LOVE is patient, LOVE is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. LOVE does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. “
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

 

♥♥♥ Happy LOVE Month! ♥♥♥

Hoooray for 2012!!! ♥♥♥

I can say that I started my year good, fun and happy. As usual, I celebrated the New Year’s Eve with my family, and meet my friends on the 1st day of the year to watch a movie and talk about our plans for this year.

I have lots of plans for 2012. Things that I want to experience, fulfill, try and achieve. I also established a FEW new year’s resolution… just a few cause I know I cant fulfill all of them. ha-ha-ha

 

Hope that this year will be good, and hopefully much better than my 2011.

Hope that I’ll be able to achieve all my plans and desires.

Hope to meet new friends that I can keep.

Hope to learn things that I wanted to learn ever since (like swimming!).

Hope to travel with family/friends.

Hope to learn more about life.

 

and

 

Hope to establish a much stronger relationship with my God.

*cheers for all of us!

^_^

Keeping the fire burning.

“Faith is a difficult conquest, and it requires daily combat in order to be maintained.”

- from the book written by Paulo Coelho, The Valkyries.

Faith is a belief or trust in a person or thing, or to something that is not based on proof, or an intense desire or confidence in something that we believe. In one of Paulo Coelho’s book, he said that faith requires a “daily combat” in order to be maintained, a daily ritual to keep it growing and evolving.

With my own personal experience in the Christian world, I have learned that we need to do something to keep the fire burning in our hearts. As human, we need shelter to keep us from danger, we need clothes to keep us warm against the cold and protection against the sun, and we need food for our physical body to help us fit and survive. But, do we ever bother to feed our spiritual body everyday? Do we ever bother to think of something that’s missing?

We didn’t realize how important a strong faith is in our lives. We didn’t know how big help it is to help us overcome struggles and challenges in life. Problems, trials, pain, heartaches, etc. those are only few of the war we will face as day goes by, and we only need one weapon to survive this battle, and that is FAITH.

One best practice in keeping the fire burning is through prayers, our means in communicating to God. Words that we speak in our mind and sometimes even saying it aloud. We say everything we want to say; asking for forgiveness for every sins and mistakes that we have committed; saying our “thank you” for all the surprised blessings, unfailing protection and most of all, for the undeserved love that He always have for us. Talking to God is the most relax conversation that we can have. Though we may never hear His voice, but our souls can hear  it. We may never see His face, but our hearts can see it.

Another best practice in keeping the fire burning is by reading the bible. Learning how He makes those  impossible things to possible, how He works His miracles and how His glory blessed those people who have faith. By seeking God’s presence, it increases our faith and spiritual being. It helps us to boost the fire and desire to follow His will and also, that keeps our relation to Him close as ever.

We may encounter challenges in life, but we should never be shaken or afraid, instead, we should take it as a sign that we are starting to build our faith and those struggles are just some tests from God to check our limitations and see how strong our faith is.

“We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.” – Acts 14:22

05:26pm

6. Suicide

I just saw a statistic about the top5 causes of death this days. I don’t pay much attention to the top5 cause its pretty obvious, but what caught my attention is the fact that suicide already falls on number six.

And what’s more alarming is that most of the people who committed suicide were teenagers. Young adults who can be somebody in the future but decided to end their life instead.

Common causes are:

1. family problems

2. heartbreaks

3. money

4. friends

5. school, etc.

But for me, it’s all about the two missing elements in their life:

Lack of guidance and…

lack of faith.

10:02pm

i decided to accept it rather than walking against the flow …

I grew up without my father’s presence at home. He’s been an OFW ever since I started attending school and at that time, I’m confused why he’s not at home with us and just contented checking us out through phone and missed all those special occasions in school, at home, and on our personal lives.

While I’m growing up, I learned that he’s working far from home for us to have a better education, not that we came from an exclusive school, but at least he was able to send us all to school and was able to provides all our needs.

All my friends that I’ve met while walking in to the so-called “road of life” said that I must be a lucky girl since my father works abroad and earns a lot more than they father do. I used to believe that and enjoyed those stuffs that he sent through those big box packages.

But everything changed when I realized that I’m the only girl in class celebrating awards day without my father, making my fathers day card without the ability of handing it to him when I got home and more other stories without him with me.

It’s very confusing for me that time why he need to fly to another country just to have a decent work. Since I know that he’s very good with his skills and will do everything to finish his work on time and at the same time, with quality. I just thought that all good and skilled people can have a job here in the country without leaving their family.

And while walking in the road of life, I’ve met few people who have the same dilemma as mine. But unlike me, they view it as a reason to rebel on their families. Cutting classes and spending their allowances to stuffs that’s not really needed and shouldn’t be a priority of a student or of someone at their age.

But as years go by, I decided to just accept the fact. The fact that he might not get the job as well paid  as he have right now. That he might not able to send us all in school because the money he’ll earn is only enough to put food on our table. That he might just end-up like any other father who lost their faith in life and decided to be just a by-stander and pain in their family.

And since now that I’m grown up and experiencing how hard it is to work, I’m not unhappy nor sad, and even regretting why I felt that way. And one thing for sure right now…

“I am very proud and happy that I am his daughter and he’s my father”.

10:07pm

let’s swim and fly ♥♥♥

I really hate the idea that i don’t know how to swim.  I tried several times before to learn, but fear always comes first.  Fear of slipping into the slippery wet tiles under, fear of that friend who’s helping me learn would just leave me while my face is on the water, and of course, fear of “drowning” because again, I can’t.

I’m so amazed and thrilled everytime I saw people who’s good on that field.  I really wish that I was exposed more on the beach by my parents.

And now, I can’t apply for the job I have been dreaming ever since because of that one skill I can’t do. I just wish I have more spare time now so that I can try to learn again with a “little more” courage. hahahaha

So my “To Do List for 2012???…

1. Fix my schedule…

2. Search for a good and “cheap” swimming school

3. Apply…

4. Learn and have fun!

5. (^_^)

Ann|11-25-11