I'm in love with life. :)

I have been listening to some of my old favorite songs lately. Brooke Fraser's. Especially, "Deciphering Me". Must love it a lot. :) Listening to the song made me feel like there's a lot to love about life. That life is as good as it was or used to be. I think I'm the one who makes life worse by feeling like it shouldn't be. But, I am very thankful that these songs are helping me bring back those days, and especially the faith that life is very good to live.

I can smell the new morning dawning on me; the new leaves of tomorrow. There's so much for me in the future. I may be afraid of confronting some of my failures, but there is still light in the coming day. :)

Beautiful People

The world is full of wonderful people -- wonderful people with different stories to tell; wonderful people with different perspectives and situations in life.

Sometimes, even these people who are beautiful in their own respective ways, because of all the crap in life, cannot see the beauty in them.

I want it be a mission in my life to help people see how they were magnificently created by God.

Found: The Race of Life

I've found out what I need to search for in life.

I want to be what God wants me to be...

People think that it is through living a religious and devout life. They know too little. I, too, know little. I might even know nothing but I do have an idea.

God's ways and will is too unsearchable, unreachable, unfathomable. We can never comprehend His ways. So, how can we exactly be what He wants us to be if we do not even know what it is?

The answer is in the process. We aren't required to "know" what God wants us to be, but instead, to "BE" what He wants us to be. There is great discretion between merely "knowing" and "being". In the part of "knowing", we are failures. Who can touch or even reach God's glorious wisdom? Now, how do we "become" what He wants us to be? Simple but not easy. He said,

1 "Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost."

-Isaiah 55:1

It is through letting Him lift us in His shoulder for us to become what He wants us to be. It is through allowing His indescribable ways. It is through trusting the almighty that our human minds cannot comprehend. Listen carefully. He will speak. There is power.

Ponder this: what matters most in life's road? Is it the destination? Are we made better by the goals that we aim for? Surely not. It is the process that make us reach a destination. There is no cheating in life. You are made better by the better WALK that you walk in. And what better walk than the path were we shun all distractions along the way?

"1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. 2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart."

- Hebrews 12:1-2

Let us RUN A RACE, not be DRAGGED FROM THE RACE...

Good night!

World of Fantasies

We don't live in a world of Fantasies. We're not in a world of dreams. We are in REALITY where we have to work for the things that we need, and appreciate what we have. That means less complaining and a little balanced dreaming. To dream, though, is not a crime. It is supposed to help us -- not make us lose hope. That's life.

Love, on the other hand, is actually the hardest thing to FIND. You cannot find it just anywhere. Love isn't easy to give. You cannot just find it from a street-corner. It's no joke. Ü

Away from Distraction

If we let [our] emotions rule us
When we let temptation mesmerize
If we believe the things that fool us
We are drawn to compromise

When will you stop and realize
That things here won't complete us
When will we stop to patronize
Things here that distract us

We miss out the importance
Of things around our beings (--means existence)
All because of ignorance
We're swayed from our real purpose

Let's keep ourselves collected
And away from [our] distractions
Let's cool up and believe that
We're able to resist them

Let's not allow ourselves to be
Overwhelmed by our obstructions
Let's open our eyes and see
Beauty and affection

Writer's notes: I wrote this kasi, I've reflected a lot about distractions in this life. We should live our lives focused and undistracted. We should always believe in ourselves and we must never compromise for comfort. Comfort is a fake. It is a deception. We should REALIZE BY NOW that life is no joke, not a bed of roses. Only then will we pass the gates of these fallacies and enter into REAL comfort. But, it is an everyday decision, everyday practice.

I remember before that in church discipleship that I heard this from Pastor Cora (though it may not be that accurate or precise, please bear with me):

"an action leads to a habit
a habit leads to a character
a character leads to destiny..."

This isn't pretty much the same but it's similar. Hehe...(different yung dalawang yun ah hehe) ayun, in continuation, we should always be on track of our LIFE mission and purpose, and we should not be distracted. If we get distacted, we'd be back again in life's foolish convenience and mundanity and complacency.

Let us work for a better self, always trust God (and that is always the bottom line). Let us also believe in the abilities that He (God) has given us. He wants us to use it wisely while He's away. He's watching anyway, but He's very forgiving. Let us not waste another day.

God bless us all!

Unsatisfied

I know you feel unsatisfied
I do not ask you why
You should have known already
What you have just wouldn't last

You've done the same before
Don't you ever wonder why?
You've been in the same place as you were, yet
You've never reached beyond

Look what you have today
Reflect just for a while
It's time to choose some other way
Ain't it enough to change your style?

Change is knocking
Offering you a chance
To start your life anew
And render a new glance

It has given me the same
Though I've fallen lots
Do not waste it and please learn
In the end you'll long it's touch

Whoo, life...

I love food! Give me something to eat and I'll take a bite! But I am so ever weird! I'm beginning to get choosy over 'em! I love to eat but I may not love food... I love my stomach filled everytime. If I look back in time and search for the reasons why I am so, I get many answers. Maybe I missed a lot, not just literal food. I missed a lot in life. Many people do. The only difference is, I want to be different. I want change. I want something more. I'm not gonna restrict myself with my past. I'm not gonna let anything past get in the way. I am who I am and gonna make who I am. Wake up, wake up! You need to be always alert. Sleep only in the night-time, not when your work's all piled up. That's always the problem, we do things in the wrong time. A lot of times do we get excited and carried away. I wish we all learn. I wish we were all awake even if we're asleep. That way, we work both ways. Well, can't blame anyone. That's the way how life works. Not so many are perfect, I wonder if anyone even is. This is just one of life's riddle. This is just one of life's mysteries. I lose interest of the answers. Now am I content. Boo the way I think. Forget that I even thought about it, hahaha... It's just funny. ;1

'A Speech'

This passage is for someone I know who I think is very, very special (as is everyone to somebody). I just want to share with you the content:

"People with wasting lives are like that, trying their very best to find comfort and security but they still search for it through their old ways (take note: OLD WAYS). But Chance isn't nothing to be called what it is. It itself acquaints with the people in need. When they (the people in need)come to meet their chance for real security and salvation from all they are, they walk away to their temptations, and there they are again, much worse than before. They're searching in all the wrong places but what they don't know and understand is that security and comfort and salvation from LIFE itself doesn't need to be sought anymore. It was sought way too much that they miss it instead. You've done too much searching but there's still nothing, isn't it obvious? What they should know is salvation itself is looking after them, running after them, but most commonly is it too late when salvation finds itself with no room when the person seems to have found something in its place, something that looks like the same but more likely a decoy to save them and make them breathe temporarily. They go over on a loop, going back again, falling again, crying again, and seeking for a cure again. Their life cycle should be called an 'again' life cycle instead of a 'life' cycle that means a lot-it's a matter of vital importance. In my words, life is LIVING, a gift, a blessing from the One who created it. To them that I know and see everyday, and talk to everyday, their life is death instead. They live a life of death, and got used to it. Salvation, on the other hand, still doesn't stop from following the person in need. It [I] will always wait, cos it's [I'm] not satisfied with life just wasted over and over again.

What am I for if not to help and do my job? I've decided not to live for myself but to live for God and other people. My subconscious mind is enough to take care of myself. Believe me, it works very well..."