Here is a wonderful video. I have seen this a lot of times and always have kept me humbled. How great and wonderful is the love of the Father for us.... be blessed...
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
On getting older
I was somewhere the past week for a short vacation. I thought it will all be an enjoyable time. Well, it was enjoyable and relaxing because I was with the most special person in my life. But it was also a very stressful time for me.
You see my special person lives as a caregiver with an old man, who is in his early seventies and who is suffering from prostate cancer and other physical ailments. He still can walk and drive and do other things. My special person about a year ago agreed to stay with him as a companion and caregiver and also because it is a means to provide for family back home. I was so sad to realize that my special person was a prisoner in this old man's house.
You might be wondering about this by now. You see, My special person can't or not allowed to have a day off or two, because the old man fears that my special person will leave or do something else. I don't know if they have any other agreements, but it was so sad and hurting for me to see fear in the eyes of my special person's eyes. We were together only for one night and that was it because the old man thinks that he is being setup or something. My special person tried to explain and talk reason to him but he thinks that something is fishy. So the old man picked my special person the next day , and literally even checked the whole house if there are other people around.
I can't imagine or never have encountered an old man like this man. He has grown old not older. I always thought that all old people grow in grace and wisdom and understanding as they age. But I am proven wrong with this old man.
Cruelty and just plain selfishness is all I can see in this old man. He has kept my special person from people or just having a day off. He has damaged and depressed a wonderful person. Selfish because he thinks that everybody is against him. He uses his money to earn the loyalty of a person not knowing that it is not loyalty he reaps but hatred and anger.
I will never would want to grow old. I want to grow older. I want to be wise and understanding as I age. I want to be more loving, generous, accepting and full of grace. Age should make us better people, not bitter people.You see my special person lives as a caregiver with an old man, who is in his early seventies and who is suffering from prostate cancer and other physical ailments. He still can walk and drive and do other things. My special person about a year ago agreed to stay with him as a companion and caregiver and also because it is a means to provide for family back home. I was so sad to realize that my special person was a prisoner in this old man's house.
You might be wondering about this by now. You see, My special person can't or not allowed to have a day off or two, because the old man fears that my special person will leave or do something else. I don't know if they have any other agreements, but it was so sad and hurting for me to see fear in the eyes of my special person's eyes. We were together only for one night and that was it because the old man thinks that he is being setup or something. My special person tried to explain and talk reason to him but he thinks that something is fishy. So the old man picked my special person the next day , and literally even checked the whole house if there are other people around.
I can't imagine or never have encountered an old man like this man. He has grown old not older. I always thought that all old people grow in grace and wisdom and understanding as they age. But I am proven wrong with this old man.
Cruelty and just plain selfishness is all I can see in this old man. He has kept my special person from people or just having a day off. He has damaged and depressed a wonderful person. Selfish because he thinks that everybody is against him. He uses his money to earn the loyalty of a person not knowing that it is not loyalty he reaps but hatred and anger.
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To you my special person...I love you but I really don't know what to do to help you in this situation now. I would like to do something, but everything is too risky for you and I. We keep on praying and hoping for the time when we will be able to just be together freely.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Priceless unduplicated beauty
I am still learning how to use my digital camera up to this time. It's been with me for some time now. Technology sometimes gets too complicated for me. But anyway I learn little by little. One of the things I am thankful having a digital camera is the quality of pictures it produces. It allows a view of things in very detailed and vivid manner. I love nature and right now I have gained more appreciation by the pictures I take of it. I have here a one of the pictures I have taken. Not a perfect picture. I did not do any editing here. I don't like it when photographer edit their pictures. I want pictures as they are with the basic settings done.
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(this picture lost its quality because of uploading it to this site)
Looking at this picture (and all other pictures I have recently taken) gives me the sense of a design from someone with greater power than we are. The beauty, the intricacy, the detail and the design of the flowers in this picture is priceless and cannot be duplicated even with our advanced technology. Well, artificial pictures can be generated, but there is nothing like what we see in nature that happens without anybody doing something. Creation in all its natural beauty points to a fact of a supreme being with the highest and mysterious power beyond our imagination.
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CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO SEE IT BETTER!
(this picture lost its quality because of uploading it to this site)
Looking at this picture (and all other pictures I have recently taken) gives me the sense of a design from someone with greater power than we are. The beauty, the intricacy, the detail and the design of the flowers in this picture is priceless and cannot be duplicated even with our advanced technology. Well, artificial pictures can be generated, but there is nothing like what we see in nature that happens without anybody doing something. Creation in all its natural beauty points to a fact of a supreme being with the highest and mysterious power beyond our imagination.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Loving Someone
Loving Someone
I am single and I don't think I am going to ever have a family of my own. The reasons are not important to mention and they are best kept unspoken. As single and past the marrying age, people are always asking me why I still am not married, or would recommend someone they think might be compatible for me. I usually just smile. There are times I find it annoying because even if I have told them that it is not in my mind and heart to get married,they just keep on teasing.
I think I will never get married, but I have someone I love. I think this is a basic need and also a built in part of humans, to love someone and be loved by someone. Marriage to me is something that is not forever. When one dies the marriage becomes null and void. The commitment it has is "'til death do us part". But loving someone is forever. I am not against marriage. It is God ordained. But I guess it is not for me.
I have this person whom I love for years and this person, I believe, loves me as well. This person has always been there for me, has always unconditionally accepted me with all my inadequacies, failures and shortcomings. This is enough for me. We are apart at the moment, but we have been loving each other for almost 5 years. I continue to long to meet this person again. We are in constant communication through a lot of means. I love this person. I really would love to grow old witht this person.
Loving someone I think does not require marriage. To love someone is a decision one makes regardless of anything. It should be done willingly and undconditionally. To the person I wrote this posting for, I would like to say thank you for loving me. It is such a joy for me to have someone like you. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmwah!
I am single and I don't think I am going to ever have a family of my own. The reasons are not important to mention and they are best kept unspoken. As single and past the marrying age, people are always asking me why I still am not married, or would recommend someone they think might be compatible for me. I usually just smile. There are times I find it annoying because even if I have told them that it is not in my mind and heart to get married,they just keep on teasing.
I think I will never get married, but I have someone I love. I think this is a basic need and also a built in part of humans, to love someone and be loved by someone. Marriage to me is something that is not forever. When one dies the marriage becomes null and void. The commitment it has is "'til death do us part". But loving someone is forever. I am not against marriage. It is God ordained. But I guess it is not for me.
I have this person whom I love for years and this person, I believe, loves me as well. This person has always been there for me, has always unconditionally accepted me with all my inadequacies, failures and shortcomings. This is enough for me. We are apart at the moment, but we have been loving each other for almost 5 years. I continue to long to meet this person again. We are in constant communication through a lot of means. I love this person. I really would love to grow old witht this person.
Loving someone I think does not require marriage. To love someone is a decision one makes regardless of anything. It should be done willingly and undconditionally. To the person I wrote this posting for, I would like to say thank you for loving me. It is such a joy for me to have someone like you. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmwah!
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Dream dreams
I am one more year older. I never thought that I am going to reach this age. I am 39 now. When I was young I thought that I only would live 20 years. One more year and I double that number. I was just thinking what has changed in me personally. Nothing much I guess. Nothing really major. Like I still enjoy drinking coke. I still like spaghetti and Ice cream. I still love to play. I still read and so on. One thing special that I am thankful all through these years is the ability to imagine and dream dreams.
Funny, but at times I still dream to be a superhero. I guess in the adult version of it. But still the flying is there. I am thankful because dreaming keeps me alive. It keeps me working and going after something. Dreaming keeps sparkles in my eyes, maybe. hehehehhee It takes away the boredom of routinary life. It gives me opportunity to check my heart as well. There are dreams that root out from envy and plain lust for things and pleasures. I am thankful that I still can dream. Even now I dream to have a car which I still can't afford, believe it or not. I dream of travel which I have done a few times already. I dream of having like 40 million dollars and what to do with it.
To some it may be childish, but I know deep inside of each of us we all still dream dreams. It is something I believe given to us to search for hope in this imperfect world. And hope indeed can be a strong motivation and a strong source of stability when it is grounded on beliefs.
My dreams are just dreams. They make me alive. They make me be and do things that may never happen in my life. I am thankful for the ability to imagine and dream dreams. They keep me young.
* I actually made this because I got nothing else to post here. I don't if this even is saying something. but anyway...........
Funny, but at times I still dream to be a superhero. I guess in the adult version of it. But still the flying is there. I am thankful because dreaming keeps me alive. It keeps me working and going after something. Dreaming keeps sparkles in my eyes, maybe. hehehehhee It takes away the boredom of routinary life. It gives me opportunity to check my heart as well. There are dreams that root out from envy and plain lust for things and pleasures. I am thankful that I still can dream. Even now I dream to have a car which I still can't afford, believe it or not. I dream of travel which I have done a few times already. I dream of having like 40 million dollars and what to do with it.
To some it may be childish, but I know deep inside of each of us we all still dream dreams. It is something I believe given to us to search for hope in this imperfect world. And hope indeed can be a strong motivation and a strong source of stability when it is grounded on beliefs.
My dreams are just dreams. They make me alive. They make me be and do things that may never happen in my life. I am thankful for the ability to imagine and dream dreams. They keep me young.
* I actually made this because I got nothing else to post here. I don't if this even is saying something. but anyway...........
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Wonderful place
Just want to share some pictures of the wonderful general place where I live. It's been great to be given the chance to live here, but it is much too lonely here compared to the original place I call home. I believe God made us in such a way that we have strong feelings of belongingness which makes us even attached to places and of course to the general race we belong and identify with. But still it is my privilege to be here by God's grace. Where I am now is such a wonderful place. I am still looking for the better pictures I have. Misplaced them somewhere.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Love your Enemies
I've read many things about the different Religions in the world and I have found one very distinctive principle of the Christian Religion that makes it very influential. This principle is similar to other religions and yet it has found somewhat a real place in the Christian religion. This is the principle of "Love your enemies".
History makes it clear that the Christian religion also has its share of mistakes, blunders, errors against humanity as a whole. Despite of these it is one of the major religions with the most influence in the world throughout History.
Maybe this is a bias opinion, but I have seen and experienced this principle at work. I was born in a place where there is a religious armed conflict up to this point in time. I grew up knowing that I am part of the Christian community and the enemy is of another religion. Civil wars come and go and in fact even at this very moment one is being waged and what I have observed is that the Christians were and are always accuse of being anti God, abusive, corrupt and so on by the enemies.
But what I always see is that Christians are always the ones who donate food, clothing, shelter, medicines and protection for those considered enemies. I can say this because my parents were there doing all the help they can to the families, children and elderly of the so called "enemies " even now. In our schools where majority are Christians we were asked to give a bag of rice and a can of sardines for the "enemies".
I always have asked myself when I was younger what do the enemies do? I haven't seen them lift a finger to help Christians but instead they condemn continuously and in some cases kill innocent Christians and display what they do to the public to instill fear.
Love your enemies is a mark of Christianity and a mark of the true Christian.
History makes it clear that the Christian religion also has its share of mistakes, blunders, errors against humanity as a whole. Despite of these it is one of the major religions with the most influence in the world throughout History.
Maybe this is a bias opinion, but I have seen and experienced this principle at work. I was born in a place where there is a religious armed conflict up to this point in time. I grew up knowing that I am part of the Christian community and the enemy is of another religion. Civil wars come and go and in fact even at this very moment one is being waged and what I have observed is that the Christians were and are always accuse of being anti God, abusive, corrupt and so on by the enemies.
But what I always see is that Christians are always the ones who donate food, clothing, shelter, medicines and protection for those considered enemies. I can say this because my parents were there doing all the help they can to the families, children and elderly of the so called "enemies " even now. In our schools where majority are Christians we were asked to give a bag of rice and a can of sardines for the "enemies".
I always have asked myself when I was younger what do the enemies do? I haven't seen them lift a finger to help Christians but instead they condemn continuously and in some cases kill innocent Christians and display what they do to the public to instill fear.
Love your enemies is a mark of Christianity and a mark of the true Christian.
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