Wising Up!

Hello dearies!

I know, it's been awhile since I updated this site. Laziness can't be blamed on this but let's say the issue of realigning and clarifying the priorities in my life causes the delay of the updates- mind management, my personal relationship with God, family, friends, career, online tasks, 7 blogs and ME time!

Our vacation to Philippines taught me to be wise on my priorities. I'd spend more time with my family . I get to know what my brothers and sisters want to be in the future. One is taking up Mining Engineering. The other one fancies IT. I could have advised him to take online it degree if only internet is accessible at home.Someone wants to be a tourist guide, one loves accountancy and the younger ones desire to be teachers like their "Ate" which is me. That swells my heart..he..he...Moreover, I came to realize that petty things steal too much of my time. I had the chance to re-route my life with God's guidance and started living for the right reasons.

A new school year just open so it means I gonna spend my 40 hours in school again. I circle today's date on my calendar and declare that the best days of my life are beginning - right now!

Happy Monday everyone! Oh by the way, I didn't expect today that I'll win $10 from Travel Diva's Top Commenter's Contest. Check it out at http://www.thetraveldiva.info! Thank you, Ate Janet and thank you Lord. I'm one happy woman...he..he...

Headlines and Scriptures

Before starting my day, I usually read online newspapers to educate myself on current events (this is a practice I carried on since our region sent me to Super Quiz Bee Bowl in Subic Bay in year 2000). It also improves my outlook on life and makes me a more reasonable person. These days, with all the bad news around the world, it's quite depressing to read a newspaper. Panic seems to crawl in my inner being. It can't be denied that we're living in a fear-filled world but we have a great, big, wonderful God who can give us peace which the world can't give.If you read the headlines and not the Scriptures, or listen to the 'shock jocks' instead of those who strengthen your faith, you'll experience what Jesus described as "men's hearts failing them for fear". As a redeemed child of God I live by His rules, under His protection, supplied by His riches.

Here's a promise I need to stand on: 'Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord... For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes; but its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit' (Jeremiah 17:7-8 NKJV). In this year when economic seems too tough to handle, when drought seems peeking on my shoulders, I don't need to panic. Instead,I trust God to come through for me and for you.

So here I am reading Yahoo news. Reading is important as it stimulates my brain. Reading the newspaper assists me in keeping up with the daily news of what is occurring locally as well in the world. The newspaper is a wealth of information - helps a person find employment, sell items, buy items by reading reviews first to ensure the best purchase (like moi- I'm reading led tv reviews because I'm really curious why so many claimed LED TV is the best compared to the standard LCD TV), and make your brain work by attempting the puzzle.

By God's Grace You Can Overcome

Some of the world's greatest people have faced the world's greatest challenges, but have overcome them.

Disable a man, and you have Sir Walter Scott. Lock a man in prison, and you have John Bunyan. Raise a man in abject poverty, and you have Abraham Lincoln. Subject a man to bitter religious prejudice, and you have Benjamin Disraeli. Strike a man down with paralysis, and you have Franklin Roosevelt. Have someone born black in a society filled with racial discrimination, and you have Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, Marian Anderson and George Washington Carver. Make a man the first child to survive in an impoverished Italian family of 18, and you have Enrico Caruso. Have a man born to parents who survived a Nazi concentration camp, paralyse him from the waist down when he's four years old, and you have the incomparable violinist Itzhak Perlman. Call a man a slow learner and mentally challenged, write him off as beyond education, and you have Albert Einstein. Helen Keller was born blind and deaf, yet she graduated from college with highest honours and impacted the world. Margaret Thatcher, England's first and only woman Prime Minister, lived upstairs over her father's grocery store. For a while her childhood home had no running water and no indoor plumbing. Golda Meir, Israel's first and only woman Prime Minister, was a divorced grandmother from Milwaukee.

What do these people teach us? That success doesn't depend on our circumstances, but on overcoming our circumstances. And with God on our side we can do it! Paul, one of the world's great overcomers, wrote, 'If God be for us, who can be against us?'

I thank God for His word that I received through emails. I really thank God for His word for me today.By God's grace , I can overcome! Yes, indeed buddy, yes indeed!!!!