Happy Birthday Marce Mye!

Happy birthday Marce Mye. Hope you have many fruitful years to come with your loveones. We mean every words written in the banner and as it says already...I look forward to enjoy our friendship and being marces:)

How do we deal with stress and anxiety during FLOOD?

What do you do when you're stressed and tensed? If you asked the smokers , they'll surely reason that cigarettes (or pipes and dominican cigars even) bring down the level of irritability, anxiety and stress. They believe smoking helps to relieve tension and improve the mood.

I don't smoke neither my hubby so you won't see us smoking when we're under pressure. The recent flood that happened in the city is one of the circumstances that is out of our control, we felt stress. Our safety was threatened at that time, we got anxious. How do we cope with that as Christians?

We PRAY. The Bible recommends taking everything to God in prayer. We pray that the water won't continue to rise and submerging our 2nd floor. We pray for our safety and for all the people in Hatyai City. This verse in Philippians offers the comforting promise . Our minds were protected by a peace that goes beyond our ability to understand.

Philippians 4:6-7
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by
prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the
peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and
your minds in Christ Jesus. (NIV)

After praying we started praising and the stress and anxiety just seems to go away. Praise and worship took our minds and thoughts off of ourselves, off our problems, and refocus them on God. As we begin to praise and worship God, suddenly our problems seem small in light of the largeness of God.

How about you? How do you deal with stress in life?

Happy birthday bros!

Happy birthday dear handsome brothers, Benjamin Jasper (Nov.10) and Rogne Keith (Nov.16) . May you both always have many things to laugh at and real good friends with whom you can have chats. Now that you're both in your early 20's , it's time for reflection. Winning all the time isn't important in life . Compromise can go further as it prevents strife. Set good examples to your younger sisters . Always be good boys and make God the top priority in your life. With HIM everything will be fine.

Cleaning up after flood

After the floodwater subsided, we struggled on what to do next. The water really wreak havoc on the structure of the house, few of our personal belongings, and the health of the inside environment. Flood waters contain many contaminants and lots of mud and we're grateful that we don't own high dollar items that get ruined-we don't have carpeting nor wallboard. We saved our few appliances and our dining set withstand the flood but not our TV rack, bookshelves and sofa.

Cleaning up is a long and hard process. It took us almost a week to clean and sanitize our small abode and few flooded.

Our landlady lent to us her turbo cleaner so we're able to wash away mud from our living room, backyard, hallway and even the door and window screens. We clean and disinfect every surface. We scrubbed surfaces with hot water and a heavy-duty cleaner. Then disinfected with a solution of 1/4 cup chlorine bleach per gallon of water to kill germs.

In the kitchen, we only got a portable cupboard. We cleaned and rinsed it with a chlorine bleach solution before storing the dishes. Thankfully, I don't need to disinfect glass, porcelain, china, plastic dinnerware, enamelware , silverware, metal utensils, and pots and pans because I was able to save them all.

We threw all our garbage just outside the house because our landlady told us that a garbage truck will pick them up. Piles of garbage lined up in our street and I wonder when will the garbage truck ever reach our place.

Because we can't buy a new bookshelf immediately, I temporarily keep all books, Hyzyd's toys and other items in boxes.

My hands are still sore from washing truck load of laundry and it's Saturday already, I need to wash another pile of laundry. Our favorite laundry shop hasn't yet opened so I don't have a choice but to wash clothes by hand! The household chores is overwhelming but I love it because it serves as one of the best fat burners- I was able to work out my body and utilizes all of my muscle groups. This, in turn, builds strength, endurance, and flexibility. Even folding clean clothes, and scrubbing our toilet qualify as moderate physical exercise which can help me stay fit and healthy.