BIRTHSARY LETTER

19 June 2016

My Everdearest Lex,

Happy 29th birthday and Happy 3rd Anniversary sa ating dalawa.!

I can still remember kung paano mong nakuha ang "OO" ko, 3 years ago. I never wanted to say yes on your birthday, kasi I believed memories or days should be celebrated separately. But it is God's grace na maging tayo on  your birthday. As King Solomon said, "Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails." Proverbs 19:21. So yes, it is God's plan and His amazing grace that we are celebrating today two special moments. Biro mo, isang gift na lang ang bibigay ko sayo? Laking tipid nun ha! (^_________________^)

So, what should I say to you  on this special day bukod sa greetings? I had been thinking for weeks kung ano ba ang magandang ihanda for you. Collage? (given na un) Poem? (last year na un) Surprise Gift? (wala pa kong sahod e) and ngayon ngang birthday mo na, wala akong naihanda. Bukod sa etong simpleng sulat ko sa yo na mababasa mo na lang sa BIBER.

So tutsky, pagpasensyahan mo na kung LOVELETTER muna (bawi ka na lang pag-uwi ko hehehe)

We've been together for a year and 2 months, and apart for a year and 9 months. So, mas matagal tayong magkahiwalay kesa magkasama... But, it is by God's grace alone kung bakit TAYO pa rin. Long Distance Relationship ay mahirap. It takes a lot of patience, of trust, of understanding in order for us to survive. I have my ups and downs, my lonely nights and sad days, when I think of how far I am with you, with my family and friends. At least my technology, so we can chat and call and see each other. Though sometimes, kulang pa rin (or maybe sa akin lang). Sometimes, I long to see you more, at mahirap dahil umaga jan (work mode ka na), gabi pa  sakin (tulo lway mode). Pag work mode naman ako, pagod ka na and you have to take your rest. So... it is in those little times, and pasingit-singit na kamusta mode, kwento mode sa Biber, are reminders that SOMEONE IS WAITING. It is in these little times, that we are reminded that we are loved, we are cared.

For those months that we've survived and until now we continue to hold on to that promise to "WAIT FOR ME AS I WAIT FOR YOU"

I love you Lex and everyday of my life is a life of thanksgiving to God for giving me YOU.

I will always thank God for you... for your Love, for your Understanding, for your big heart, for all your hard work (para makaipon at may pambayad ^_____________^).

Ilang buwan na lang and we will be together again and a year from now, WALA NG IWANAN.

Enjoy your day tutsky ko! Know that I am always praying for you, and for the both of us.

I miss you more than you could imagine.

Loving you always,

Joh

God keeps no one on the waiting

November 19, 2011

5:00 pm

MERE CHRISTIANITY : C.S. Lewis

MUNTING PANALANGIN

November 04, 2011

10:07 pm

MUNTING PANALANGIN

Salamat sa Iyo O, Panginoon ko

Sa lahat ng nangyari

Sa loob ng dalawampu’t anim na taon

Lungkot man o ligya

Sa sakit at ginhawa

Sa bawat oras ay kasama Kita

Dalangin ko sana’y Iyong pakinggan

Sa sa isang taon muli

Iyong gabayan

At sa aking paglalakbay

Ay lagi kong iisipin

Ikaw ang lagi kong kapiling…

Dear Lord

November 03, 2011

9:34 pm

Dear Lord,

Another year… of hopes, joys, failures, sadness, journeys, laughter’s, cries, struggles, burdens, triumphs, victories… and its always humbling to know that You’ve graciously an patiently molding, waiting, holding on me for 27 years... and Lord, I am amazed.

My yesterdays are gone, my childhood dreams are gone. But I have today. Yours is tomorrow… and You’ve always taught me to live my todays- Today- and not my yesterdays… yes I have committed so many mistakes and wrong doings, but it is in those mistakes that I’ve learned, grow and mature into who I am today..

Question is, who am I now Lord, today? Journey still continues…

There are many valleys and shadows Lord, but You are my light and salvation, whom shall I fear?

Lord, it is and has been my greatest pleasure to serve You and praise You and worship You.

In my highs and lows, in my burning passion and in coldness… you have seen me and work still through me and in me…

Father, I pray Thee that I will not let any thing occupy my heart that will diminish Your glory... you are the rightful throne of my life... let not earthly desires or earthly possessions exchange You in my heart and in my life Lord.

Lord, lead me... I will always need You...

For all the people I loved and cared about, my families, my friends, my church... You are forever faithful and You, by Your grace and mercy will continually bring forth blessings upon blessings on them and to them, thank You Father…

I may not see my tomorrow, but I know YOU HOLD MY TOMORROW.

Hold me close Father, into Your loving arms... I’m forever grateful to You…

Amen

Dances for Your Glory

November 02, 2011

9:36 pm

CHANGE

Group1 Crew

Woke up this morning, put on my make up
I didn't stop to think of what’s going on
Outside my window, the world is changing
I can't remember where it all went wrong

I see people crying and families hurting
A mama's praying that her baby comes home
I see the future of a better place

So I wanna make, make this a place
Where we can forget all the problems of yesterday
Let's make a change for a better today
Let it begin with me, make it reality, I wanna change

I never believed that, that, that things will never change
'Cause whenever I look back, back, nothing has stayed the same
Except that all I see are shadows of me, times where
I just fail to believe that faith is not whatever you see
But hoping what it really could be

So we can make a difference if we turn it around
The world is upside down
The revolution starts inside, yeah
Change, make this a place
Where we can forget all the problems of yesterday
Let's make a change for a better today
Let it begin with me, make it reality, I wanna change
I wanna change

In need a better future, let's be a part of the cure
Where unity can be the brush to paint a better picture
We need to plant a seed of something we're all in need off
Through God we can make this world
Into something we only dream of

So we can make a difference if we turn it around
The world is upside down

Make this a place
Where we can forget all the problems of yesterday
Let's make a change for a better today
Let it begin with me, make this reality, I wanna change
I wanna change, I wanna change, I wanna change
I wanna change, I wanna change

WALKING ON THE STARS

GROUP1 CREW

I see my life sometimes and I ask why 
My heart became like stone and turned to ice tell me what have I become 
But you came just in time like a shooting star across my universe out of the dark tell me what have I become 

Take me away 
You save me from myself and all I do 
Cause life just aint the same when I'm with you 
I can climb the sky you got me walking on the stars

I see life through new set of eyes 
Set on someone different that I never realized 
Outside my mind is a lost world that lies 
But step into my thoughts you'll believe you can fly 
Your words like wings gravity they defy 
My heart like a leaf on the wind catchin rides 
They say we can't make it at least we gotta try 
We make to much sense to foolishly pass it by 
So I'm taking a rainbow up to the 5th floor 
Steppin out to see that you're really worth more and I 
See our love in 3d 
No more 2 dimensional worries 
Climb until the sky don't exist no more 
That's when I'll knock knock on your front door 
[- From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/g/group-1-crew-lyrics/walking-on-the-stars-lyrics.html -]
Open to the possibilities I ignored 
But I know now exactly what our love was meant for 

Take me away 
You save me from myself and all I do 
Cause life just aint the same when I'm with you 
I can climb the sky you got me walking on the stars

Now, I can see my life from way up high 
And all the troubles I once knew I left behind 
I can climb the sky you got me walking on the stars

And I can see, much more clear 
When I'm lost in your atmosphere 
You pull me close, to the place 
Where you're always waiting 
So I won't stop, the walls are down 
Make my way at the speed of sound 
Hold me now hold me now

Lord, Take me away 
You save me from myself and all I do 
Cause life just aint the same when I'm with you 
I can climb the sky you got me walking on the stars

I can see my life from way up high 
And all the troubles I once knew I left behind 
I can climb the sky you got me walking on the stars

Lord, it is my humble prayer to bring out the dance in me , to bring praise to Your Most Holy Name.

Thank You, that I would be able to share again a dance on these wonderful songs.

You are my rhythm, my song, my moves, my dance.

May very move that I make, I move with You and for You.

Acts 17:28

English Standard Version (ESV)

²⁸ for In him we live and move and have our being’;^[a]

 

Psalm 149:3

English Standard Version (ESV)

³ Let them praise his name with dancing,

2 Samuel 6:14

English Standard Version (ESV)

¹⁴ And David danced before the Lord with all his might.

The Christian Life is

October 29, 2011

8:56 pm

The Christian life is an exchange life. Jesus life for your life, when Christ takes control, your life takes on dimensions you would never have known apart from Him.

·         When we are weak, then Christ demonstrates His strength in your life

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

English Standard Version (ESV)⁹ But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. ¹⁰  For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

·         When you face situations that are beyond your comprehension, you have only to ask, and the infinite wisdom of God is available to you.

James 1:5-6

English Standard Version (ESV)⁵  If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ⁶ But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

·         When you are faced with humanly impossible situations, God does the impossible.

Luke 18:27

English Standard Version (ESV)²⁷ But he said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”

·         When you encounter people whom you find difficult to love, God expresses His unconditional love through you.

1 John 4:7

English Standard Version (ESV)

God Is Love⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

·         When you are at “loss” to what you should pray for someone, the Spirit will guide you in you in your prayer life.

Romans 8:16

English Standard Version (ESV)¹⁶  The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

·         When Christ takes up residence in the life of a believer,

Ephesians 3:19English Standard Version (ESV)¹⁹ and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

is available to that person

It is marvelously freeing to know that God controls our life and knows what it can become. Rather than constantly worrying about what you will face, your great challenge is to continually  release every area of your life to God’s control. The temptation will be to try to do by yourself what only God can do.

Our assignment is to “abide in the vine” and to allow God to do in and through us what only He can do.

John 15:5 English Standard Version (ESV)⁵ I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Only God can be God.  Allow Him to live out His divine life through you. He is the only ONE WHO CAN.

-       HENRY AND RICHARD BLACKABY (Reality, 7 Truths from Experiencing God)

God, only You can be the God of my entire life. I am holding on, trusting, because You hold my future, my tomorrows, the days to come. I am surrendering to Your perfect will, let it be done on me, my life. my life is in You Lord.. I SURRENDER ALL TO THEE..

With all my heart, have THY WAY.

All to Thee my perfect Saviour

I surrender all..

Waiting Means

October 27, 2011

9:16pm

“God’s ways are not to take us out of the difficulties and trials, not to avoid them. His way is to enable us and to strengthen us, so that we can go through them with heads erect and undefeated, more than conquerors in them and over them and that is a wonderful thing.”

-       MARTIN LLOYD-JONES

“His purpose for us is nothing but joy in the end, for He is love. It is worth nothing that the bible does not say God is justice, or God is power. It says HE IS LOVE. How is it possible that He would purpose anything less than our highest joy?”

-       ELISABETH ELLIOT

“The Lord has promised wisdom to all who ask it. He has promised guidance to those who are willing to accept the way He chooses. He has promised to fulfill the desires of all who fear Him.”

-       ELISABETH ELLIOT

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

-       ELISABETH ELLIOT

Hebrews 10:36

English Standard Version (ESV)

³⁶ For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

We may ask for anything and hope for anything our heart desires. But we do so always with an understanding that our Father knows what’s best for us, and sees beyond what we see. When we hope it is always with the “fine print” in which we acknowledge that we at times don’t know what to ask for, don’t know is what we hope for is right and good. So, we leave the decision to Him, knowing He will do whatever is truly best for us.

Romans 8:28

English Standard Version (ESV)

²⁸ And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good,^[a] for those who are called according to his purpose.

All things- it doesn’t matter what. We must TRUST Him absolutely and explicitly even when we cannot understand.

Philippians 4:11

English Standard Version (ESV)

¹¹ Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

Waiting means-            Steadfastness that is holding on;            Patience, that is holding back;            Expectancy, that is holding the face up;            Obedience, that is holding one’s self in readiness to go or do,            Listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.

-       S.D. GORDON

Psalm 33:11

New International Version (NIV)

¹¹ But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever,
   the purposes of his heart through all generations.
   the purposes of his heart through all generations.  

Proverbs 16:1-3

New International Version (NIV)

Proverbs 16

 ¹ To humans belong the plans of the heart,
   but from the LORD comes the proper answer of the tongue.
 ² All a person’s ways seem pure to them,
   but motives are weighed by the LORD.
 ³ Commit to the LORD whatever you do,
   and he will establish your plans.

Proverbs 16:9

New International Version (NIV)

 ⁹ In their hearts humans plan their course,
   but the LORD establishes their steps.

Jeremiah 29:11-13

New International Version (NIV)

¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ¹² Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. ¹³ You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

The happiest person doesn’t necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best out of everything.

Philippians 4:11-13

New International Version (NIV)

¹¹ I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. ¹² I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. ¹³ I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

Our deed determines us, as much as we determine our deeds.

We often think that who we are determines what we do. It is equally true that what you do today determines, in part, who you become tomorrow.