My Passion My Business

I proudly and convincingly told a friend that teaching is my passion. he looked at me and said "good! now put up your own school". i have been enslaved for so long by my employee psyche that i never saw the power i have that my friend saw. i have enough of it. today i am making my passion my business! i declare i am my own boss. i am made for greater things because i am made of greater stuff. i know because i have a BIG GOD who say so and believes in me.

of walkmans and ipods..Life's Buttons.

Great! I have a walkman.


It was one of the coolest things to have back in the '80s. But I did not find it cool because mine was bigger than a pocketbook. It consumed space while carrying it around. It was cumbersome, though it was portable. With regards efficiency, it gobbled up a lot of power that you have to bring lots and lots of batteries with you. However I enjoyed it because of the fast forward feature since it turns music and voice into chipmunk like sound. Other than that it was just a plain gadget.

Now a days you have ipods, mp3s, mp4s, and what have you. They still have the same features of rewind, fast forward, pause, stop and play buttons. This time however mechanical buttons are not there anymore. Just by mere touch of the pad, you run the feature. The marvels of technology indeed! As they say "technology today, is obsolete tomorrow".

Life is like technology. In constant change. Always new. Creative.

And just like technology, life depends on me and you. On us. We can choose to move forward with it or we can just remain stagnant with it.

We have the power. Some of us chose to stop and refuse to go ahead because of the ignorant belief that this is all there is in their life. That life will offer them no more than what they could want and do. So they just push the stop button. There are those who believe that they cannot create new memories anymore thus they remain stuck in the mud of their past. Transfixed in their past successes, failures and hurts in life. All they do is recall, reminisce, and rewind.

For others, life should be a blur with a trite conviction that time is gold. Waste of time is a bigger sin than wasting relationships in the name of time. It's always the shortest distance that matters. With God, what matters is the instance not the distance. With relationships, what matters is spending time not dividing time. With life, what matters is going forward not fast forward.

Life is to be lived now! Living life is the greatest show of appreciation to the Author of Life. Live your life as it comes. Savor life. Simplify life. Share life. Push the play button of life.

Life's buttons are there for us to push.

Not anymore!

Devastating!

That would have been what I felt years ago. Last Monday I received a not so good news about my part-time teaching job. I was so surprise not of the news but what I felt when I was told about it. All that came out of my heart and mind was "God giveth...God taketh",  there must be more to this than bad news. Truth is I lost a financially rewarding opportunity. What is beautiful was I did not panic and I was not downhearted.

"What did I do wrong this time?"...with a matching looking-up-to-heaven head movement. This would have been my question years back. Funny, because that day I asked myself another question; "What's next for me God?". And another surprising thing that I did was I went through the list of my dreams to look for an answer. I don't know but I felt at peace, hopeful and joyful.

Setbacks such as this would turn my world awry years ago. Not anymore!

Thank you God for the Feast! Thank you God for Jeremiah 29:11! Thank you for giving me family and friends who inspire me, who bless me and who love me. And because of this I know its my time to be blessing the world!

Hello! Goodbye!

I am less than an hour away from my birthday. Another year to look forward to and celebrate. Another year past to thank for and reflect on. Blessed be your name!

I would like to thank God for a year so full of blessings, joys and sorrows. But all in all it was indeed a wonderful year. There were no big miracles but the little realizations made up for all. It was a year also of new friendships that brought healing and respect for my humanity. Of course there were still the constants of my life like friends and family who were there for me silently and actively. It was a year of change in a lot of aspects of my life. Thank you Lord. Thank you for the Feast. Thank you for my friends old and new. Thank you for my mom and siblings. Thank you life.

There is only one direction I want to do for the coming year I want to be a blessing to people I come in contact with. Of course I know God will bless me big time! I declare this in the mightiest name JESUS!

I am there!

"There are two great moments in a person's life: the first is when you were born; the second is when you discover why you were born" Sadly majority of us miss the second great moment of our life. You were born for greatness...fulfill your destiny!


Is there a time table?


The Giver of Life who purposely gave you this opportunity is never limiting. Whether you are already in the twilight of your years, fulfillment of your destiny is still possible. When destiny is at hand, time in this finite world is always eternal. Time does not dictate fulfillment of destiny. 


You dictate your destiny.


I have always been afraid that I have no more time. That I have lost the opportunity. That failure is stacked up on me.


Now I have realized I was running against time which blocked my view. Instead I focused on my destiny. I now see it in a distance. With patience and perseverance I know I am there.


Thank you God! Thank you friends! I am there!

A Life in Constant Lie

Ever since I set foot into the vineyard

Believing in myself I was called

My life has become a constant lie

I should have sought the shelter of His signs

Rather than sheltering my life into my belief

He called, He sought, He decided

I in my fleeting sense of believing I was chosen

Kept a finger hold on a mission

My love for the young, a sign I made my own

He called, He sought, He decided

It was not meant to be I serving in the vineyard

Bullish I pushed myself, I decided

All those years spent around a life in constant lie

Shove Him to accept me, which He did

All because He loved me and none other else

Now I'm out of my self-made cocoon of lies

Would life start for me upbeat anew?

Till now it remains but a question (henre'06)