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TIME heal all wounds.

TIME waits for no one.

TIME is Gold.

TIME HEAL ALL WOUNDS. Does it? For me it does and it doesn't have to take too long for me to forget some hurts that some people caused me. I don't hold grudges since I do not like to hold anything negative inside me. I feel hurt but I make sure that the feelings goes away as fast as it could so that I would not be tempted to retaliate, instead, I say a little prayer for the person who caused the hurt. BUT, of course, people are not the same. There are those who hold their grudges forever, do NOT move on, and in the end their TIME becomes wasted.

TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE. We must always remember, that if there are some ideas that pops up into our minds, we must anylyze it, weigh it to see if it is something that we can put into action or something we can inject into our life. But let us not also discount the fact that we must take into consideration the pros and cons and if doing so will not in anyway affect or cause some people around us troubles. Meaning, every step we make must be safe for all, beneficial to all. It's the same with feelings, it we cause hurt or trouble to other people let us not procastinate in asking for forgiveness or saying SORRY since it is only us who can ask forgiveness for the wrongs we have done. It's much better to make friends rather than enemies.

TIME IS GOLD. Every second, every minute, every hour is a very precious TIME. Let us not waste time in making good deeds to those people around us, in extending charity even in the littlest way we can, let us start praying for one another since prayer is the best gift and blessings we can give even to those people whom we do not know. You might say, "Why should I pray for a stranger?" and I will answer "I JUST DID IT, PRAYED FOR YOU," cause it makes me feel better and more closer to GOD. As I have said, Time is GOLD, do it now and see what difference it will make in you life.

The TIME IS NOW.

Effective, Fervent Prayer
FERVENT PRAYER means we do not quit easily. Fervent prayer means we purposefully spend sufficient time in intercession. Fervent prayer means we cry out to the Father, sometimes in tears, with our heart and soul. Fervent prayer comes as the Holy Spirit assists us in praying with groanings too deep for words. (Rom. 8:26).

After my prayers this morning, I felt a need to open my book "Experiencing GOD Day-by-day" to find the readings for July 30, BUT, I accidentally opened this page and found the verse on top highlighted in green which I did some few years ago, the first time I had read the verse. I took it as a sign of something, I just don't know WHAT, yet, I just know it's a sign because I believe that whenever we come accross something which is unexpected or something not ordinary, we must give some importance because there are always some messages and all we have to do is read in between the lines. And that I always do. I always pray fervently and it really works, sometimes God answers spontaneously, sometimes DON'T, but we have to be very patient because HE DOES ANSWERS and gives the best, IN HIS TIME, for purposes which ONLY HIM KNOWS.

When I was 19 years old, I was already working then, and sort of bread winner at a young age, I graduated College at the age of 18 and a half years old, I started praying for something. The prayer request was something big, but my intention for that prayer was not for me but for my family. Father, mother, eight siblings. I was still single then. Everyday of my life, apart from my other prayers, I fervently pray for this particular request. I did not cease from praying this particular request, until the time I got married, which was eight years after, had my own family, and until such time that my two children were already big. Somehow, I stopped from asking for this request but went on with my daily prayers and other request. I just said to myself, perhaps I do not deserve what I was asking for, reason why that particular prayer request what not answered. I totally forgot that prayer, but one day, after almost 26 years, I got the answer to that prayer almost exactly what I had asked for. It did not sinked into my mind at once that it was the answer , it took me sometime to discern it. But GOD gave it to me in HIS own time. The reason for such a very long period of time HE gave me what I was asking for, was because HE wanted me to use it instead with my OWN family, my Husband and my Children, rather than the family I had when I was still single. He wanted me to use it for a different purpose rather than the purpose I had in mine back then, because no matter how much we think that our purpose is noble, still God will give us a hand to serve a purpose noblier than we thought of.

Perhaps the reason why I came accross this verse once again is because I have some prayer request for the moment, which I had been praying for, for quite sometime now, and God is telling me, WAIT, I will answer in my own time. Again, just be patient.

I will GOD, but please be patient with me also because I will never stop from praying, I have no one to turn to, ONLY YOU. YOU'RE all I have. Love YOU, GOD.

DATE : April 7, 2008

Early today my son told me, we're going to Manila Ma with father and Kriza. I would like YOU and FATHER to ease up a bit, enjoy, stroll. As we left the house, he said, "we're going to have breakfast first at Jolibee", I said "let's pass by adoration chapel first before having breakfast". That's just what we did go to church first then to Jolibee. As we entered and approached the counter he said "What do you like Ma?, Pa, what's yours." As we told him what we will have for breakfast, he said "OK, just find a table and I'll take care of everything, me and Kriza." He ordered the food, paid for it and brought it on our table, putting before us what we wanted for breakfast. I was all smiles as everything that was happening at that very moment, was the same things his father and I had done to him twenty six (26) years ago.

FUNNY don't you think? What attention we had given him, he returns to us, as if that is the natural thing to do, to happen. And I said, GOD, thank you, because not everyone, experiences the same kind of experience my husband and I am having right that moment. It almost brought tears to my eyes, but I have to abort it, I don't want to be teased and branded as BEST ACTRESS ka MA ha!! I was really so HAPPY that very moment. Still, as his age, her sister at 17, I still give them the same kind of attention, NO, let me say ATTENTION, LOVE and CARE much more than what we give them when they were younger, because NOW, the pressures of parenthood is much much lesser as they are now OLDER. I think, there will never come a time when I will get tired of giving myself to them, even when they are much older, because now I know, whatever I give them, returns to me doubly rewarding. As the saying goes, 'WHAT YOU SOW, YOU REAP", " WHAT YOU PLANT, YOU HARVEST". All of these, are product of my constant reminder to them to adopt "THE GOLDEN RULE" their motto in life.

Before I forget, of course, I told him "ANAK baliktad ano, kasi we use to do this to you, Now, you do it for us. And THANK YOU VERY MUCH".

APRIL 7, 2008, from MORNING till NIGHT TIME, the four of us were together, STROLLING here, there, everywhere, ENJOYING and SAVOURING the moment of being together.

This is the price of being a mother, a confidant, an adviser and most of all as a FRIEND to my children. I may not be their best friend, but I am the sincerest friend they have
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SURPRISE ??? yEAH !!! I was so surprised to receive a birthday greeting from blog.co.uk. WONDERFUL. Thank you very much.

This is of course a very wonderful day and as the YOUNG PEOPLE of this time calls it 'BORN DAY". And I was the very first one to greet myself. Yes, I always do that, I do not wait for other people to greet me first, I do it and give myself the pleasure of wishing my ownself 'GOOD LUCK, GOOD HEALTH AND GOD BLESS ME and that HE BLESS ME WITH MANY MANY MORE BIRTHDAYS TO COME. As early as yesterday, (Nov. 26), I already started receiving phone calls from friends, text messages, e-mail, greetings in my friendsters from my children and their friends, greetings from almost all of my siblings and relatives, not to mention that I keep my birthday secret, but of course, this is ONE OF THE BEST TIME IN MY LIFE, because a great good number of people remembers me year in year out and the same people with the addition of SOME every year, never fail to greet me. VERY NICE feeling. I Love it, make me feel so excited coz it's one proof that I am able to touch the lives of a great number of people too. If ever people remembers you, it is only for TWO THINGS. It's either, for the GOOD deeds you did, or for the BAD. If you receive greetings during special occassions, it means you did something good in their life, if you dont', it means you did something very wrong and that they prefer you'd be forgotten.

Of course, I am very thankful to God that I am again celebrating another year, this is my 53rd and I would say that I am very much loved by GOD since I am greatly blessed. I have very wonderful husband and two wonderful children and a great good number of people that surrounds me. This I would like to take advantage of.

"GOD THANK you for the love and the joy you Bring. I Love you very very much, there was never a time that you left me, YOU were always there for me, in times when things are LOW, you never failed to answer my prayers. And in times when things are at it's BEST, YOU are always with me too and still keep on blessing me. Yes, I underwent a very LOW TIME in my life this year, YOU just manifested yourself to me, you made me find a special prayer and YOU just gave me what I prayed for. Everyday, YOU lead me closer and closer to YOU, and this is one particular day that I know you wanted me to write something like this coz this is your way of making me share my blessings. I shout to the world and to all the readers of this blog that everyday of our life, GOD is watching us and hears us, hears our prayers. And EVERYDAY, as I wake up, the first thing that I do is THANK HIM profusely and WISH my self with all the GOODNESS and GREATNESS of GOD. AGAIN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH GOD, I LOVE YOU."

I am wishing all the readers too, A WONDERFUL DAY, and GOOD LUCK, GOOD HEALTH, GOD BLESS YOU ALL. And let us always remember to pray not just for the people that we love,but, most specially for those people who doesn't feel any love and who has no one to love and care for them.

BLOG, I think it's cool. A way to express one's thinking, to share whatever ideas one wants to share. After all sharing is something we must always consider in life. We must remember that "NO MAN IS AND ISLAND.'"
When I was younger, in my elementary, I sort of cannot connect what this quotation really means because what is always in my mind is the picture of an island with a man living there all by himself. But as I grew older, matures, I came to realize what it truly means. For me it is LOVE. The ability of one person to reach out to other people regardless of age, creed, color, status in life. We all exist to correspond to each others needs. Whether you are up or down the ladder, surely which way you choose it, you will meet each other if not in the middle, maybe up on top or down the first step. It's nice to think that when one is up, one humbly goes down to meet the one below, to reach out and assist the other one in going up, because being down there, it is not easy to reach out to the one of top because of the mixed feeling of fear and shyness. It is after all very very wonderful and unexplainable feelings of happiness when we are able to reach out. We must remember, ALWAYS, that GOD is up there, we look up to him, he looks down to us full of love and a lot of times, he comes down to us to reach out. Of course we do not know, because, WE WERE NOT LOOKING.

Today is April 30, 2007. Monday, a beautiful Monday morning and I had received a very inspiring and beautiful comment from a cousin-in-law. As always, we start our day with prayers of Thanksgiving and then our prayers for some specific request. There are prayers that are answered and we say "GOD, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, WE LOVE YOU." But also, there are prayers that do not get answers (we thought) and we tell ourselves "PERHAPS, NOT THE RIGHT TIME YET, but still, GOD THANK YOU VERY MUCH, WE LOVE YOU." There is no reason for us to despair. Just the other day April 26, 2007, I came across this wonderful prayer, I have read it, and I want share it with you.

THE BLESSING OF UNANSWERED PRAYERS

I asked for strength that I might achieve;
I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for health that I might do greater things;
I was given infirmity that I might do better things.
I asked for riches that I might be happy;
I was given poverty that I might be wise.
I asked for power that I might have the praise of men;
I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things that I might enjoy life;
I was given life that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing that I had asked for,
But everything that I had hoped for
Almost despite myself my unspoken prayers were answered;
I am , among all men, most RICHLY BLESSED.