Opportunity and Change

Ang pagtitiwala ay parang rappelling:

• Ang jumper ay kinakailangang magtiwala sa kanyang belayer. Kung wala siyang tiwala dito, di sya makakatalon nang maayos, parating may pangamba.
• Ang belayer, bagama’t nakabantay, ay kailangang magtiwala sa jumper, kung hindi ay panay ang hatak niya sa lubid nang di naman kailangan, at di rin makakagalaw ang jumper.

Walang perpekto, parehong maaring magkamali.

Ang Jumper ay maaring:

• makalimutan ang pagsara sa carabiner
• maluwag ang pagkatali sa harness
• baliktad ang pagkakabit sa system
• mabitawan ang tali
• malimutan ang pagsuot ng gwantes
• magkamali ng tantiya
• madulas, mauntog, o mahilo

Ang belayer ay maaring:

• malingat nang sandali sa pagbabantay
• luwagan ang hawak sa tali
• masilaw sa katitingin sa itaas
• kausapin ng katabi
• mataranta

Hindi matatanggal ng pagtitiwala ang posibilidad ng pagkakamali o aksidente. Nunit, di ba mas masaya ang buhay kung alam mong may maaring sumalo sa’yo kapag ika’y nalaglag?

Hambog ang tawag sa jumper na ayaw magpa-belay. Kahit senior instructor nalalaglag din. Marami nang naospital dahil sa lubos na tiwala sa sarili.
Pabaya naman ang tawag sa belayer na kampante sa kanyang hinahawakan. Sila ang madalas nababagsakan ng higit 40-kilo na buto’t balat dahil pa-easy-easy…

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sub: 4 Logical Reasons for Secrecy

1. The person cannot be entrusted
2. The person SHOULD not know about it
3. The secret might do more good than harm
4. The secret is deemed utterly useless to the person

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Thought for the day:
A man was asked, "how can you believe in God when the world has many problems?" The man replied, "With all these problems, how can you possibly make it without God?"  ^_^

*tagalog topak mode-pi100 hangover*

Ilang linggo na nga ba ang nagdaan?
Ilang oras ng tulog ang nakalig’tan?
Ilang araw ang sumikat nang di napagmamasdan?

Nagwakas na rin ang sigwa.
    Ako’y nag-ulat kanina (tungkol sa Kanser ng Lipunan) na may takot at pangamba. Nawala mang bigla ang aking ka-pangkat, batid kong ako’y di nag-iisa pagka’t may mga nagdarasal. Higit sa lahat, kasama ko ang aking Panginoon, na siyang tapat. Ang ulat at pagsusuri ma’y nagkulang, kapayapaan ng isip ay sapat.

Maraaming biyaya ang aking natanggap, ako ma’y di karapat-dapat:

• Umaga na kanina nang aking malaman na bukas na ang aming pagsusulit. Ako’y natuliro ngunit bahagyang nagtiwala sa Kanyang dakilang katapatan. Ilang oras ang nagdaan nang isang liham ang dumating: ang pagsusulit, sa ibang araw na lamang gaganapin.
• Isang kaibigan ang nagyayang mag-sorbetes matapos ang aking pag-uulat. ^_^

• Ang oras na sana sa pag-aaral ay laan (dahil di natuloy ang pagsusulit) , aking nagamit upang tup’din ang katungkulan, makausap ang isang kaibigan, at maikatha ang siyang nasa iyong harapan.

Broken World (by: Across The Sky)

Promises shattered

Answers don’t come

Friends say goodbye

Plans come undone

Dreams get crushed

Lies get told

Words can turn cruel

Hearts can grow cold

CHORUS

In a broken world where we cry to feel

Some hope that helps these hearts to heal

You’re my strength, You’re my refuge

In a broken world, Jesus I’m holding to You

You make sense of the madness

And You make darkness flee

You bring such a calm

To the chaos in me

Show me life

Tell me truth

Day after day I keep running to You

In a broken world where we cry to feel

Some hope that helps these hearts to heal

You’re my strength, You’re my refuge

In a broken world, Jesus I’m holding to You

Long ago, we fell so far

Yet You came to where we are

In a broken world where we cry to feel

Some hope that helps these hearts to heal

You’re my strength, You’re my refuge

In a broken world, Jesus I’m holding to You

*Para sa mga taong maraming pinoprolema, ito ang para sa inyo.
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1 Peter 5:1-11
On Leadership:

• The terms Bishop, Elder, and Pastor can be used interchangeably.

• The primary duties of leaders are to feed and lead the flock of God (Preaching, bible study, and direction). Administration is not their biggest concern.
• The flock is God’s, and not ours. Walang alipores system.

• The term Elders connote the plurality of leadership. Walang monopoly.

On Submission:

• Submitting to everyone means I am vulnerable.
• There is a difference between submission and obedience (Heb. 13:17)
• Obedience is the responsive action towards authority (outward)
• Submission is the attitude towards authority
• Grumbling and murmuring is a sign of un-submission (Num. 12)
• The sheep: are animals that easily get lost, more so when they are intentionally lead astray. they are very sensitive creatures, eating wet grass would cause them to have diarrhea. They cannot distinguish good food from bad food.

Yun lang muna. Malapit na matapos ang sigwa. Lahat ng papuri sa Kanya!

    Last night, I was with Abiel and Paul Mark, two friends since childhood that I don’t meet that often anymore. Abiel will come back to Singapore tomorrow. We ate to our heart’s content at Kamay Kainan’s buffet, and talked about the things we normally don’t disclose. It’s nice to realize that your friendship is already beyond the level that relies on constant communication, yet we still do need communication.

    At one point, Paul Mark asked us how we would answer the questions of people who ask why there is pain, and somehow, why life seems unfair. We gave all sorts of answers, both logical and somewhat biblical, yet he didn’t seem content with that. It was at that Point that Paul Mark told us about the answer our now-deceased senior pastor told him when he was the one questioning:

Jesus Christ went through pain and sorrow, he KNOWS what you are going through

    No amount of logic or reasoning could possibly be better than this answer. What the hurting world wants most is not logic nor reason. What use do they have for the proofs of God’s existence, or the God’s answer to Job about His unfathomable sovereign will. What the world needs and wants is to know that someone understands them, that they are not alone.

"For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are - yet was without sin" -Hebrews 4:15

The Most Wonderful Love

Everyone longs to give themselves completely to someone, to have a
deep soul relationship with another, to be loved thoroughly and
exclusively.

But God, to a Christian, says,

"No, not until you are satisfied, fufilled and content with being
loved by Me alone -with giving yourself totally and unreservedly to Me
-discovering that only in Me is your satisfaction to be found -only
then will you be capable of the perfect human relationship that I have
planned for you.

You will never never be united with another until you are united
with Me -exclusive of anyone or anything else, exclusive of any other
desire or longing. I want you to stop planning, stop wishing and allow
Me to give you the most thrilling plan existing, one that you cannot
imagine, I want you to have the best; please allow Me to give it to you.

You just keep watching Me, expecting the greatest things. Keep
listening and learning the things I tell you. You just wait, that’s
all. Don’t be anxious, don’t worry. Don’t look around at the things
others have gotten or that I have given them. Don’t look at the things
you think you want. You just keep looking away off to Me or you’ll miss
what I want to show you.

And when you’re ready, I’ll surprise you with a love far more
wonderful than you could dream of. You see, until you are ready and
until the one I have for you is ready, (I’m working even at this moment
to have you both ready at the same time), until you are both satisfied
exclusively with Me and the life I have prepared for you, you won’t be
able to experience the love that exemplifies your relationship with Me,
and this is the perfect love.

And dear one, I want you to have this wonderful love. I want you
to see in the flesh the picture of your relationship with Me and enjoy
materially and concretely the everlasting beauty, perfections, and love.

Know that i love you utterly.
I am God, believe it and be satisfied."

    Mahirap gumalaw sa gitna ng sigwa. Tinatangay ng hangin ang buong kapaligiran. Ang mga patak ng ulan, tila nag-sama-sama upang maging baha na siyang rumaragasa’t sinisira ang lahat ng dinadaanan.
    Mahirap magsalita sa gitna ng pangyayari, walang oras, maraming nagaganap, patung-patong, parang mga patak na siyang nagiging baha. Paano ka nga naman madadala ng mga patak ng tubig diba?
    Mahirap, pero kaya. Lahat ng sigwa ay dumaraan lamang. Kasiraan man ang itinitira paglipas, ito’y may katapusan din…

    Eto lang muna sa ngayon, di ko pwede ipaalam lahat ng pangyayari sa aking munting buhay dahil wala kong oras mag-isip. Ang mga masasabi ko lang ay may mga pasanin, mga iniisip, mga pabigat. Keri lang.  Mas malaki  ata ang Diyos  ko sa sigwang ito…

Psalm 121 (New International Version)

Psalm 121

A song of ascents.

1 I lift up my eyes to the hills—
       where does my help come from?

2 My help comes from the LORD,
       the Maker of heaven and earth.

3 He will not let your foot slip—
       he who watches over you will not slumber;

4 indeed, he who watches over Israel
       will neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The LORD watches over you—
       the LORD is your shade at your right hand;

6 the sun will not harm you by day,
       nor the moon by night.

7 The LORD will keep you from all harm—
       he will watch over your life;

8 the LORD will watch over your coming and going
       both now and forevermore.

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Quote for the day:

"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving"