I was looking for antenna reviews on the internet because my friend needs it for their school project. I was also thinking if we can find a good deal on internet purchase rather than purchasing it in the mall or shops. He needs a good quality antenna that’s why we really have to look for some reviews and forums. I think they also need some sort of documentations that’s why he’s asking me to help him in research work. But of course I don’t have much time for that, so I just gave him what I got during my free time.
|
||||||
|
Yesterday, I was chatting with one of my friends in US and she told me that she just got a North Carolina health insurance. Well, I guess she made a right decision because at some point, we all need that. Of course, prayers count a lot but I also understand that she’s considering some practical aspects why she invested on that insurance. It’s a great help because when I was still working, we have also HMO and it really helps even for simple check up where you don’t have to pay for consultations and laboratory tests. And when I got hospitalized, I didn’t pay anything because the insurance provider paid for it. What my friend did is just practical. Anyway, she has a good job, earning so much and spending some dollars on that insurance won’t hurt. I’m still in the adjustment period from having a full time job to a full time student. I feel more pressured now… and of course I also miss working in the office and my friends/officemates there. This week I received various e-mails, phone calls and text messages from different companies who are looking for an accountant/financial analyst, but I had to turn them down because I’ve decided to give more time on my studies. I remember this one company who’s business is engaged in data center services. They are urgently needing a financial analyst but when I looked at the job description it’s more of general accounting. It’s kindda confusing. Anyway, they are offering a much lower salary than what I was getting from my previous job so there’s no way that I would even accept their offer. Besides, it’s not really my priority for the next 2 months or three. Hopefully, after that span of time there would be much greater opportunities that await me. I’m sure God will bless my plans and will let me succeed in everything that I do. Thank you Lord for this day, for all the blessings (big and small) for they all mean a lot, for me and my family’s good health , for Rodel and his family’s good health, for the protection, for your unconditional love, for your mercy and sacrifices for us. I may be unworthy of all these things because of my sins and imperfections but by your love, you wash away all my sins…giving me strength to do your will and be faithful to you. Thank you also for all the opportunities, for being my healer, for providing for our needs especially now that I have given up my job, for my sisters in Lingkod who are always there to encourage me, to pray for me & my family and to give support both emotionally and spiritually. We may not be in the same AG anymore starting next month because of the reshuffle, but I know they will still and always be there for me. You have blessed me with so much Lord and I hope & pray to be a worthy recipient of those blessings. May you bless all my dreams and plans, direct me to the path that you wanted me to take and be my guide in everything that I do. Continue to bless me Lord, so I may also be a blessing to others. To you my God, I make full surrender of everything…Thy will be done. #CAL I’m really wondering why I am not receiving any assignment for almost 3 weeks now…I am not aware of any violation from my end and my account isn’t suspended. So, why the lack of assignments?!?!? Goodness…oh, they probably wanted me to focus on my studies! Hahaha…as if they know and care about my schooling. Well, if that’s the case…I guess I really have to devote more time studying than wasting my valuable time on internet. Toinkz! Hehehe…makatiis kaya si ako na di mag-online for a day?!?! ;P
Weeeeeee! I finally got my NBI Clearance Renewal Card today at Park Square 1. Unlike in SM Megamall where it’ll take an hour or two before you finish everything (that’s because of a very long queue of course…from the ground floor to the 5th floor), I’m done with the whole process in five minutes! How’s that?!?!? Hehehehe…I actually went there this morning about 10:30am but unfortunately there’s already quite a long queue (uhmmm…like approximately 20 persons?!?!). I have classes at 11:00am so I had to postpone it until this afternoon because I will be late in my class if I proceed with the renewal process. Thank God, I’m done with 1 of my tasks!
Toinkz! Ang hirap kuhanan ha…hehehe! Php120.00 din yan bukod pa yung renewal na Php115.00. Sana naman yung mga collection na yan eh di lang mapunta sa mga corrupt government officials. wala pa rin akong assignments…it’s been two weeks already. bakit ba naman kung kelan kailangan mo saka naman wala…hay…life nga naman talaga oo…tapos under maintenance pa ang facebook…wala kaming prof kaya maagang umuwi…wala ako sa mood mag-aral, i’m bored! ayoko naman mag-start ng scrapblog kasi mabibitin lang, i don’t have much time for that yet. siguro by november marami na ko time para ayusin mga pictures na tumatambak na naman sa dami. wala rin naman akong masyado maisip na isulat sa mga panahong ito, hay…ano ba yan?!?! hehehe…kaya eto, kung anu-ano na lang. hmp! sana naman next week magkaron na ko ng maraming assignments, kailangan ko ng raket para may pang-taxi ako pagpasok sa school at syempre dahil mahirap mag-aral kailangan ko ng pambili ng food dahil palagi akong gutom! at meron namang naidulot na mabuti, dati hanggang 40 kilos lang naabot ko na timbang…2 weeks ago, nung nagpacheck up ako dahil sa flu, 41 kilos na ko…hahaha! sa wakas tumaas ng 1 kilo…sabi nga ni kath dapat daw pala di ako nagtatrabaho para nagigain ako ng weight, hahaha… ;p Thank you Lord, I’m feeling better now. Hopefully, I could attend my classes starting tomorrow. I really have to work double time…I’m done with reading all the lecture materials of 1 subject. Just going to have some recap then I will proceed answering all the exercises. I’m planning to finish them today so I could start with the other subject. Lord, please help me…may you be the source of my strength and knowledge. And whenever there will come a time that I get confused or things are becoming harder for me to take, let me unload the burden and offer them to you. For you have made a lot of sacrifices for me, and so I have to give my share…for your glory. Thy will be done. “This is what the LORD says, he who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it—the LORD is his name: ‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” This is just a re-post. Got this from ALNP-Makati sister and just wanted to share with you. This is true with me, and maybe it is to you too… Hope this could help. God bless!
 Overcoming Prayerlessness
Pete Briscoe
Remember when you first started dating, how it all seemed like a foreign language to you? That girl or that guy you were talking to seemed to speak a completely different language. It was so hard to connect… it was so hard to start communicating the way you both wanted to.
Sometimes I think prayer is just like that… like a foreign language. Have you ever felt that way? I honestly have!
Reminds me of my first experience with foreign language, which was my Spanish class. I struggled learning that language because it was, well, “foreign”! I got to the point where I would just rather quit than fail at it. My teacher promised not to flunk me if I quit before the end of the semester!
Sometimes prayer feels so foreign to me. There are times – I’m speaking honestly here – that I feel like such a complete failure. So I just kind of push it to the side and I start working harder. I start doing stuff more and prayer gets neglected.
The problem is, in I Thessalonians 5:17, the apostle Paul commands us to “pray continually. ” God wants prayer to be a natural outflow of our lives as His children.
So how does prayer work? How can prayer be like our first language rather than a foreign language? I believe the answer is found in an understanding of why we don’t pray in the first place. Near the top of my list is that we are a bit puzzled by prayer. We don’t understand it.
We think, “If God is sovereign, why do I have to pray?” Or we pray for something for ten years, and that prayer goes unanswered. That confuses us… it befuddles us… and we get frustrated because we don’t understand it.
But the fact that you and I don’t fully comprehend prayer is no reason to neglect it. It’s no excuse not to pray. In James 5:16, we are told:
What do you have to do to have effective, powerful prayer? Do you have to be an expert in the theology of prayer? No. Do you have to be brilliant? No. You don’t even have to be smart… you only have to be a child of God. If you have trusted Jesus Christ, you are a child of God, and as a result, you have all it takes to have powerful and effective prayer.
That’s good news, my friend! That’s really good news!!
I spent a summer in Hong Kong and used to ride on the underground trains with all these wonderful Chinese folks. Every once in a while, I would hear them talking about me because I would hear “guilo.” “Guilo” means foreign devil!
So I asked my friend how I could present the idea that I understood what they were saying. He told me to say, “Da say nay.”
A few days later, I was coming back on the train, and there were two teenage boys on the train who I knew were talking about me. So I looked at them and said, “Da say nay!” Their eyes got big as saucers, and when the doors opened, they just ran!
I thought to myself, “Wow, I wonder what I said?” So when I got home, I asked my friend what I said, and he told me that “da say nay” means, “I’m going to kill you!” YIKES!
Now, the fact that I didn’t know what “da say nay” meant had nothing to do with its effectiveness. It was effective! My ignorance was insignificant. And the fact that you don’t fully comprehend PRAYER has nothing to do with its effectiveness.
There are other reasons that we don’t pray: we don’t make time, we don’t think we need it, and we can’t muster up the desire or the discipline. Of course, like when we try to do anything in our human power alone, we fail utterly. We need to recognize our need for the Holy Spirit to infuse us with a new passion, a new commitment to spend time talking to God. He wants us to… He’s waiting for us. What are we waiting for?
Original publication date: October 14, 2009
|
||||||
|
Copyright © 2010 My Journey - All Rights Reserved |
||||||
Your Thoughts