A Time for Everything

A Time for Everything

Ecclesiastes 3 (NLT)

1
There is a time for everything,
a season for every activity under heaven.

2
A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plant and a time to harvest.

3
A time to kill and a time to heal.
A time to tear down and a time to rebuild.

4
A time to cry and a time to laugh.
A time to grieve and a time to dance.

5
A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.
A time to embrace and a time to turn away.

6
A time to search and a time to lose.
A time to keep and a time to throw away.

7
A time to tear and a time to mend.
A time to be quiet and a time to speak up.

8
A time to love and a time to hate.
A time for war and a time for peace.

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Those verses are just perfect when I feel like I want to get over with this-and-that and can't wait to move on. Or when I'm in the why-is-this-happening stage. It reminds me that there's always a time for everything, no hurrying should be done but of course that doesn't give me the liberty to be lethargic.

Unfathomable

I can not pretend that
I understand it all
I can only trust in the beauty of Your promises

Who am I to question Your greatness
But still You listen to every word I say
When all else fail, You even take my place
To bear all the pains and the shame

Now I know
You are always with me
Beside me

When I look back and see all the mess I’ve gotten myself into
I am reminded of every tear I caused You

But You held me in Your arms and prompted me
That it was all part of the past
That You have forgiven me
That Your love for me yesterday, today, and tomorrow shall remain unchanged

Now, I still am not perfect
I still doubt and worry at times
But everything else is expunged when I’m reminded of You
Because You are the ultimate reason of why I’m here, of all these trials and triumphs
I now live for You

If I was a planet, You will be the sun
I will choose to be Mercury so I could be the one nearest You

So I could get a glimpse of Your every miracle
So I could hear Your every sigh
So I could watch You closely
So I could experience what it’s like to be intimately near You

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I am not a writer, I was never one. I only become a writer every night when I record my everyday comings and goings in my private journal. Or when I do write on this blog.

But today, I don’t know what has gotten into me. I was able to find the words to express what’s in my heart.

I know the lines aren’t perfect, there’s no rhyme. It’s not a masterpiece. But it’s from my heart and it’s something special.

I’m just grateful for everything that has been happening for me and my family.Well, none of us (dad, mum and I) got promoted or had a raise. Neither one of my sisters received a special award last March. But I’m thankful. Knowing that even when I get stripped off of every material possession, of friends, of relatives, of the people I love the most... I will be fine. I shall be fine. I shall not be moved. For He is with me. He alone is enough. He is my strength, my provider, my comforter, my Father.

...

Where art thou?

You who understand me best even in silence

You who play dulcet music to fill the deafening sound of stillness

You who whisper sweet words to complement the lovely night spent with you

Tell me.

Or should I just wait.

And wait.

It doesn't matter.

When all I really want is to be with you.

x-ing the x

just because i'm still a lasallian at heart...and bored?!

( ) get caught by the DO
(x) wear inappropriate attire (shirt, shorts, and slippers)
(x) watch a UAAP la salle vs ateneo game live in araneta
(x) eat at AGNO
( ) smoke at AGNO
(x) hangout at AGNO
(x) hangout at a friend's condo
(x) sing the alma mater
( ) swim at the olympic size swimming pool
(x) have class in all the buildings (minus Mutien Marie and STRC )
( ) use the football field
(x) hang out in ampitheater
(x) watch something during the u-break in the ampitheater
(x) cross enroll
( ) be a 1st honors dean's lister
( ) be a 2nd honors dean's lister
(x) get a 0.0
(x) get a 4.0 (except P.E and NSTP)
(x) eat in mcdonalds
(x) eat in UM (KFC included)
(x) eat somewhere outside near the campus (not fastfood)
(x) borrow/reserve something in the IMS
(x) get a major or minor offense
(x) go out with 5 or more blockmates during freshmen
(x) walk around the campus with 4 or more blockmates after freshmen
(x) cut a class together with blockmates
(x) beg for a higher grade during course card distribution
(x) adjust
(x) be active in an organization
(x) be a member of TAPAT or SANTUGON
(x) be stereotyped by others according to your college (CBE, COE, COS, CLA, CCS, cED)
(x) get an alarm sound when you scan your id
( ) talk to your LAMB aside from LPEP
( ) be deceived by the false names of professors in the on-line enrollment
(x) pay surcharge
(x) go to the chapel
(x) hear mass
(x) visit the museum
(x) know a xerox lady
(x) sleep in the library
(x) get to know mang jack
(x) get to know jenny
( ) got/given something to someone during the valentines week
(x) have a class after 6:00 pm
(x) talk about someone passing by while on a bench in SJ walk
(x) study in conservatory
(x) print somewhere near outside the campus
(x) type somewhere near outside the campus
(x) cram
(x) do a last minute paper
( ) date a lasallian
(x) have a crush on your blockmate
(x) have a crush on your classmate
( ) have a crush on your professor
( ) attend a seminar outside lasalle
(x) talk to a lasallian celebrity (model, actress, vj, etc.)
(x) sleep in a class
( ) have/had a lasallian girlfriend/boyfriend
( ) be in a conflict with a professor
(x) witness pda inside the campus
(x) use a computer in the computer laboratories
( ) be drunk somewhere near outside the campus
(x) forget your ID at home
(x) get exempted from finals
(x) stay at school till 10:00 or later
(x) actually read a whole article in The Lasallian
(x) actually read a whole article in Plaridel
(x) took time to look at the 'Proudly Lasallian' stands in the campus
(x) thought that yuchengco restrooms are the best restrooms
(x) shifted / planned to shift
(x) read a whole book borrowed at the library
(x) eat inside the classroom
(x) get a txt or call with your cellphone not in silent mode during class
(x) spend money for 1X1 ID pictures
( ) break something in the laboratory
( ) ask the library for an endorsement
(x) entered the thesis room in the library
(x) searched a professor in the DLSU website
(x) park in the beach
(x) park in Sports Complex
(x) eat siomai (inside or outside near the school)
(x) tasked to photocopy for a bunch of people
(x) enter a job fair in campus
(x) buy a raffle ticket, donate something, sign a signature campaign inside the campus
( ) sell raffle tickets, ask for donations, made people sign signature campaigns inside the campus
(x) watch something at night in the yuchengco theater
(x) make a video for a class project
(x) make a powerpoint presentation
(x) give a very low evaluation to a professor
(x) eat inside the java cafe
(x) be pissed with a guard
(x) go to the clinic
(x) nearly reached / reached excess absences
(x) pick a popular professor (infamous, cool, generous, cute) for a subject
(x) be the one to make the 'mass overload sound' in an elevator
(x) buy something in the bookstore
(x) lose your cellphone

"Who am I?"

Who Am I
by Casting Crowns
album: Casting Crowns (2003)

Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth
Would care to know my name
Would care to feel my hurt
Who am I, that the Bright and Morning Star
Would choose to light the way
For my ever wandering heart

Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You are

I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
Vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I am Yours, I am Yours

Who am I, that the eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love and watch me rise again
Who am I, that the voice that calmed the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me

Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You are

I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
Vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I am Yours

Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You are

I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
Vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I am Yours

I am Yours
Whom shall I fear
Whom shall I fear
'Cause I am Yours I am Yours

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gaaaah....i love this song. It's so true. How can God love me this much? I sin, i doubt, i even worry. Yet He forgives me. Thank you Abba Father.

untitled?!?

Ok, well, the moving to “that” place isn’t materializing as far as I’m concerned. Why?

Because I’m not doing anything about it anymore. I stopped gathering information about GRE and TOEFL exams plus these exams are so pricey. And, I have gotten tired of looking for other universities.

Also, I’m not really sure if that’s what I want for my life. Honestly, I just want a simple life. But then, of course the idea of living somewhere else excites me, who isn’t anyway.

Maybe, it’s not really about living somewhere else, maybe it’s because I just know that I’m made for better things. Not that I’m not loving what I’m doing right now, of course I love my job, I love where I’m at right now. It’s just that, there’s gotta be more than this.

So much for that.

I’ve been bloghopping this past few days, and I’ve read blogs of different people from different places and walks of life. Some of the blogs i have read are even written by local celebs. It’s a reminder that these young people that I see on billboards/tv are just as emo, as real as I am. I just hope that people would learn to respect their newfound niche online, it’s sad that there are those who’d post nasty comments on their blog. Well, it’s so pathetic. Give the guy a break! It isn’t that easy to pour out those sentiments and make it available for everyone to read. Well, in case you are a celeb blogger (*which is very unlikely to happen :o) *) and you’re reading this, keep it real!

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"Ill that God blesses is our good, and unblest good is ill;
And all is right that seems most wrong, if it be His sweet will."-Hudson Taylor