Seasons in Life To Be Thankful For

Was there a time you felt so down and time that you felt so happy? A day that you were motivated at work and then got demotivated? Was there a time you feel you were the most beautiful person and on the other day you will see yourself as the ugliest creature ever created? Do you remember the first time you walked? Went to school? Changed fashion taste and style? Graduated? Get a job and so on....

For years we spent in this earth for sure we already went through each and every season in our lives that sometimes we like and sometimes we don't, we find ways to change it and sometimes we just accept and goes with it's flow. But was there even a time that we appreciate and thank God with the current season of our life? 

I remember during my grade school, I always wanted to grow up fast so that I can be a teacher. Then when I reached my high school days, I wished to be a college student already so I can do whatever I like, have boyfriends and hangout with friends. And when I went to college I was always looking forward to the graduation day so that I could find a good job, get salary and buy everything I want to. Instead of expressing our gratitude, we keep on complaining and complaining and complaining!! -- Discontentment.

If we will just give ourselves a time to think about it, we will realized that what and who we are right now is the fruit of what we had been through in the past. Those seasons shaped our lives to be the person God had intended us to be. We might have commit mistakes but as long as we learned from it, that is OK.  So if we never practiced appreciating the life we had years ago. It is never too late. If you are a student now, a young professional, a businessman, a traveler, a musician, an employee, whether if you are in love or brokenhearted, you're rich or broke, or whatever it is that is happening in your life now APPRECIATE AND THANK GOD. Enjoy and live it while you are still young so when you get older you will also appreciate that season because you know that you were able to maximize this life with the way you lived it. 

One last thing that we always have to remember: God is with us in every single season.

22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them? -  Ecc. 3:22

Back Into His Arms

A walk in Christianity is not that easy. If you are a Christian, you should expect more trials, suffering and temptations. Jesus experienced it himself. Tempted by Satan, persecuted and suffered on the cross. For the last 3 weeks, I'd been through things a lot. Family and other personal matters. I couldn't find my joy. I'm reading the bible but nothing on His words strikes my heart. I feel so tired, lonely, sad and bored. I can't think straight and start compromising.

"Where are my friends?" "No one cares for me." "I'm not pretty." "I don't want to go to church because it seems like I don't have real friends there and we are just pretending."  THOSE LIES. LIES THAT JUST POPS UP IN MY HEAD AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY CAME FROM. I even think I have nothing.  I am nothing.

Until I had a dream that I was talking to my family around the table and in my dreams we are aware that my brother doesn't have a head and arms but he actually have. As we were talking to him asking him how can he breathe, later on I realized that he has really a head and arms! I told him that but he would not believe because all he knows is that he doesn't have it. I felt bad for him for not believing until I woke up with that same feeling. I was really thinking of that dream and I realized God just spoke through it. God feels offended whenever we say that we don't have anything though we already have everything; that He already gave us everything.

Yes, this world has a lot to offer. Fame, power, money, friends, a lot, anything that we think that could satisfy our human's desire. But God has more than a lot than this world could offer -- HIMSELF. 

Now I'm back. And I will not stop until the whole world knows how blessed we are for having a loving and generous Creator. From Him being the source to contentment, there's nothing in this world I would ever ask for. If there's one thing God wants from us that is to desire Him, only Him and we will never be disappointed.



"He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young." Isaiah 40:11