God’s reflection

This was the message forwarded by a friend of mine who was experiencing difficult life working in abroad. Seems that God punished her so much and so he was inspired to read good news from God and so she forward this message to me.

As a Christian, when you experience a painful providence like an illness or a rebellious child or a broken marriage or a financial hardship or persecution, do you ever wonder if God is punishing you for some sin you committed?

If you do, there is some very good news from the letter to the Hebrews.

The original readers of this letter had been experiencing persecution and affliction for some time. They were tired, discouraged, and confused—why was God allowing such hardships? And some were doubting.

So after some doctrinal clarifications and some firm exhortations and a few sober warnings (so they could examine if their faith was real) the author of the letter brought home a very important point.

He wanted his readers to remember that the difficulty and pain they were experiencing was not God’s punishment for their sins or weak faith. Chapters 7-10 beautifully explain that Jesus’ sacrifice for sin was once for all believers for all time (10:14). No sacrifice of any kind for sin was ever needed again (10:18).

He followed that up in chapter 11 with example after example of how the life of faith has always been difficult for saints.

And then he wrote the tender encouragement and exhortation of chapter 12 where he quoted Proverbs 3:11-12:

My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
nor be weary when reproved by him.
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives.

“It is for discipline that you endure. God is treating you as sons,” he said. These saints were not to interpret their painful experiences as God’s angry punishment for their sins. That angry punishment was completely spent on Jesus—once for all—on the cross.

Rather, this was the message they were to understand from their hardships: God loves you! He has fatherly affection for you. He cares deeply for you. He is taking great pains so that you will share his holiness (12:10) because he wants you to be as happy as possible and enjoy the peaceful fruit of righteousness (12:11).

This is why as a father, whenever I discipline my children, I always try to make it clear to them that I am not paying them back for their sins. That’s why I don’t use the term “punishment.” I don’t want them to misunderstand and think I am giving them what they deserve. That’s God’s job. And if they trust in Jesus, all their punishment was taken care of on the cross.

Let me share to you this simple family prayer that enlighten me while I’m reading each word.

God made us a family.

We need one another.

We love one another.

We forgive one another.

We work together.

We play together.

We worship together.

Together we use God’s word.

Together we grow in Christ.

Together we love all people.

Together we serve our God.

Together we hope for heaven.

These are our hopes and ideals.

Help us to attain them,

Oh God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

I am so happy coz  I was able to sleep well this afternoon. For almost 3 days that I had sleeping trouble hoping that this following weekend all will be back to it’s normal. All I need is  enough sleep to be able to think well, planned and move as I want to be.

This morning I was blessed by the message of God of trusting everything to HIM. It’s inevitable to feel discomfort when unusual situation comes and no one else to go. Well, I do experience this situation and as I remember His words to keep calm, relax and let God do it then miracle really comes right away. All I believe that God is truly there when rare situation occurs and nobody will help you.

Just trust God without doubt.He will do it for you!

Being connected with my pc always makes me feel excited to read my incoming mails and reply some of it if needed. I’ve been always checking my emails everyday if there are some good news I received from my buddies or great offer businesses in the future just like a good try EcoQuest International business.

Our motor parts business is indeed well right now with the supervision ofcourse with my business partner . We were hooked seeking some affordable but genuine motor parts accessories and other motor parts stuffs for our newly build motor parts business store . It’s been three weeks already and I am so happy that customer’s demand on motor parts is increasing up to this time and hoping that it will continually grow and gained much profits in the future.

I am really thinking of another business right now that would help my income and if possible I’ll submit my resignation where I work to continue my preferred business. I am just waiting exact time and enough funds for me to leave my work and start a new one to help my hubs on paying all necessities and kid’s expenses and other miscellaneous .

I am exerting efforts to find the right business for me and I’m really excited to start this month. I guess I will take a one week leave from my office to process all documents needed, gather all price list informations and fixing everything before the store opening comes.

I really need God’s guidance for this new undertakings of mine and hoping He would continue to bless me, my family and my venture!

A friend of mine buzz me today if I can go with her on the salon this weekend. It’s been two months already that she doesn’t give herself a break to pamper herself to the beauty salon. She really needs to have hair treat and facial this weekend. I teased her to have a trip to Los angeles Rhinoplasty and she really dreamed of visiting the place.

I always love to see myself new and beautiful. New hair cut, well polished nails and glamorous looks even I’m a mother of three. I’m on my 30’s and so I have to take care of myself and if possible always young looking.

I guess that’s what all mothers wanted most. Not just only taking care of the plants, doing household chores, nurturing kids and hub but also pampering herself. It is good to take care of ourselves also by visiting once a month in salon and be able to relax.

Relaxation is the best for mothers even one day only. Giving time to unwind and to think positively makes a person healthy , happy and young at looks, right?

I guess I need also to take a break this weekend by bringing my family to treat my daughter as she got good grades from her school and probably she was one of honor students from the class .I am really proud of my daughter and with this, I will give her a reward for not only being a good daughter and responsible to her sibs.

It’s gonna be an exciting weekend for me and my kids!

I’ve learned so many things on reading some of my co-bloggers. It makes me feel so good reading some of them habitual task, jotting down their emotions and learning about adventure’s in life. Well, that’s maybe a great benefit for a blogger  releasing emotions by writing down everything in the column. It seems that you set free everything your emotions, you inspired others by sharing what’s inside your heart just like an article I’d read from Daniel P Neumeister.

Each blog has it’s own purpose and has it’s own point of view that needs to be respected. I really gained knowledge from my co-bloggers of mine. I’ve been doing this blog stuff one year and seven months already and up to this time I continue doing this stuff coz you really can divulge your emotions in writing when you can’t do it to say it to anyone.

There are times that I felt bored on making blogs but later I missed making this stuffs. It makes me unwind putting widgets on the corner, accepting links and what fascinates me more is the complimentary words from the readers. It encourage me more to update my articles and lastly, it enhanced my writing ability which before I am not really good in writing.

Blogging is indeed fun and enjoyable for me!

I got an email from a friend of mine who’s currently working right now in Dubai. It’s been two months already since she’s away from her homeland and like what she said, Philippines is still the best for her to stay with her family. That’s what exactly what she wants, being with her hub and daughter brings her joy and self contentment in life.

Because of financial distress, they’ve decided to find luck in flying abroad just to save the money and future for her daughter. I guess that’s what everybody aspires, earning big money to invest and makes the family feel at ease to live.

Then she cited the weather condition in Dubai. She’s quite worry about her beauty because of extreme heat of the sun. During the first weeks in staying in Dubai, she’s hooked going everywhere to land a job amidst of heat and dusty roads. I guess she really needs Botox in Manhattan New York for beauty enrichment.

Now that she already employed on a certain real state company, she’s happy doing her job as receptionist –accepting in and out calls , encoding and doing other task requested by her big boss.

Well, being with her family makes her comfortable and I am wishing her well . It’s inevitable to feel uneasy far away from homeland but being with her beloved hub and only daughter makes her complete.

I am always praying for your safety my friend!

I am happy that this blog of mine was finally back. After few of weeks of waiting then some of my entries from June and July was lost due to some inevitable probs of the system. So even some of my interesting entries here were gone but I am still happy that only two months of my archives were gone and not the whole entries.

I love this site of mine. I can divulged some of my hidden emotional probs within this blog and relieved me from jotting down everything on this column.

I just want to write and write anything here and so here I am again…

Promise I’ll be writing here more often and sharing everything what’s inside of me….

A friend of mine whom I thought her as a happy person, bubbly and smart turns out miserable in the midst of our conversation earlier.

We we’re talking at yahoo messenger yesterday about blogstuffs and while sharing some infos about it, she paused for awhile and shared something what she felt . Well, I know her a lot since we grow up together in same church, I saw her while growing into a beautiful lady with talented traits and brilliant mind.

I do not really expect why she was so depressed at this time and needs someone to talk with. She needs enough strength to fight all those trials , rivalries and to those people that surrounds her. She wants to be alone .She wanted to do anything at this time to be successful on her endeavor that she took but can’t find it right away because there were so many negative thoughts that came across to her mind.

I advised her to keep calm, to be more matured to handle difficult situations and if she needed my help I am very much willing to help her with all my heart.

She don’t expect why I am willing to listen her. Well, we’re not really close with each other especially on expressing her problems but because I wanted to knew it in detailed and I want her to pour out everything what she felt those times  in order for her to relieve the pained she  carried lately and then she started to utter everything even the most shameful part.

She don’t expect that a friend like me is someone who is with her during her most sadden moment on her life.

I told her that she can do it coz she possessed all of the assets. No one else will make you down..God is always be with you.

She is quite happy upon hearing those words. Words of wisdom and thoughts is with me during those times that we talked.Well, I am very much willing to help to those who needs my advise. I guess that’s one quality that I had.

I am praying for you sis!

 It’s so good when you tried to extend a hand to the needy one. I did this once in awhile and I was overwhelmed for the outcome of it. Extending help is just sharing something even a little out from your pocket. I don’t expect any return from it and it’s really gives ecstacy when you reap positive.

My niece was thanking me so much for he really did his best out from our support. He thank God so much for the job well done and I congratulate him for he finally made it to the end.

Extending help even if you don’t have already in your pocket can cause irritation to a person if you think deeply but since Christ is with me what’s inside my mind is to help and be merry  to what I shared to someone. I guess I have a heart of compassion  since I know God well and HE removes my greed inside my heart. Though I have still plenty “negatives” here in my heart but I often pray it to GOD to cleanse me always.

Helping hand is a great task and I makes me delightful to see someone smiles out from my help.