christian courtship requirements

1. Kelangan napaliguan sa dugo.
2. Kelangan buhay ka na galing sa patay.
3. Kelangan may tagong yaman na hindi nakikita ng tao.
4. Kelangan immortal. (immortal yun e)
5. Kelangan may kakayahang magmahal ng hindi na minamahal.
6. Kelangan hindi takot dumaan sa lumalagablab na apoy.
7. Kelangan nakasuot ng kumpletong armor, mula helmet, breastplate, shield, sword, and sandals. (knight in shining armor baga)
8. Kelangan kumakain ng pagkain na di nauubos, at umiinom ng tubig na buhay.
9. Kelangan malakas sa kahinaan.

10. Kelangan nagwawagi sa pagkatalo.

Posted – 12/11/2002 3:48:18 PM

misunderstanding and teaching

when you’re misunderstood or misinterpreted, it does still mean one thing:

You are heared.

The challenge and beauty of the discussion comes in also. Most of the time, we feel disappointed when something "ideal" wasn’t the outcome of the talk we do. We fail to realize the ecstasy of being a teacher, rather than a mere story teller.

One thing we could be glad though… we’re just being honest with our feelings and our thoughts.

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Me - Posted – 8/10/2004 11:42:00 PM

cost of being weak

i received a phone call two days ago from an old maid.
she’s 33 i think, dark, and don’t have a pleasing appearance.

She’s crying… and for two hours i tried to listen to her… the best gift i think i could offer to someone who had been hurt with rejection.

She has a good heart. She spend tens of thousand for her sisters and nieces (*according to her). In fact, she bought high end phones for them while what she have is a bulky, 3-yr old,Nokia 5110.

She had been robbed of 300,000 worth of cash and jewelries.
pinagbentahan po yun mga baka, baboy, kambing, etc. and is
for her two sisters leaving for abroad.

pag-uwi, inaway pa ng mga kapatid. kesyo mayabang, kesyo
maramot, kesyo pabigat, kesyo pangit, kesyo matandang
dalaga, etc.

She have no mother or father to ask for a shoulder to cry on.
What she have to hug is the cold tomb of her mom.
Doon siya nakasumpong ng kakampi.

But why i spend time with her?

sabi nung mga kakilala niya, baka daw may crush lang ako.

Hahaha… they just can’t appreciate how precious the person is.

They can’t be what she’d been. Neither I, can be what she is.

I’m learning from her.

She’s pure, free from hatred.

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Me-  Posted – 9/4/2003 8:54:58 PM

necessity of growing up

just can’t understand why indifferent people exist.

Ngayon, when am alone with some child, i let them feel security in me.
so that they won’t see what i’ve seen, nor experience what i’ve experienced.
Minsan may nakasuntukan pa ako nung highschool nung binatukan yung bata na nakasalubong namin.. bata lang naman daw e.

Why?

When we have the strength to implement what’s right,
(dahil nasa tamang pag-iisip daw tayo), inaabuso natin?

Di lang po sa physically weak ito napapatungkol.
Kahit na sa mentally challenged or emotionally challenged.

We hold the responsibility to put everything in a proper place.
Not by playing with the authority and (supposed)power we have
but by exercising it rightfully.
We may commit mistakes in implementing and exercising that
inherent power, but we must put proper distinction between
abuse and responsibleness.

As always, reason must always rise above our emotion.
Diyan po nasusukat ang maturity natin.

Minsan sinabihan ako ni miongsky, wag daw dapat pikon.
I’m trying to live with that.
I understand that to give-in to our emotion is a sign of immaturity.

Tampo ako sa tita ko, for two years di ko siya kinibo,
when she’d been a 2nd mom to me.
Yesterday I told her everything why.
I told her that i’m still a child and stil feels like a child.
That is, i’m hurt when i feel she no longers care for me.

She said, "i understand, but you need to grow now."

That strucks me.

Yes, I need to grow.

And unless i can conquer my emotion, I’m not growing into maturity.

Me - Posted – 9/4/2003 8:33:55 PM

child’s vulnerability

part of my past crept on my thought just now…

maliit lang ako na bata… patpatin.
mahina pa nga daw loob.

Di ako madaling utuin, pero ako pinaka-trip na awayin lagi.
Mas masakit, at di lang malalaki, kungdi matatanda pa ang nang-aaway sa’yo.

I just can’t understand kung bakit.

Naisip ko, wala ba silang awa?

I remember one time when i was being stoned with hardened
clay, slinged with mud. I feel so sorry for myself.
Nag-isip ako kung ano gusto nila makita why they’re doin’ such.

Baka kako, gusto lang nila makita na balot ako sa putik.
I dipped myself dun sa pinapaliguan ng kalabaw para tumigil sila.
Pero hindi e.
Nagtatago sila sa gabihan, while am exposed to their hitting.
I feel so helpless and powerless. Why I can’t have the power to stop them? Why?

Minsan, pandidilatan ka ng mata ng mga matatanda..
wala lang, trip ka lang takutin.
Bakit? ano ang kwenta noon?

Minsan, basta ka na lang batukan.
Tatanungin pa kung lalaban ka..
e, di mo nga sila maabot ng maiikli mong kama’y,
mag-asawang sampal na agad dadapo sa mura mong pisngi.

Saan nakalagay pag-iisip nila?

Me -Posted – 9/4/2003 8:17:33 PM

Father,

Thank you for showing forth your strength in my weakness
For unleashing your wisdom when i thought i already have it
For allowing me to see how unfathomable your grace is
And just for being a Father when am apart from you and
wandered on my own.

Me – Posted – 8/29/2003 5:09:09 PM

blessing on earth

God will not put you on something that
will not be a blessing to you.. in reality, He do still turn bad things
into good!

And those good things we’re receiving here on
earth, are’nt really the prepared things for us, but was given
only to encourage us along the path of growing up, being molded in preparation as heaven’s future citizen.

Me – Posted – 8/25/2003 7:34:38 PM

desire in prayer

May God grant me patience that i may learn to wait… i know His time is always the perfect time…

Understanding to widen my view of other people’s feelings and thougths..

Wisdom to grasp His precepts and to dispense His grace accordingly..

and Humility that i’ll be submissive to His will as often as He requires.

Me – Posted – 8/23/2003 8:09:13 PM

praying to be still

Father,

Teach me the beauty of silence,
the strength of Your rebuke.

Put before me, as a perpetual remembrance,
the blood stained banner of the Lord Jesus.
Place me behind the old rugged cross of calvary.
And with the blood that have been shed there, wash me.

I know that am just being bought from the slavery of sin.
I bring to myself no honor to boast before You.. before them.
So teach me to number my days,
that i may apply mine heart unto wisdom!

Me – Posted – 8/21/2003 9:19:47 PM

Me

Things are changing fast. Memories are slipping out easily. Valuable moments easily forgotten.

Minsan, basta ka na lang matigilan. mag-isip. Di mo alam kung sumobra ka o nagkulang. Di mo alam kung naging matibay ka ba o nadale lang kahinaan mo. Basta ka na lang mag-iisip.. maghahambing ng bukas at ngayon. Bakit parang iba? o nag-iba nga ba?

Minsan nadadala tayo. Ng mga mga tao sa paligid natin… ng mga pangyayari… at ng sarili natin… ng di natin namamalayan. Natitigilan nal lang tayo’t nagtataka…

Oo nga… tao nga pala ako.. at tao din sila.

Me Posted – 8/21/2003 8:57:59 PM