A Piece of Heaven : Micamics' perspective

Cheers to my 29 years of existence! My 29th was one of the most intimate celebration I had in my lifetime. Intimate in a sense that it was celebrated with the people closest in my heart - My family. No friends, only gabby, my sister with her family and my brother with his family. I took a day off to take gabby out for a swim since she was asking for it a few weeks ago. It was then that I realized that when you are getting old you see birthday celebrations as an outlet for your loved ones and not for yourself. I packed our bags and grabbed my niece and together with gabby I took them out for a swim. I was longing tor this time where I can take gabby out since I was drowned with work after I got promoted January this year. And my birthday made it happen. Going home after a day's water spa pleasure, has never been better. It was at this moment that I realized that at the end of the day, your family is where your heart will always be.

After a hectic daily routine at work, I went home to sleep with gabby The usual before- bed time habit was to talk about how our day went and say a little prayer before going to sleep. I shared how tired I was at the office and gabby asked a childish yet sensible question. She asked: "Mama ano mas nakakapagod? yun ginagawa mo sa office o yun mga sinusulat ko sa school?"  Such a silly question that made me realize that Hardships is just a matter of perspective.  In a child's eyes, whats hard for them is when they write a lot of notes in their notebooks and absorbing what the teacher teaches them in school. They are required to get high grades because that is the only way they can prove themselves to their parents.  For grown ups, hardship is when we think of so many uncontrollable things in a lot of aspects of our lives.   We tend to worry about the things that are out of our hands even the ones that are yet to come, and the ones that never happen.  Se...

Started my 2014 with a bang when I read the email containing my transition schedule and confirmation of my promotion from Agent to Quality Specialist earlier part of my shift. It was a mixed emotion, both of excitement and sadness for I will surely miss the afternoon Happy hour with my team. Suddenly, I had a quick flashback of the life I once had (while I was still enjoying and loving my job as Quality Specialist back in 2008.) The Lord pinched my heart reminding me of His faithfulness a midst my being "somewhat-faithful" to him for the past year. His perfection makes me wanna cry and cry and simply cry my heart out to the point I was having a hard time writing. Ever since the last heart-breaking moment in my life, I started offering my life to the Lord. I prayed, and prayed real hard to help fulfill my journey of being a single mother to gabby. Many times, I was tempted to get another job with higher paying salary. But also on these times that I was reminded of the purp...

I haven't had the chance to post blogs for the last 2 months of the year 2013. Was I too busy ? or did I just forgot all about my quiet time? *sigh. I must admit, I kinda lost track of my quiet time towards the end of the past year. But every now and then I longed for HIM. - micamics Every night before our nightly prayer routine, I end up crying for reasons only my heart can tell. For those of you who had been following my blog, I remember professing the purpose of this blog for the year 2013 when I wrote my year-ender blog last December 2012. I guess I can still proudly say that I had fulfilled my purpose for the past year :D Reading through my past blogs, I can proudly say the Lord has been with me all year long. His presence, His love and His faithfulness had been abundantly evident through my everyday walk with Him. From blessings as simple as waking up in the morning and sleeping with gabby wrapped around my arms, to as complex as Healing a broken heart and showing me and my ...

1 Samuel 12:16-19 New International Version (NIV) “Now then, stand still and see this great thing the Lord is about to do before your eyes! For the longest time I've known the Lord, I had been a witness of the many miracles He had performed to the people around me. Many times He uses these miracles to awe me in countless ways I can imagine. I've witnessed how He provides for me and gab's daily needs and how He changes people's hearts. I have also witnessed the Lord's faithfulness and was amazed when He answers prayers. His love for me was painfully awesome. Painful in a way that He has to tear down my heart in order to build it again exactly the way He wanted it, aligned to the purpose He has for me. So awesome that all I can do is kneel down and cry in awe. A midst all the miracles I had observed and witnessed during my walk with the Lord, what moved me the most was when He had shown me my own piece of miracle. He renewed my heart and is continuously fixing some m...

So blessed, I cant contain it. So much I gotta give it away. Your love has taught me to live now, You are more than enough for me. -One day by Hillsong There's more to life than living it the way the world lives it. When you learn to appreciate Jesus' presence in your everyday life, you'll have a joyful heart each day you are blessed to live with it. There are so many reasons we can thank God for:  We can thank Him for a new house or a nice car.  We can thank Him for our promotion. We can thank Him for healing our own sickness or even someone we know.  Genuine Joy comes out when we can still thank Him even though obvious miracles and blessings are hidden from us at a specific time. True test of a joyful heart is being stretched on these circumstances and you will soon be amazed how you can still praise Him and Glorify Him in the absence of these obvious blessings. The most amazing part of it all, is when you open up the hidden blessing at the exact right time ...

For quite some time, Your spiritual presence seemed to have left me.  Or was it me all along?  I missed our early morning encounter, wherein I can pour my heart in praise.  For a while I thought I'll be fine, slightly afar from Your love.  But then as days passed, weeks went by and months changed.  My heart started longing for You again.  As if my life lacked its very purpose. I wondered, and weeped and finally figured out what's going on.  I need to go back, to my old ways where I used to please You and do more if I could.  I cant live a single day without Your love Lord, I pray that You stay in my heart forever.  Your are my Lord the one I love, no one could ever take your place.  -Hillsong United.