A Piece of Heaven : Micamics' perspective

As this outbreak started to paralyze my daily routine starting March 17th of 2020, I was entoiled while catching up with my 20+  daily devotion back logs. Then on my 66th day, I came across this devotion entitled : A Beautiful Thing . wherein it sums up all the Beautiful things that happened to Moses and the Israelites (Old Testament) and Jesus' Crucifixion ( new testament) .  These stories are an epitome of Irony as the Israelites were given the Ten Commandments out of God's love while the people, instead of enjoying it, lived a life of indirection for 40 long years. Likewise when Jesus was about to be crucified, a woman poured an expensive perfume over His head. Doing so fulfills the anointing Jesus' body for burial ahead of time.  While these two are glaring example of two different perception of Beautiful, I was left with two reflective questions: What is the meaning of beautiful in the Lord's eyes? and What is the meaning of beautiful in a human perspect...

Lost for words , overflowing joy and a spirit -filled heart : These are the words that best described the feeling I had, as I approach the stage, walking side by side with my daughter on her recognition day.  Who would have taught that the definition of Joy and Accomplishment can evolve from personal, to maternal. At this early stage of motherhood, the Lord has given His strong assurance over my daughter, and knowing she will be guided by the Holy Spirit all throughout her life's journey, is the most joyful part of it all.  "Who am I, O Sovereign Lord and what is my family that you have bought me this far? And as if this were not enough in sight, O sovereign Lord? Now be pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever in your sight; for you, O Sovereign Lord, have spoken, and with your blessing the house of your servant will be blessed forever" 2 Samuel 7:18, 29

Today, as I wait patiently for my Doctor, the Lord has impressed in my heart the advantage of being alone with Him. As always, He never fail to put me in awe. As I read through the Book of Psalms 30. I was reminded about my situation and how He sets an analogy over me and Nanay, my 80+ year old house companion.  The morning I felt the same pain at my lower back- she saw my agony though I was trying to manage the pain, she started calling me "Nita...(she calls me by a name that sounds like my real one), Nita..." trying to call my attention. When I looked at her, she started bending, twitching and dancing as if teaching me what I should do to ease the pain. She did all these while laughing while she teases me. For a second I was laughing with her, then a tear dropped suddenly then finally found myself crying for Joy as I was reminded: "He will take care of me... up until my old age" Today - this verse is so true and was made alive by a circumstance turned ...

Being a mother to a growing up little girl is not an easy task. In fact, the bigger she gets, the more difficult it is being a mom. I thought the first few years of motherhood was the hardest part, most especially for working moms like me. My perception was changed along my 9- year journey. Looking back, the first few years of my motherhood became less challenging because I have a very supportive and loving mother who always gets out of her way to make things right, at least for me and my daughter. Working at a night shift is less worrisome knowing she is right beside my daughter to address all her needs, to love her back when I am not visible. These, and a lot more reasons to thank God for sending me such a wonderful mom in this lifetime.. Years passes by, as my daughter grows up a little older, my maturity as a parent grew a little deeper in the process. The challenges becomes more difficult, much more harder than I ever thought it would be. As I face alot of trials in this work-...

" You dance over me.. while I am unaware..." "You sing all around.. but I never hear the sound.." "You paint the morning sky... with Miracles in Mind.." "My hope will always stand, for You hold me in your hand.." Nine years ago today, I started this Blog to showcase my talent in writing after an old mentor noticed a passive skill. Since then, this blog evolved from an emotional to informational and now a spiritual kind of blog and its transition is obvious looking back at my older blog posts.May 2, 2017 - Today, God gave me another reason to exalt Him (again) in His usual child-like way, if I may say. In deep need of His presence on this special day, I asked a dearest friend of mine to accompany me to a Prayer Mountain called Touch of Glory. Inside a prayer cell room, while everyone is supposed to be drowned in His presence- to my surprise, I wasn't even sober- perhaps a lot of things going on in my mind. Well after roughly an hour o...

9 years ago today, at exactly 11:19 in the morning the Lord blessed me with a healthy, beautiful baby girl who, since the time I started to Labor  gave my life its meaning in a painful but joyful way.  Yep! I only labored for less than 4 hours. I knew since then that she will be my forever partner, someone who will make my single- motherhood more exciting and enjoyable. And it did.. Who would've thought, an  11 inch little baby girl would turn out to be someone who's shoe size is almost the same as mine?  (shoe size 7, now imagine how big she is today!) and its funny how I used to buy a lot of cute little shoes for her at the kid's section but today, have been struggling between kids and teens section as her shoe size falls somewhere in between LOL. Oh and yes! there are a lot of times I would hear these scary words from her:  "Mama pahiram ng shoes mo ha"  Scary for those vintage kicks she eyed for are a few moments away from retirement as they've bee...

2nd of May year 2016, around 6AM,  I packed my bag and together with my daughter we decided to visit Taal Volcano- the second most active volcano in the Philippines through which had shown signs of unrest last 1991 and last volcanic eruption was documented last 1977. At first, I just would like to explore something new on my birthday but the Lord has revealed a lot more to me on this day more than I could ever imagine. Here are my take ways on this trip: 1. The higher you wanna go in life, it is Life's requirement for you to go through the lowest point and take the roughest and rockiest road before you reach the top . I planned the said trip 3-4 days before and knew all along that we were supposed to do trekking up to the crater of Taal, Just that.. I didn't know it was a 4KM trekking (total of 8KM back and forth) until we are right in the middle of it. I tried walking my way up the track but the heat (from the direct sunlight and Sulfur emitted from the actual Volcano) , ...