what has GoD toLd me right now...

I have decided not to make my next visit with you so painful. If I make you feel bad, who would be left to cheer me up, except the people I had made to feel bad? The reason I want to be happy is to make you happy. I wrote as I did because I didn't want to visit you and be made to feel bad, when you should make me feel happy. At the time I wrote, I was suffering terribly. My eyes were full of tears, and my heart was broken. But I didn't want to make you feel bad. I only wanted to let you know how much I cared for you.

Forgiveness

I don't want to be hard on you. But if one of you has made someone feel bad, I am not really the one who has been made to feel bad. Some of you are the ones. Most of you have already pointed out the wrong that person did, and that is punishment enough for what was done.

When people sin, you should forgive and comfort them, so they won't give up in despair. You should make them sure of your love for them.

I also wrote because I wanted to test you and find out if you would follow my instructions. I will forgive anyone you forgive. Yes, for your sake and with Christ as my witness, I have forgiven whatever needed to be forgiven. I have done this to keep Satan from getting the better of us. We all know what goes on in his mind.

When I went to Troas to preach the good news about Christ, I found that the Lord had already prepared the way. But I was worried when I didn't find my friend Titus there. So I left the other followers and went on to Macedonia.

I am grateful that God always makes it possible for Christ to lead us to victory. God also helps us spread the knowledge about Christ everywhere, and this knowledge is like the smell of perfume. In fact, God thinks of us as a perfume that brings Christ to everyone. For people who are being saved, this perfume has a sweet smell and leads them to a better life. But for people who are lost, it has a bad smell and leads them to a horrible death.

No one really has what it takes to do this work. A lot of people try to get rich from preaching God's message. But we are God's sincere messengers, and by the power of Christ we speak our message with God as our witness.

July 26 - 2 Corinthians 2

The heart is stronger
Than you think
It's like it can go
Through anything
And even when you think
It can't it finds a way
To still push on
Though

...

whatever pLans the LoRD had with me, i wiLL accept it whoLeheartedly for i beLieve

"aLL things worked together for good to those who love GoD and to those who are called according to HiS purpose."

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yeah, right !

*reblog from tumBlr.
i needed to release all the tensions away.

some quotable quotes (and songs) that touched my heart ..

“I will walk by faith even when I cannot see because this broken road prepares Your will for me.”
- Jeremy Camp

"a prayer of serenity"

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him forever in the next.”

serenity:

1. The state or quality of being serene, calm, or tranquil.
2. The absence of mental stress or anxiety.
3. A disposition free from stress or emotion.

“i wanna feel serenity..”

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him forever in the next.”

:) Love, peace, smiLe!

things that made me smile since last month and now.


1. spending five hours in a salon fixing my hair.

yes. totoo na to! :) you will see my "new look" (naks!) later on in some of my photos to be posted. hehe!

2. twitter!

really, it's very addicting. just reading the thoughts of people i adore following is already cool! plus they got loads of information about their personal lives that you may think that they're also normal, funny individuals :)

3. tumbLr.

okay, i also gave in of giving it a try because, really, it's also a cute personalized website you can update anytime and share your life in this wonderful world of www. :)

4. watching and being hooked up in "adik sa 'yo".

haha! i love everyone in the cast!

5. my new journal.

yey! i already have one! it's been so long since i haven't jot down anything using pen and paper and you can just imagine how happy i am :) thanks for taylor swift, because she inspired me to get a new one. i can share everything that's going on in my life plus lots of other features i soo enjoy writing down with.

6. doing a beauty regimen with a dear friend :)

yes, it's one of the few moments i cherish because it's also a rare moment for us! jing and i decided to make an "avocado mask" which i read from the magazine na nakakapagpa-refresh daw ng stressed faces like ours so we gave it a try at kindi na siya uli naulit though i'm looking forward of doing it again with all my best friends..

7. listening to some wonderful songs of some wonderful artists :)
DEMI LOVATO - get back, here we go again, gift of a friend, la la land machine
SELENA & DEMI - one and the same
TAYLOR & COLBIE - breathe
NICK & MILEY - before the storm
KC CONCEPCION - An Updated Version of Me (she replied to me on twitter! :p)
BLACK EYED PEAS - boom boom pow, i gotta feeling
MICHAEL JACKSON - man in the mirror

8. GoD is gooD.
really. no doubt about it now. HE sees, HE cares, HE connects, HE is concerned. and HE loves me :) thinking about how GoD loves me gives me goosebumps, a BIG SMILE and a grateful feeling that HE doesn't want me to go astray. sooo nice and great. :)

another batch of photographs!! :)
addicted to it so much!
or let's just say it's for the memories :p


june 12, 2009 - 4:00am
wala kaming magawa, it's our way of bonding :P




april vacation - this is happiness!


capitoL gaLore..


my new niece, franzen maragarette born! wohhoo!! :p


another batch of happiness with my niece.


random photos lang. dennis, i love!! :p


collecting happiness :p


na-miss ko lang kasi mag-blog eh! kaya eto, bonggang-bonggang bLog! :)
anyway, addicted na ako sa "adik sa 'yo" wahaa! :)

weddings again!!
(is this what "almost-not-teenager" supposed to be doing and attending to??) :p