Monday, January 14, 2013

The little gods in Us

     At first I never understood what she (our prayer group leader) meant by the little gods in us. Later on as she spoke of her examples, I learned she meant it with our superstitious beliefs.

     Starting when  learned how to read the newspaper or the magazine, reading the horoscope completes my day. If it tells something good will happen, then I accept it. However, if it tells that something bad happens, you tend to doubt and reason out that this horoscope thing does not apply to Christianity and should not be believed.

     Palm readings, taro cards, horoscopes, and superstitious beliefs could be fun yet it could be destructive at times. These little gods in us are acceptable for some and others not.

     There was this incident narrated by my mom about some beliefs that simply hinders us. My mom was in need of money and she talked it over her brother. My uncle said yes and is willing to help however with one condition. She must take it tomorrow morning and not on night time. It so happened that my mom was in my uncle's house during the night. My uncle believes that  it is not allowed to bring out money out of your pocket in the evening. So with my mom's respect to his brother's little god, she returned the next morning.

     My mom is a Catholic Christian and she has also little gods in her, probably most of us. Whenever she cleans the house at night time, she never puts out the dirt from the house instead she collects it before the door then puts it in the garbage. She told me that her mom said, my lola, that  putting out the dirt brings out the grasya (graces).

     We tend to reason out, wala namang mawawala kung maniniwala ka. 

     Last year, I happened to come across an astrology readings.  I typed my birtdate and other needed information which I have given without any hesitation. What appeared was three stars (out of five) beside the word love, and three stars (out of five) was beside the word wealth. There were other things there but the words love and wealth just caught my attention. It says there to click the stars beside it. I don't remember the exact words written but it mentioned that my love life would be difficult and will be full of trials but we could get through it after getting married.   The next thing was to check on the wealth  stars. What I got was I don't know how to handle money. These were from last year's but didn't check what's for now.

     Maybe you would ask if there is truth in those hula  for me? I won't be answering that. It's something personal and must be kept to myself for now.

     The points is we tend to worry about things that would happen if we disobey this little gods and we get scared of it. There are even times when we had  bad lucks, we reason out that it could be possibly from disobeying these little gods.

     Remember that we have one God and a jealous God. If we are truly capable of loving and believing in our only God, our Father, then there will be peace in our hearts. We won't doubt about the future. We won't doubt about what happens next.

Let me share you some bible verses about putting trust to our God the Lord:

"Blesses is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not look proud, to those who urn aside to false gods." -Psalm 40:4
 "Commit your way to the Lord;trust in Him and he will do this: he will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun."- Psalm 37:5-6
  "The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy."- Psalm 111:7
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding."- proverbs 11:13

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Friday, January 4, 2013

The P_R_I_D_E of Filipino's

     Being part of the filipinos outside the country excites me. Why? Because a lot of foreign people says there a thousands of Filipino in Dubai, Singapore, Canada, etc,. I am not alone. I am not alone enjoying the praises of other non Filipinos. Knowing that other OFW's are successful with their chosen career and being appreciated by foreigners makes me more proud.

      Last Sunday Mass, I was very proud of the Filipino choir singing Christmas songs. They have guitar and they manipulated the song into three voices blending well together. I know for sure that all the other foreigners who went to church were also amazed and blessed with their beautiful voices delivering to the tip of your spine creating goosebumps.

     The other week  I accompanied my friend we visited the mall to buy gifts for herself. We went to Charles and Keith - a bags -and- shoes store,. This is supposed to be a well known store with their quality made shoes and bags. My friend went to ask the person on the cashier table about the price of the bag. But the Arab went out of the table and consulted someone only to find out that that person was a Filipino. Kabayan explained that the Arab can't speak english to she doubted on how to answer consulting him. In the Arab world they call Filipinos being able to speak Inglise (for English). Well of course, we are not english people

I am working in Jordan Hospital. This is a known hospital in its neighboring countries. Patients comes by plane just to have a day case surgery of Rhinoplasty, Dilation and Curettage, Phaco-IOL, and different kinds of cosmetic and bone surgeries. Aside from surgeries of the different department, we also have medical patients (Kidney pts., Cancer pts., Liver pts., and others) This means the more cases this hospital caters to, the more patients

Thursday, January 3, 2013

S-M-A-R-T GOALS

          This New Year, people are crazy making their own New Year's Resolution. Have they even checked their New Years' Resolution (NYR) list last 2012? Out of how many of their list were applied and achieved? Maybe their NYR was missed place and forgotten. For some, they keep it in their wallets. Others would have pasted them on their own walls, mirrors or even on their ceilings.


Maybe this time, it's good to have a New Years' Resolution. They call this as S-M-A-R-T GOALS.

SMART stands for:

S-pecific
M-easurable
A-chievable/ attainable
R-ealistic
T-imely/ time bounded

Specific means to 'lose 3 pounds in three weeks time' and NOT 'just to lose weight'.
Measurable means to 'earn and save 2K in a month' and NOT 'just to earn and have savings and be rich'
Attainable means to 'spare 2 hours per day to study Mandarin using the internet and having a Mandarin class under a professional Mandarin speaker for a month' and NOT to 'learn one language a month y reading'
Realistic means to 'having a trip in Tagaytay by October saving a quarter of my salary from June, July, August, and September' and NOT just 'travel the different places of the Philippines'
Time bounded means to 'be able to wear my gown on my wedding day December 25,2013, which is two months from now. I should go to the gym atleast three times a week for two hours each day. With my gym trainor, I should be able to achieve a waistline of 27-29 inches (from my 34 inches waistline at the moment) and reduce my weight to 55 kgs which is 6 kilos from my present weight. I'll be watching my diet avoiding soft drinks, ice creams, high fat milk, and fried foods. I'll be adding 1 fruit for every meal. Fresh fruit juices will be my refreshments and atleast 6-8 glasses of water. Early sleeping time should be noted (from 9pm-10pm). My sister, who will be my made of honor (incredibly living with me who is known to be a vegetarian and makes exceptional vegetable crepes) will be making sure that I apply these things through out time and NOT just 'to lose weight'

Remember a dream without time frame remains to be a dream but a dream with time frame becomes a goal....