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Friday, June 29, 2007
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Here's a song I've created 3 days ago...
It was just for fun of what happened...
I'm no composer.. this sounds like a parodied bisrock..
I can't sing it but this is the lyrics..

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I'm Missing J****r

I'm missing you...
Your call cannot be completed as dialled.
Oh... I'm... missing you..


Dear J***er, I'm missing you.
You called me using the SUNshine network..
And I'm ...missing you..

Dear J***er,
Now you are not calling me for awhile..
Now... I'm ....missing you..

Dear J***er,
You gave me a SUNshine SIM...
Kuripot you, SIM ra gihatag..
Oh I'm.... missing you...

Your technique works..
Now I'm missing you..
Dear Ja***r....
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Don Moen in Cebu

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Don Moen will come to Cebu to celebrate the goodness of the Lord.

I can't describe the excitement that I felt when I heard this news. I am so much blessed with the ministry of this man. I grew up listening to his music and somehow, his songs help me create a picture of who God is. The song, "God will make a way" taught me me that no matter how big or difficult our situation is, we can be sure that nothing is impossible for the Lord. He will make a way even when it seems that there is no way. The Bible says, that God can make rivers in the dessert. The song, "Give thanks", taught me to thank God in good times as well as in bad times. The lines, "let the weak say, I am strong" still rings to my heart even today. The song, "I just want to be where you are", taught me to hunger for more of God, beyond what religion says and beyond, tradition. I remember praying to our Lord Jesus, "Lord, I want to be where you are. I don't want to go anywhere else." Even in my times of unbelief, God used his songs to reach out to me; To minister to me. That is why with all my heart, I would love everybody to go to this concert. I know the ticket prices is a bit of a stretch but I know in my heart that we will be blessed in this concert - and that is priceless. Don didn't came here to be paid. He can choose not to come here and be wealthy in U.S. If you look at his schedule it is full for the whole year. He came here to minister through songs.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Don on Authenticity


Don Moen on authenticity. Sometimes we like other people's style and personality and we tend to copy them.. knowingly and unknowingly. It's true that we really need to walk on our own anointing. We need to move the way God designed us to move. We need to talk the way God designed us to talk. As I read these words, I evaluated my actions and somehow see that some of them are not really what God designed me to do. What about you? Are you functioning in your function or in your dysfunction? God bless you..:)
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
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I have thought of writing about this topic and I kept on forgetting or losing my drive to write. Somehow Pastor C's sermon last Sunday fueled me to write about it again - Winning Not Whining.
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Winning Not Whining

For the past 24 years of my life, I have not meet a single person who does not want to win. Every person I've met has the desire to win either in a basketball game, or an argument, or a wrestling match, or win a friend, or a deal, or win a trust and many more . Even those who has low self-esteem have desires in their hearts to somehow win in life. Nobody celebrates their own defeat but everyone celebrates their own victory. I have not meet anybody who would come and tell me, "Jo, I'll treat you pizza because I just lost my job." Or someone who gives his/her friends a treat because he/she just went bankrupt. Part of our design is to overcome. Part of us is designed by God win. I believe another word for winning is overcoming.
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Friday, June 08, 2007
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I just remembered this Scripture from way back. It's about when God met Elijah. If I am not mistaken Elijah was depressed at this time and God meet him. The great thing about this is that God meet him in a gentle whisper and not in some awesome wind or fire or earthquake. This scripture makes me remember the time when I want to meet God in a Grand-Entrance-kind-of-way and I begun wonder why God didn't appear. I begun asking, "Did God heard me?" All along God is whispering and calling me in quite awhile. Many times we miss the whisper of the Holy Spirit because we want God to come as we want Him to come and not as He want it done. So our prayer should be,"Lord, come just as you are." So when the Lord comes in a gentle voice we can hear him say, "What are you doing here, Josiah?" It's going to be wonderful. :)

1 Kings 19:11-13 (New International Version)

The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by."
Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. 13 When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.
Then a voice said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
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Today, we are surrounded with different voices: radio voices, T.V. voices, good news voices, bad news voices, voices of our neighbor, voices of our family, voices of our problems, voices of hi's and ho's, voices of our friends, voices of officemates, voices of sin, voices of temptation, voices of praise, voices of self and so on. And with these voices it's sometimes hard to meditate. It's hard to hear the voice that we should hear every single time - the voice of God.

I am not trying to be religious, I believe that mentioning or talking about God is not religion. I believe that God is basic to human existence. I believe God is not an extra day of our seven-day week. I believe that God is important to our daily existence. A well known scripture said, "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul?" I believe a good question about this Scripture is, how can you lose your own soul? Jesus said, " For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." So we lose our soul if we try to save it. When we think only of ourselves - that's where we lose our soul. When we keep thinking of ME, ME, and ME... we lose our soul. To find our soul we need to lose it for the sake of the Lord. A good question to this is "HOW can I lose it for the LORD?" I am not an expert in the Bible but something tells me it involves SURRENDER. Because when we save our lives, we want to control our lives. And when we lose our lives, we lose control. So if we follow this reasoning, we can deduce that we need to surrender our lives to the Lord so that we will not lose it. Everyday we need to surrender our lives - our time, our resources, our will, our family, our love ones, our pride, our ego, our ears, our body, our desire.... to the Lord.

Part of surrendering is listening to what God wants us to do in our lives on a daily basis. It's a daily decision to surrender. It's a daily decision to ask God, "Lord, what do you want me to do today?". It's a daily decision to tell the Lord, "Lord, I give you my heart. I give you my everything."

So the challenge today is for us to surrender.
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Collage pics of me and Joyce (and my niece-Sugar). These pictures were taken during our family day in LXK.
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Monday, June 04, 2007
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One person sees something as a calamity and another person comes and see that very same thing as an opportunity.
The difference between the two person:
1. Choice
2. Readiness to see something as it is.

Choice
We can understand choice. We can choice to see anything as how we want to see it.

Readiness
One person sees something such as a market crash as an opportunity plainly because that person is ready to see it as such. Our previous experience helps us to see things differently. When I was still in college I was presented with an opportunity to start exploring the business world. When I saw the money requirement - P800, I got cold feet (I can only afford P200 :D) and started rejecting the idea of pursuing the opportunity. If I have pursued that opportunity I would have grown in the knowledge of handling personal finance. Another experience that I can remember was, when I was in college I was asked to go to the camp but the registration fee is P3, 600. Again, I can only afford way less than the amount so I just drop the idea of going. Now, I see many young people in the church selling/making money just to go to the camps. I realized I was not ready so I made a poor choice in not stretching and taking up the challenge. Have I choose to see it as an opportunity then I would have grown mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. And I would say that these young people who financed their way to the camps are in better position than I was because they stepped up.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Ogtong Cave



One of my very few pictures in Ogtong Cave (and the whole camp). I was the cameraman for the whole event so I don't have much pictures.:)
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Picture Pile



Same set of photos using picture pile..... courtesy of Piccasa 2.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Before and After



My friend, Gay, showed me the picture in the left. That was taken during my first few months (around August of 2004) in LXK (Cebu). The other one was taken December 23, 2006.

The difference is a bit dramatic. :) So.. Praise God... He has been good and had blessed me of a sexier body almost 3 years ago. :)

I have to admit... I just realized I looked like a stick in my picture in the left. :)
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Fav Camp Pics




The pictures above are my fave... my friend Lot Mojal took these during Cruisers group early devotion. I like the color combination and the emotion they convey to the people who looks at it.



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Top Performance CAMP



That's me in blue sleeveless with my camp buddies. The camp was just amazing, it helped me re-align my goal. I began to look at my goal in a different way. I also began to see God bigger than before. I began to see God's plan for my life in a different light. I can say I have matured in a way that I became patient on things.

Two things I really appreciate in the camp: (aside from the sessions and food)
1. Coffee with C.E guys and Pastor Noel. - I learned a lot. The conversation turned out to be full packed of practical insights gained by my fellow C.E. buddies. We sort of integrate what we caught in the camp and reflected it on how we applied those principles in the camp. One person shared about the "sachet" and how it reflects to our lives. I now look at sachets differently. :D Pastor Noel also shared to us some insights.. I just wished we had more time talking.

2. Banana boat ride. - I was just excited to ride that thing. :D We fell down thrice- twice in the middle of the sea and once when we are about to stop the ride. We purposely turn the boat upside down while it is running. :) And to be there in the middle of the sea (floating) with sea water in your throat and nose is just so exciting. I mean, I don't experience those stuffs everyday. :)
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Monday, May 28, 2007
The CAT who JUMPS to a HOT stove



I've read a story of a cat who jumped to a hot stove, the cat got hurt and since then the cat never jumped to any hot stove again. But you know what, the cat won't jump to any cold stove either. Sa Bisaya pa, "natagam ang iring".

I heard stories like this happen in real life: a person gets disappointed with another person and that person would never take a step near that person. I believe that's where the quote, "ni anino nya any ayaw kunang makita!" came from.

I see this story come alive in my friends lives and before, in my life. I used to get easily disappointed and the normal stimulus to disappointments is to withdraw from whatever it is that causes pain. If we happen to touch a hot stove we quickly (without thinking) take away our hands off the hot stove. In the same way, I "withdraw" myself to pain. Or should I say I withdraw myself to things that I perceived as the one causing pain. Until I realized that doing that hinders me from growing and maturing as a person. Instead of using pain as a tool for growth, I began to make wrong associations to pain. And this caused me to go back from where I started - the rut. I call the whole process of pain and withdrawal (no learning) as the "rut race".

One person telling me, "Jo, I would not love again... it's too painful.. my last boyfriend.. blah blah blah.." And she just had all the reasons why she would never invest her heart to another person.

One author said that in business we need to "practice disappointment". And I believe we should practice "handling disappointment" in life too. One thing I know, we will always be disappointed. One author said it this way,"in one way or another, no matter how well you play the game there are really times that someone will drop the ball and you will lose the game". In a way, the author said, in one way or another no matter how well you do things one person will disappoint you. So when you get disappointed... all I can say is "welcome to life".

Our ability to handle disappointments in life determines in our maturity as a person. If you are like the cat who jumped to a hot stove... make sure you associate the "hotness" to pain rather than the stove to pain.
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Friday, May 25, 2007
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I got this article from a man I really admire. I want to make an article like this one but I just want to share this text and hopefully it will challenge us to stretch. I believe in my heart that as follower of the Lord Jesus Christ we need to stretch. Here is the article by Jim Rohn:

THE TWO CHOICES WE FACE
Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our
lives. The first choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to
be. To earn less. To have less.

To read less and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less. These
are the choices that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once
made, lead to a life of constant apprehension instead of a life of wondrous
anticipation.

And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly be.
To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as much as we possibly can.
To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and produce and
accomplish as much as we possible can. All of us have the choice. To do or
not to do. To be or not to be. To be all or to be less or to be nothing at all.

Like the tree, it would be a worthy challenge for us all to stretch upward and
outward to the full measure of our capabilities. Why not do all that we can,
every moment that we can, the best that we can, for as long as we can.? Our
ultimate life objective should be to create as much as our talent and ability and
desire will permit. To settle for doing less than we could do is to fail in this
worthiest of undertakings.

Results are the best measurement of human process. Not conversation. Not
explanation. Not justification. Results! And is our results are less than our
potential suggests that they should be, then we must strive to become more
today than we were the day before. The greatest rewards are always reserved
for those who bring great value to themselves and the world around them as a
result of who and what they have become.

Jim Rohn
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