God's Comfort and Care

My stomach hurts this morning, I'm not havin LBM, just really a stomach ache. But the pain is like im being poisoned or something or is similar when giving birth. I felt that I want to vomit, so I went to the bathroom. There I almost fainted 3 times in the bathroom and only 2 of my dogs (Georgie and Mocha) witnessed what happened. I tried to hold on to something but my knees are so numb and weak so I fell every time im tryin' to get up. My vision is violet but almost black. I managed to get out of the bathroom by crawling, I tried to stand up again and good thing i was able to hold on to our room's door. I know I will fall down again so I throw myself into the bed. When I managed to reach the bed, I woke jie up and told him the pain I am into and asked for a glass of water, I even asked him to turn the faucet off in the bathroom as I wasn't able to have time to turn it off. The pain is getting worst and worst each minute. I am restless. So like the usual thing I am doing since I was a child, I cried out to God and told him,

"I am really in pain"

"I can't really bear the pain any longer".

"Not now Lord, I haven't accomplished the mission you entrusted me yet". 

"Niquolle still needs me".

Then, I suddenly opened my eyes and didn't realized that I was able to sleep, for how long, I am not sure. But my stomach ache is gone, and the few minutes of sleep as I realized and tries to remember is peaceful, very relaxing, very calm. I cannot describe the feeling. It is a feeling so great! It's like, I'm flying, or the feeling is light, Just really a great feeling! I never felt that kind of feeling my whole life for 27 years. It's like you want to feel that feelin forever and never woke up. I knew it is God presence and took away all the pain, provided me with great comfort. It is God who is really omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. If I can only share the great feelin I've experienced in God's arms, I know you will tell me the same thing. I know it is one way of tellin me to have time to rest, cause I know I'm a workaholic freak! If not working for my clients the whole day, I am doing household chores. I am thinking as well that the thing that happened this morning is an attack from the enemy to hinder me from my prayer devotion this morning, as I will be praying as well for the kids prayer request that they've written down yesterday from Sunday School. But all in all, It is true what God tells us on Psalms 23. I want to take this opportunity as well to say my greatest appreciation and thankfulness to my husband. Though at times, we have some differences but He really takes good care of me and Niquolle. Very loving and caring. He has high fever but he still ran to give me water and to change my clothes. I thank God for everything.

I am not tired of my life as I am living it positively and with full of faith, but if you do, please do not forget to ask God to help you, He has wonderful plans for you and He will never let you down. 

A great day!

Make Me the Strongest

"Lord, thank you for making me strong, but please make me the strongest"

Husband & Daughter w/ High Fever 
+ Household chores + Work 
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= SUPERMOM MODE!!!!

Filial Piety - A Must for All Generation

Filial piety (Chinese: 孝; pinyin: xiào) is one of the virtues to be held above all else: a respect for the parents and ancestors. It also means to be good to one's parents; to take care of one's parents; to engage in good conduct not just towards parents but also outside the home so as to bring a good name to one's parents and ancestors; to perform the duties of one's job well so as to obtain the material means to support parents as well as carry out sacrifices to the ancestors; This is the first virtue in Chinese culture. 

We must understand how important respecting our parents should be. It is not easy to be a parent. Our parents take good care of us when we were young, and it is very common now a days for the teens to be rebellious. We should love our parents more. The way they take good care of us and give us the love and warmth that we need. If we do the same thing, our children will imitate it. I remember some verses in the bible about love and respect of parents.

Ephesians 6:1-3 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” this is the first commandment with a promise, “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.

Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Proverbs 1:8-9 Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

Proverbs 30:17 The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Leviticus 19:3 Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

As we can see, these verses from the Bible tells us to love and obey are parents and one of the good example of this is the story of Mulan. Mulan loves his Father so much reason that she takes his place in the army to fight the intruders of China.

Now, as parents we should not measure what our children can give us. Maybe some of our children will be successful in the business arena or other fields but instead we should be proud of them that they have been a good person. Here are some videos of Filial Piety, to understand it more. Remember, The greatest of all these things is LOVE.

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I wonder how painful it is for my parents when I was on my teenage years. Being rebellious, doing things inappropriate and not to mention my over all craziness for this word called "Love". I do well at school, having high grades, being popular, and a ton of friends. Every time I received my disciplinary action I move closer to my peers. My parents are great! At least I realized that now, I love them. But way back, they are ALSO one of the antagonist people I've ever seen! Of course, teenage years - blinded by these phrases "I just want to be happy" "I don't want to be alone" "I want to be free". Sounds familiar? Of course! I am not the only person who felt that way, Am I? And it’s really hard to believe that once we are on their shoe, we will feel the same way that they did. I do not have a teenage daughter yet but in my daughter's early age, there are instances that she ignores me for some reason, and that hurts me. 

From childbirth until we're 3 years of age, we place all reliance from our parents. We need them. They fed us, clothed us, taught us to walk, and a lot more! And It is hard for a parent to be taken for granted that easily once our children already know how to do things all by themselves. 

Sometimes, we children misunderstood what our parents are trying to portray when we were still young, but eventually when we’re mature enough and have a family of our own, we will realize what our parents were telling us and those are all true. They happen, you’ve experienced it, you will learn from it and the best of all, you will realize that your parents have already told you about it. 

Our parents care for us no matter how we misinterpret what they are telling us. And they keep on telling it over and over again with all of their might though it caused them so much stress. When I got married, My parents words of advice keeps on haunting me. I love them ever since I was a child and I admit that I got blinded by my whim and didn't realize that I’ve hurt them so much. But no matter what trouble I caused them, they're still here for me, to love and support me even more, just like our Father in Heaven. He loves us and died for our sins. I am asking God to lengthen my parents’ lives more so that I can spend more time with them. At the very least it is not too late. And for that I understand that being a parent is the most valuable profession on this earth. Yes, It is painful at times but It is happiness; and the greatest? It is PRICELESS!

When the right time comes, you will know what I was talking about.