Livin' only by Grace

.. .makes all the difference in the world. The special gift and ability of each creature defines its special limitations. ...so the woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling--wings, in fact, which bear her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God. Single life may be only a stage of a life's journey, but even a stage is a gift. Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.. . We accept and thank God for what is given, not allowing the not-given to spoil it. ..and it is in obedience to the command that we will find our full freedom. The freedom of the sailboat to move so swiftly and beautifully is the result of obedience to laws. She is doing the thing she was made for. She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them. ..It meant not doing what they wanted to do in order to have something they wanted more. The freedom of the few was brought at the sacrifice of the many. The fact that I am a wo...

... is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. . . . In fact, the state of being in love usually does not last. . . .But of course, ceasing to be "in love" need not mean ceasing to love. Love . . . is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by the GRACE which both partners ask and receive from God. They can retain this love even when each would easily, if they allowed themselves, be "in love" with someone else. "Being in love" first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love that enables them to keep their promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it. -C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity...

yesterday was the start of our seminar... [SATURDAY AND SUNDAY SEMINAR... T_T huhuhu] and the subject's about community health nursing... as the speaker was introducing himself, he said that after he graduated, he volunteered in the NGO, and he went to Mt. Province.. he taught in public school, and of course, he stayed in the community.. for two years... stuffs like those... as he was speaking.. something's just burning in my heart again - MISSION... waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!! i just wanna cry... i don't know why everytime i hear stories or stuffs like going to a mission or something, there's something in my heart.. whew.. that's excited.. that's wanting to go that way.. hooh! and waah... that guy's not even a Christian but he loves our country.. my country.. your country... he even joked.. he said, most of his batchmates are already abroad... they sent him e-mails saying, "hey, i'm in front of my new house" or new car.. stuffs like those.. and then h...

hehe... when i started reading this book [ a post-birthday gift from aj... thanks by the way... ] medyo parang di ko siya ganun na nagustuhan... kasi medyo maigsi yung chapters tapos parang ha? yun na yun..? parang di masyadong naexplain yung first chapters.. nung medyo half-way done na ko.. hehe [at may lapis na kaya nakakapag-highlight na..hehehehe at sinisipag magpost]... medyo naappreciate ko tong chapters na to eh..hehehe read on na lang... ; )) sabi niya dito... "I learned that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done. Acceptance of whatever that means is the great victory of faith that overcomes the world." hehe.. medyo di ako nagcocomment na sa book ko eh.. heheh ngayon lang medyo hindi..hehe another one... When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me p...