Around and around and around they went. They weren’t riding on a carousel, but they sure were stuck in a limbo. I can see it in my head: the Israelites who were taken out of Egypt refused to allow God to take Egypt out of their hearts and so a journey that was supposed to…
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When It’s Hard to Let Go
“Why did you even let the relationship go on for as long as it did?” I looked my friend right in the eye and refused to budge my line of questioning. Here was a man who fell in love with a lady he knew from the beginning wasn’t the one God had for him. He…
Read MoreFight for Your Heart
“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” – Proverbs 4:23 This verse has been preached a thousand times in a thousand different ways. But such are the joys of the Bible being living and active – there’s always something new to get from it every time. Allow me to…
Read MoreWhen I Say I’m Praying for [him]
I say a prayer every time I think of you. Every. Single. Time. I pray that you’re allowing what the Lord is doing in you during this season. That you are completely yielded to the Holy Spirit and where He is leading you. That you are fruitful and growing in wherever you are, whatever you…
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Fairytales
We live in a fairytale world of wonder and tragedy, where darkness is pitted against starlight and battles between good and evil happen everyday. Every day is a fight between love and hate, joy and despair, life and death. Every day is a fight to hope. Yet for all the twists and turns, for all…
Read MoreHow to Pursue Your Boaz (Like Ruth Did!)
Is there anyone here not familiar with the story of Ruth? So often cited in Christian circles as justification why women can make the first move, we look at her story with profound interest. I’ve always been intrigued by the lives of the women mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus and every time, I find…
Read MoreThe 2018 New Year Post
Prayer and fasting week just ended yesterday and I was pondering on how God answered all my prayers from the previous year – and how, in a sense, He didn’t. My ultimate prayer has always been that His will be done in my life, followed by bullet points of specific wants and requests that I…
Read MoreChristmas is Here. The Promise Still Isn’t.
I love Christmas. I just have to get that out there. I’m the wide-eyed girl who squeals when Christmas songs start playing in the malls, lighting up even brighter than the Christmas lights that surround her. Filipinos normally begin their countdown around September. I have my decorations up by September, but start the countdown around…
Read MoreSabi Nila, Wag Umasa
Sabi nila wag ako masyadong umasa kasi wala naman talagang kakapitan, ano nga naman ang pwedeng panghawakan. Sabi nila wag ako masyadong umasa kasi sakit ang kahihinatnan at ayaw lang naman nila ako makitang masaktan. Sabi nila wag ako masyadong umasa. Siguro, kung aasa, yung konti lang, yung sakto lang, yung naglalaro sa linya, sa…
Read MoreLimang Maikling Tula Para sa Kanya
Disclaimer: I wrote this as a creative challenge to myself more than anything. (Putting that disclaimer up for my dad more than anything 😂). Isa, dalawa, tatlo, apat, lima Binibilang ang araw hanggang tayo’y muling magkita Isa, dalawa, tatlo, apat, lima Binibilang ang beses na sinabi sa puso, tama na Isa Alam mo bang ako’y…
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