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These were the experiences, conversations, I had today with my babies - my pupils :) I WANT TO BE A.... One morning with preparatory pupils, this cute kid told me: Student:  teacher, I want to be a chef Hearing that, he wants to be a chef, not a policeman anymore! Teacher: but why? You don’t want to be a policeman anymore? He couldn’t explain why.  Then I asked the rest of the class the unending question of all time “what do they want to be when they grow up?”  My students wanted to become a “doctor, so I can cure sick people” “a pastor, I want to be like my father” “a teacher, I want to be like…..(while browsing her book looking for her uncle)” “a driver….” I asked, what vehicle do you want to drive? “a tricycle driver” Now, that’s something to ponder on.  I don’t judge tricycle drivers, or even pedicab drivers. They save my time! Instead to laugh at my pupil’s answer and tell him “why a tricyle driver? Why n...

Luke 6:42   How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. image here It's good to help your friends live the life God desires, but your priority should be to make sure your life pleases God.  Be diligent to keep sin out of your life; then you'll be able to see others in the correct perspective.  When you have sin in your life, it distorts everything you see.  If your heart is pure, you won't condemn others for their sin, nor will you jump to conclusions without any evidence.  You'll have the grace to help them without judging them. Father God, thank you for reminding me this truth.  Thank you for reminding me to evaluate myself first before I look on other people's lives. Forgive me whenever I tend to be judgmental to others...

Read Psalm 121:1-8 When television coverage of the Winter Olympics brought visions of twirling, whirling ice skaters into our home, we had two diminutive skaters in our living room.  Spin after spin catapulted them into tangled heaps of arms and legs on the floor.  Finally, my five-year-old asked in exasperation, "Mommy, how do they spin so fast?"  I tried to explain a technique learned many years ago when I was the ballerina-to-be the technique of spotting.   Start by focusing your sight on a fixed spot and with each rapid turn of the head, return your gaze to the same place .  No dramatic improvement resulted from my little ballerina's initial efforts as she began trying this technique.   Spotting does not come naturally at any age .  She and her sister continued to look like they were playing a musical game of Twister, ending in the same heap on the floor.  But slowly, ever so slowly, spotting took effect.  Her turns were more controll...

Dear Lord,  Don't let me become frantic when I hear the statistics. The computer doesn't know me - doesn't know how much I laugh and cry, how well I'm loved, who my friends are, or how I'm prayed for.  It certainly doesn't know that You have a timetable for my life and Your timing is perfect. Amen. *  surely this 2012 summer time for me is the most productive and challenging time i've had.. got the hectic schedule yet manageable..by the grace of God, He keeps on sustaining me and encouraging me to finish this race i have..

credits Matthew 14:31  Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him.  “You of little faith,”  he said, “why did you doubt?” I have an issue of being a worrier. I worry a lot. I think a lot.  think+worry=me and I know that's not what God wants me to be.   So why worry if I have a big GOD? I have prepared myself yesterday to get my grades in school. Standing in a verrrrrrrrry looooong line, patiently I waited before I could head on to the person in-charge with all the manual processing of releasing the grades. Suddenly, I felt something that I don't want to feel in that situation - butterflies in my heart! So I stopped and prayed, "Lord, please let me see a passing grade." And there my grades are! PRAISE THE LORD! I passed all the subjects! What a relief! THANK YOU LORD! Next step:  Check the Schedule for Summer Classes. I went to the enrollment area and saw thicker lines of students.  Schedules for the subjects were projected. ...

credits I am missing out a lot of things in mind to share in my blog. I am almost missing out to visit my blog even if it's my default page in my computer. Oh, I say, I've been tooooooooooooo busy :( February: It was a month of challenge for me.  It's the month when I can totally feel the life of a student and a teacher. It was a bit hard.  Doing exam papers today for my students' exam next week, then review for tomorrow's exam or prepare for the report, etc.  It was totally exhausting.  BUT, I thank my God because He never fails to give me strength and push me to keep going and indeed, God enabled me! March: It was still a month of challenge for me. FINALS FINALS FINALS. Aside from studying and preparing things for final paper works, March was also a time for dancing, rehearsals, preparations for the graduation/sem-ender. It was also a time of success and victory for the Lord. March 24 marked the 17th Recognition/Graduation Exercises of the school I...

God is our loving Father , and the world we live in is our Father's world.  He is in control , but He doesn't necessarily arrange things to keep us comfortable or to make life easier.  Sometimes He permits just the opposite to occur, and we find ourselves nervous and upset and looking for somebody to blame instead of somebody to love.  We start groaning instead of growing, and another opportunity is lost for glorifying the Father. -Warren W. Wiersbe  (Bless You: Receiving and Sharing the Blessings of the Lord)