PEACE IN OUR HEART

Advancement in age comes with lesser confidence in venturing on new things and lesser risk-taking.

I am in this vicinity.  Happy-go-lucky and riding on the fast lane is no longer a welcome treat.

Philippine school year has just opened.  The easy phase of the summer streets are gone, now replaced with traffic jam.

Coming to work has become a difficult task and it is necessary to leave earlier.

I don't like the rush and if ever I wake up late, I detest having to let my husband take me to the office on the motorcycle.

Way back the younger past,

WHERE MY ROADS TAKE ME

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Summer crawled so slowly that year.  I came home from my Aunt's after a year of living with them.  It was a year away from home.  I had to sojourn on the homesickness road with the firm determination not to skip a school year.  I helped around my Aunt's printing business like sorting and collating printed forms for clients.  I delved my hands into bookbinding and putting ribbons on wedding invitations.  The latter part, I really enjoyed.

My mom had a hard time sending me to

ALEXANDER'S BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT

PAGE 8 OF ALLELUIA; WORDS OF PRAISE BY M. PODESTA

Who is not thrilled at the intimacy of Psalm 139?

Every human being was conceived in her mother's womb.  Even though you are a woman who has never borne a child, you yourself were formed within one.

If you have read my introduction of the book Alleluia; Words of Praise by Michael Podesta, who is a calligraphy artist,

P31 WOMAN VIRTUES

10 Virtues of the Proverbs 31 Woman

We want to encourage women to serve God in every aspect of their lives.

1. Faith - A Virtuous Woman serves God with all of her heart, mind, and soul. She seeks His will for her life and follows His ways. (Proverbs 31: 26, Proverbs 31: 29 – 31, Matthew 22: 37, John 14: 15, Psalm 119: 15
2. Marriage – A Virtuous Woman respects her husband. She does him good all the days of her life. She is trustworthy and a helpmeet. (Proverbs 31: 11- 12, Proverbs 31: 23, Proverbs 31: 28, 1 Peter 3, Ephesians 5, Genesis2: 18)
3.  Mothering - A Virtuous Woman teaches her children the ways of her Father in heaven.

FLOWERS WHISPER BEAUTY

I want to link this post to Laura's blog over at The Wellspring.  She has a very beautiful post entitled,

Playdates With God: The Flower Remembers.

 

 She wrote this beautiful line about the flower,

 

"She holds her secrets in closed up petals—clasped tight like prayers. Until the appointed time. And then she opens to great applause."

 

Her analogies of the time spent conversing with