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Have a great Monday to you all!!!

Yehey, few more weeks to go and it’s Christmas time! I’m happy and excited…
I don’t know why, hahaha

Anyway, I want to share this beautiful message…

In other words, let’s love each other

Have a lovely Tuesday!
By the way, I’m the one who made that image above…
hope you’re inspired too….

Another interesting reflection I got on my email. Honestly I seldom read some of my daily reflection but I don’t delete them instead move them in one folder then I just go back later on if I want to read few inspirational stories. And today I got curious with the title of this one… “Isn’t It Obvious?” … Please read the story below and I’m sure somehow you can be inspired as well…

I felt confused. I wanted to know more about how I could help my son develop his speech and yet I knew that I’d need to work so that I could help my husband support our family. With mixed emotions, I applied in a school to study speech pathology. I said to myself, it’s been 10 years since I graduated and it’s less likely that the school would choose me over the younger students. If so, I would have no choice but to keep my current job. And yet, in my heart I had this yearning to help kids who, like my son, have developmental and speech delay.
But the school took me in and the dilemma persisted. How could I go to school and still earn for my family? I told my friends about my situation and they advised me to try doing consultancy work so I could keep earning. Still confused, I prayed to God and asked Him if He really wanted me to resign from my current job to pursue a career in speech therapy. By grace, I decided to study and have since resigned from my job. The consultancy jobs being offered to me now will allow me to earn more. I shouldn’t have felt uncertain after all. God had already gone before me. ~ Mae Ignacio

REFLECTION:
Is there something you want to ask from God? The answer may already be in front of you.

And yes, I have this smile on my face after reading this. I may not have the same story as with her but I can totally relate as it somehow related with my present condition… …. Really hard but I’m praying also that God will help me see through all His great plans for me…

Since I’m hooked on facebook, I’ve never opened my Friendster account for quite a while. Not until this morning when I saw on my email I have a message from one of my friends. When I checked, it was a forwarded story but I got curious with the title- Salted Coffee so I went on reading……

… And yes beautiful story indeed!

Maybe some of you have read it already. And instead of forwarding it to my friends, I thought of just posting here on my blog so I can share it to all my readers…

So the story below…

He met her at a party. She was so outstanding, many guys chasing after her, while he was so normal, nobody paid attention to him.

At the end of the party, he invited her to have coffee with him, she was surprised but due to being polite, she promised. They sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say anything, she felt uncomfortable, and she thought to herself, “Please, let me go home…”

Suddenly he asked the waiter, “Would you please give me some salt? I’d like to put it in my coffee.” Everybody stared at him, so strange! His face turned red but still, he put the salt in his coffee and drank it. She asked him curiously, “Why you have this hobby?” He replied, “When I was a little boy, I lived near the sea, I liked playing in the sea, I could feel the taste of the sea, just like the taste of the salty coffee. Now every time I have the salty coffee, I always think of my childhood, think of my hometown, I miss my hometown so much, I miss my parents who are still living there.” While saying that tears filled his eyes. She was deeply touched. That’s his true feeling, from the bottom of his heart. A man who can tell out his homesickness, he must be a man who loves home, cares about home, has responsibility of home… Then she also started to speak, spoke about her faraway hometown, her childhood, her family.

That was a really nice talk, also a beautiful beginning of their story. They continued to date. She found that actually he was a man who meets all her demands; he had tolerance, was kind hearted, warm, careful. He was such a good person but she almost missed him! Thanks to his salty coffee! Then the story was just like every beautiful love story, the princess married to the prince, and then they were living the happy life… And, every time she made coffee for him, she put some salt in the coffee, as she knew that’s the way he liked it.
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I read this from my email this morning and I just have to share it here…
A beautiful reflection for this lenten season….

The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him, and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements, and to store his few possessions.

But then one day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, the smoke rolling up to the sky. The worst had happened; everything was lost. He was stunned with grief and anger. “God, how could you do this to me!” he cried. Early the next day, however, he was awakened by the sound of a ship that was approaching the island. It had come to rescue him.

“How did you know I was here?” asked the weary man of his rescuers. “We saw your smoke signal,” they replied.

It is easy to get discouraged when things are going bad. But we shouldn’t lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of pain and suffering. Remember, next time your little hut is burning to the ground—-it just may be a smoke signal that summons grace of God.

For all the negative things we have to say to ourselves, God has a positive answer for it….

The soul in love is gentle, humble, mild-mannered and patient.
Yes, this is so because she is in love. She lives in fullness, and nothing disturbs her.
She is well disposed toward others because, knowing that she is lvoed, she does not need to think of herself.
She is patient because she is so fulfilled that she does not need to hurry to reach another goal.
~ Chiara Lubich

Happy hearts day everyone!

This is such a wonderful line, which is an excerpt from the song Better Together by Jack Johnson

There’s no combination of words I could put on the back of a postcard
No song that I could sing
But I can try for your heart