Category Archives: Life’s Lessons

Our Easter Sunday

Posted by Jay on April 24, 2011 None comments

Went to church this morning with2 of my kids, eldest and youngest, my second child was at his aunt’s house (she took him with her without my permission), which made me a lil bit uneasy as I am teaching my kids now the habit of going to church regularly, and reading the Bible.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. ~Proverbs 22:6

Anyway, it’s not what this post is all about.

So we went to church, celebrating and remembering the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.A victoriousday where our Lord has defeated death.

At the church there were 2 big projectors and before the service started the music ministry sang a worship song and the passion of the Christ movie where played, the part where Jesus was nailed on the cross. Being deaf that I am, I did not know what song was being sung so my eyes was at the projector, I held back my tears and stopped watching, It crossed my mind, seeing my Lord’s blood all over his face and his body this is how He suffered just to save me, this is how much pain he endured so I can have eternal life with him. I remembered a friend told me once, during my worst trial, she said the pain I am feeling is not even 1/4th of what Jesus had… so true.

All that we’ve been through and what we are going to go through will never ever be compared to what Jesus has suffered for us.

Watching the part where the nail was being hammered, driven through his hands, I flinched, remembering how scared I am of needles, up to now I even shed tears when I get injection, how much more with that thick nail hammered through his hands, how painful could that be? I fought tears again, when I glanced at my left side, I saw the old lady beside me crying.

I felt too little in God’s grace, and humbled. God’s grace and love for humankind is so big and great, this is what Jesus did so we can have forgiveness for our sins.

And Jesus said…
… he that taketh not his cross and followeth after me is not worthy of me. ~Matthew 10:38

Jesus is alive! His death and resurrection is our hope that we will have eternal life with Him, that we can reach God the Father through Him.

That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. ~John 3:15

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Jesus Is Alive

Hallelujah Jesus is alive
Death has lost its victory
And the grave has been denied
Jesus lives forever
He’s alive, He’s alive

He’s the alpha and omega
the first and last is He
the course of sin is broken
and we are perfect liberty
the Lamb of god has risen
He’s alive, He’s alive

Hallelujah,Jesus is alive

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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ~John 3:16

The lesson I learned from Grandpa George

Posted by Jay on July 25, 2010 2 comments

(this is a repost from my Y360 blog which is now gone)…

Granpa George said:
“There’s plenty of money out there
They print more everyday
But this ticket…
… there’s only five of them
In the whole wide world…
…and that’s all there’s going to be.
Only a dummy would give this up
For something as common as money.
Are you a dummy?”

Grandpa George is one of the characters from the movie “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and he was telling his grandchild Charlie about not giving up the ticket for the money even though the whole family needed it.

As I was watching the movie and it came to this part, I was thinking that the “ticket” can also represent many things in our lives, it could be our principle, faith, hope, family (husband, wife, children, parents, sisters, brothers), our happiness, health.

Yes we need the money and who doesn’t, we need it to have food to eat, send kids to school, pay our bills, etc. But there are a lot of “other” things in our lives which are more important to us than money.

Have we considered giving ourselves more time to rest and relax?

Have we considered giving more time to our children to really see what they want and need right now?

How about our husband or wife, have we considered giving them more of our time to show them we love them and appreciate what they are doing to the family?

How about our parents and sisters and brothers, have we given them the time they need so that we can listen to them?

There are a lot of other things… have we compromised our faith?

Everytime we give more time to work for the money, one of these things that  are important to us suffers.
Money can never make us or the people around us really really happy .

Money can never fulfill all of our needs.

Money can never satisfy all of our desires.

It is better to be thankful that we have what we got today for it is God’s blessing to us. It is not wrong to want better things, to work hard so that we can give ourselves and our loved ones what they need and want, but let us not forget also that sometimes when working “too hard” for the “money”, when wanting too much of it will make us losers.

Just because you can have everything that this world can offer, doesn’t make you a better person. Material possessions is not the measurement of one’s character.

Just because you have plenty of money, doesn’t make you a better person, it is not the measurement of one’s character.

How would we want people to remember us when we’re gone? How would we want our children to remember us as a parent? How would we want our husband/wife to remember us as their partner? How would we want God to see us as a person? There are  so many hows?… and only we can answer them, it’s not yet too late, as long as we are living we can always change for the better.

As grandpa George said: “Only a dummy would give this up, for something as common as money.”

Yes money is common, and just like Charlie’s reply to him, when he was asked if he was a dummy… “no sir!”….

that is my reply too, definitely NO SIR!

Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. ~ Ecclesiastes 5:10

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. ~ 1 Timothy 6:10

Bonding weekend

Posted by Jay on July 16, 2008 None comments

… with my daughter YLA.


The Haircut
My daughter came home from school complaining that it is very very hot in their room, her head most of the time is wet from perspiration and her neck too. so she goes mommy, “when are you going to have my hair cut short?” so i said, “ok get the scissors i’ll trim it to shoulder length.” then she said, “but mommy i dont want it straight i want it layered”. so i said ok, we’ll go to the parlor tomorrow (saturday)… here goes… i am now in this part of motherhood where my children gets to have what they want, it’s already starting… some more years then she will never asked me anything anymore. she used to always want to come with us whenever we go somewhere, the mall, the grocery, her grandma’s house… but these days since we moved to our new home, i noticed that whenever i asked her if she wants to come with me, like to the mall, she would reply, “no”, she’d rather stay home and do her stuff…


Swimming

*sighs*… so what i did (sunday), me and my daughter went on a bonding trip. we went swimming just the two of us, we had fun, i brought her to this beautiful resort, and gave her some swimming lessons… there was a very funny part during our swimming, i was doing my laps… then after a while when i took a stop, the water went in my ear so i tilt my head and tapped it sideways then told her, “i think im getting deaf there’s water inside my ear…” to which my daughter replied aloud, that the people in the pool also heard “MOMMY YOU ARE ALREADY DEAF!” i laughed so hard that the people we’re looking at me (i actually did not hear her said those words, but judigng from her face and the way she spoke, i knew she said it loudly..

The resort had three pools, we went to the smaller one, judging from the size of it and the children swimming in it, i thought the other side of the pool was not deep so i just let my daughter ran to it and she took a jump, i was somewhat shocked to see her sink in, and then came up struggling lucky she got hold of the railing, she looked funny, and yes, i did laughed and she laughed too, but it gave my heart a leap, the that small pool was deep for her…

We went home satisfied with what we did… these are the times that i’ll remember forever… someday, i know she’ll have a life of her own, we’ll be far apart and all i have will be memories =(

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and something to think about…

Anyway

I ran into a stranger as he passed by,
“Oh excuse me please” was my reply.
He said, “Please excuse me too;
I wasn’t watching for you.”

We were very polite, this stranger and I.
We went on our way and we said good-bye.
But at home a different story is told,
How we treat our loved ones, young and old.

Later that day, cooking the evening meal,
My son stood beside me very still.
When I turned, I nearly knocked him down.
“Move out of the way,” I said with a frown.

He walked away, his little heart broken.
I didn’t realize how harshly I’d spoken.
While I lay awake in bed,
God’s still small voice came to me and said,

“While dealing with a stranger, common courtesy you use,
but the children you love, you seem to abuse.
Go and look on the kitchen floor,
You’ll find some flowers there by the door.

Those are the flowers he brought for you.
He picked them himself: pink, yellow and blue.
He stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise,
you never saw the tears that filled his little eyes.”

By this time, I felt very small,
And now my tears began to fall.
I quietly went and knelt by his bed;
“Wake up, little one, wake up,” I said.

“Are these the flowers you picked for me?”
He smiled, “I found ‘em, out by the tree.
I picked ‘em because they’re pretty like you.
I knew you’d like ‘em, especially the blue.”

I said, “Son, I’m very sorry for the way I acted today;
I shouldn’t have yelled at you that way.”
He said, “Oh, Mom, that’s okay.
I love you

…anyway.”

~Author Unknown~