The Value for Money

An imprisoned employee...needed Php 80,000 to be released...because of her job, she landed on those bars...it must be the employer's responsibility because the employee just did her job, although the nature of the job was illegal...the biggest weight must be on to the employer...but the employee was the one caught...and the employer said that the Php 80,000 will just went to waste if she will be released since she is "JUST" an employee, or to be specific in Filipino term "tindera" (a store seller)...the employer is implying that the money is more valuable than the release of the employee...

but in the end, the employee was discharge because of that "employer's money"...but it was like the last resort, the employer didn't really intended to use her/his money but s/he had no choice...

in realization, it is sad that people who have money becomes inhuman...they would rather spent millions of money for perishable items, like cars, houses, jewelries, than the life of the people around them... :-(

UNNATURAL EXPECTATIONS -- 1 Samuel 2:4-5 NIV

I don't know about you, but I have yet to see God do anything the way I thought He would before He did it. Who would have thought God would chose a barren old woman to be the mother of one of the earliest and greatest prophets? But God chose Hannah. Who would have thought God would pick the youngest son of an obscure Jew, the one no one even thought to bring before Samuel, to be the King? But God chose David. Who would have thought God would send His only son to be the child of a carpenter and his young bride, to be born in a stable, and to die an agonizing death on the cross to save us from our sins? But God sent Jesus. Who would have thought God would choose a loud-mouthed, pushy, spineless fisherman who spent more time with his foot in his mouth than out to be one of His disciples and one of the great leaders of the early church? But God chose Peter. Who would have thought that God would choose a man whose sole mission in life was to destroy Christians and Christianity to not only be an Apostle and to take the gospel to the Gentiles, but to also write nearly half of our New Testament? But God chose Paul.

When you think about it, God is continually going against what is “natural,” what is “logical,” what you and I would do in virtually every circumstance. But no matter how illogical, no matter how unnatural, no matter what you and I think should be done – God's way always turns out to be so much better than our way. So illogical… so supernatural… yet so much better. I don't know how many times I've prayed for God to solve a problem in a specific way, only to have Him solve the problem – in a completely different and marvelous way that I could never have imagined!

Are you in the middle of an insurmountable problem in your life? Does the situation seem to be impossible? Is there no logical answer? Pray honestly and specifically about the problem. Talk to the Lord like you would your earthly father or mother. Pour out your soul to him. And lay the problem in His hands. Ask Him to solve it in His way, no matter what that is. And let your expectations be unnatural.

from: Take a Minute with Bonnie Ricks, Dogwood Ministries, Inc.

It's all about LOoOoOoOoOve...

The day for all lovers is nearly coming. Most of the people will prepare valentine gifts, start wearing red attractive blouses and t-shirts, arrange lovely roses for their girlfriends or wives, reserve dinner in a very romantic, breathe taking city-top view restaurant, and write chocolate-and-candy sweet letters just to express what they feel. Love is really in the air. But I hope after Feb. 14 many will still continue being a loving and caring partner, and not just a fake lover during valentines... Well, here are some of lovely quotes and a very short story to ponder and inspire your love life...

Do you know that men and women are angels created with only one wing? They need to embrace each other to be able to fly.

Give love a chance to be resolved if it was a problem. Give love a chance to heal if it was a wound. Give love a chance to come back if it was lost. Don't just give up.

"I cry for the times you were almost mine; I cry for the memories you left behind; I cry for the pain, the loss, the old, the new; I cry for those times I thought I had you."

Sweet story...

A girl kept slipping letters in her ex-boyfriend's locker everyday. Hiding herself in the codename "Ms. Incomplete" without giving the guy a clue. The girl closely watches as her ex-bf reads each letter everyday. One day, to the girl's surprise as she was about to slip another letter, she read a note on the guy's locker saying

"Ms. Incomplete, I think I'm falling for you...all over again..."

I’M NOT GOOD ENOUGH — Judges 6:15 NIV

"But Lord," Gideon asked, "how can I save Israel ? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family."

If we were to make a list of common reactions to God’s call, this would have to be the most frequently used – “Who me? I’m nobody, Lord. You need to pick someone who is strong… well known… capable… on top of the heap. I can’t do anything like what you’re asking me to do!”

What we all fail to realize is that the Lord always chooses the least likely person – least likely in the eyes of the world, that is. Why? So that He can be glorified! Look at Moses, and Jacob, and Paul, and Peter. Look at the way Jesus came into the world – not as the eldest son in a prominent family, but as the child of a carpenter, born in a stable in an obscure little country town. And look at the nation of Israel . Human logic would say that this small, weak band of nomads would be the least likely to be chosen as God’s people. The Philistines or the Egyptians would have been a much more "logical" choice. But God chooses the least and makes it the greatest. Why? So that the world will realize who is in charge!

"But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things — and the things that are not — to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.." 1 Corinthians 1:27-29