March 2012
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Bonding with children: Room decorating
A really fun activity you can do with your cousins, siblings or your own children is to decorate their room with them. This provides you an opportunity to hang out with them, get to know them and also have a very important end goal in mind, sleep. It can be quite challenging at times to get your children to bed and to stay there while they fall asleep!! It can be a hair-pulling moment and if you...
February 2012
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Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 3:3
Hello, beautiful knitwear!
It’s been beautiful spring weather lately where I’m currently located, and it’s amazing. However, I have recently been bitten by a crafting bug that includes looking at knits. Being quite a nerd about it, I decided to check out some books from the library and share them with my mother who, quite frankly, is a better knitter than I am. This book I borrowed had an extensive...
Sir, a wanderer’s repose or a sinner’s reformation should never depend on a fellow creature. Men and women die; philosophers falter in wisdom, and Christians in goodness: if any one of you had suffered and erred, let him look higher than his equals for strength to amend and solace to heal. -jane eyre
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The importance of the right prayer
Image: crossfitfaith.org
Matthew 11:28 speaks of coming to the Lord when our burdens seem to be really heavy on our backs and surrendering to Him to find rest. Prayer can be one of our ways of communicating to the Lord during times of joy, hardship or sorrow. He knows what each of us go through and He does understand and love us.
Praying helps us develop a closer relationship with the Lord. It...
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Welcoming Spring with Fingerprint art!
images from crafty-crafted.com and housingaforest.com
One set of my preschool kids (I teach at two centers currently) are really into trees and following the Project approach and reggio emilia philosophy of preschool, we are exploring trees, gardening and birds based on their current interests. I’m excited to maybe plant a tree with them for the project :) and we’ve been...
Discernment: the ability to see through the masks.
Accountability: inviting others to see through us.
Both help us see faith through with integrity
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Costly things that are worth the price
In addition to my current job as a preschool teacher assistant, I am also interning at a preK classroom 3 cities away from my current city. For valentines day, we organized a field trip to the downtown shops to hand out valentines to the people in thanks to their financial support to children’s education. A week before, the children made purple valentine cards to give away and yesterday,...
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Oh, knitting. When shalt I find time for thee?
I miss my books/art/music lifestyle, maybe just a little bit. But I would not exchange all of 2012 for anything.
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Now this is a kind of crafty we can do...
It is truly amazing how creative people can get. Give pieces of colored paper, pipe cleaners and glitter to a group of people and they will come up with several different kinds of artwork. It shows how unique individuals can get.
Feeling as if you’re not a crafty type of person?
Tip #1: Explore patterns and colors outside of your comfort zone?
If you’re the white paper and black...
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There must be more than this provincial life
I grew up in a rural town in a province northwest of Manila. When I was younger, we had a poultry and piggery business, and some cows as well. Imagine the smell that wakes you up every morning, and it’s not as aromatic as coffee is. As a child growing up though, I loved every minute of it. I chased piglets around, took care of chicks, played in the mud and had old sacks of rice or used...
Card-making Sunday!
Today, I made some cards with the Young Adult ministry of the church I currently attend. I really missed the ladies of this church, they are truly an awesome bunch of girls!
It just truly feels like a big church family! It’s truly great! We ended up making some cards for some of the people from the church who don’t get to go as often or at all. It’s amazing to have met people...
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Learning to tie those shoes
One of my students is learning to tie her shoelaces. She has always been fascinated by laces and have lately gotten used to taking off her shoes during nap. This helps because we get to learn how to put them on after naptime. She wanted to first learn by watching, and then she wanted to try and do it on her own. We both decided to create something for her to sing to while she was learning to tie...
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You simply cannot
You cannot meet Jesus and still want to sin.
You cannot meet Jesus and still want to do things your own way.
You cannot meet Jesus and see that people are just horrible and can never change.
You cannot meet Jesus and still want to just sit idly still.
You cannot meet Jesus without wanting to know Him and make Him known.
You cannot meet Jesus and not hunger for His word in the Bible.
You...
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Book Review: Fierce Beauty
Fierce beauty is a book written by Kim Meeder that encourages women to stand up bravely and be the warriors that God created us to be. The book chides christian women who sit back and enjoy being entitled princesses when we were meant to live for so much more! Meeder uses elegantly crafted prose that borders on the poetic, includes short and inspiring anecdotes of women of faith and includes bible...
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Book Review: Purity's Big Payoff
Purity’s big payoff: True stories about love that waited is a book compiled and edited by Donna lee Schillinger that contains a collection of stories that discuss a growing concern among teenagers and young adults today. It is a book that contains stories about love that truly waited and kept the marriage bed pure until the couple’s wedding night and on the flip side (literally!)...
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It's been awhile, but I'm reminded what I like...
Talk about true romance, yes I’ve quoting Ramones on that one. :) When I was 14, I picked up the guitar and my mom actually surprised me with a classical guitar. I treasured that thing like no other, despite its scratch marks and it’s several restringing efforts. I actually wish I can play the guitar better, but i just know very little and basic strumming escapes me.
HOWEVER, since...
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Love, truly defined.
Love. It could possibly be the most used word in the English language. As humans, we have perceived it as emotion, choice, preference, and attribute it to something that ‘just happens’. We have limited it to something we feel to certain limited groups of people, particularly people we like or people we ‘feel’ a connection with.
What does the bible say about it?
My...
January 2012
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Goodbye,
This week, a dear old man passed away. He was 81 years old and a jolly fellow! He was always happy and always prepared with a joke whenever I would greet him at church. I have enjoyed lunch dates with him and his wife (when I would run into them while doing errands, they are sweet enough to invite me). I have blushed at his giving away of any of his grandkids to me and my cousin for...
I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined to me and heard my cry. He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and he set my feet upon a rock, making my footsteps firm. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God; many will see and fear and will trust in the Lord (psalm 40:1-3)
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The Week in Review:
Due to busyness of schedule, I have not been able to type up my blog entries. I queue blog entries most of the time so that they can be properly edited and read before they are published. However, due to many contributing reasons, I was not able to type up entries in awhile. I have a phone that I can use to update my blog, but I find more comfort in using a keyboard to type...
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And our heart song sings
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What is your heart song? Is worship to Christ only what we sing in church or what is being played in Christian radio?
I think Christ-centered worship can be expressed through song, dance, joyful noises and thanksgiving! Worship is also something that is not limited to church or to singing, but is something that is integrated in every aspect of our lives. It is a lifestyle.
It is...
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Little Surprises
Today was my birthday, I am another year older and apparently, am too old because I have two numbers in my age (Thank you to one of my students for reminding me of that last semester). It was my first day at work today and I was up at 6am (and it will be a five day work week for me this semester. Two jobs and full time school plus people. *makes O.o face but I’m up for the challenge).
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Human Myths: The Self-Made Man
Why, hello Mr. Scrooge Mcduck (source: Wikipedia)
Our society and generation is very much attracted to mythologies. It is a way of humans to express ideas of the world around us. It also presents varying world views. An example of this is the Myth of the Self-Made Man who was introduced by a man named Frederick Douglass (a key person in American History) and this construct is very much rooted...
In false love your aim is to use the other person to fulfill your happiness. Your love is conditional: You give it only as long as the person is affirming you and meeting your needs. And it’s nonvulnerable: You hold back so that you can cut your losses if necessary.
But in true love, your aim is to spend yourself and use yourself for the happiness of the other, because your greatest joy is that...
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Book Review: Unveiling the Kings of Israel
When I was younger, I loved reading through the Old Testament because I found it very rich in archaeological history. Imagine the surprise I receive upon receiving an opportunity to review “Unveiling the Kings of Israel” took me on a very happy trip to the times of the Bible side by side with Scriptural accounts and archaeological evidence. It features twenty chapters that are rich in text and...
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Book Review: How do we Know that the Bible is true
How do we know the Bible is true? Volume 1 is a book that is compiled and edited by Ken Ham and Bodie Hodge that seeks to equip seeking Christians to answer questions that address the legitimacy of the Word of God. It is becoming quite common for different fields of study that try to find evidence that can disprove events and people stated in the Bible in a way to question the character of God...
My students cook me pretend food because ‘they love me’. :)
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First followers and spirit-led servanthood: a book...
Leonard Sweet’s book titled, “I am a follower: the way, truth, and life of following Jesus” stems from Christ’s call to his disciples to ‘follow me’. This call was meant to change the lives of each of the individuals called in such a way that becomes infectious. He explores the degradation of the call by the leadership myths, the separation of leaders and their flock and the so...
“Serving God doesn’t mean we’ll no longer have difficulties. We’re still on the...”
– Joyce Meyer
Signed up for that battlefield!:-)
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How deep is depth?
One of the words that I always encounter as of late is Depth, which is defined by a downward movement or something that is sourced from the inside out.
“Sourced from the inside out”, now that sounds interesting. It does make you wonder if it is something we can work for, or something we can only pray for and ultimately receive? I tried to think of certain qualities that can show and...
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Herb de Provence Chicken
Image from TastyKitchen. Mine looked similar to it, but I did not use spring onions
Herb de provence is a mixture of spices that may have come from Provence in France. The usual spices include savory flowers, fennel seeds, basil, thyme and lavender flowers. It smells really great! :)
Boneless chicken breasts
dried onions
Herb de Provence
butter (3 tbsp)
Honey
Pepper. salt
1 cup of...