365 Challenge Day 66

God's constructing us to be more:)

365 Challenge Day 65

God knows what we need. Be it someone to talk to or a meal to share or whatever

May Painting (2)

20x30"

May painting (1)

20x30"

365 Challenge Day 64

What ran through my head today was the verses in 1 Kings with Elijah.

1 Kings 17:12-16

¹² She said, "I swear, as surely as your God lives, I don't have so much as a biscuit. I have a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a bottle; you found me scratching together just enough firewood to make a last meal for my son and me. After we eat it, we'll die."
 ^13-14 Elijah said to her, "Don't worry about a thing. Go ahead and do what you've said. But first make a small biscuit for me and bring it back here. Then go ahead and make a meal from what's left for you and your son. This is the word of the God of Israel: 'The jar of flour will not run out and the bottle of oil will not become empty before God sends rain on the land and ends this drought.'"
 ^15-16 And she went right off and did it, did just as Elijah asked. And it turned out as he said—daily food for her and her family. The jar of meal didn't run out and the bottle of oil didn't become empty: God's promise fulfilled to the letter, exactly as Elijah had delivered it!

I am hungry for many things. A comfy life with no financial concerns, unexpected hugs, undeserved love, and so many. Yet out of experience, there's always enough to meet my needs. God is faithful to see all of us through

The busyness, sacrifices, and hopes

I’ve been busy with too many things so that I can actually get things rolling correctly. It’s funny, and not, that I have lost track of time and I had to check if it was still Thursday.  Because of all the sacrifices that I’ve made just to make both ends meet, delaying self-gratification and other pursuits, I can say, I’m struggling. I haven’t felt this way since when but I’ve never felt it run this long.

Some days I go hungry, lately I feel like I’ve been lacking so much. Some days I feel lonely. And other days, very lonely.

On a discussion with a close friend on the way home we were analyzing how amazing God’s grace and love has been upon us, even when we had to share a stick of banana q when we had nothing but enough to buy one, without the conviction of turning to God during those days. God has been very good to me even when I did not spend time for Him when I was doing very well back in my old profession.

I admit I do miss the days when I’ve had my hands filled. Money to buy the things I want without blinking an eye, to enjoy dining in different places, those little adventures which I wasn’t too fond of, the gaps of my hand filled with caring hands, sweet nothings whispered and whispered to, and all the other fun stuff. It’s when to have felt, tasted, and experienced, then taken away, is yearned. But all that is nothing. The superficial, regardless of its temporal attributes, are nothing. All that I have had was nothing, because I did not involve God.

It is a great reminder that God is always there through thick and thin. No matter if He was in the center or not. And as a father to child, this season is another season of learning. I can say now that I am, more, closer to Him because I’ve realized that I am truly nothing without Jesus. But Father, I pray that the hunger I have, be it for food, for that apartment and art studio, that car, the gadgets, not just a girlfriend but a wife, a comfortable life, a stronger relationship with You, and all that I can ask or imagine, be filled. And may whatever plans I am working on be aligned to Your will. So with everyone who may have browsed through this post.

The challenge is to lively, like that treat I had myself with some friends:)

God bless

365 Challenge Day 63

Work is work, and with all that we do, put God in the center!

And this is what I've been working on lately hehehe

Revisiting an old Study

I seriously didn't know what to paint today. Artist's block I suppose. I just didn't feel like anything. So I went thru some old studies that go way back 2003 and decided to just paint it. Well, it's not what I wish it to be and I my heart wasn't in my hands,  but well at least I got my hand working on something. I'll probably burn this if I'm not lazy enough to do that hehe.

365 Challenge Day 62

Because I feel like resigning earlier today, I shall. I am tired for some reason I don't know. But all I know is whatever God has planned is on the works, there is assurance of something great, and having the hope and faith that Jesus is there tomorrow is all that matters.

Working on them GSIS entries

And I've been working on my GSIS entry for the past few days. Well, I'm not pretty comfortable with them at first but then I started to enjoy them. I still think I'll make another as a back up. We'll see if I have enough to get the materials and the sort.

365 Challenge Day 61

Today had a lot of reminders about patience. On a Bible study, on a devotional, and on other things. Sometimes I wish I had a manual or a cheat sheet but if I did, I wouldn't be able to build myself. Habits can be acquired, virtue takes practice. Patience is a virtue.

Romans 8:24-25 For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

365 Challenge Day 60

It's all about having the right balance. God desires us to balance our lives with the right things in life. Well, we don't have to balance bottles on top of our heads hehe

365 Challenge Day 59

No matter how calculative I may be, the unexpected can happen.