May 10th, 2012

Dream Wedding

I never really thought about my dream wedding nor about whom will I marry but one thing is certain: I will marry the person that I want to spend my forever with.

I want it somehow to be like a fairytale, something that is too good to be true, but people made it happen. It doesn’t need to be elegant and elaborate, it just have to be something that I hoped it to be. My bride will be wearing the wedding gown she looks best at, my family will be complete for the first time and all of our relatives and acquaintances will surround us with beautiful smiles and wishes.

I desire my wedding to take place at the church where my late grandparents shared their vows at. It will be a church wedding and not all for religious purposes. It is because I want the best for my wife-to-be.

Fairy tales are stories and are made up, but dream weddings can come true. Waiting and settling for nothing less than the woman that I love and who loves me above and beyond everything else is the key component. Everything else would have made it extravagant, but what made it a dream come true for me is the fact that I married a woman that I loved more than life itself.

Chase love too hard and you’ll miss out on life.

Date A Girl Who Takes Photographs
Date a girl who takes photographs. She is that person who fell in love with her camera because it captures her favorite moments in life and due to the sound of the shutter that is appealing to her ears.
Find that someone who is always in action getting a photograph of the most interesting subject. She captures every moment, one at a time. And whenever she sees someone else’s photograph, she appreciates it, because she understands all of the hardwork being put on a single shot.
Take her out and make her bring her camera. Let her take photos of you and just laugh your heart out. Give her the best subject that she can get out of you, then she’ll start to appreciate you more.
Find that someone who appreciates everything and appreciate they way she imagines everything to be in a photograph. Take her out to lunch or to a romantic dinner and understand her need to photograph what you ordered, for it is her passion.
Change your Facebook photo to one of her photos of you, for she silently hoped for it.
Don’t hesitate to take stolen shots of her or give her camera accessories or camera related stuff for her birthday. She’ll appreciate them more than anything else.
Date a girl who takes photographs, that someone who will make you see the the beauty of things that are deemed to be nothing to most people. Everyday will be an adventure, as she tries to capture every single moment shared between the both of you.

Date A Girl Who Takes Photographs

Date a girl who takes photographs. She is that person who fell in love with her camera because it captures her favorite moments in life and due to the sound of the shutter that is appealing to her ears.

Find that someone who is always in action getting a photograph of the most interesting subject. She captures every moment, one at a time. And whenever she sees someone else’s photograph, she appreciates it, because she understands all of the hardwork being put on a single shot.

Take her out and make her bring her camera. Let her take photos of you and just laugh your heart out. Give her the best subject that she can get out of you, then she’ll start to appreciate you more.

Find that someone who appreciates everything and appreciate they way she imagines everything to be in a photograph. Take her out to lunch or to a romantic dinner and understand her need to photograph what you ordered, for it is her passion.

Change your Facebook photo to one of her photos of you, for she silently hoped for it.

Don’t hesitate to take stolen shots of her or give her camera accessories or camera related stuff for her birthday. She’ll appreciate them more than anything else.

Date a girl who takes photographs, that someone who will make you see the the beauty of things that are deemed to be nothing to most people. Everyday will be an adventure, as she tries to capture every single moment shared between the both of you.

April 6th, 2012
“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” (Luke 23:34)
In my life, I do not doubt that I have sinned, made mistakes, or hurt others.  And though there have been moments when I knew that I was doing wrong—perhaps cutting in front of others at the train station or not going out of my way to help a beggar—most of the time, I didn’t know that I was wrong.  Or perhaps I had grown so used to seeing others commit the same sins that I had conditioned myself into thinking that it was no longer wrong.

Whenever I forget to text my parents that I’d be coming home late, I didn’t intentionally want to worry them.  When I couldn’t control my temper, I thought I was just using my right to self-expression.  When I skipped doing house chores, I just wanted to rest but did not realize at the time that it would cause my mother some hardship.  Sometimes, I still get confused between right and wrong, or just okay and better.
For all my sins, for all my wrongs, I am truly sorry. And I praise and thank Jesus for washing me of them.  When he was nailed to the cross, the first thing he asked from God was forgiveness—not for his own sins, for he had none—but for the sins of those who had wronged Him; for my sins; for our sins.  His first words at the cross remind me that, more than just granting wishes or healing our illnesses, Christ first came down to earth and died for the forgiveness of Man.
The essay above is a personal reflection on the first of Christ’s Seven Last Words and was originally posted on the official Youth for Christ website.
Photo by Momon Ramos taken from Lovecloud.

“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” (Luke 23:34)

In my life, I do not doubt that I have sinned, made mistakes, or hurt others.  And though there have been moments when I knew that I was doing wrong—perhaps cutting in front of others at the train station or not going out of my way to help a beggar—most of the time, I didn’t know that I was wrong.  Or perhaps I had grown so used to seeing others commit the same sins that I had conditioned myself into thinking that it was no longer wrong.

Whenever I forget to text my parents that I’d be coming home late, I didn’t intentionally want to worry them.  When I couldn’t control my temper, I thought I was just using my right to self-expression.  When I skipped doing house chores, I just wanted to rest but did not realize at the time that it would cause my mother some hardship.  Sometimes, I still get confused between right and wrong, or just okay and better.

For all my sins, for all my wrongs, I am truly sorry. And I praise and thank Jesus for washing me of them.  When he was nailed to the cross, the first thing he asked from God was forgiveness—not for his own sins, for he had none—but for the sins of those who had wronged Him; for my sins; for our sins.  His first words at the cross remind me that, more than just granting wishes or healing our illnesses, Christ first came down to earth and died for the forgiveness of Man.

The essay above is a personal reflection on the first of Christ’s Seven Last Words and was originally posted on the official Youth for Christ website.

Photo by Momon Ramos taken from Lovecloud.

God: Let me ask you something.

If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?

One Act of Random Kindness :)

  • God: How do we change the world?
  • Evan Baxter: One single act of random kindness at a time.
  • God: [spoken while writing A-R-K on ground with a stick] One Act, of, Random, Kindness.
April 5th, 2012
Things won’t get better if you keep on believing that they won’t.
When memories come back to you and you get that little smile on your face remembering all of the happy moments that you had with that person. All you do is stop and think. You start to wonder if things will be okay and if things will be back like it used to be. All you do is hope.

When memories come back to you and you get that little smile on your face remembering all of the happy moments that you had with that person. All you do is stop and think. You start to wonder if things will be okay and if things will be back like it used to be. All you do is hope.

I don’t like waiting, but if waiting means having you, I’ll wait until I can call you mine.

I don’t like waiting, but if waiting means having you, I’ll wait until I can call you mine.

I’m willing to take a chance on love, and on you. I’ll risk it all and learn everything that I need to know to keep us together. I won’t give up on you, and on us.

I’m willing to take a chance on love, and on you. I’ll risk it all and learn everything that I need to know to keep us together. I won’t give up on you, and on us.

It is absolutely amazing that you fall in love with the person who you didn’t even notice the first time you met them.

It is absolutely amazing that you fall in love with the person who you didn’t even notice the first time you met them.

There comes a time when you have to stop remembering your mistakes and move on.
A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.

April 3rd, 2012

Dream

To dream anything that you want to dream. That’s the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.