A Gleettering Love of God

Chris Colfer who acted as Kurt Hummel on the new TV serial Glee has made me see the relationship between Abba Father, our God, with His children.

In its episode tonight, when he confessed to his father that he’s a gay, then his father said:

“ I know it since you’re 3. But it doesn’t change my love for you. I still love you for what you are.”

And he cried.

Well, what can I say?

That’s the love of our Father (or even more than what I’ve seen in the movie!). Unconditional. 100% acceptance. For whatever we’ve done in our life, He forgives us. And His forgiveness is uncountable (well, it doesn’t mean that we can take it as a granted though). But, what I’m referring to right now is that: it doesn’t matter how bad your past was. It doesn’t matter how sinful you were before. It doesn’t matter that you’ve done the biggest mistakes in your life in previous time, because His mercy is there for you.

His mercy is there for us. He’s able to forgive us. Over and over again. Even sometimes for the same stupid mistakes that we couldn’t avoid to do. He is willing to accept us, just the way we are.

God’s love, God’s forgiveness is filling my heart at this moment.

Never look down on yourself, because He accepts you for what you are.

The only thing that matter is: too often we can’t accept ourselves. We think that we’re not worthy. We think that we’re not good enough. Oh, yes.. we need to fight for whatever we want in this life. For whatever we have at this moment: our job, our family, our study. But, we can only live our life to the fullest when we can accept ourselves more and more.

God loves you. God loves us. God so loved the world that He gave His only Son. That’s the greatest love of all.

HCMC, 11 February 2010

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* thankful of Glee’s episode tonight. Let’s enjoy the gleeterring love of God in our life

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Make It Happen

It’s not a coincidence that I watched this movie-Make It Happen- in Star Movies channel few days ago. And while watching it, some part of my heart was like shaking (it’s kind of like trembling inside thing), because I’ve always loved the movie or the program about fulfilling one’s dream. And make it happen. I didn’t watch it from the very beginning though, all I saw was just the end scenes. But, I was touched by it. The story is about the dancer who works hard for entering a dance college or dance school, but she didn’t make it. Then, she worked in a club instead and her brother came and asked her to continue the family business. That means she has to forget about her dream and let it go. She did it but then suddenly the brother gave the consent to do the audition. And she did it! She got the spot that’s available in the dance school! Yeay!

Besides this kind of movie, I also like watching ‘American Idol’, especially the part of giving hope. I mean that usually the program is featuring a few persons with incredible backgrounds. Maybe they were abandoned as a child, having the cancer or other strange disease but yet are able to get back on their feet. The power of the dream influenced them so strongly. I admire them. I admire those who made their dream come true and really go for it.

Talking about my dreams…

Hmmm, few years ago, in the interview if they asked me what do I want to be in 5 years time? Since I was working as a foreign institutional dealer in a securities company, all I could see was just becoming a sales or sales trader in another five years time. More than that, I don’t know. Really, I have no idea about it.

Then, after going through all the changes that God allowed me to go through, all I could ask was just becoming a good mother, a good wife, a good daughter, a good friend for my closest ones, a good disciple of God, etc. But one thing that’s on top of my list that I want to share with you all is that: I want to become a writer. I tried and am still trying to make it happen until now.

I started to do blogging since 2006 until today. And along the way, I had the chance to read Bo Sanchez’s inspirational writings. He always encourages us to be very specific about our dreams. To write them down and to read them everyday. And work on them , make them happen, and pray for each one of them everyday.

That makes me feel more focused. Even though I don’t have any book published yet on my solo writing, but I’ve made some progress though. And I’m thankful for that.

When you ask yourself and see in the depth of your heart, you’ll find that you’ve got some dreams that you really want so badly. Each time you think of it, each time you think of them, you know that your passion is there. You know that you’re willing to give your heart and soul 100% for it. You even know that you can cry for it (because you want it so much and that’s where your heart is). And of course, we must work hard to achieve it. Because if we keep on dreaming without doing anything about it, it’s not a wise thing to do. Work hard and pray hard. After doing our best, then let God do the rest.

So, what’s your dream? What’s your deepest dream that you’ve already buried so deeply inside your heart and try to let it go? Well, this is the time to dig it and make it happen! And last but not least, “ I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” (Philippians 4:13)

HCMC, 6 February 2010

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http://moviestudio.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/make_it_happen.jpg

My Word is My Bond

Well, I’m not talking about the famous phrase from James Bond. You know the –My Name is Bond. James Bond’s thing- :)

But, while working as a stock dealer few years ago, I remembered that there’s a phrase that’s famous among us and widely used in our conversation.

Let say our client which is a Hongkong-based client couldn’t get the correct amount (the quantity) of the stock he bought that day, sometimes our company agreed to top up whatever the amount to fill the full quantity of their orders. It wasn’t done in the market yet or in other terms people usually said it’s an off-market transaction, but we agreed on it verbally. That’s when we made a promise. That’s when we called: ‘My word is my bond’. We gave our word that our promise would be kept.

Then I tried to search in the internet about the definition of this phrase and found it through a website:

The complete phrase is "my word is my bond" meaning that just by giving your word, one can be assured that the promise will be kept.

It's a maritime brokers' motto. Since 1801 the motto of the London Stock Exchange (in Latin "dictum meum pactum") where bargains are made with no exchange of documents and no written pledges being given.
"My word is my bond" as brokers say (or "my word, my bond!")

--- Source: Urban Dictionary online

Talking about keeping the promises, recently, I got this experience that I want to share with you all. Someone broke his promise to me. After waiting for about one month, here I am, experiencing the same old thing that I’ve been experiencing before. Maybe I was expecting too much. Or maybe I myself try to keep my promise so much, so if someone just suddenly broke his or her promise I’ll be disappointed because I’m expecting he/ she will do the same thing.

Disappointed? Yes. At that time it was accompanied with upset and a little bit of anger.

But then, I realized that maybe, even though I try to fulfill my promises, there are times I can’t keep them. Within my limitation as a human, I can’t always keep them. Maybe it’s because I’m sick, maybe it’s because I just being lazy to do something then I easily break my promises. Well, people then will say, “ What do you expect from me, I’m only human!”

I can only try my best to fulfill them, but yet I might not able to keep all of them.

Then, as usual, I begin to think about Someone Special. He’s really really special that He’s able to keep His Promises. Not only one, but all of them! He’s the One who can easily says: ‘ My Word is My Bond’ without breaking one of them. But of course, He’s got His own time frame which will be different with whatever we have planned. But, no worries, He has got His own time table. His schedule.

He’s God. He’s never too late and in some cases, He’s never too early. Just right in time. But, He’ll deliver whatever promises that He has for us.

Talking about keeping the promises in this life, well…people might make us disappointed. And we can make others upset as well for not being able to do so. That’s when we need to remember that we’re lucky to have Him. And being thankful for His unbreakable promises.

While trying to keep our word as our bond, He has already given His Words as His Bonds. Praise the Lord!

HCMC, 08 January, 2010

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