Hey, DREAM!

   The guy Joseph in the bible is so amazing (yet Timothy will always be my type..haha). They call him the dreamer-Joseph the dreamer. You see, God had stored upon this man great dreams to interpret only by him and also had some personal BIG dreams that people would make a second glance at him the moment they heard it.
  
Joseph. That man. The man who is filled with dreams. Looking at his life we can see how powerful a dream would be. If we had a dream--his life speaks to us that we have to live it. 


Reaching our dreams will never be a magic, but it will always be a process. Joseph's dream came from the Lord. It's a huge difference to have your very own dream and to follow God's dream. Our dreams can be selfish, but His dreams comes with a purpose. Definitely, choose His'.


Joseph was an example of a man who believes that what God put inside one's heart will really come to pass. He just don't believe in his dream but it shows his will to believe in God. What amazes me most about Joseph was that he never gave up. Right after that big dream he had, things never go on his way. His brother never believed in him, planned him to be killed and sold him as a slave and then got into prison. Joseph could have been a man in disbelief as he face those situations right from the start. He could have stop believing on that dream because of the situation his facing. Yet, he continued to dream. The odds was not on him, yet...he believed. That is Joseph. This man had showed us that dreams will happen at just the right time, just wait, work and BELIEVE!


If you have a dream, it will make you focus. It will direct you. No matter what things thrown at you, you will continue to stand up because of the dream that you have. Dreams gives us a determination to move. It gives us vision that we need to pursue. If we don't have any dreams in our lives, we could be living looking alive yet asleep. We just walk around the earth getting to nowhere. No direction. No living. Our dreams gives us hope. At times that we thought we can never make it- dreams remind us of having hope, of taking a stand, reminding us that somewhere in time, yes, it will happen. 


God will never give us a dream that we can't be able to make. He will make it happen as long as we are into it. Sometimes, He gives us this big dreams but it's just us who cant believe we could be able to make it. Why? Because we never believed what's within us. We can't tell people about it because we are afraid that they will see it as a joke, they might ridicule us, and even insult us. That's why we can't be able to dream big dreams for we are so afraid that nobody will believe us. Look at Joseph, his brothers never believed his dreams yet he was so determined that it is a dream from God. He moves. He pursued. 


What is your dream? That thing that you were so afraid to tell to other people because they might laugh at you? Yes, my friend. That's the one i'm talking about. It will never happen if you are not determined to do it. How can I know it's from the Lord? you might ask. Talk to Him daily. The more you know Him, the more you will know your life. 


God put a dream inside you. Go near Him. Ask Him what it is. When you know it? Don't be afraid of being a laughingstock. One day, when that dream came to pass. They will respect you and honor the God of your dreams. Be like Joseph. Be a DREAMER!

Royal. Highness.

His highness. I always am fond of royalty. I love watching dresses and suits that fits being in a palace. I even dreamed becoming a princess (thanks to disney movies...), oh, I can only imagine being there lying on my room, having a walk-in closet full of luxurious dresses and expensive jewelries, foods being served, and going for a ride with a carriage driven by uniformed men with those prim horses. Oh...it's a dream. Oh, how beautiful it would be, you know, being a princess. Royal Highness.

Yet...that's just the half of it. Aside from their luxurious life, princesses have their duties as well, They'll not be forever a princess--they are going to be Queens and not to mention being in the big kingdoms they are about to rule. I realized that being a princess is not just living a happy-go-lucky (or happy because you are lucky) life,  but it's about a life of watchfulness, a life of work and a life of waiting, a life that leads to be a queen. Movies taught us that princesses are to be saved (oh, that knight of shining armor) and queens are those who rule. Princesses are weak and queens are prowess. Yet, before they were queens, they were princesses then, right? I tend to focus on the half without seeing the painful shaping of their lives those princesses had gone through in becoming queens.


Then I realized that many can become princesses but only few became queens. Why? Because only few are willing to stand up and build their lives in shaping their kingdoms. Few who are not after the luxury but more on the duty of being the kingdom ruler. Many wanted to marry the king, but only few princesses work themselves out to be fitted for the king, that is to be a queen. Sometimes, we just want to be princesses but never even wanting to be a queen. We are afraid of being the person in charge, we just want to be a celebrity. 


When this came to my senses, I decided not to be a princess but to be a queen. I want to make a difference. I want to be a princess who had a vision of becoming a queen. I want to do the biggest duty in the kingdom. I want to have that cause. To be a partner with my King, His Royal Highness. I want to be part of that few who are willing to pay the price. Out of the abundance of luxury my King gave to me, I will prefer to focus on what is that I can give to Him. I know He will give me presents even if I stay as princess or go to the call of duty of being a queen, I know that. You see, He is a present giver. But I know that striving in becoming a queen will be a delight in His eyes. I want that. I want to be like that.


What to do? Lots of stuffs of course. But the thing that would make me surely be on track is trusting my King to lead me there. Obeying His will and keeping His commands. It will never be an easy road but it's a fulfilling way.


If you want to be in royalty lane. Pause or maybe stop. Think. The King doesn't just want you to be His princess. He wants you to be His queen. Royal Highness.:)

Chen, Nag-unsa man jud diay ka?

I’m glad I did it.
Well. It’s quite a while since I updated this blog. It’s quite obvious that I don’t have much time and moment to really write something here. I don’t have time to be online yet thanks to facebook zero, I can checked my fb every day. Just for the sake of checking it.


Uhmmm? How am I? Bitaw chen, kumusta na man tawn ka?haha. A lot of changes. A lot. Aside from me, getting a bangs (wala na ron…taas na), planning to cut my hair shorter (nakiglalis sa haicutter[mao jud ba tawag ana o pauso ko lang?] yet in the end, she won. So my hair is “almost” the same. But I’m still planning to get it cut. Blah blah. Blah.Enough with the hair talking. Let’s get this real.


After I graduated, when people asked me what I’m doing right now? I can’t help it but smile. Sometimes I answered them. Sometimes I just smiled. Others answered them for me, telling them in my behalf that I don’t have a job “for now”. And that others’ answer is wrong. ;) Makacurious?


Aha. Yes. I did it. I’m glad I did. As what I posted before, I had counted the days before I can be able to do what He (and I) wanted to do, and it has been 7 months since I made the decision to do it. Seven months. That’s a very looong way to do a blog talkin about it. Well. What happened? You might ask.


My previous blog entries talked about me being nervous, excited, and hopeful about what will happen next after I graduated. Yet having this relationship with the Creator of my life made me stop and really ponder wisely. Months before I graduated, I really prayed to God for the next journey I’ll be walking. I had quite big plans for those months like having a job in HR or taking master’s or proceeding to med. Even if I had those big plans in mind, I still have this urge to really pray to God what to do next. He is the best decision maker after all. I know that I can’t have peace with the decisions that I will make without His approval or final say.


Those moments of prayer led me to have this decision: to be a full time worker in the ministry. Even before, I can really sense that one day, I’ll become a pastor. But I never see it being a full time worker right after college! That time, when God impressed that to me, I told Him, “dili pwedi muwork sa, 5 years from now?”. Yet, as the book of Proverbs 19:21 says: many are the plans in the man's heart, but it's the Lord's purpose that prevails.


So yes, I obeyed the Lord. Others find my decision in question, sayang daw...tsk tsk...they can't understand me...but I understand why they can't understand. But despite the pressure, I chose to do it. Right now, if  you asked me why I did it? I will never doubt answering you this: I just love the Lord, I obeyed Him because I love Him. :)


7 months. I don't know what's more to come. But I know God will use me to do something for my generation. I planned lots of things, yet in the end, It will always be His plans!


Yes. I did it. I'm glad I obeyed.