Apple and I got engaged last February 9. Just to explain, in Chinese tradition, there is something we call ‘Ting-hun’ which is how we celebrate a betrothal between a man and woman. It is a grand ceremony involving a reception, jewelries, exchanging of food, goods, and other respects between families. This is my story behind all that God has done leading up to our engagement ceremony.
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2012 is almost at and end, and we’re all probably thinking about how time flies. Another year is coming to a close, and the new year is just a few days ahead. Looking back, I want to give God glory on the things that He has blessed me with (and He has blessed me with so much!)
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There are TONS of pictures out there that talk about God, inspiration, Christianity, life, love, etc…
Just thought I should always keep a record of these in my blog.
It’s valentines day tomorrow! Thinking beyond the cliche of boyfriend/girlfriend dating, I remembered God and wrote out my valentines day letter to Him in my journal. I just want to share it here in the blog.
Today I just want to celebrate with God of all the things, people and talents He has blessed me with. Lord thank you for:
My fiance – A wonderful, wonderful woman who loves You and knows You and fears You. Thank You that she is everything I’ve always dreamed of and more. Thank You that she is very thoughtful and sweet and very wise and knowledgeable. She is imperfectly perfect for me. Thank you Lord for her.
My family – a wonderful family that loves and supports me. A wonderful mom who is self sacrificial and oftentimes selfless. She has greatly influenced me and shaped me to become who I am.
Thank you Lord for my dad who has helped me realize life’s values and have taught me insights into Your Word.
Thank you Lord for my brother who has always supported my and looked up to me. Thank you for his selflessness and for his fellowship.
Thank you Lord for my sister who gives me joy and who looks up to me and encourages me at times.
My friends – Thank you Lord that you have brought wonderful friends along my way who have taught me learnings directly and indirectly. Thank you that I have people to laugh and cry with. Who share my tears and pain and problems. Thank You for real friends who were with me when I was down in the mud – and helped me up.
Your mercy and grace and Holy Spirit – Thank you Lord that You give hope to someone so sinful and insignificant as me. Thank You that I can go on and fight and have second chances because of Your great love. Thank You for your Holy Spirit who has guided me and led me through life and through temptation and preachings and writing and giving advice. Indeed You have never left me nor forsaken me.
Our dogs – Thank You Lord for Teddy (our Pom) who has brought so much joy and cuteness in the family. Thank You for Franky who has kept the house guarded and is always happy when we get home.
This blog – Thank You Lord for the blog which You have greatly used to influence a lot of people and bless a lot of lives. Most especially mine. I praise You and I thank You for such an honor and privilege to write for your Glory!
My business – Thank you Lord for the impossibility of my business. It has made a lot of things possible in my life. Thank You Lord for blessing me with the perfect set of gifts and talents to reach out to the SEO industry and be known by thought influencers. It is a wonderful privilege to have this skill. May I ALWAYS use it to honor You and to give You glory. Thank you Lord!
My Team (I just wrote this here) – Thank you Lord for the team you have given me to help me with SEO Hacker. Indeed it is a wonderful privilege to work with these men and my woman. Thank you that I have go-to guys who I can depend on. Thank you that I have managers that carry a LOT of load for me. Thank you for all the writers you have blessed me with. I once asked You to bless me with a team – and You did. And Lord what a great team it is! Thank you!
There are a multitude of other things to thank You for Lord. But even just thanking you for these amazes me already. Praise and thanks from deep within my heart be to Your Name and Glory. Thank you Lord!
This Valentines, I encourage you to write out your own letter to God. There are just so many things to thank Him for. Make yourself fall in love with His grace in your life. Remember all He has done for you – so that you can remember how it is to fall in love with Him.
Today I struggle, today I fight
- My eyes, the windows of my soul
- They take in arrows and smokes
- My body bleeds and grows dark
- But I say not today, no
- My hands and strength
- That give me the feel of pleasure
- And sends chills to arouse my body
- But I say not today, no
- My ears that are so quick to hear
- So slow to listen
- Taking in pleasurable knowledge
- But I say not today, no
- My heart still beating and strong
- Pumping my life away
- Deceitful in all its ways and feelings
- But I say not today, no
“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” - C.S. Lewis
It’s been a long year! How time flies! As you all know, I started this blog around August of 2009. It wasn’t in the same domain name then. Now it’s December of 2010 – this blog is more than a year old! By God’s sovereign grace, He has used this blog so much to bless me and a lot of other people.
Praise God for another Christmas with you - my readers!
I praise God for all of you – my readers. You have all been a great encouragement to me. Without you, blogging would just not be the same. Thank you for your very, very kind words and your thankful and humble hearts. May you continue to seek God and gain wisdom. My prayers go out to you.
Writing has always been my passion since I was young. I never thought that God would lead me to become a blogger for His glory. I was even hesitant to buy the domain name h3sean.com and pay for it’s 1 gig hosting fee during the time. I was almost broke and had more or less 2,000 php left for myself.
But by faith, I told myself that 2,000 php is nothing compared to the number of people that I will bless with my writing. So I went ahead and bought h3sean.com – which I then entitled God and You.
Since then, God has blessed me with lots of readers (you guys) and with a business which found its roots with this blog. He has also blessed me with a wonderful woman with whom the first conversation I had was about this blog. It is just so amazing how God has blessed me to overflowing with just that little step of faith I took in blogging for Him and giving Him my last 2,000 php.
This is, by far, the most amazing Christmas I have ever had with God’s blessings in my life. I am just taken away by how God can really bless someone so undeserving as I.
This Christmas, I encourage you to do the same. You can never outgive God – so why not give to Him?
May you be blessed.
Merry Christmas!
Lots of People with happy faces,
Wearing a simple smiling mask.
Strolling around the main street,
Singing, dancing, having a blast.
–
I walk around going my own way,
No mask on my face, not tonight.
The wind is chill on my back,
No breeze slips through the crowd.
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It’s funny when you think of it,
Behind those masks are pursed lips.
They don’t have to smile tonight,
No, not tonight.
–
It’s the Bacolod Mascara festival,
Everyone’s out to have a good time.
As if there is no moon to lull them,
No there’s no moon, not tonight.
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Amidst the crowd I see a face,
She slowly walks and makes her way.
I stop and stare for a while,
I won’t get to know her, not tonight.
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We pass by a float, no make that two,
My mind wonders at the tought of you.
And where you could be at this time,
And yet I say to myself no, not tonight.
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So I move on watching the lights,
They move and shine and give joy.
To this otherwise dark, dreary night,
But darkness ain’t far, no, not tonight.
–
So we buy a beer, make that two,
Waiting for the cheers to expire.
And our smiles fly with them,
The masks just won’t do, no, not tonight.
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So I send you a short mesage,
Asking you how you are.
As the minutes fly, I get concerned,
But I tell myself no, not tonight.
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In all this I know 4 days is too short,
And my time here will pass me by.
I think to take one step at a time,
And I tell my worries no, not tonight.
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Yet 4 Days is too long a time for me,
And as I think about going home.
I just hope to be there to see you,
So I rest my mind and tell myself no, not tonight.
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I live on and write down my story,
Tell it to God and bid Him goodnight.
My thoughts and prayers go out to you,
And so I dream of you tonight, my darling.
Just for tonight.
Happy, happy birthday Ma! It’s been 22 years of fun and laughter, of joy and of tears. 22 Years of sharing our lives together living through God’s grace in our lives. It’s been 22 years for me but I know that you’ve had a much longer episode than that.
So for your birthday I wrote out a little song – it’s not much and I kinda crammed for it. But I made it especially for you nonetheless. For just being my mom, thank you. There will never be another you in my life and so your place in my heart is deeply set. May you live long and well and may I learn to cherish every moment with you as God would have us spend in this life together.
May God bless you with happiness and abundant friends who will encourage you and glorify God with you and lead you more to Him both in spiritual growth and in ministry. May God grant you the desires of your heart – whatever you plan to do. May God bless you and remember you and most importantly, may you always remember Him.
Happy birthday Ma!
You cared for me when I was yet to be,
You held my unformed body in you.
Gave me your love and sung to me,
Taught me abc and peek-a-boo.
You are my mother
And I will always be your son. May I always be a blessing and a joy in your life. I wish you all the best and may you thoroughly enjoy this day – the day when God brought a very special you into the world.
Woke up earlier today for work and got greeted by a really, really encouraging video from a brother in Christ from halfway around the world! He’s an Organic Search Director from NYC. We had the chance to tweet with each other in Twitter using my @SEO_Hacker Twitter account. His name is Dan Cristo and I was so surprised to have received an email from him telling me he made a video for me and my team. I’m just sooo encouraged and surprised!
Thanks for the video Dan! I really, really appreciate it! You’ve just made my morning – and I haven’t even had breakfast yet!
You can follow him on his Twitter account @dancristo or see this video on Dan’s flutters account
I’ll be sure to let my team watch it and holler back to you in Twitter!
I just can’t believe this has happened. A policeman named Rolando Mendoza really believes that he can claim his job back by hostaging foreigners – tourists who are innocent and are supposed to fly back home the next day.
This is such a big tragedy. And what’s more is that it is done by someone who should have justice and the country’s righteousness at heart. The outcome of this incident is really not something that would be celebrated in the next few days.
My sincere condolences to the relatives and loved ones of the people who were murdered. I cannot imagine the extent of their grief over this abhorrently tragic incident. I can’t imagine having one of my loved ones in there. Incidents like these push us to ask God “Why?”
And indeed it’s also a question that has lingered in my mind for quite some time now. Who are those people in that bus? Did they deserve to die? Why did you allow this, God? And right now all I’ll be doing is to pray and try to listen and know God more as to why these things happen in our world.
As the Word of God says – the heart of man is bent on evil. And so we see the consequences of our human nature at work in this incident today between a philippine policeman holding several chinese toursists as hostage in a bus.
My heart and prayer goes out to their loved ones.
Choices are an everyday commodity. Every moment of our lives is made up of choices. Whenever we face a crossroads in life, choices are present. Whenever we have an option, a choice is always there. Choice is the result of free will. And it was given to us.
There will ALWAYS be choices
You and me both know that it is inevitable to go through the day making choices. There has not existed a day without a choice. Not making a choice in itself is, paradoxically already a choice. So the question now is how do we make the best of our choices?
There will always be difficult choices
And the only factor of the difficulty of the choice lies with it’s consequence. The bigger the impact of the consequence is, the harder the choice. And we have faced difficult choices in our lives haven’t we?
“What college should I go to?”
“What course should I take?”
“How will I be able to solve this problem?”
“How will I be able to make her see my point?”
“How will I be able to make my parents understand…?”
There are a series of questions that barrage us as we go through our choice-filled journey called life.
Good choices are not made
You don’t make a choice. You prepare it. You prepare it before you need to make it as you ponder upon the Word of God. Let me give you an example. A young man gets tempted to commit pre-marital sex. His friends already went in the bar and are having a good time. If the young man hasn’t prepared his choice to stand for a principle for himself regarding pre-marital sex, he would most probably go for it. No, not instantly, but he will be dragged and enticed little by little as the night goes along.
Good choices are not made. Good choices are prepared. That’s why we communicate with God everyday – to talk with Him about what choices we need to make and how we need to make them.
Choices make up your life
Not long ago, I wrote about the importance of time and how your life is made out of it. Time is essential as you make your choices. It is time which will dictate how stern your choice will be. Choices that are prepared are given thought as time goes by. It is reinforced by the principles you stand for. Those principles are choices too – choices that you prepared way back and that have been established through time.
Time and choice are the chords of your life’s story. I hope and pray that when you sing it before God, it’ll turn out to be a great and beautiful song. You only get to live your life once. May your choices not lead you to regret.
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