Love Books

Yes I do love books, I just mentioned in one of my recent posts that I am currently enjoying “god’s Smuggler” by Brother Andrew. This cost at least $10.07 when you buy it in Amazon books online shop. I want another one that was also recommended by a good frien. “Safely Home” is also about a persecuted church and I am sure that would be nice too.

If I have lots of extra money I’ll be spending lot for books. I hope I can pass on this love for reading to my kids (if ever we will have one) someday.

I remember I am still also reading a novel of Nicholas Sparks and yes I finally will have time to finish it this weekend.

Web Directories

Has anyone here tried submitting their blog or website in some kind of web directories How was it? What are the benefits? Did your daily clicks increased? Did your page views went up? What are those web directories?

You see, I am trying to make my PR and Alexa rank higher with this blog and I am just curious if that would be of help.

I find it hard though because there’s not much for a blog like this. I don’t want to categorized this blog in religion because this is not about it. It’s about what me and my husband are doing, our ministry.

Well, I guess I just have to keep writing and working hard.

Thankful Thursday

This week I am so thankful the Lord has given me enough rest, last Friday we went to Cebu (South part of the Philippines) and celebrated hubby's birthday there, it was his first time there so he's pretty much excited. We stayed there for 3 days and though the hotel we stayed in was not as grand as those of Myrtle beach hotel, we are still thankful we have been given time and money for this vacation. Here are some of our pictures;

At the Taoist temple

In front of Magellan's shrine

we also enjoyed the food especially the lechon (roasted pork) and the "puso" rice cooked in a different way.that's the rice

I'll upload more pictures soon :)
For more thankful souls please visit Laurie of Women Taking A stand and be blessed!

God's Smuggler

I am currently enjoying this book. I think every missionary should read this one. It's speaking right through my heart. I am actually ashamed on how I am taking for granted the freedom of having the bible, the freedom of worshiping the Lord out loud without worrying of being caught.

Brother Andrew's story of how passionate he was in bringing bibles to churches who needs them most, churches in the closed countries sparked something in me. And God is clearly with him on his journeys, making the seeing eyes blind for his boxes of bibles and providing for his every need. One particular need God met right on time was a cake they needed for tea time. God is so amazing! He provides our every need,whatever you ask if you need it he will give it to you, even cattle supplies and a bed in my case.

Hubby is not into reading but I am encouraging him to read this book. We will need this when it's our time to go in our own mission field.

Running for a cause

I was astounded when I actually read that over 93% of fat burners don’t work. I wonder if the one I used to take years ago was one of those 93%. No question why doctors don’t really prescribe them especially Obstetricians. Of course, the best way to lose weight and burn belly fat would still be exercise and proper diet.

I have taken so many diet pills before and the end result is always me gaining moré weight. It’s like you will lose some and then when you stopped taking the pills you will gain even more. I don’t know I might have chosen the wrong ones so please my dear readers if you want to take some fat burners or diet pills make sure it’s real, natural and that it works.

Anyhow, I have good news though, my friend and I are running for a cause next week. We are joining an event that will raise some funds for cancer patient and will also raise some awareness for cancer. And I am hoping that would be the start of me getting into regular running or walking again.

Cebu Buildings

We're back from Cebu, renewed and rested. I'll be posting some our pictures soon but let me give you a glimpse of what Cebu looks like. The Cebu sans the tourist spots.

Here are random pictures of Cebu buildings, some of it were taken as we are cruising inside a cab, and most of the pictures were taken by my dearest husband. There is a beautiful one which looks like some kind of steel buildings at the reclamation area which unfortunately we forgot to take picture. It is I believe the Cebu International Convention Center, for Cebuanos reading my blog please correct me if I’m wrong.

The Marco Polo Hotel

Cebu Provincial Capitol building

Robinsons

Cebu City Hall

Golden Peak Hotel

Thankful Thursday

Undeserved Kindness
Unmerited Favor

Father, I know I don’t deserve such kindness but you have shown me more than enough, you loved me and you continue to shower me with your love even when I am not worthy. Thank you Lord for your unconditional love. Everyday, I feel your warmth embrace through the people around me, my friends, family and especially from my husband. I can’t thank you enough Lord for your faithfulness, for providing for our every need, for just being there all the time.

I love you.

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For more thankful souls, head on to Laurie's blog.

YOu are so BLESSED!

If you woke up this morning
with more health than illness,
you are more blessed than the
million who won't survive the week.

If you have never experienced
the danger of battle,
the loneliness of imprisonment,
the agony of torture or
the pangs of starvation,
you are ahead of 20 million people
around the world.

If you attend a church meeting
without fear of harassment,
arrest, torture, or death,
you are more blessed than almost
three billion people in the world.

If you have food in your refrigerator,
clothes on your back, a roof over
your head and a place to sleep,
you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank,
in your wallet, and spare change
in a dish someplace, you are among
the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If your parents are still married and alive,
you are very rare,
especially in the United States.

If you hold up your head with a smile
on your face and are truly thankful,
you are blessed because the majority can,
but most do not.

If you can hold someone's hand, hug them
or even touch them on the shoulder,
you are blessed because you can
offer God's healing touch.

If you can read this message,
you are more blessed than over
two billion people in the world
that cannot read anything at all.

You are so blessed in ways
you may never even know.

Thoughts On blogging

I’ve been blogging since 2005. I started with our wedding blog, there I wrote all my thoughts about the wedding preparations and recorded every happening about the wedding.

And then I made a personal blog- It is here where I started to write more on personal stuff about me. Here is where I share my deepest feeling as an individual and I know one or two of my posts have hurt few people and that made me draw back for a while and just blog for nothing in a while, I hope I’ll be able to write what I want to write there again soon.

And for my last one- This ministry blog where I update the world (not that the world care) about me and my husband’s ministry.

Through all those blogging years, I have learned a lot about ranking, links, seo tools, web hosting and such. I know I still have to learn a lot about maintaining a site, getting more visitors and getting a higher google ranking. But I don’t mind learning it slowly.

Blogging opened a new world to me. It also opened a lot of earning opportunities and for that I will be forever grateful. I have met new friends and they open up their world to me.

I hope to continue to blog as long as the blog world continues to open its door to me.

CLEANSING DAY - BULACAN

More than 100 kids were served, treated from hair lice, got new hair cut, had their dental check-up, vital signs checked, given a health kit gift and most of all PRAYED FOR.


We would like to thank everyone who helped and prayed with us. God bless you a thousand fold in return!

The Team ( after a long day work-still smiling!)