My excesss fifteen lbs. just lurv (Thank you, Jane Go for the word!) me to death! But Yay! I’m on my third week of attending the dancercise which I abandoned for almost three years. Yesterday, Lilia, one of the attendees who has been absent for almost a year came, too! She said she was encouraged…
Category: Learning God’s Principles in Daily Living
How To Shake Off Anxiety and Negativity
My stepdad (who was very good to me) passed away just after I left California more than three weeks ago. His celebration-of -life memorial was yesterday. It was way too soon for me to get another ticket to fly back. My comfort was the possibility of doing FB livestream (which, like a status update actually…
“There Are Treasures In Life That Can Only Be Found In The Dark”: Fe Abellera Gochuico
I was supposed to be in Makati until evening. She was supposed to have early lunch somewhere else. It was her birthday and her former student’s mom, Mayette, our occasional guest wanted to take Teacher Fe out. A jumble of uninformed venue change for my seminar, lack of gas, and traffic delay caused us to…
Lillian Wong: Facing Grief
After our dancercise, I thanked Dr. Lillian Tabrani for sharing about Joe Holcombe and asked her if she could share about grief. Here, with her blessing, I share her answer with you: Besides being my parent, my mom is also my closest friend so when she passed away, it was like losing two persons at the same…
We Know the Ending and It’s Good
How do you overcome grief over losing a loved one? I was mourning on the phone with my mom yesterday over recently losing my stepdad, (her late husband) Bob, to cancer. I remembered his many kindnesses to me and how he made a difference in my life. Times like this, I wonder if the pain…
Healthy Option at Dean and Deluca, Rockwell with Edith
My friend and teacher, Edith, and I met up for lunch. We had healthy Quinoa Salad with Smoked Salmon and Mango. The saltiness of the firm smoked salmon met the pungent aromatic red onions that dominated the quinoa and other vegetables. The light vinaigrette dressing with bursts of red beet puree and the sweet mangoes…
8 Ways To Be Salt and Light -Ptr. John Koe
Former Singaporean businessman turned pastor, John Koe, author of The Good God, on his visit to Manila, answered, How do you apply being “salt and light”? Salt and Light for a Christian is living the Kingdom Life in your most natural way in whatever arena that you are in. And what is the “kingdom life”? That’s…
9 Hours in Osaka
Arashiyama! Immediately, it was on top of my wish list as soon as I found out I was going to tag along in Osaka. Yay! 🙂 I had missed it on prior trips so I got excited to do something new. But as this particular trip unfolded, the beloved expressed more than three times that…
How to Be A Happy Travel Companion
Many years ago, I bought this book called 1,000 Places to See Before You Die A Traveler’s Life List. I planned to cherry pick places to put on my bucket list as “worth seeing” so that I could say that I’ve lived. Given a choice, because of my excitement to learn, I prefer to travel to…
Great Fosters Afternoon Tea
Sometimes when I have recurring prayer requests on matters that haven’t been answered, the counsel I receive is to leave the things that I can not control in God’s hands; wait for His perfect timing, perfect way, perfect will. Certain difficulties need to happen for the benefit of what God is trying to do in…
BUTTERFLY IN THE SPRING 