Long Drive, Fun Drive

We embarked on what we tagged to be as our “Great Ilocos Trip” last December 25 to 29. Together with two of my friends we left Manila 11:00pm of the 25th and returned 6:30am of the 29th covering 1,364 kilometers on board a Honda City. We were on the road for 15 hours crossing seven provinces twice consuming approximately two and half tank of gasoline. It was a long, but bearable drive. I’ll share some pictures on my next post.

If you are planning to go on a long trip with your car, make sure to have your engine and tires checked. It will cost you but it will save you the hassle of a possible engine failure. Be sure to have your car documents like ORCR and auto insurance just in case some unlikely incident happens. Lastly, consume things that will keep you stay awake while driving especially when travelling at night.

Wishing You a Blessed Christmas

Tomorrow is the day where most people in the Philippines are jolly. Amidst the difficulties we are experiencing, I am wishing you all a meaningful Christmas. We all know that Christmas is not just all about the material gifts but I know how hard it is to break a culture shaped by long years of commercialism. May we all be blessed by with joy, love, and care that this season brings.

This will be our family’s second Christmas with my sister abroad. We do miss her.

On the 26th I’ll be on a “great” Ilokos tour with two of my friends. My computer’s system memory is now running low as I am converting a lot of videos for an expected 8-hour trip. I do plan of posting pictures either here or in my personal blog - Roniverse.com. If you are following my Plurk timeline, expect timely updates from it as well.

Faithfulness in Prayer

Now there was one, Anna, …a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. (Luke 2:36-37)

Your faithfulness allows God to reveal greater insight to you than to the less faithful. Faithfulness brings opportunities to you that are not given to the unfaithful. God takes pleasure in answering prayers that come from a faithful heart.

Anna had been a widow for many years. In her day, a widow had little status in society and was virtually helpless on her own. Anna spent her time, day and night, in prayer and fasting in the temple. As she prayed, she yearned to see the Messiah. God chose few people to encounter the Savior when He was born, revealing His Son only to those whose hearts were faithful and pure. Anna was one of those few. Jesus would later say to His followers, “Blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear . . . it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the_kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given” (Matt. 13:16, 11).

Anna continued faithfully in prayer until her prayer was answered. The answer to her prayers did not come immediately. In fact, it came near the end of her life. But God honored her faithfulness. God’s redemptive plan to send the Messiah included answering the prayers of a humble widow.

Faithful praying may mean a lifetime of waiting to receive an answer. God is looking for intercessors who are willing to continue to pray and to believe until they see God’s answer.

From Experiencing God
by Henry and Richard Blackaby

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INTROSPECTION: How long are you willing to wait for your prayers to be answered? Have you ever been persistent in prayer? I never had such patience. Prayer and waiting are two thing I am not good at. With this, I know I have missed a lot.

Have a blessed Sunday…

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Yes you have read my title right. My host, Top Hosting Center, is once again offering their Rudolf Plan this Christmas Season.

For a one time and non-recurring fee of $50, you can already have their Linux-based Rudolf Mini hosting plan with 50GB disk space and 50GB transfer. You can host 10 domains with it. If you think that this will not be enough for the internet empire you are planning to build, Rudolf 2.0 offers 150GB of disk space and 1000GB of bandwidth for only $150 one-time payment!

It is too good to be true! But believe me, I availed a Rudolf plan last year and I can say that I’m happy with it. So better follow that shiny red light before Rudolf becomes out of season. For more details check out Top Hosting Center.

Second Opinions

These days, you get to hear more people dying of cancer than heart attacks. A friend’s dad started experiencing stomach aches a few months back and decided to see the doctor. The good doctor found it not that serious and prescribed him with some medicines. However, the pain did not go away and so he decided to ask for a second opinion. The second opinion learned that its an early stage of cancer. After an operation to remove the infected part and a complete session of chemotherapy, my friend’s dad is doing okay but is still in regular checkups.

This incident taught me an important lesson. Always ask for a second opinion especially when things aren’t getting better after seeing a doctor. Do not gamble your life by being complacent. There are other rare cancer occurrences out there like asbestos-caused cancer that might even become more hard for doctors to diagnosed unless they are Mesothelioma lawyer or doctors.

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