HAPPY 39TH ANNIVERSARY

To our Parents,

As children, we often take for granted the many years that

you have done for us.  For all the love and care that we  have received from you. So much memories of childhood that we maybe already forgotten but you all have counted and treasured them one by one.  It’s all precious to you.  Those sleepless nights, the countless times you have sacrificed for us, our first steps, our first words and even our first achievements are all just  like yesterdays to you.  You all remembered them vividly. And will always put a smile in your face whenever you remembered them one by one,   I have so many things I want to tell you, things that  will speaks of my gratitude  and love for you. But since it is your anniversary , I want to take this chance  to thank you or appreciate you.

Thank you for the big things:

• Thank you for always preparing delicious meal for us,  for always providing our table with blessings and that no matter how simple it is, it’s always delicious and delectable.
• Thank you for putting clothes in our back, it may not be the branded and expensive items but still it   brings out the best in us.
• Thank you for teaching us everything we need to know. For teaching us how to walk, how to read, how to write and even how to drive. But mostly thank you for teaching us the way to Jesus.
• Thank you for demonstrating us the greatest and unconditional   love that comes from God.  Thank you for leading us to worship the One True God.
• Thank you sending us to school. For allowing us to sharpen and widen our knowledge and let us pursue our dreams no matter how difficult and hard it will take.
• Thank you for allowing us to fly and spread our wings, allowing us to see the world in its true and amazing colors.
• Thank you for being our biggest fans that you take our pride in our accomplishment no matter how big or small it is.  And even though we lose in some areas you are still very proud of us.

Dy, thank you for doing all the best you can to provide for our needs, thank you for working hard to support our family but most especially thank you for setting us a good example of what a true servant of God is.  Thank you for making our home a safe refuge.

Ma, thank you for being always there for us, thank you protecting us with your wings. Thank you all the countless things you’ve done for us, for always selflessly giving us your life  in order to gain ours, just like Jesus who gave up His life for us.

Thank you for the small things:

• Thank you for understanding us, our moods, our weaknesses and even our flaws, you never get tired of us.
• Thank you listening to us, even though how repetitively and how nonsense our stories are, you attentively listening to us and encouraged us to speak with our minds.
• Thank you for helping us with our home works when are young, for all those nights you spend just to finish our projects and make it ready for submission.
• Thank you for always praying for us every night,  your prayers are our shield against this chaotic world.

Thank you for  loving us:

• Thank you for laughing and rejoicing with us during our happiest days.
• Thank you for crying with us during our hardest days.
• Thank you for taking care of us even though we are already adults.
• Thank you for loving us unconditionally and selflessly  through all our days though sometime we don’t deserve your love because of our hardheadedness, yet you never failed to love us.

 Thank you for  loving each other:

• Thank you for living a real life love story, showing us that true love and forever does exist.
• Thank you for protecting each other, you shown us the  true meaning of friendship
• Thank you for staying strong amidst all the difficulties, trials and problems   our family went through.
• Thank you for staying with each other and keeping the vows both of you promised 39 years ago.
• Thank you for saying “I’m sorry” because of that we learnt that admitting your mistakes will not make you a less person but will develop humility and humbleness in you.
• Thank you for saying “ I love you”, because love is better when spoken. 

Most  of all….

Thank you for instilling us where we came from and who owns us.  Thank you for always reminding us that the greatest love we can ever have is the love of God to us.  That is the greatest and infinite love we can ever have.  Thank you for giving us a true sense of family.  We might have our own differences sometimes but at the end of the day, we are still together and no one can ever break that. What I became now  is because of you and I will be forever grateful for that. If I will be given a chance to redo my life again and decide for my set of family, I will definitely choose you again.  We are so blessed to have you as our parents.

We love you and Happy 39^th anniversary. May God keep on flaming the love you have for each other.  May He gave you more bountiful, beautiful, memorable years of togetherness and may your love continue to  inspire us to believe that there's forever to those who  put God in their life and in their relationship. 

With all hearts,

Your children (Lyn, Paye & Krisma)  

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

Today, the world is celebrating the International Women’s Day.  So many campaigns and protests are going on fighting for gender equality and rights.  Taking every platform to be heard and to be recognized.   To let the world known that women like men have their own place here on earth too.

With all these things happening now, I was reminded that in the 1^st place when God created the earth and created Adam, He knows something is missing.  Something is not right.  He knows that His creations will be more beautiful and satisfying, so He put Adam asleep.

It was only after Eve’s creation that God expressed satisfaction and said not only that all His creation was good but actually, “it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). 

As a woman, I am deeply humbled to think that while all these things are good and perfect in the sight of the Lord, only when He put a woman in the middle of the paradise, that is the only time He realized that everything was extremely good.

Just like any artist,  before he  will be finally  satisfied with his  art, he has to check  every small  details to see if something is missing or something is not right on his masterpiece.  God as our author and finisher, He made woman to complete the world.  She is the glorious end, the finishing touch of a majestic creation.    Woman is God’s last stroke to finish His masterpiece.

Women are not only precious in the eyes of the Lord but we are important also.  We play a vital and important role in this world we live in.  Our existences complete this world and everything that is within here. 

God created us for a divine purpose.  God created, molded and made us perfect for His glory. He created us not only to be an adornment but our purpose is interconnected with the needs of this world.

  

Salute to every women who dedicates their life to the wellness and welfare of many.   Those women who makes this world still   a better place to live in and willing to go far beyond their calling.  Those women who have touched the lives of others and serves as an inspiration to make a difference.  Those women whose love for others cannot be compared, that despite of their brokenness they are willing to love others unconditionally. You are the living proof that God’s creations were extremely   perfect.

So next time you think that being a woman has no place in this world.  Think it again.  Remember that God did not think so.  You are perfectly and wonderfully made by the greatest Creator of all time.  Your life speaks of God’s greatness. You are His perfect masterpiece. 

Proverbs 31:30 (NIV)

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised