My Quiet Place

For Better or For Worse

Do you believe God uses people to help you navigate the challenges of life? I do. How so? A friend once asked: ‘D ka pa ba sanay sa kanya?’ Are you not used to him

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A Face that Shines

Exodus 34:29-35 narrates for us what happened to Moses after he was with God on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights. 1) Moses’ face shone after being with God in long conversation v.

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For Richer or For Poorer

There is no doubt that the gap between the rich and the poor in the world is getting bigger than ever before. It is a sad reality that there is such inequality in the world.

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How To See God’s Face

There once were two friends travelling in a desert. They got into an argument. In the heat of the moment, one slapped the other. The one who was slapped, wrote on the sand: Today, my

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Musings on Waiting & Listening

When you can’t beat them, join them? Yes and no. When a difficult person or circumstance does not change, then I need to stop struggling to change him/her/it. When God does not change the difficulty,

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The Little-by-Little Game Plan

Little by little, one step at a time. He’s changing our hearts and renewing our minds. Teaching us how to be patient and kind, little by little, one step at a time. I learned this

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The Art of Seeing

What are some words associated with seeing? Foresight, hindsight, far-sighted, near-sighted, insight, out of sight, lost sight, blindside, and blind spots. Far-sighted is not being able to see near. (mostly old people go towards this.)Near-sighted

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Travel light

Do you know where you’re going to?Do you like the things that life is showing you?Where are you going to, do you know?Do you get what you’re hoping for?When you look behind you there’s no

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Musings on the Days of our Lives

Born in the year of the rat, my mother-in-law passed away on 8/9/2020 at 96 (in the lunar calendar, that would be 97). She survived a bout of pneumonia (diagnosed on 4/9/2020) in the first

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The Why’s and How’s of God

Question: Why do bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people? For Christians, we often say ‘God allows it. It’s his sovereignty.’ The word ‘allow’ implies his sovereignty. Sovereignty is

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