24 Jan 2009

I.T.:
This revolved around the of a 50-year old lady who doesn't want to wear eyeglasses anymore as she thinks it makes her look older. She prayed for that yearning. She came across lasic surgery and thought it was God's answer. So she went to a doctor for an evaluation, who said her eyesight had greatly improved that she doesn't need the lasic surgery and even her eyeglasses!

The lesson? God is so nice that even our "kapritso" (kaartehan??) is granted. He is the God who answers all our needs and even our WANTS! We can't really put a limit to what He can do for us. All we have to do is trust and pray for it.

J.B.:

"Do not fret - it leads only to evil." Ps. 36:8

"This 'Do not' must work during our days of difficulty and understanding, as well as our peaceful days, or it will never work." Oswald Chambers My Utmost for His Highest July 4

I am guilty of this sin because sometime last week I claimed that I was stressed because of lack of stressors. I thought it was my hormones that were responsible for the mood swings. I'm grateful to be one of those ladies who never get bodily pains during PMS but I definitely get the manic mood swings. I was an emotional, complicated wreck.

Women have to deal with these things. For me, it was so indulging to give in to these moods - the smallest thing irritates me and when that happens I like to keep irritated the whole day. But when I feel it creeping in, one way to ward it off is to rebuke it out loud, "Lord, may your Holy Spirit be upon me. Help me to get rid of this feeling."