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Today I saw purple flowers in the garden. They were created for beauty - they live simply. Thrived in the midst of chaos and dirt of the metro. Yet they all lived and breathed their purpose. Beauty for everyone to behold and be blessed. 🌸 https://thebeachbumlady.blog https://my.w.tt/15lZX947BZ #thebeachbumlady #wattpad #wordpress #blog #blogger #personalblog #travelblog #single #solotravel #islandgirl #beachbum #journey #celebraterecovery #glorioushope #ministry #ccfmain #ccf #palawan #boracay #beachplease #philippines #book #iphonephotography #photography #travelphoto #love

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Now I learned for my own self when Pastor Peter defined love. To love imperfect people and seek their highest good. When I let go of the boys I have loved before, I called them boys for two of them are half my age. I let go because I know this is the right thing to do. I do not want to steal their youth and their own respective chances to marry the wife of their youth. To have children and family that I may not be able to give to them. It is painful yes, but I don’t want to waste my pain. If I will be broken, I want to be broken before God. I still do not know what the future holds, but I had been dwelling in this pain for too long. It’s about time to break camp and move on, just in the days when the Israelites were in the wilderness of the dessert. God was faithful to guide them with the pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night. I have to move with the clouds. I have to keep going forward. I know I am not alone, God designed my family. My own family and my church family. My work at the office is also my extended family. The thing with family is, it is not perfect, but I am reminded that my first calling, my first ministry is my family. If I were to serve, I have to serve my family first. Be it at home, at work or with other love ones such as friends or perhaps in the future a better half. That for me is the One, The One thing that matters most from the One Who cares for me no matter how impatient, no matter how stubborn and imperfect I am. https://thebeachbumlady.blog https://my.w.tt/15lZX947BZ #thebeachbumlady #wattpad #wordpress #blog #blogger #personalblog #travelblog #single #solotravel #islandgirl #beachbum #journey #celebraterecovery #glorioushope #ministry #ccfmain #ccf #palawan #boracay #beachplease #philippines #book #iphonephotography #photography #travelphoto #love

This is not a setting sun but a rising full moon, the first for the year 2020 if I am not mistaken. As the sun sets at the other side of the building, I was sitting down in marvelous view of the rising full moon in all it’s glory from the east. I was by the pool side when I finished this blog, God indeed have His own extravagant ways to amazed us. Who am I? I am just a dot, a speck in the vast universe, yet God loved and cared for us. Every time I see spectacular creation like this, I am just but in awe that indeed God pursues us, God have His ways to make us His children smile and say in the midst of our busyness and toil - yes Lord you got my attention and in You I have found my joy no one on earth can fill. https://thebeachbumlady.blog https://my.w.tt/15lZX947BZ #thebeachbumlady #wattpad #wordpress #blog #blogger #personalblog #travelblog #single #solotravel #islandgirl #beachbum #journey #celebraterecovery #glorioushope #ministry #ccfmain #ccf #palawan #boracay #beachplease #philippines #book #iphonephotography #photography #travelphoto #love

So what is that one thing I have put fort before God, meaning what is that one thing I have prioritized more than God? The message this Sunday was “The One Thing”. It is the story of Martha and Mary. As I listened to Pastor Peter Senior, as he holds back his tears towards the end of his talk. I my self can’t hold back my tears from the inside. Here I learned that I some how have become Martha, I have become a human doing instead of human being. I have dwelt on what will I do to impress God and Kevin, yes Kevin who never loved me since day one. Yes the Kevin I have put on the pedestal and bowed down unknowingly, unintentionally. How I have pushed and tried harder and harder to win my bosses approvals, just to hear my most coveted validation and affirmation. Martha is doing the right thing, Pastor Peter continued, but one thing is not right - she’s complaining, she’s no longer happy, Martha was no longer happy in serving God, she lost her joy. I have lost my appetite to go to work, I would rather stay at home - in my own world, in my own deep dungeon. Until it became automatic, just when I wake up every morning, I will look for all the likes and comments on facebook. Whether who have seen “my story” or “my day” on social media. To check from time to time who have “hearted” my posts on instagram or do I have a new follower, then if my follower count goes down, my whole day now becomes gloomy. “But Martha was distracted with all her preparations; and she came up to Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do all the serving alone? Then tell her to help me.” But the Lord answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things; but only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.”” ‭‭ Luke‬ ‭10:40-42‬ ‭NASB‬‬ https://thebeachbumlady.blog https://my.w.tt/15lZX947BZ #thebeachbumlady #wattpad #wordpress #blog #blogger #personalblog #travelblog #single #solotravel #islandgirl #beachbum #journey #celebraterecovery #glorioushope #ministry #ccfmain #ccf #palawan #boracay #beachplease #philippines #book #iphonephotography #photography #travelphoto

The following working day Monday, I emailed everyone telling them I will be on leave. But the truth is I will join the church wide prayer and fasting. What a way to start a year! A break up, a heart break... really? but does my heart aches for what breaks the heart of God? Maybe I had been nurturing this pain for too long... I have dwelt with all failed relationships in the past. It’s about time to break free and pursue what matters most - The One and no one else. https://thebeachbumlady.blog https://my.w.tt/15lZX947BZ #thebeachbumlady #wattpad #wordpress #blog #blogger #personalblog #travelblog #single #solotravel #islandgirl #beachbum #journey #celebraterecovery #glorioushope #ministry #ccfmain #ccf #palawan #boracay #beachplease #philippines #book #iphonephotography #photography #travelphoto #love

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Sunsets remind us that endings can be beautiful too…

“Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.””

‭‭John‬ ‭4:13-14‬ ‭NIV‬‬

https://www.bible.com/111/jhn.4.13-14.niv

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