Sweet Escaped : Corinthians

"No eye has seen, no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived what God has prepared for
those who love him"

the spirit searches all things even the deep things of God.

~ 1 corinthians 2:9-10~

The best shortcut one person can ever take is to do what God says in His timings. We all need and must understand that we are long- distance runners. We are marathoners. we are not in a sprint, and we do not need to look for shortcuts that open the door to compromise. and also we need to understand that there is a price for taking shortcuts.

There is no shortcut to success. One path of the hidden truths of life is the path to the prize is always more valuable than the price itself. shortcuts rob us of those valuable lessons that we need to learn along the way.

Be persistent and stick to the path on which the Lord has placed you.

Sweet Escaped

"Truth is never dependent upon consensus of opinion"

One way to stand head-and-shoulder above the crowd is to choose to do regular, ordinary things in an extraordinary and supernatural way with great enthusiam.

Never choose to quit just because somebody disagree with you. and always remember that someone else's failure in a certain area does not guarantee your failure.

Sweet Escaped

~choose carefully which you want to stay, because like the sand, only those in the center of your palm will last...~

... way back last december i had a talk with a friend, I was surprised when we are in the middle of our conversation and she just suddenly said

" you know flor i admire you. because you make decisions without regretting
the choices you made. you never waste your time looking back...".

yeah, maybe i am what she said. but honestly, i am not that strong in facing all the consequences of every decision i made. in short, every single decision broke me. But that brokeness i experienced build me to what i am now. ( i'm not saying that i have something to boast now lol no! i have nothing to boast, 'cause everyting that i have with me is a product of grace) but it's about me as a person who is not strong but in my weakness God gaves me strenght to sustain me, for me to keep on pressing and moving. I believe that each and everyone is not a finish product of who they are. our flaws and mistakes are part of the process in the building of our character and what we'd been through in the build up of our personality.

~ for that one year of being away from home hmmm.... i missed this smell of the wind near the sea (grin) ~

sweet escaped

Overcomer

understand that your value is not based on how somebody else has treated you or how perfect of life you have lived. or even how successful you are. your value is based solely on the fact that you are a child of the most high God.

You can't have have victories without difficult battles. you'll nevr have a great testimony without going through few test.

always remember that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows God has something in store for you!

sweet escaped

IF we are not careful, we will allwo the past to hold us.

The more we look backward, the less we are able to look
forward.

The past is not the only determining factor of what God can do for us today. It is never God who hold us back by allowing the past to keep us from living to the fullest in the present and future. Failure is waiting around the corner for those who live off of yesterday's success and failures.

We should choose to be forward-focused, not past-possessed.

The past is past; it has no life.

Sweet Escaped : Sweetheart

I always find it fascinating how two different people able to blend so well inspite of all the differences. Just like relationship between man and woman, I always hear oldies even preacher and great speaker says that woman see things in a horizontal way while man they look at things on a parallel manner (laugh). But when love hit the two its really bulls eye! they just blend so well.

Its fascinating also how relationship works. Just like yours! Your strength become his and vice versa. Its like he or she just simply completes you. Its not about how close you are in distance and all the blah blah its about how close and connected you are in emotion, in everything and that is inseparable.

In chemistry we use filter paper to filter some components or object of the chemicals that can be distractive during the process of chemical reaction what Im trying to point out here is that the same also in relationship that is separated by distance its like being filtrated, but in here - destructiveness comes in therefore increase of anxiety level but this picture show of not enough trust isn't it? The logic is don't after with the looks of the person and make it as primary reason of giving yourœ"yes" and let the real reason be secondary.

Your relationship with the person then will not stay long, for relationship will be tested in every area that's why it's important you give time knowing the person for to unveil that beauty of who really he or she is inside, what are his thoughts what are the things he cared about what are his worries. I always hear this

"you have to read the bible for you to know and love God more, cause through
reading his word you'll come to know what he cares about and what's inside His
heart."

Well, this make sense also in relationship between man and woman try to relate it, pause for a lil' while. Isn't it? I remember my mentor shared to me once she said

"I miss him dang and I find it amazing that the more we are separated by distance
the more we get stronger"

this statement from her gave me a realization that "

distance is not a reason for the relationship not to work"

. Oh well! Everybody has their own story to tell and I have mine too (giggles) everyone has their own perception and description of relationship (laugh) I asked my Besy once how does he see relationship (I asked him because I find it important also knowing his thoughts about it.) I should say that it's important to know so that

"two person can blend well".

He said...

"but honey... there are times that you do demand a lot from a relationship
whether a best friend or partner girlfriend /boyfriend­ it should be the
person you rely on in times of trouble that i also what a relationship is for
cause relationships have trust as their foundation the more you trust... the
stronger the relationship and the more open and close it will be. Relationships
are about exposing part of ourself/ personality/­values/­beliefs to
another person the more we trust...the more likely we can be open without
feeling vulnerable"

After hearing him (smile) there are areas in how I perceive relationship has been corrected. Why I say corrected? Because he is a man and there are things that he sees that I don't see that I have to know and acknowledge and that will make sense. Isn't it? It's a matter of a give and take.

F o r G i v E

Okay --- now for a hard step (as if others have been easy). A real step of courage and will. We must forgive those who hurt us. The reason is simple: Bitterness and unforgiveness set their hooks deep in our hearts; they are chains that hold us captive to the wounds and the messages of those wounds. Until you forgive, you remain their prisoner. Paul warns us that forgiveness and bitterness can wreck ou lives and the lives of others. (Eph. 4:13; heb.12:15). We have to let it all go.

forgive as the Lord forgave you. ( Col. 3:13)

Now--- listen carefully. Forgiveness is choice. It is not a feeling--- don't try and feel like forgiving. It is an act of the will. " Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving," wrote Niel Anderson. " You will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made. " We allow God to bring the hurt up from the past, for if forgiveness doesn't visit the emotional core of your life, it will be incomplete," said Anderson. We acknowledge that it hurt, that it mattered, and we choose to extend forgiveness to our fathers, our mothers, those who hurt us. This is not saying, " It didn't really matter"; it is not saying, " I probably deserved part of it anyway." Forgiveness says, "It was wrong. Very wrong. It mattered, hurt me deeply. And i release you. I give you to God."

It might help to remember that those who hurt you were also deeply wounded themselves. They were broken hearts, broken when they were young, and they fell captive to the Enemy. They were in fact pawns in his hands. This doesn't absolve them of the choices they made, the things they did. It just help us to let them go--- to realize that they were shattered souls themselves, used by our true Enemy in his war against femininity.

--- from the book captivating ^^ unveiling the mystery of a woman's souls-----

Losing and Gaining

"Decide carefully for your decision lies your destination. Don't decide when
your in peak of your emotion but come to point out some area to consider."

There is no growth without pain and there is no pain without growth and there is no success if there is no failure and there is no losing if you never gain. well.. losing doesn't always mean a bad result of one person decision. 'cause "losing" sometimes bring you to who really you are and what you really value and what is important to you.

" I let go of some people and the life that i used to have... indeed it hurt
but on the other way around i gain a family..."

but letting go of the other side of you doesn't mean you don't value and love those... hmm... let me put it this way

" to have what you never have is to make and do a decision you've never did
before."

wherein this kind of step you let go of some area but doesn't really mean you completely lose them..

Letting go of something doesn't really mean your compeletely out of it... it sometimes mean that you are not capable of handling both at the same time.

answered prayer

He'd been so faithful in my life since before and 'til now... my God love me so much I can boldly say that. He almost gave everything i desire and prayed for...

What I'm having now was just my dream way back 13 years ago or more hehehe... I pray for this and even cried for this whenever i bend my knees to prayer.. I remember when i was 11 years old a friend asked me "aren't you jealous with others who have complete families?" and then I asked myself... "hmmm... what do they have that i don't have and have to get jealous with?' (lol) so I just answered her with "nope I'm happy for them."

From that day when that question was asked to me I started questioning myself "what does it feel having a mom and a dad" and now, this year, I just have what I'd been dreaming to experience.. (lol) but its really true ... as the saying goes.. "becareful what you've been dreaming for" hehehe why? well.. I struggle at first and it's not really easy.. (laugh) why?.. because, i was used to do things and decision on my own... but even though I grew up like this 'keeping things for myself to do or not'. (hehehe) i never become a bratty girl (yikes grrr..) hehe I don't like the thought of being bratty (hehehe).. well.. when it come of do things in my way I have learned not to look at myself only but to consider others too.. adjusting is not really easy it takes alot of understanding... :) well there were times that I wanna freak out but hehehe I got no choice but to honor my parents authority.. :) but what pissing is that (urggh!!) they still see me a kid! (lol) and i'm already old--- hahaha and i don't know what to do to erase such image of a 'kid' on their mind hahaha well.. I admit that I still have some childlike mannerism but (huhuhu I can't let go of it) hahaha I still love to hug my bear early in morning, make noise, jumping stuff lol (joke!) well half truth or let say... hmmm...