great ordinary happenings

Welcome to the blogworld, great ordinary happenings!

Yehey! Thank You Lord! Surely I’m happy as I have really looked forward to this start. What with so many things that keep me going. Right now even, I have to organize a special class (professionally connected), and it is by sheer will that I can meet my self-imposed deadline. I have to extend my profuse thanks to my beloved daughter, the second cute, Cy (short for Carey) for helping me out with the technicalities of computers/software/sites or things related, as I have to admit I’m so very dependent on them (my children) for such.

Today is the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes, the day I choose to be the “birthday” of my site or blog, as you may call it - to mama Mary then do I dedicate this blog. Today is also the “name day” of our youngest daughter, the cute, Maria Lourdes, or Daisy (Dy for text and i-net) as we fondly call her, who obviously was named after our Mama Mary of February 11.

My Sharing: Last night was a memorable one as it was one of those rare moments of a community being truly Holy-Spirit-filled. For the one delivering the message (the Word of God) was. We had our prayer rally where I was an emcee (one of two).

I admit I have not read the Bible thoroughly, and was so delightfully enlightened with the message of Exodus 13:17-22, that God veers us away from happenings that we cannot tackle yet. The good God that He is! I have always encountered the message that He “never allow(s) you to be tested” beyond your capacity to overcome such test (1Cor. 10:13 “…at the time you are put to the test, He will give you the strength to endure and so provide you with a way out.”), but this one about the Israelites being brought round about the desert for this reason - that they were yet untrained and so weak from slavery , not ready to face the strong and robust armies of the enemies - was new to me. What has been familiar is: the Israelites could have reached the promised land in just a very short time, but that it took them 40 years as they were so rebellious, to the consternation of Moses, that God would get angry with them to the point of even sending them snakes so they would learn their lesson. I understood it then as sort of penalty. But ahhh so then it was sort of preparing and molding them, in both heart and body to enter the “land of milk and honey” promised by the Lord.

The speaker emphasized that God does not just send us trials, He sees to it that what happens to us is only for our good. “God can see the end of your journey from the very beginning,” he said. That’s why sometimes we cannot right away get the answer to a prayer as All-knowing that He is, He foresees right from the start this would harm us in the end or in the future. At times also, He withholds what we pray for as we have yet to be prepared, to be molded - to be struck hard when necessary, like a clay in the potter’s hand - before the desires of our heart are given to us. If we are not yet strong enough we may not withstand the temptations that go with it and this would just bring disaster to us, physically, spiritually, emotionally, ah in all aspects only God knows.

My day:
- attended the 8:00am Mass with Ed (nick of my hubby) and Cy
- had a sharing with hijado Pane about service in the community, that I don’t talk about usually, which touched some experiences kept in the deepest part of my heart – and I’m sure it was a spiritual upliftment for both of us
- to Bago City to attend the burial of the mother of Sis Glo (I’m sorry, Sis Neneng, for what happened.)
- began this blog!!!!

with a prayer: that God be the One to guide me through, and lead me only to where He wants me to - let it be His will and thoughts, not mine. Praise and thank You Lord, to God be the glory!

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