Remarkable 2018

My most favorite season of the year is finally here! It is definitely that time of the year again when the season of giving and  thanksgiving are felt almost everywhere. Not to mention the parties left and right, Christmas I believe is not just for the young ones but also for the once young but young at heart. Consequently, this is the season to be off from work and that means taking the pleasure of being free from paperworks and simply relishing the comfort of my humble home, savoring my cup of coffee for a few more minutes because I need not hurry for work, and delighting the morning wake up call and breakfast prepared by my hardworking mother. Oh what a joy! Checking status--- ADULTING IN HIATUS until Jan.02, 2019. :)

Now that Christmas is just around the bend, I found my thoughts lately inclined towards the goodness and kindness of God. In some of my alone time the past few days, I can't help but marvel at how good the Lord has been and is to me. My heart just leaps for overwhelming joy now that I feel the need to chronicle what God has done to and through me this year. Jotting down what I am grateful for this year helps me see the faithfulness of God and His being true to His promises, including those times in my life when I thought He was silent and absent. And since 2018 is about to come to a close, I feel that it is right and fitting to recollect God's never-ending faithfulness. Welcoming another year with a grateful heart sets the right kind of attitude and perspective. 

So what am I grateful for for the year 2018? Let me recount them...

First, I am so grateful to God for His sustaining grace and power that got me reach the last stretch of the year still so fully alive and kicking! I had been sick a couple of times the previous months and even almost hospitalized but praise God His healing power never run short for me. I had been exhausted physically with all the demands from work but God is so gracious that still I got to meet my work expectations without really taking their toll on me, at least not that worst. The common adage, health is wealth rung so true to me this year and I am so grateful that I was able to bounce back with more strength and endurance. Apart from myself, I also am most thankful to God for blessing my parents with good health. My parents had visited the hospitals this year but God with His mighty name they all came to pass. It is a great blessing to see my parents now even in the midst of inescapable old age still with so much vigor than before. Praise God!

Second, God helped and sustained me in finishing my master's thesis within the set time frame and thus granting my desire to march April this year. Wohooo! This is actually one of the highlights of my 2018. Finishing my masters, this one remarkable moment of my life is something I will always look back to with so much fondness and gratitude. Every time I think about my journey in the graduate school, I always end up believing that really God is a God of perfect timing and He surely will come through in moments when you felt you can't go on any longer, when the pressure is so high and the stress level insurmountable. I had to pass through the eye of the needle in all sorts just to get that hard-earned degree. And now at long last, after the delays and detours, by God's grace my master's journey in the grad school has ended and I am now a certified, Master's degree holder all for God's greater glory! 

Third, I am grateful to God for some reconciliations in my relationships that happened in His time this year. God is faithful indeed! The past year was emotionally challenging and troubling for me but because of God's sovereignty, as I lifted to God the woes and cries of my heart, God provided avenues for healing and reconciliation and I couldn't be more grateful to that. I went through a couple of struggles with some people the past year and eventfully this year, these people are still with me, still part of my journey though, but are not there to continue to use or abuse me but to be loved by me, to teach me forgiveness and compassion just as God has been so forgiving and compassionate towards me all my life. I thank God that He has given me new eyes to see things in love. I pray that God will continue to remind me that these people are not sent to crush my spirit but rather prune me and develop in me a Christ-like character for His glory!

Fourth, I am grateful for having met my God-ordained spiritual family. My so called "Dgroup" at CCF is an answered prayer. I remembered praying to God on my 31st birthday that He may bless me with a dgroup and indeed God answered it in no time! God knows how eager I am to belong in a family who loves God and has a growing relationship with Him. These people, my dgroup members are not perfect but that is why we come together for we believe that it is only with our genuine relationship with God and our fellowship and accountability with one another that we can extend beyond ourselves and be a blessing in any way. God always makes His unimaginable ways in making His plans come together. I may not get to meet my dgroup now for some of the members in our group have started their own dgroups already, praise God! I will always be thankful to God that He has crossed our paths together and for that I will be forever grateful. God through my dgroup has planted a seed of gratitude in my heart and that wherever life may take us, for as long as our hearts are right with God, we are good and we are still one in spirit and that our intimate walk with God will keep on. To God be the glory!

Fifth, this year God has shown His love to me by sending people my way, the people who are easy to love and the ones who I am still praying for His extra grace for me to be able to extend and show love. The ones who are easy to love are heaven-sent, I must say. They add joy and excitement to my rather ordinary and at times boring life. They are the ones who speak the truth in love to me. They are the brave ones who would rather tell me the hard truths rather than comfort me with lies and deceits. I really am so grateful to God for having met these people because through them, I get to accept much easier that it's okay for me not to have it all together or to make things in perfect harmony all the time, that no matter how much I try, I can still mess things up and some things are beyond my control. These people remind me that it's okay to be human and to make mistakes. They make me humble. Thank you, Jesus for these people, who now I consider as friends. I pray that I can also be the kind of friend that they are to me. By God's grace, I pray that I can nurture this friendship and bring glory to God. The ones who I am pleading God for extra grace, only God knows why, are also heaven-sent. I am most grateful to them because they teach me to trust God all the more. Through them, I cling to God more for understanding and having perspectives from the vantage point of others. These people help me to come to terms with my own selfishness and I learned that if I consider their comforts more than my own, I am relieved and freed from entitlement. Hence, it is a win-win situation. God's ways are unthinkable that even if I found myself breaking, He wills the pain for my own good. Of course, I don't see it that way at first, but by God's grace in time I learned and understood the wisdom of it and that is why I am most grateful. 

And most of all... how can I not thank God for His provisions in my travel adventures? This year, I got to climb mountains which I really really enjoy! I got to climb these mountains in the exact order, starting off with Mt. Paton, then Mt. Capistrano, Mt. Salumayagon, and the Panimahawa Ridge. Not to mention the side trips at Lake Danao, the Nasaad Falls in Claveria and the Dila falls in CEDAR, Impalutao, Bukidnon. Apart from teaching, which is my first love, climbing mountains is also something my heart aches from time to time especially when I am beginning to feel exhausted from work. Being in the wilderness never fails to provide an escape for my weary soul and sets my mind back in perspective. Though the climb could hurt lightly physically, but the benefits it gives me can ease all the pain away. Climbing a mountain is more of a spiritual exercise for me. God displays His strength in my weakness.Thank you Lord for the provision, for the safety, and for bringing me to my happy place where you know I can fully rest and heal. Thank you for planning out my itinerary as you do that makes me know how actively involve you are in my life even though sometimes the enemy would tell and prove me otherwise. Further, I got to visit again Dakak with my coteachers and though my last visit was 5 years ago, nothing much had changed but I must say, I enjoyed the trip more this time. Probably, this must be due to my fearless and crazy companions that I dared the infamous zimerman roller coaster and that made my trip so unforgettable. 

I can speak of more, my heart still has much to say, especially thanking God on things that He has not allowed, prayers that He has answered with a no, but I guess that would require another blog post. So I just have to relish all that my heart wants to thank for to God in my prayer. I pray that as we close year 2018, we will take time to look back, see the faithfulness of God, His wondrous works and miracles in our lives and allow the truth of His love live in our hearts as we brace ourselves for yet another year of God's never-ending goodness and love for us all.

Merry CHRISTmas and a blissful 2019! 

Choose Love

How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?

How long will you hide your face from me?

How long must I take counsel in my soul 

and have sorrow in my heart all the day?

How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;

light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,

lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed over him,"

lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.

But I have trusted in your steadfast love;

my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

I will sing to the Lord,

because he has dealt bountifully with me.

Psalm 13

Sometimes, we get caught up in things we dread no matter how much we try and work not to be in it. We dread rejection. We dread feeling unvalued, unloved. We dread losing people. We dread loneliness. We dread bitterness. So how is that when life knocks you down and despite all your good intentions, still you caught yourself battling things you dread and worst, all at once? The easiest and most default response is to grumble, resent, and harbor bitterness at its finest. It is not easy to feel grateful when all you can see at the moment are your hopes and dreams falling apart. Just when you believe that everything is going right, that everything is happening at the right moment, everything suddenly changes, and while you are still holding it in your hands, the view is getting too blurry already, the grip causes your hands to bleed and you are left with a choice to let it go because reality says, nothing more is right and worth holding on to. Everything shatters and disintegrates right at the palm of your hands. And you grieve. You grieve over the loss. You grieve over the hopes and dreams you have built. You grieve over yourself feeling incompetent. You grieve over not being the right person. You grieve over the possibilities of a good future. You grieve over the good memories. You grieve. And you grieve some more. And you cry.

And then in a heartbeat, you feel God's voice over your situation. You feel His tender voice over your pain through His Word. In His word, And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. Romans 8:28 NLT -you felt God's immeasurable comfort and a steadfast assurance that really nothing happens by chance. Your pain over the loss of something you wanted to treasure forever has a great purpose. But while it is still so difficult to know the reason why for now, you cling to God's love because you know that in Him you are secure. You are secure with the knowledge that you are loved, completely. You long to be loved in that same security from earthly beings. But they just can't and they never will. They fall short. And then you are reminded how foolish it is to expect imperfect people to love you completely, perfectly. Just like you, they also need saving and love that goes beyond understanding. Just like you, they need Jesus. Just like you, they need to be forgiven and loved. Because the ultimate truth is only God can love you and them completely. Really, only God can. And most of all, only God can restore what was broken. Only God can heal your wounds. Only God can satisfy your heart. Only God can. Only if you open your heart to Him willingly, unreservedly.

So what do you do now? What do you do with the pain? Do you take the loss as a failure? Do you feel bitterness in your heart? Will you forgive yourself? or will you keep beating and blaming yourself over the loss?

You acknowledge the pain. Yes, you grieve over the loss, you cry buckets like a lost child in the forest, and it is totally fine. But you don't stay stuck for a long time. You don't grieve for far too long to the point of allowing it to cripple you from becoming the person God wants you to be. Remember, God has a purpose for your pain! You get the lessons and accept your failures. You learn that sometimes things just don't work the way you hope they would. You learn that sometimes, the best way to love a person is to give them space to grow, to allow God to work in their hearts for His glory. You accept the fact that no matter how much you value the relationship and love the person in it, it isn't just enough. You accept that only God love can love them best. You accept that God has amazing plans for them and sometimes, it may mean you not being part of that amazing plan. That hurts and it's okay. Loving is such a humbling experience. Why? Loving makes you humble yourself that really, you cannot hold things in your hand without God and without His approval no matter how much you really wanted it. Loving makes you humble yourself by acknowledging that without Him, you are powerless. Loving makes you humble yourself upon arriving at a conclusion that you need to surrender to God everything. Loving makes you realize that you are not God. Loving makes you realize that you need God, above all else.

So from now on, be an adult, be mature and strong enough to do the right things. Choose to love. How is that? Does that mean, going back? Not necessarily. Choose to forgive. Even when forgiveness is not asked. Do not take resentment and bitterness with you. They will not do any good at all. They will only make you ugly, and of course that's the last thing you want to happen. Enough with the self pity party. That doesn't help either.

What's the best and fastest road to take in healing your broken heart?

Three words. Accept. Forgive. Pray. 

Accept that God loves that person more that you love him and God always has the best interest for him and for you as well even if it means not being together.
Accept that only Jesus, his ultimate Lord and savior can help him best walk through his personal struggles.
Accept that Jesus loves you and His love is all you need.

Forgive yourself. In fact, you deserve a tap in the back for doing your best, for giving your best shot, for holding on, for loving, for taking the risk, for putting your heart out there. You are an amazing person.
Forgive that person. He didn't mean to.

Pray. Pray some more. Pray for healing. Pray for love to reside always in your heart. Keep on praying for that person. Choose to seek the highest good for that person. Pray. Pray unceasingly. Jesus loves you! He really do! No questions, no complications, no what ifs and buts. He just do! Fall madly in love with Him. When all is said and done in this temporal world, Jesus is all you got! He will never leave you nor forsake you! Your battle is already won. The lover of your soul, your better-half, your forever, loves you, eternally, unreservedly, perfectly, completely. 

Don't Quit. Endure

In the earlier stages of my walk with the Lord, I have already heard the story of Job in the bible even long before and to be honest, I never really paid much attention to it because I thought well, it was just one of those bible stories and perhaps it is something that I cannot fully grasp -at least just yet for the time being. But yesterday's sermon brought me to this book again and while I was listening to the pastor, I was totally dumbfounded to realize how utterly beautiful, how relatable the story of Job is. In the beginning of the story, Job was described as "blameless" and "upright" always careful to avoid evil and to top it all that, he is a wealthy man too! Undeniably, he lives an awesome life with his extensive flocks, his family, and with God! God must be really pleased with his life that He blessed him abundantly, lacking in nothing. #LifeGoals right? And then one day, life happens. Satan took all his possessions, like everything including his children. And to make things worse, he got inflicted with a skin disease. He spent 7 days mourning over his plight. He could not understand. And then in his misery, he began to question God's goodness and justice. How could such a good and fair God allow him to walk through such pain and agony when in fact, he lived a righteous life, a life pleasing and honoring to the Lord? But how come? As he was conversing with three of his friends while battling physical agony and spiritual tribulation, he lamented over his misery. His friends were trying to help him make sense of his situation and at the same time evaluating God's nature and His relationship with His people. His friends were saying that perhaps, he must have done something evil to deserve such "loss" which they construed as "punishment." Although he was disappointed by the convictions of his friends and even he himself questioned God's ways at some point in his predicament, he remained steadfast in his resolve that God sees everything and ultimately no good can come out of wickedness. 

While Job questioned God for allowing him to go through such ordeal, I was also battling with myself, my thoughts and I instantly put myself in his shoes. It was not difficult to relate to Job because many times in life, I have been  and still is (sometimes) like Job too. I can't help but question God for the "whys" for what I thought as "lack" in my life. I doubt God's goodness and love for me simply because I cannot comprehend His ways. When I have been unceasingly praying and pleading God for something and He seems to be quiet and distant, I resent and feel unloved. I tend to equate God's love for me based on His answers to my prayers. If God doesn't answer, it means, He doesn't love me, He doesn't want me to be happy. Oh, what a wrong contention! what a small mind I have! what little faith I have! I feel convicted every time I am reminded by the truth. Just like Job, he didn't know that he was just being tested by Satan. God allowed him to be tested to see how far his faith can go. And in the course of his struggles, I saw the frailty and vulnerability of a human person being tested through pain. And this is where I think the beauty of God's redemption comes in. While Job was in pain, God showed His redemptive power, His mercy and faithfulness. And God is not someone whose value we can equate based on His performance in our lives. I am once again reminded that I am serving an all-knowing God. He sees everything, my future, while I only see a tiny speck of the grandiose picture. So it is futile for us human beings to attempt to comprehend His ways. When I try to understand God's ways, all I get is a never ending frustration. In truth, what God is simply asking of me is faith. To have a steadfast faith on Him and this faith is being certain of things I cannot see yet at the moment, the assurance of things I have hoped for. God is asking me to not give up on Him especially when the situations get unbearable because He is faithful. When His silence becomes deafening, the waiting game gets agonizing, the loneliness creeps in and it's tormenting, that is when God calls me to not quit! To endure and endure some more because He is merciful and He has the power to turn things around if I will just believe. Oh, gosh how can I not fall madly in love with such a God! 

I am also further reminded that God has given us the will-power to choose. In life, we have the choice as to what we deem is good for us. Hence, it is imperative to deliberately seek God's wisdom so that our plans and the desires of our heart are aligned to God's will for our life. This is where the importance of spending quality time with the Lord comes in. We have to prioritize being alone and quiet in the presence of God so that we can hear His voice and be able to make discernment that is free from our personal biases. Really, we just have to humbly accept the truth that apart from God, we are powerless, we cannot do life without Him. Everything is grace and we need God's grace day in and day out. 

When we accept God as our ultimate possession, there is nothing more to lose because God never leaves and He cannot be taken away from us. I do not see anything evil with material possessions in this world. In fact, we need some of them for survival. But these things are temporal. They cannot last and so it is unwise if we put too much value on them. Material things only become evil when they become our idols, when they replace God's value in our lives. 

Another realization is that we don't have a problem worshiping God when everything is going well in our lives. But as it has been said, the highest form of worship is to worship God in times of troubles. To thank God in the midst of suffering is worship at its finest. When we worship God when it is most difficult to do so, when all we really want to do is grumble, complain,  and blame Him for allowing us to suffer to be in pain, God is most glorified. It is my prayer that God will grant me the grace to be able to do this. I cannot do this all by my limited strength. 

As the story of Job ends, God rewarded his steadfast faith until the very end by bringing back all that he had lost and even multiplied them. God indeed is a rewarder. He honors our struggle and pain and so we can trust that nothing is wasted in God. We can trust that with our unanswered prayers, with our plans and visions remain unrealized, God is at work for our good. Nothing is more comforting than knowing that God is always after our best interest. He knows what is best for us and He will make sure we get to enjoy them for as long as we obey Him and walk alongside Him. 

And the most important reality of all is that as we continue to run the race of life, as we continue to endure as God challenges us to do, we can rest in the truth that only God can ultimately fulfill the longings of our hearts. Only God can meet our inmost longings. So whether God answers our prayers or not, even if He has taken what was once given, we do not fret because we already have the ultimate answer, we already have the most precious gift ever, and that is God and our growing relationship with Jesus Christ our personal Lord and Savior. 

With God, there is nothing I lack. Blessed be the name of the Lord!

Thanks for reading! God bless you! :) 

The Grandeur of Cambodia

February 2016, another adventure was happily taken by me and my good friends. Since Thailand is known for its innumerable holidays, this year we decided to take a short trip in one of Thailand's neighboring Southeast Asian countries, Cambodia. It was short but definitely was worth the while. It's hard to describe The Angkor Wat for its grandeur. The intricate designs of the walls and Buddha statues were mind-blowing! Let me share some of the photos I took and probably you can do the judging. :) 

moments when you just choose to ignore the summer heat and bask in this marvelous-genius work of art!
what a dazzling welcome!!! 

looking through the main entrance... and the journey begins! 

this view right here looks spectacular in sunsets as well 

according to myths, this used to be the bathing area of one of the lords in the old days of Cambodia...
no wonder it looked like a swimming pool 


I remembered it felt like I was brought in the distant past while inside this temple

monks were said to be spending their time here meditating

awww.... stairway to heaven? :)

someday, in a not so distant future, we'll see the world, side by side, hand in hand... haha!

I always believe that traveling does something profound to you. Every place, every journey, every set of experiences is unique and memorable. I thank God always for the opportunity to travel, to take days off from work, for the financial provision, for blessing me with a set of amazing travel companions, who with their distinct personalities make the trip unforgettable, for keeping us all safe on the road, and for God's way of enriching my life through experiences and memories I make all throughout the journey. 

Thank you Lord for this awesome trip! Until next time! :) 

Every going home comes with it an immeasurable feeling of gratitude. I thank God for His unique way of enriching my life through traveling. All these memorable experiences would not be possible without the orchestration of God's hand. Thank you Lord. I am so blessed. I am loved. 

Heavenly Hua Hin Part 2 (Santorini and The Venezia)

So this is basically the second installment of my Hua Hin travel series. In the heart of Hua Hin, Thai people I would say truly maximized their creative juices and skills as they put up their very "own" version of Santorini. Well, it was truly quite close to the real Santorini in Greece. And oh! did I mention Venetian as well? Yes, they have it too in Hua Hin. 

   

           

   

                                              

                                               

                                                          EMILY----- my ka birth month. and travel buddy slash food buddy..


THE VENEZIA

 

        

 

friends for life!! :) 

Heavenly Hua Hin Part 1 (Hua Hin Beach and The Market Village)

Finally!!! Whooo!! I can't believe I am so back in this blogging grind after ages of hiatus. I MISS YOU LIKE CRAZY dear blogspot!! Heehee Well, it feels so great to be finally sitting in front of this 1 week old laptop (yup! my asus netbook finally gave up, walked out of my life after 3 years of intimate togetherness---spell H-E-A-R-T-B-R-O-K-E-N). So for my first comeback entry, I feel like kinda reminiscing my chill and feel good beach tripping at Hua Hin. After my adventure filled island hopping in Phuket, last 2013, I was so thrilled of the thought that once again I will get to see also one of Thailand's most visited tourist destinations. Hua Hin is situated in the southern area of Thailand, specifically in the province of Prachuap Khiri Khan. The place is super laid back and humble, yet it has all the reasons and charm any one will keep coming back to. Hua Hin beach is an ideal place for relaxation, especially for busy people living and working in the metro. So, my trip to Hua Hin is a perfect sweet escape from the daily grind of teaching. Thanks to my friends who made this trip all the more memorable and fun. 

At this point, I will let the pictures help me recollect some of the details as far as my brain can remember. My head may not be able to recall the exact details of this trip but my heart will always remember how God made me feel that He is faithful,  how grandiose His creations are, and that I can only stand in awe and admiration to the Persona of God and realize that this same God who made all things I see beautiful beyond words, loves me and has great plans for me!! Isn't that amazing? :) 

Ladies and gentlemen, presenting to you (drum roll) the ever gorgeous Hua Hin Beach...
so worth the long hour drive, promise!!!

I love the beach so much!!!

I fell in love with DVaree Express Hotel :) This is where we stayed for 2 nights.

I loved it that there were not much people checked in that day. I felt like I own the entire place! How I wish I could bring home this pool for my own future house. Well, libre ang mangarap! hahaha

such a rare moment I find myself in this scenario... I wish I could do this more often! thanks to my friend Shaye for taking the snap! :)

this is one of the reasons why I love DVareee Express-- they have the BEST fried rice in town!!! I had the heaviest breakfast in my whole life because of their award winning fried rice!!!

and these are my great travel buddies!!! they made this trip incredibly memorable! can't wait for the next!!!

and just like that... I was left speechless at the sight of this marvelous sunrise... Thank you Lord!

The Market Village

seafood galore!!!

our tummies had a blast!!! ;-) 

the aftermath 

coconut ice cream after the seafood coma! LOL

So this basically ends Part 1 of my Hua Hin trip narration. After each trip, I love it that I always go home feeling so blessed and assured that Someone loves me so much. I can't begin to imagine how miserable my life could be like without God's constant guidance, forgiveness, and love. Leaving a new place I just learned to love will always be a bittersweet experience. I will never get good at saying goodbyes be it with people or place. There are no permanent goodbyes. For as long as memories of people, places, and experiences are cherished, you never truly said goodbye. 

He is Risen!

"Resurrection is the proof that Jesus is the Son of God. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, forget about Christianity. Jesus' resurrection is foundational." Pastor Peter Tan-chi

Jesus Christ's resurrection marks a very special day in the Christian calendar. This is a very special day for it is a celebration of God's love for humanity and love's victory over death! Truth be told, Jesus' death on the cross is the ultimate fulfillment of God's promise of salvation. I believe salvation is God's greatest act of love for His people. What makes His love so great is that "But God demonstrates His love toward us, that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8. 

Then I am reminded by the reality that we all have difficult people in our lives. God blessed us with people who we find difficult to deal with. Undoubtedly, it is easy to love the lovable; particularly, those who we can get along well. But how about the challenging ones? How about those whose personalities bring contradiction to ours? Can we love them too? As shown by the example of God's love  to His people, through the sacrificial death of Jesus, we are called to love the unlovable and are challenged to love the way he does, that which is sacrificial and unconditional. When I begin to think about this challenge, I don't think I can. Considering my pride and selfishness? I don't think so. This is hard. But God said we are not to do it by ourselves with our very limited strength.Which is why loving the unlovable is the most humbling experience we can ever take in sincerely following the path of Jesus. We have to acknowledge the reality of our inadequacies and limitations as well as acceptance of our total reliance to God that through Him, we can! Who said true Christianity is easy? We need to carry our cross daily, that which is to die to our selfishness and pride, if we want to seriously pursue Christ-likeness. 

As we respond to God's call of loving the unlovable, we need His love and forgiveness, always. We will fall short and disappoint God from time to time, but we know and we are confident, that He loves us no matter what, and if we pursue the things that please Him, He is surely glorified. 

As we reflect upon the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, may we all realize how much God loves us that He wants to spend eternity with us through the death of His Son, Jesus. May we also realize how we can trust Him about everything that concerns us with life because the truth is, Jesus is the Son of God. As the Son of God, He already brought salvation to humanity. He already paid the price of our sins. It is finished. Jesus answered, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. John 14:6" Jesus is the perfect example of obedience to the Father. May we all see Jesus not just as our Savior but also as an inspiration. We may be inspired to live just like Jesus and love others with all that we are. And now that Jesus is risen, let us live for Him! Hallelujah! Happy Easter! Have a Blessed Resurrection Sunday!