the "mares" again...
No details this time. I will continue running to Him and praising His name.
Deliver me from my enemies,
O God;
Protect me from those who rise up against me,
Deliver me from evildoers and save me from bloodthirsty men
Ps 59:1-2
For you have been my HOPE,
O sovereign Lord,
my confidence since my youth
Ps 71:5
God is my refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in times of trouble
therefore we will NOT FEAR
though the earth give way and
the mountains fall
into the heart of the sea
Ps 46:1-2
The Lord is my strength
the Lord in His power
is my strength, every day and every hour
every day and every hour
--The Lord is my strength, (don't know who sang it).
In all things we are more than conquerors through HIM who loved us Rom 8:37
When the evil one
comes against you to fill your heart with fear
you can trust in God He will never leave You,
He promised to be near
You can lift up a song, in the midst of the war
FOR THE BATTLE IS MINE, SAYS THE LORD
--The Battle is the Lord's Ron Kenoli
In my distress I called to the Lord;
I cried to my God for help.
From His temple He hears my voice;
my cry came before Him
into His ears
Ps 18:6
Sing unto the Lord
make a joyful sound
lift your voices
and let your praise resound
Sing a victory song
in the time of war
trust in Jesus
THE BATTLE IS THE LORD'S!
--The Battle is the Lord's, Ron Kenoli
FOR I AM CONVINCED THAT NEIGHTER DEATH NOR LIFE, NEITHER ANGELS NOR DEMONS, NEITHER THE PRESENT NOR THE FUTURE, NOR ANY POWERS, NEITHER HEIGHT NOR DEPTH, NOR ANYTHING ELSE IN CREATION, WILL BE ABLE TO SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD.
Rom 8:38
Going to camp!
call time tommorow at 4:30 am O_o woohoo! :D Riding with the tanchi's on Sunday (too bad I'll miss special night! :( That's okay though
On to other things...ANWAR'S OUT! :( I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! WAAAAAAH :(
Good night all :D haha so random. Gotta scoot
still waiting...
If I don't find transpo from Caliraya back to Manila on Sunday, it's not meant to be :( God did fix my schedule, but it seems to me that I still can't go to camp and be with my girls :( Still waiting...even if it seems impossible. But I have given it up to God, if He does not really want me to go, then I won't. Still sad :( waaaah :(
WAAAAH! :(
Yesterday was my second day in school. Philo was quite light and good thing we have a great teacher. Then Theo was quite okay pero dami nang readings! :( At around 5:30 I had to rush to Shaw boulevard to take my first Mandarin lessons. Quite honestly, I really don't want to learn the language, because it's the most complicated langauge I've ever encountered! (hands down to whoever created it) Taking it with Mervin Chan though, so at least I know someone there (Nina Cruz is joining us soon!) and they were already at the fourth-fifth lesson! Waaah, need to catch up really fast. Change of heart Lord, change of heart :( I don't really want to learn the language honestly because I really think it's hard------but I have to because I'm gonna need it in Taiwan. Then I had to rush to CCF for the training. Being very late and having no rest since dawnwatch (imagine that! From 5:30-7:30 no rest! All classes/conferences and the like!), I hardly could absorb anything from the training---I understood when I finally got the chance to collect myself in the CR....Man didn't I drop dead when I got home! I tried to read a few pages of my book for the next day---but in a few seconds I was fast asleep.
And I woke up today at 7:00---class at 8:00. That's a disaster considering it takes me 30 minutes to fix up if I find all the things I need and 30-45 minutes to get to school, if I take the cab, and 1 hour if I didn't. Good thing dad was gracious and he drove me to school (poor dad, he slept at 2 am). I got to school at 8:02, just in time for class. Interesting topic in LS as usual, I love the subject although I couldn't recite much cuz I fell asleep reading. And thus the long day will continue....still have class at 5:30-8:00 pm....
back to school (and it felt surreal)
"welcome to your JTA first semester. I understand you're at an accelerated semester, so we will be moving quite fast...when they offered me to teach the JTA class I accepted it because they said, 'sir magagaling yan'. (sir, they are very good students). So I expect you to be good students and you have to prove it."
Great. These are the words of my first teacher this day, 8 am in the morning. And honestly, I am not an outstanding student--I just get through by God's grace with decent grades--but I was never a dean's lister. I looked around the room and noticed who were my classmates: Sopfia Guira, top something of the entire batch in SOM. Chris Chiu (Don't even know the spelling of his name haha :D), member of the Ateneo Blue Eagles Basketball team and also an honor student--as far as I know. Why am I with this people? I am Anna Bernardo--LM student. I am not a famous varsity player in school, I am not part of the "creamest of the crop". But it IS God's plan--He allowed me to pass the JTA (Junior Term Abroad) grade requirement for a purpose. And yep, we're a salad mixture of ME,LM,ComTech,Management and Mgt-Honors students. I was the only one in my block who decided to push through. So I don't really know "know" anyone O_o
Our LS (leadership and strategy) teacher had pretty high standards, but for some reason, I was excited for the course. There were lots of interesting things that we will be learning in the course syllabus and many challenging stuff too. In groupwork, I will be working with people I've never worked with before---good luck O_o Hope we will all have an agreeable "chemistry" as a group...
Next class was at 6pm!! It was only 10 am and I had to wait for my other blockmates so that I can sell some stuff to them. Honestly, sales aren't going well ^_~ hehe. Sana may bumili naaah!
They arrived at like 12:45 and I was almost dead at that time. I just didn't show them haha!
Then I went to church to help the singers practice for camp. My goodness, I was so dizzy by the time I arrived O_O Major dizzy, I had to sleep at the music ministry office!hahaha! I slept for about more than 30 minutes :D Left CCF at around 5 pm.
DUGAS NG TAXI! (The cab's a cheater!) He said P250 from Megamall to Ateneo and refused to use his meter-----NO WAY! WELOOO?! It only takes me P110-120 from my house to school and that's even a greater distance. As I walked away he shouted, Ateneo 150! Ano yun, bag?!
(What's that like, a bag?!) I looked for another taxi and it only took me P85 pesos. That's almost 3x less than 250 bucks. God will avenge! Sana wala siyang nabiktima!
(I hope he didn't victimize anyone). The teacher lectured right away in our 6 pm class. It was okay, the teacher called on people in his list and since my surname was a B, I was also called. But the questions weren't bad and the lesson was quite light. The best thing ever happened:
-In the morning, forgot to mention that Fin103 was moved from Fri eve at 6pm to Mondays at 6. Although that means 8 hours break---that also means I have no class on fridays! And I can go to our college fellowship nights--SOULSTOP! YEY :D
-In the evening when we got there, the teacher asked us if we want an alternative schedule to replace our Saturday class. We picked wednesday---so good bye Saturday 8-10 am hello wednsdays 6-8 pm!
That's like
ABSOLUTELY AWESOME! First because I will always have 3 day weekends and secondly because it may give me a chance to go to EVOLVE all female camp! I can take care of my girls! Hurray :D
Now all I need is a ride from Caliraya to Manila on Sunday...Lord please!
It felt surreal.Really. What a day.
GOD’S STRATEGIC WAYS
something I got from "Meet the Bible". It's super nice talaga.
God's strategic ways
When was the last time you were in the right place at the right time?
People tell stories about getting jobs, meeting spouses, winning prizes and finding bargains all because they were at the right place at the right time. Often these seemingly accidental strokes of good fortune are explained with the words, “it was meant to be”. If the job offer is given, it was meant to be. If the relationship flourishes, it was meant to be. On the converse, if the job falls through or the relationship sours, it was not meant to be.
What lies behind these words? Are we speaking in a roundabout way of God’s hand in our lives? Or are we attributing our successes and failures to the more general and impersonal hand of fate?
Esther had several such fortunate experiences. She was selected as a contestant to become queen, then won the king’s favor and became royalty. She was in the palace at the time a plot to kill the Jews developed. She waited for a second banquet to present her request to the king, unknowingly giving him time to read about Mordecai’s act of saving his life. Continually Esther found herself in the right place at the right time to save her people. Her circumstances were more than “meant to be”. They were brought about by a sovereign God who had a plan for Esther’s life and for the lives of His people.
We serve the same God as did the Jews of Esther’s day. God tells us, “I the LORD do not change” (Malachi 3:6). His ways of moving in our lives may look somewhat different from His ways of moving in the Old Testament, but God has not changed, nor have His purposes. Just as He had a plan for His people then, He has a plan for those who belong to Him now. We can trust that whenever we find ourselves in the right place at the right time, God’s hand is present.
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who do not change like shifting shadows” (James 1:17). We can thank God for each stroke of good fortune, each providential gift. Sometimes they are simple blessings. Other times they are His strategic ways of fulfilling the bigger purposes He has for us. –BQ
DAILY CONTEMPLATION
Do you wonder about the places to which God has brought you in your life? Do you have questions about failures or missed opportunities? Ask God to help you better see your life through His eyes, and place yourself in His care, trusting that his good purpose for you will be achieved.
(taken from: Meet the Bible,©2000. Yancey, Philip & Quinn, Brenda [pg 373, DAY 196—Reflection]).
Super nightmare
...
All events are hazy now but I feel like my stomach just flipped upside down or something. A few things I remembered are these:
It started out like a happy outing with a bunch of my friends. The people I remembered being in it were: Chuck, Philip, Ian, Miela, Glaiza, Camille, Daniel, my eldest sis Jaymee...I think my sister too (Dianne), but that I am not so sure of..and duh--meh. But there were some people too that I do not really know, in fact, I even made some new friends.
Yep, as I said, it started out happy---all I remember is we were driving in a convoy (we were in our Revo with Miela and a few others) and we stopped in this sort of super nice inn.
And all the other events were all hazy. All I remembered was that after we played some sort of team building games, random people started getting lost--meaning they never returned. And as the number started going down, my sister Jaymee came out of the nice inn we were staying in quite terrified, (all of us were sitting on the benches along the side walk or on the sidewalk itself), relating to us something: I forgot if it was about someone dying in front of her or something. I really don't remember--all I know was, I was feeling very terrified.
Then my dad woke me up---and was I so happy because it really felt REAL. And it's the type that makes you uneasy for hours even if you really don't remember the exact events in your dream.
GOOD THING PANAGINIP LANG (Good thing it's just a dream) :D AT LEAST :D
Lazy Day
This is such a lazy day O_o My head feels so heavy and I still have to fix my room--My dad's been telling me to do it for ages and I haven't found the time til now. It's just annoying though cuz I really don't know where to put some stuff, but I'll figure it out. If I don't do this now, I might be grounded for life- hahaha! :)
Hmmm...what else can I say? Nothing much. I'll just post next time I have something to say =p
DELTA J ROCKS! GOD ROCKS!
BITIN ANG DELTA J! Super had fun talaga ng major major major. Ang God super worked talaga. So andaming "super". Sobrang Lupet ni God! Kaya mga people pumunta kayo sa mga camp kasi you're gonna miss a lot!
Watch out for the pictures at www.jzone.ph. GRABEH! Lupit talaga :D
