Broken In Spirit

Today is about being broken in spirit.

There have been times in my life when I have been broken in spirit. When broken in spirit is beyond disappointed, it’s shattered and defeated. Most of the time, you take disappointment in stride. You might feel it in your heart but mostly your ego is affected.

There is a small part of us that believes we are above failure. That if you work hard enough, it won’t happen to you. That’s simply not the case. Obstacles are a part of life. When you allow obstacles and setbacks to seep into your spirit and it catches you off guard, that’s when you become broken in spirit.

When you’re broken in spirit, you don’t have plan B, you were working hard for your passion. When so far into an endeavor, a person or venture and it doesn't go well, there will be some brokenness in the process. 

God can heal our wounds including the ones in our spirit. God will give you peace and mercy to weather the storms of life. While it may be difficult to understand and comprehend, allow God to lead on this journey. Every journey or phase in your life has purpose. Trust God and allow yourself to be emotionally present.

So today: ask God for mercy to relieve our brokenness in spirit. God has plans for all of our lives. We must allow ourselves to trust and believe there’s purpose in every moment in our lives including to the bad ones.

O Lord, thank for this day. Please forgive me for my sins. Help give me peace and mercy when I’m broken. Allow me to have enough faith in me to stand on your word.
In the name of Yeshua Hamasiah, amen.

Take Courage In GOD

When we face obstacles in our relationships, marriages, and lives that seem insurmountable, don't be afraid. Seek God for courage instead. Moses' mother feared fro her son's life, but she didn't wallow in fear. In faith and with courage she took action - at great risk to herself - believing that God would protect him. God rewarded her trust in Him by keeping her son safe.

Moving ahead with boldness releases us from the bondage of fear. Never allow worry or dread to keep you from the wonderful plans He has for us. With God on our side, nothing needs to send us into a panic. He excels in conquering evil with good!

So take a deep breath. Let God's courage infuse you as you take your next step. (Exodus 1:8-16: 2:1-10)

Not Alone

“Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD will personally go ahead of you. He will be with you; He will neither fail you nor abandon you." (Deuteronomy 31:8)

You may be tempted to drown yourself in a pool of self-pity at the times you feel lonely. But remind yourself that God is with you, and will continue to be with you even to the end of the age. (Matthew 28:20) 

When you’re up against giants that seem impossible to defeat and you feel like you don’t have an ounce of strength left, God has said, “When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you.” (Isaiah 43:2)

When the devil tells you that you’re a lonely, miserable wreck, remind him that he’s the wreck and you’re the victor because Christ lives inside you!

High-Five

This is kinda rude, but this is how I really feel right now about certain people. Or person. :D

But I will not let the devil steal my peace. No matter what people say or do, no matter what circumstances are, no matter how break my heart, I will stay in His shalom, in GOD's peace.

God's Hands

Here's a fact..

God's hands are bigger than ours. Who else has held the oceans in His hand? Who has measured off the heavens with His fingers? (Isaiah 40:12) That big, to be precise. Logically who would be able to hold on to more? Mortal man or the Immortal God? The Immortal God obviously, so when we hold on to something really tight, we're bound to lose it. 

But God, whose hands hold the stars and

 oceans, can hold our entire world and not flinch when trouble comes, because He knows He is more powerful than anything in the universe. When you give something to God, you're investing into your future. God is better than the best bank. He will safeguard your belongings and add to them as you continue to trust Him.

If we hang on tightly to the things we love, in our own strength, we make perfect prey for the thief. He will come when you're not ready and take it away from you. But if he sees that God is holding on to the things you love, he will not bother trying to steal it, because he knows that he is no match for the Almighty God who can crush his skull in a nanosecond. So you see, God is the safest place you can run to in times of happiness, turmoil and pain. He will always protect you and your loved ones. 

Another Handsome

This is not just a random thought because I find myself thinking about it every now and then. I grew up fantasying that I will marry my childhood friend. You know someone I “played” mummy and daddy with. We would lose touch and fate will bring us back together and chemistry will happen. This fantasy was fueled by my desire to witness at least a minute of my future husband’s early years. 

The idea of meeting a total stranger and having them “tell” me about their past scares me. What if they aren't completely truthful, like the American who recently discovered that his pretty wife use to be a man. lol 

Anyways, girls have become women and all my childhood friends are married or “seriously” engaged, so good bye fantasy! I am currently single and looking (not searching, because ground never level-romANCE without finANCE is nuisANCE. lol) 

And every day as I pass by the many handsome gentlemen I ask myself; “Is that him”?

Hmm, I know you are out there, somewhere out there. So I ask, how are you doing right now? 

• Is life treating you well? 

• Are you eating healthy? 
• Are you caring for your (my) body? 
• Are you overcoming your challenges? 
• Are you getting the necessary resources to power your dreams? 
• Are you working at developing yourself daily? 
• Are you mixing with the right people? 
• Are you happy? 
• Is love making you cry? 
• Is situation making you vulnerable? 
• Do you think of me? 
• Do you pray for me? 

Whatever your answers are or will be, I will surely find you. And when I do, your past will not matter; only your future with me will. My gaze will captivate you, my lips will whisper joy, my touch will heal you, my hands will hold and caress you, and my heart will love you.

Mon amour, how are you doing, my future hubby?

A New Friend

Hari ini saya pengen cerita tentang sesuatu. Today I met a guy. His name is Walter. We met on a website called Tongue Exchange. I was trying to improve my Spanish dan website ini merupakan web yang membantu orang2 yang ingin belajar bahasa2 di dunia.

Awalnya waktu lagi searching on "people" section, niatnya cuma pengen liat2 doang, dan Walter adalah salah satu yang masuk kategori seumuran ama saya. Pengennya sih ketemunya ama yang seumuran, punya interest yang sama dan of course bicara bahasa yg sama.

Di data2 yg tersedia di TS, Walter is from Argentina, was born in 1975, speaking in English, Italian and Spanish, and yang paling penting: single.

So I added him to become my friends, and then he accepted.

That's it. A New friend.

What is Love?

I honestly can't find enough words to define love. It's joy, pain, happiness, sadness, confusion, blissfulness, stupidity and every other human emotion and feeling we can feel and experience in one word and feeling. I view love as a blessing from God that's been given to us as something we can give and receive. The ability to make someone happy, sad, warm and cuddly inside, cry, angry and everything else all because of what we feel from love.

Love is not only something we can feel and experience but an adventure as well. We venture off into this world looking for "love" when we have no clue what we're getting into. We walk this road we call love thinking that it's gonna be a joyful experience and that it'll be like an easy stroll along a park when in fact there's no perfect adventure for love and each and every adventure is different and memorable in its own kind of way.

Love can be an emotion, it could be an experience but it can even be a key. In love we find the key to a lot of things. We use love as a key into finding our own success and a way into opening our future. With love we do great things, things we would've never imagined. Things so explainable, you'd be pondering on the thought of how it even happened for life times. As it can be used for good, it can also be used for bad. It all depends on how we use it. 

There's honestly 1 million ways how to describe love but I guess the best way I can describe love is through using the thought of Pandora's Box. Love is this box and we never really know what's inside and what's in store for us until we open it. Anything could be inside it and anything can be waiting for us.

The question is, are we brave enough into opening it? Are we too scared to take a peak at what's inside? Love can make us feel anything and if you look at it in a good way, it could end up good. Else, the opposite. Love is everything and love is nothing. It's the Alpha and Omega of the human experience we call life. It's God's grace. It's something we may never truly know until we've experienced it ourselves first hand. My question is, are you brave enough to know what love really is? Are you ready to open the box? :)

Another Pic of Me

‎10 Ways To Create A Strong Relationship

1. Use relationships to teach you how to be whole within.

Relationships aren’t about having another person complete you, but coming to the relationship whole and sharing your life interdependently. By letting go of the romantic ideal of merging and becoming “one,” you learn as Rainer Maria Rilke says, to love the distances in relationship as much as the togetherness.

2. See your partner for who he or she really is.

The romantic tragedy occurs when you view the person you are in love with as a symbol of what they have come to represent, the idea of them. When you realize that more often than not you don’t really know your partner, you begin to discover who they are and how they change and evolve.

3. Be willing to learn from each other.

The key is to see the other as a mirror and learn from the reflection how you can be a better person. When you feel upset, rather than blame your partner and point fingers, remain awake to what has yet to be healed in yourself.

4. Get comfortable being alone.

In order to accept that love can’t rescue you from being alone, learn to spend time being with yourself. By feeling safe and secure to be on your own within the framework of relationship, you will feel more complete, happy, and whole.

5. Look closely at why a fight may begin.

Some couples create separateness by fighting and then making up over and over again. This allows you to continue the romantic trance, creating drama and avoiding real intimacy. If you become aware of what you fear about intimacy, you’ll have a better sense of why you’re fighting—and likely will fight far less.

6. Own who you are.

We generally grasp at romantic love because we’re yearning for something that is out of reach, something in another person that we don’t think we possess in ourselves. Unfortunately, when we finally get love, we discover that we didn’t get what we were looking for.

True love only exists by loving yourself first. You can only get from another person what you’re willing to give yourself.

7. Embrace ordinariness.

After the fairy-dust start of a relationship ends, we discover ordinariness, and we often do everything we can to avoid it. The trick is to see that ordinariness can become the real “juice” of intimacy. The day-to-day loveliness of sharing life with a partner can, and does, become extraordinary.

8. Expand your heart.

One thing that unites us is that we all long to be happy. This happiness usually includes the desire to be close to someone in a loving way. To create real intimacy, get in touch with the spaciousness of your heart and bring awareness to what is good within you.

It’s easier to recognize the good in your partner when you’re connected to the good in yourself.

9. Focus on giving love.

Genuine happiness is not about feeling good about ourselves because other people love us; it’s more about how well we have loved ourselves and others. The unintentional outcome of loving others more deeply is that we are loved more deeply.

10. Let go of expectations.

You may look to things such as romance and constant togetherness to fill a void in yourself. This will immediately cause suffering. If you unconsciously expect to receive love in certain ways to avoid giving that love to yourself, you will put your sense of security in someone else.

Draw upon your own inner-resources to offer love, attention, and nurturance to yourself when you need it. Then you can let love come to you instead of putting expectations on what it needs to look like.

Love GOD, love yourself, love others. Shalom.