amazing month so far... this last two months are full of great pearls of learning.
we talked about being disciplined in our cell
- study and work discipline
- our finances and how we look (how we dress)
- family
we Get things in order in the VISION
I'm excited for the new battle. Thanks for my leaders who believe in me. To my cellmates, they will be trained in the supernatural.
yeahhh
Preparing for seizing divine moments
We are to prepare for our divine moments
DIVINE moment Greek root word is ATOMOS, same for deriving our word for atoms and the atomic.
Divine moments are like atoms:
-- small and insignificant
-- ignored and left behind
--overlooked many times
Same with our life many times but i believe we can be the atomic that God has made us to be.
In the story of Esther we can see that 12 months of preparation is worth for ONE night of facing the King. ONE night with the King, changes everything.
preparation can spell success or failure to us.
HOW to prepare?
1 Vision- prov. 29:18
-- what consumes your life?
2. commitment- acts 26:19. phil. 3:8
--" i was not disobedient to the heavenly vision"
set the date, have specific goals, do the vision that God has given you.
3. brokenness and humility-
--Esther, orphan girl- becomes Queen, bitter herbs for preparation.
Prepare for your divine moments and seize it.
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Landscape, ideology, and real life: a
revolution
A real life conversation concerning UP in
terms of its landscape and ideology (hidden behind) is such a very delicate and
rewarding adventure. So much to me as an adventure, since I have seen UP-- the
center point of a revolution of any kind. If there is a revolution that will
broke, for sure UP would play the center stage. The talk of Up’s significance
therefore could be not and should not be underestimated. My search for
landmarks and signposts to decipher the ideology hidden is such an adventure.
And here have dealt with things that
might not be as other thought it should, but I have thought of great
significance… as I name the
landscapes/landmarks of UP and its corresponding ideologies, I’m not proposing
that it is THE ideology but I have seen this hidden to gems to be very
significant. As Geertz have proposed, these landmarks could serve as signpost
to lead us to better understand our world and the truth of life.
Here I do devise to
list the data in a table form to make it more simple and profound looking…
|
Landscapes/ landmarks |
Ideology hidden |
|
Equality and uniformity |
|
Living in a community |
|
Separation/ pride |
|
Entering UP means
freedom for freshmen or for students |
|
Diversity of
people living as a community |
|
All are welcome
to enter, not bound by boundaries |
|
Expression of
weirdness and uniqueness |
|
Wild living,
living in the wild |
|
Serve as a waking
mechanism, uprising |
|
Focal point/
center point of revolution |
These ideologies for landmarks are
birthed out through personal interviews and reflections. And on the following conversations I will
share my personal experiences and observations living in the said areas.
Equality in UP has been that of a
common word, we long to be equal with other people no wonder some grown to
unconsciously confuse equality with laziness. Students become so lazy these
days and just not taking responsibilities. Many buildings in UP have been
designed to look uniform or much more to be look that much the same. Yes, UP
students have just express weird things and call it UNIQUENESS through the way they dress, but then I just thought it
is just a shallow showcase of uniqueness. I do believe that uniqueness should
be seen from the inside out. More to my surprise is that many times we have
just judge people not on the basis of their character and spirituality but on how the way they look uniform and
the same in the outside appearance.
Much of what I have seen UP
landscape tries to convey is a sense of
the community, and diversity and freedom. When I was a freshman I used to
live in the dormitory, kalayaan dormitory that is. Kalayaan which literally
means FREEDOM is now my new home; it
promised us freedom and a community. Freedom just simply because we are far away
from our family and community because I used to live with diff. people (add to
that the near-complete amenities inside the dormitory). But then I have seen
that we are also given a freedom to choose to hide our bad hobbits and given a
chance to choose our community or own circle of friends. If we are not careful
enough we oftentimes see our search for freedom lead us to BONDAGE AND Slavery (premarital sex, wrong relationships and pride)
with our own doing because we haven’t choose the right way. As for me, I only
find my freedom when I meet Jesus as real more than a religion but a person (He
has change my life, I have been confronted with a choice and I chose Him).
What best describes UP also, are its
open gates, parks and wide open spaces
and the carillon tower. Almost all kinds of people are welcome to UP with
its gate-guards not requiring anyone an I.D. and also everybody could wildly
move in its parks and spaces (you know football and wild and war games). I love
UP to live wild; after all there should
never be a place for apathy and neutrality. When students get the most of
there lives living boring. Let’s live a life of adventure, shouting in out
parks and open spaces- I want to live.
I used to be very
interested for stories of revolution and
uprising. The carillon tower has
been a great symbol of origin at the
time when UP is in a good mode; when people woke up from there sleep because
the bell is ringing its songs at the highest peak in the campus. As far as I
have recalled, its been a few decades ago that the bell are on devastated stage
but then I heard that one of the biggest project in the UP centennial is the restoration of the tower. It’s been a high
time to restore out identity as a University that will lead this country for a
revolution. There will be a revolution
not just of shouting and of mass demonstration but of integrity and character. The restoration of the tower just conveys a picture of going back to our origin. The tower has been
an alarm clock of the whole campus in the past and its highest point and its
restoration means a great significance. Likewise to me, as I return to my point
of origin only would I understand my true design and blueprint--a masterpiece,
a brilliant star destined for greatness, you know.
the power of living our lives full of hills and bumps is found in the person we are obsessed of. we find the greatest strenght in time when we are about to give up by emptying ourselves just to be back in the presence of the one we love. we always have confused and lost minds to where/when or who will we get devote and focused our life into... only to find out that only the love of our life is the one who can truely satifies our longing. we may try to find it out in the roads of curves and jumps... but we never gave up til we find and travel the road set before us. May we find the intimacy we long for, where our life finds its passion and meaning... where we can perform our potential and destiny. finding our true love and soaring high to our full blast energy, being the frontline of the revolution of our life and earth and love.
in the quiet/ in the stillness i know that you are God/ in the secret of your presence/ i know there i am restored/ when you call i won't refuse/ each new day again i'll choose
there is no one else for me/ none but jesus/ crucify to set me free / now i live to bring Him praise
in the chaos /in confusion i know your sovereign still/ in the moment of my weakness you give me grace to do your will
when you call i won't delay/ this, my song through all my days
all my delight is in you lord/ all of my hope/ all of my strenght
all my delight is in you lord/ forevermore
jesus!? wow what a
good topic, well its not required to have an eleven years of religious
education to understand Him, He cannot be understood by education,
religion, or eleven years of going to church and the next thing you
knew is that He doesn't make sense anyway.
Speaking about the story in Luke 2, when jesus is about twelve years
old missed out by His parents only to find Him out three days after
talking with religious scholars and having a debate with them (because
jesus stands in opposition and defiance with religion, Jesus is about
relationship not religion)
surprisingly just as jesus is a perfect child and talk back to His
parents telling them "why are looking for me" because in a time of
their journey back home they actually missed jesus or lost Him. marry
and joseph get nervious "they lost the SON OF GOD" ha ha
jesus is actually saying "you have missed the point guys, you have missed me" and He grieve of How many people actually go to church keep on doing rituals, dogmas and all that religion requires WITHOUT INTIMACY and RELATIONSHIP, not knowing who jesus is.
dear michael at joy, thank you sa comments. natuwa naman ako at na-enlighten! mas close spiritual na ako ngayon kaysa nung mga panahon nung bata ako na hindi ko ma-reconcile yung seeming ironies ng religion. basta nung pumunta ako sa LB for college, mas naging close nga ako kay God.
for miss clarissajoy: nice thought, not about religion (but relationship and intimacy)well if you want more to read... check out my blog and also my book (coming soon, prophetic)
for miss dudes:
hehe nice thought, by the way religion is not my talk i hate it to the
core and with passion. huhu. btw think about this, jesus has no pristin
call of a secure christianity, full of rituals, traditions, and
voodootheology (which by the way what religion is all about) but a life
fully alive, full of risk, adventure and of many times seeing what
others might find offensive, in short BARBARIC.
jesus calls us to THE BARBARIAN WAY... intimacy and no hypocricy (which
by the way is His case with the pharisee- the religious elite of His
time.
when the whole world is busy thinking of how their lives suck big time, they do not think of the kids in the street with no food to eat.
when the whole world is dwelling on love and its mysteries, its refreshing to see someone write about the Lord.
for me, its not about religion, its about God. Ü