Getting back on track and a personal update

I’ve been on a roll for the past days, thank God for the blog opps and projects streaming in. And now that I’ve accomplished most of them, it’s time to take a breather and get back on track.

I’m stepping back a little bit to cast a final glimpse into the past and to fire myself up for today and the exciting future ahead.

I feel like I can’t resume blogging about daily life again without filling in the “blogging gap” of the months I was away. So here goes my personal story.

Just to warn you, this is going to be a long post. Feel free to go on or click away.

Stepping out into the light

The past months have been an extremely trying time, perhaps the most trying time in my life. I was in a very dark place, consumed by my own selfishness and pride. I’ve hurt people including the ones I loved the most.

I was “relying on my own understanding” believing that I ought to live my life no matter how I want to. I wasn’t taking responsibility for my choices, I was unwilling to change, I was ungrateful of the blessed life that I had.

Needless to say, I was very unhappy even as I tried to convince myself that I was right and I was okay.

But the good thing — maybe the best thing about life is, you always have chances and choices. You just have to take them and make them.

It took one hell of a wake up call for me to realize my life was going in the wrong direction.

I sobered up and started walking out of the dark tunnel I got myself into.

In the darkness, I saw God. He was walking with me all along, I was just too deaf to hear and too blind to see that He was guiding me.

I started praying again and getting to know God even more. I started being grateful again for everything He has given and continues to give me.

I started to realize and accept what I needed to change in myself.

I am learning to completely trust in God.

I am learning how to really lead my heart.

I am learning how to fully live with love.

At the end of the tunnel, I finally stepped into the light.

I felt like I died and I was born again.

I’ve never felt more blessed, more grateful and more loved.

God’s power and grace is more than amazing.

And then the storm came

I wrote about my Ondoy story for our news website.

That experience taught me two important things:

• Value your real treasures.
• Make every moment count.

When I went back to our flooded Pasig home to save the necessary stuff, I realized how I can get by with so very little. As I wrote in my article, I accumulated all these things throughout my life but when “crunch time” came, I didn’t really need all of them to survive.

Seeing all those other people who have lost entire homes and all their precious possessions in an instant, I understood the full meaning of this verse now more than ever:

Value your real treasures: your loved ones.

I’ve watched and read the tragic stories of loved ones being washed away by the great flood, of people missing, and of dead bodies surfacing in the rivers.

In just a matter of seconds, an angry Ondoy wiped away all these precious lives.

I am just so grateful that all our family members are safe. But more than that, I am even more grateful for the chance to love them more.

For the chance to make every moment I spend with them count.

Rebuilding begins

Starting anew is a very exciting thing.

I’m so excited to:

• be fully a Christian
• live in our new home: a real heavensent blessing
• have more quality happy family time
• start a new financial freedom project

I’ve proven time and again that life is what you expect it.

Expect good things to happen and receive the abundant blessings pouring in.

Seek miracles and watch them unfold every moment.

Life is definitely getting better and better everyday.

Be happy and be blessed!

Photo by: “†OnlyByGrace”

Tagged as: faith, Jesus, life, love, miracles, Ondoy, Reflections