Actually I finished posting this blog yesterday (was out of town for 1 1/2 days and had no access to the net) but one of my fingers having a mind of its own, clicked the wrong key...and like magic the blog disappeared!

So here I am reposting and hoping it will stay!

1. Quiet Time. Time to meet the Lord in prayer. I read somewhere that no one can come to prayer unless the Holy Spirit calls her/him to. Thank you for calling me to prayer. I feel refreshed, renewed and strengthened after each encounter.

2. Second chances. Thank you for reminding me that there is a person I have to forgive unconditionally. You are a God of second chances. You have given me many second chances, why should I deny this person a second chance ... unconditional forgiveness!

3. Home. Thank you for a place I call my own (from my own sweat, happily, no tears involved!), my haven. A place I can always go back to at the end of each day. It's where I am most relaxed and most myself even if most of the time it looks lived-in. "Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!"

4. Friends... they are Your gifts to me. May I be to them what they are to me... a help in time of need, someone to exchange laughter, banter, or just shoot the breeze with while solving the problems of the world, someone to cry with. Somebody from church asked me yesterday if I don't get lonely living alone. The question got me thinking, how does it feel to be lonely?

5. CA2020. This is my bizniz community and it is helping me to reach my goal. In ca2020 I have a support group that does not allow me to forget I have goals to achieve in order to live my dreams, yes, even at my age! You don't stop dreaming just because you're retired! Bless my efforts Lord, that they may bear much fruit.

6. Safe trip. . . to and from Manila. May the people who were the reason for the trip continue on in their walk to financial freedom.

7. Plugged Leak. Morning after "Basyang" I found a small puddle of water on the stairs...leaky roof! Nothing which vulca seal and a new coat of paint could not repair.

8. Acceptance. By Your grace I've been able to accept FINALLY, the intrusion into my comfort zone by some people who have not yet learned to be sensitive to other people's needs. I weighed the possible consequences of telling them no matter how diplomatically (a friend cautioned me, "wag kang masyadong magtatataray dyan"!)and decided to just wait till they remember where they left their good manners. I cannot change other people but I can change mysel. And believe me I am beginning to see small but happy changes!