God's Outpouring Blessing - Just A Reminder

After a month of being assigned here, I finally am nearing the end of it.

Today is the last day of my assignment here in this company.

A mixture feeling of excitement, anxiety, and sadness filled me.

I don't know what will happen next. I know I am already assigned to another not so new company. But I don't know what challenges lies ahead.

My experience here was really different.

I tried so much not to mingle with the rest of the colleagues here.

I tried to eat alone, and work alone. I tried to do everything here by myself.

I tried to be as invisible as possible.

I don't know why. Maybe I was thinking it was pointless to mingle with others.

Although there were times when they caught me eating lunch, so, they just joined me.

There wasn't much work assigned to me , so there were times that

I sat idled. There were times when I would feel really sleepy, so I just made

myself busy (although not work related).

A few days before my contract ends until today, there was really no job given.

I just waited for my finished job to be tested. Unfortunately, until today, it

is still not tested. So, I busied myself creating blogs. :)

But of course, this is done secretly. They must not know this.

Actually, I felt guilty. I felt like I wasn't able to contribute that much here,

while everyone else were rushing with their deadlines.

But I could not do anything about it.

I brushed aside this feeling thinking, they won't even notice that I'm already gone.

But I was surprised this morning when the manager here whom I'm not directly reporting to, asked me if today was really my last day here.

And when I tried going for my usual lunch, I was invited to join with my

immediate boss and the other colleague. And this was a treat for me since I was leaving.

It was a very expensive restaurant but everything was for free. :)

In the afternoon, I was greeted by another colleague and asked for my email address.

This way, we would still have contact.

I was wondering, what have I done to deserve such an honored treatment?

I thought this was part of God's plan. Just to remind me of His overflowing blessing.

That no matter what I do, good or bad, significant or not, God's love and overflowing blessing

still pours upon us. :) And to remind me of God's presence in everywhere I go. And another

reminder, to thank the Lord in every blessing that is given, may it be seemingly insignificant

or great.

The Steadfast Love Of The Lord

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases
His mercies never come to an end
They are new every morning
New every morning. (3x)

Great is Thy faithfulness, O Lord.
Great is Thy faithfulness.

Office on leave - no workload

...Turn on the computer
......Unlock the white drawer
......Open the drawer, and
get the unwashed Starbucks tumbler with a Christmas motif in it - snow, snowflakes and penguins
...Put the brown bag inside the drawer

...Sit down and wait for the computer to complete it's power up process
......Open the thunder-bird e-mail and check if somebody has a job for me
......But just like most ordinary day, there is none
......Open the client access and log on the i-series
......Open another session
... pressing the shift key, then the escape key, then 1, then press the enter key.

This is how it is done here at the client's office if you needed another session, since they don't allow another separate client

...Page-up
..... Page-down....
...Page-up
..... Page-down
.......Read interesting, unimportant emails
.......Page-up
..... Page-down

.......Call the office, and talk over seemingly important, yet unimportant matters
......Page-up
..... Page-down
.......Get water in the water dispenser
.......Drink lots and lots of water to hydrate in this dry area of the office
......Page-up.....
Page-down....
And that's how I spend most of the day whenever I have nothing to do inside this office named*****...
I'm waiting for the work day to end, so I can go home and rest after a looonnngg tiring daay...

Random Thought - Faith, Choice, Destiny

This is just a portion of an email to a good friend of mine just this morning. My friend just attended a retreat about Destiny and shared to me the details of this wonderful activity. I just thought of sharing what I replied to her in this space. These ideas are mixtures of the talks that I attended and the thoughts that came out based from those talks. This is just an opinion.

Here is what I said.

The story of Adam and Eve is a story about the human Free Will. The forbidden tree represents the things that destroys us (in any aspect), while the rest of the trees are the blessings that God has given us... The tree wasn't really intended to be planted just for the sake that the humans will have temptations. The point of the story was that Adam and Eve had a choice. And that is to eat or not to eat the forbidden fruit. We represent Adam and Eve. God gave us the free will to choose between good or evil. To choose between the two, is really up to us.

Well, I think if there is no free will, God will might as well create robots. :)

Based from the talks that I attended, sin is something that destroys us. This does not destroy God, but it destroys us. Sin is very deceiving. It would invite us and tell us that it would make us happy. But in the end, destroys us. God loves us so much and wants us to be happy.

Another story that was partially mentioned, was the story of Judas.

Judas had a destiny. He betrayed Jesus to fulfill the prophecy. But he had a choice to repent his sin against his Master. He had a choice to live or die. I think it is still a big question if he is really in hell or in Heaven. The very core teaching of our Church is the Great Love of God to us. That's why there is still a possibility that he could be in Heaven.

In the early days of the Church, the priests did not bless a person who committed suicide. We believed that they'd go directly to hell. Nowadays, the Church already bless them because we believe that they can still be saved.

I think we all have our destiny. And we have many choices on how we can fulfill it. That's the beauty of it. The choices are not too narrow, that we have a wide variety of choices that we can enjoy.