Waitng

Waiting, I think all my life I had been waiting for someone or for something. Years ago when I was a student I am what you called early bird. I had been punctual in most of my student life. I came to school early when we have an activity (group work project etc). I always been on time or rather earlier than the call time even though I know the fact that not all of them will come on time. So the result I wait, I wait until they come. Yesterday, was another day of waiting time for me. Thursday night I apply online for a certain job, I was expecting that they will contact me the next day. I put my cellphone in front of me to make sure that  I won't missed there call if ever they will contact me, office hours had passed but they didn't contact me. I was really so disappointed, depressed and sad. Just an hour ago when I open my mail, I got a reply from them. I should have opened my mail earlier because they send it early this morning. Seeing there reply make me teary eye. There are even times that I get emotional when waiting. I remember when one of my classmate borrow a book from me. She's the one who needed something right? but I'm still were the one who is waiting for her at our rendezvous. That's when I get emotional and it entered my mind that I had been waiting for my entire life. I asked myself if there would come a time that there would be someone who will be waiting for me instead of me waiting for them. Then I remember that there are two person who always wait for me. My papa would always wait for me outside the school gate whenever I had an evening class. Imagine my class end at 9:00 pm. My papa would leave the house at 7:30 pm and arrived at school around 8 pm. He would wait for me for an hour, it's good if the professor would dismissed us early but imagine our class starts at 7:30 and usually professor would arrived at 8. So normally if that would be the case we start class at 8. We were just starting with our class but my papa was down there outside the gate standing and waiting for me.I told him many times that he does not need to leave home early but he replied that's it's alright for him to wait, better early than late. The other person who is always waiting for me on the other side, who is the most patient person I know, it's none other than Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is waiting for more than 2,000 years for all of us to turn to Him, to accept Him as our personal savior but sadly until now He's still waiting. When we go astray Christ is patiently waiting for us to return to Him. When we become stubborn and want to do things our way, He patiently wait for us to turn to Him, to come to Him, to acknowledge Him and to accepts He's purpose for us.  Whenever I got depressed, sad, angry while waiting I pray to God, telling Him what I feels. Sometimes waiting gets tiring, I felt the same also most of the time, but if we patiently wait for God to answer our prayer and not to rush things up we will see how wonderful and amazing things would be. I'm not saying that I'm expert when it comes to waiting, in fact I'am not. I always got impatient but God still patiently guide me and teach me to be patient. I would like to share a preaching from our church entitled "Season of waiting". It's very inspiring but I haven't time to edit it but I'll post it here if I finished it. So for the meantime watch this music video "While I'm waiting " by John Waller

- 陳錦錦

My papa

I'm so thankful to my Heavenly Father for blessing me with a good earthly papa. My papa didn't finished school, He didn't even finished high school. At an early age around 18 to 19 years old he started working while me and most people at that age were still studying and enjoying life. My papa is an industrious person, he works hard for us. He wakes up early at around four in the morning, We're not rich but my papa was able to send us to school and make me finished college. I finished school three years ago, thanks to my papa, his boss who help us financially and of course thanks to my Heavenly Father who help us during tough times. When I graduated from kindergarten, elementary, high school and college, my papa was not able to attend the graduation ceremony because of his work. He cannot afford to get absent, I don't take it against him because I understand the situation. I know he needs to work for us. But he was able to see my college graduation through DVD though, thanks to the technology. I know he's proud of me. Every night my father would give us vitamin and water, He's not just reminding us, telling us to drink vitamin but he give it to each of us personally. Every morning my papa would put my vitamin in the dining table so I won't forget to drink it. When I had overnight at office my papa would prepare my vitamins and put it inside my bag and would text me to remind me to drink it. Despite being tired from work, he still make time to prepare my bed for me. When one of us got sick, he would always call home from work from time to time asking if we're okay. Sometimes he would even drop by to see whether we're okay or feeling well. I remember when I resigned from my first job and started applying for another job, He keeps on asking if I still have money for transportation fare and for food. He never pressure me even if I wasn't able to find a job immediately. My papa is good, he's nice, he's patient with us, I won't replace him from any other papa in this world. The only problem I have with my papa is his salvation. He's not a Christian but I keep on praying to my Heavenly Father for my papa's salvation and I know at God's perfect time my papa would accept Christ as his personal Savior.

Happy father’s day!

- 陳錦錦

Would definitely miss you, God bless to your new endeavor!

An officemate which I considered my superior is resigning. She's been in the company for almost two decades. I believed that she's an asset of the company and I just don't understand why the company just easily let her go. They could have offer her other incentive or increase her salary. She's good at her work and I think she deserve any incentives that the company could have counter offer her. Sadly, the company didn't have any counter offer to her, they just let her go. I'm so sad, for two reason, first because I was planning to move but because of her resignation, I must delayed my planned. Secondly, because of the fact that she is moving. I gonna miss her. She's good, she's nice. Every time I had questioned with work she willingly help me even if she is busy. Perhaps that's why God had blesses her with knowledge because she's not selfish, she's willing to impart or share what she knows. I just prayed that in her new job she would able to get to know who God really is. I pray that her eyes would be opened to see the truth. I pray for her salvation. I definitely would miss her. God bless to your new endeavor

- 陳錦錦

First time

First time, Whenever it's your first time to do something or first time to go to some place you'll feel nervous and scared right??? Well just a while ago I felt exactly like that. I was doing a field work, going on to that place from our office is not a problem because I got to go together with the person whom I will render my service. The problem arises when I finished my work and need to go back to office. The person whom I worked for told me to ride a taxi, she gave me a fare for taxi. I never in my 24 years of existence rode a taxi alone so naturally I really felt so nervous. Well the place is not far, it's just around the Makati area (travel time is just around 10 to 15 minutes) but still first time is first time. In my nervousness I forgot to take precautionary action like getting the plate number of the taxi and text it to any of my close friend or relatives, in case something might happened to me. But thankfully nothing happened to me, was able to got to the office safe and sound. So thankful to God for always protecting me.

- 陳錦錦