just passing through: December 2017

27 December 2017

2 in 1 in White Beach, Puerto Galera

We were supposed to go to Cagbalete Island in Mauban, Quezon. Almost there

but due to inclement weather, we had to turn around and think of option B. And there are two criteria: fair weather and seaside. And so we headed to Batangas City pier and sailed to White Beach, Puerto Galera.

Wish granted. I got to spend my 53rd birthday and 29th wedding anniversary with my family by the sea. What's in a sea, beach, or island? I'm not a swimmer but the sea is therapeutic, kind of a stress reliever for me. It also reminds me of the vastness of God's love and His awesome power.

Thank you, Lord, for your faithfulness to me. Your love never fails.

Sail On

"Life here on earth is a temporary assignment." - Rick Warren

They say that we are just like passing ships. Wherever we go and drop anchor, we learn something that makes our lives never the same again.

Life may have brought us disappointments, failures, discouragements, broken hearts and other negative thoughts and emotions but life goes on.

Along the way, we meet people who touch our lives one way or the other. Some become true friends. Most of them just acquaintances.

We are here in this world temporarily. We are not yet home.

Whatever happens, the Lord will never leave us nor forsake us. He always knows what's best for us.

Everything happens for a reason.

Quotable Quotes

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, and then be willing to live for them and die for them.
- John Piper

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln