He sings to me... (i'm sure the same goes to you)

This is the one song that moves me to tears these days...When i listen to this, i feel the Lord is singing the song to me.

[From an office mate's collection of favorite songs...] The song is based from one of my favorite verses - Isaiah 43.:)


I will come to you in the silence
I will lift you from all your fear
You will hear my voice
I claim you as my choice
Be still and know I am here...

I am hope for all who are hopeless
I am eyes for all who long to see
In the shadows of the night
I will be your light
Come and rest in me.

Do not be afraid, I am with you
I have called you each by name
Come and follow me
I will bring you home
I love you and you are mine.

I am strength for all the despairing,
healing for ones who dwell in shame
all the blind will see
the lame will all run free
and all will know my name

Do not be afraid, I am with you
I have called you each by name
Come and follow me
I will bring you home
I love you and you are mine.

I am the word that leads all to freedom
I am the peace the world cannot give
I will call your name
embracing all your pain
Stand up now, walk and live

Do not be afraid, I am with you
I have called you each by name
Come and follow me
I will bring you home
I love you and you are mine.

our calling...

"The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." - Frederick Buechner

pareho kami ni jaelene...:D

***You Are a Peacemaker Soul***


You strive to please others and compromise anyway you can.
War or conflict bothers you, and you would do anything to keep the peace.
You are a good mediator and a true negotiator.
Sometimes you do too much, trying so hard to make people happy.

While you keep the peace, you tend to be secretly judgmental.
You lose respect for people who don't like to both give and take.
On the flip side, you've got a graet sense of humor and wit.
You're always dimplomatic and able to give good advice.

Souls you are most compatible with: Warrior Soul, Hunter Soul and Visionary Soul


What Kind of Soul Are You?
http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofsoulareyouquiz/

Fort Ilocandia pics

here are some pics with sheba during our fort ilocandia trip..hehe.:D

some notes from our company's president

"It is good to break down things into manageable proportions and do them sequentially, one thing at a time. Unfortunately, we can do this with things, but not with people."

"The truth is that most of us have been seduced by the tools of modernity, thinking that in applying them we get to colonize that corner of reality we are seeking to manage or count."

We are highly breakable pots of clay, but there is this treasure within us. Inside this fragile, outer couver is an indestructible life. For as long as our work mediates that life, it shall endure"

by Melba Padilla Maggay

All I Really Need to know I learned in Kindergarten

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.
These are the things I learned:

* Share everything.
* Play fair.
* Don't hit people.
* Put things back where you found them.
* Clean up your own mess.
* Don't take things that aren't yours.
* Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
* Wash your hands before you eat.
* Flush.
* Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
* Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
* Take a nap every afternoon.
* When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
* Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
* Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
* And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

by Robert Fulghum

UPD Nav Alumni reunited

Last Wednesday was a mini-reunion for us, UPD Nav Alumni. Kuya Roovin, who now acts as our org President, called for a meeting to finalize our plans to do another "book drive" this year. This time, we are partnering with Compassion Int'l c/o Ate Jing Ocampo who will be in charge of connecting the group to a church in the Ifugao area. She also linked us with Trumpets (a theater group) and we have asked them to participate by doing an evangelistic show during the actual giving of books. Plans are starting to firm up and we are very excited for this event.



One of the joyful surprises during the meeting was to have Rheah Banatao-Garcia grace the meeting with her elegant presence! You could see in the looks on our faces in the photographs how happy we were to see each other. Good thing that by the time she arrived, the agenda was almost covered. Hehe! :D



Cheloy also managed to attend while she's in Indonesia. In the middle of the meeting, she called and the cellphone was passed around. We even took a picture of Jean talking to her just so we will have a proof that she was part of the meeting. KC, Abi and Trina also dropped by. Of course, we missed most of you... Kuya Jaime, Ate Nestine and Jaz, Tarts, Jay Arre, Erna, Ate Joy & Kuya Lem, Ate Rubelyn, Cleng, Andrey...and a lot more.



In the end, we agreed to meet weekly, devoting every other Wednesday for bible study and the remaining two Wednesdays for meetings/planning. I was kidding Kuya Roovin, saying we're just pressured because Kuya Jaime is coming back sooooonnnnn! But we know that deep in our hearts, we really are aching to commune with one another once again.:D