Greetings!

The Lord gave me another year as a gift and I could not help but rather thankful. I am thankful for the most peaceful year ever. A year when I don’t need to be who I am not. I year when I don’t need to please anyone. A year when my worth is not based on how many people I have visited. A year when the very being inside of me is celebrated and accepted. A year when my silence isn’t considered as a curse. A year of being able to smell the roses. A year when I can sit in the staircase of the office and have the book as my company. A year when I am being respected totally as a human being and not for what I do for them. A year of an answered prayer when silence and solitude was once a dream but never a luxury.

Then goes the greetings of those who remembered. There were messages out from a genuine heart but there were those that fish for acknowledgment. To those who greeted me out from a genuine heart did not demand for acknowledgment but for those who greeted me from a conditional heart make an issue for my failure to acknowledge what seemed to be their expression of care.

“As for me, anything genuine don’t need an acknowledgment for real friendship isn’t measured of whether you are acknowledged or not, it is being measured by how still connected you are both in the heart.”

Sometimes, we see ourselves as a major contributor in people’s lives that we begin to think of putting someone in our own congested box. And in our quest for control, we become so narrow minded taking everything personally without even bothering the reason why after all.

To remember someone you have not seen for a long time is a risk. You risk to be rejected. You risk to be ignored. Nevertheless, because someone is so dear to you, you let go of what seemed to be an ignorance because deep within you is a bubble of real care and remembrance which will naturally comes out from a contented heart.

“Therefore, if for a reason you will be offended when you tried to care and seemed ignored, then how about risking for your genuine care not to be felt, after all, it isn’t about what the other person is responding about you but it’s about your respond over what God has commanded you.”

Your greetings were all appreciated but if in essence you greeted to be considered as highly important, then you are, it’s just that in life, we can’t get everything that we wanted but we are totally equipped for everything we need.

Tossed for a bigger, better, brighter year.

We Are Important

We are still in this world and the god of this world is working double time that we feel less in this world. The enemy would like us to think that we are no good. That we are simply average. That poverty is going to be our lot in life. That this world is only for the fortunate people who has been born with a silver platter on their mouth. That this world is only for those whose beauty pass the standard of beauty pageants. That unless we have someone we know as influential, promotion and success could be tough and hard to find.

Yes, everything above is true for the godless but not for the righteous. There is no other hope among the wicked and godless other than their own limited strength, limited knowledge, and temporary power. We have so much more in us than what the people in the world have. We have the Word of God as our back up. We have the Holy Spirit as our great comforter, and teacher. We have our great Father who has been our constant cheer leader since the day we were born. We are backed up by the King of Kings and the Lord of lords.

Yes, we may think that we are forgotten. We may consider where we are as our fate. We may be in the lowest rank or position. We may be serving someone for a long time. We may be in debt and it looks like its impossible to pay it all off. We may be heart broken and it looks like Mr. Right is elusive. We may be in a pit and it looks like there is no smooth place up ahead. Let us know then that we are never a mistake since the beginning. He enthusiastically welcomed us on the day of our birth. He has in mind our bright tomorrow. We are so important to Him to ever miss His calling over our lives.

When the accusing voices begin to say the impossibilities of our future, let us make a decision to go back to our Creator who is the Master of turning the impossible possible.

We have a Great God and that Great God is our Great Father too.

As the Book of Isaiah says in Isaiah 49:1 (NIV)
Listen to me, you islands; hear this, you distant nations: Before I was born the Lord called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name.

Thank you Lord! 🙂