tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20513306568076715592024-03-19T01:31:06.252-07:00PRISCILLA TODAYWomen of worth and of service to His ministry & the marketplace, rediscovering Christ-Empowered Womanhood for such a time as this. By Hazel Paras šµšHazel Parashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10130620926340926937noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051330656807671559.post-14621998267914625352019-06-11T07:06:00.002-07:002019-06-11T07:06:37.402-07:00When Church becomes a Lonely Place, Be Alone with GodI grew up in the church. I studied in a Christian school. I danced to every Christian nursery rhymes in Sunday school. I attended a few youth camps. Years later, I even got engaged to one of the church's youth leader.<br />
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From afar, I could be the perfect candidate of a "church insider."<br />
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However, that was not the case for me. I did feel lonely inside the church.<br />
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"Fitting-in" the church was one of my biggest struggles. I always yearned for the sense of belonging, I always wondered if something was wrong with me. Why can't I seem to get into their "clique"? Why do I hear an imaginary choir of Mean Girls' "YOU CAN'T SIT WITH US!"whenever I enter the sanctuary?<br />
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See, I tried. I joined a special club in church for dancers/worshippers. I finished leadership trainings and I even humbled myself to attend an evangelical program, despite being a Christian born in a Christian family, and raised in a Christian school. I volunteered in Young Adults ministry and even hosted regularly. I changed myself in such a way that I felt the church would accept--I would copy how loud they would pray, how intense they would worship, how spiritual they would talk, how they would think--but it was like I was playing a character that wasn't me. I was just acting a role, wearing a mask. Because it was in that way, the members get promoted to "core" or "leaders" or simply, an insider.<br />
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Somehow, the more active I tried to become, the less my "fire" burned. The more I fit into the "cookie cutter," the more I lost sight of my unique DNA, of my self.<br />
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I was stressing about fitting-in with THEM, impressing THEM, understanding THEM, THEM, THEM.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> And realizing that, shook me to my core. </i></span></blockquote>
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From that split second of enlightenment, I knew I had to leave the "hype" of being "active"--I just needed to get away. I was crying every now and then in the hidden places. I felt so lost. I felt so far from myself. I felt so far from God.<br />
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I started asking questions like "What would be my real love language to God? How did God create ME to pray? How did GOD design ME to worship?"<br />
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I knew "template prayers" aren't God's thing. I knew He didn't care about volume. Or if I was bawling my eyes out or just being silent in prayer. I knew ALL HE WANTED WAS ME, AND MY HEART.<br />
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Just that. He wanted the real me stripped down to the most raw version of me--all sins out, all dirt exposed, my fears, my doubts, my dreams, my ambitions, my everything, and my honesty.<br />
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And for that moment, I uttered the most honest prayer I could ever say, no flowery words, no exaggerated words, not even a trace of theologyā¦<br />
And it was as simple as:<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">"Father, I'm lost. I'm tired too."</span></i></div>
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It was an oxymoronic reality, being inside the church and praying that prayer. But back then, all I heard was God's tiny still small voice tell me:<br />
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And I did. I broke away from the 'active church life,' I was more present at home with my family, I focused on my post-graduate schooling and graduated, I entered a new career, found lifetime-friends in my officemates (the kind of belonging I always desired for in the church), I got engaged to my loving now-fiancee, and things just naturally started to HAPPEN in my life.<br />
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I intentionally started my personal prayer and worship time, thinking I had to bring myself back to the way I would genuinely talk to my Father God, the way I would worship, and I had to unlearn some template words/music and I had to start anew.<br />
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Suddenly, I started to feel alive again. Life felt like spring, where there was blooming all around me. My career was promising, I had my own friends again, I was enjoying time with my family again, I was happily preparing to marry a wonderful man.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Most of all, I was enjoying a REAL RELATIONSHIP with The One Who Matters.</i></span><br />
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And in that season of intimacy with God, there was a comforting sense of familiarity brushing against the strings of my heart, and embracing me so tightly saying:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"You're back!"</i></span></div>
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Well, I haven't "really" gotten back to "the church life" yet, so I don't really know how to properly end this blog. I don't know if I'm ready yet. Maybe I'm scared of feeling alone again. I always wanted to write a proper blog with a proper ending (haha), but guess what, I'm still on this journey. This process seems like a loooooong way to go.<br />
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But I'm sure, so sure, that there so many of you out there, who could probably relate to me. Maybe you grew up in church, but you still feel like an outsider? Maybe you are even a Pastor's kid, who doesn't like being in church? Maybe you have been active in church before, until your fire burned out?<br />
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Whatever you went through, please know that you are not alone. Let's go through this together. You are not an outsider, you are definitely part of GOD'S FAMILY.<br />
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And when you feel lonely inside the walls of your church, take time to be ALONE and intimate with God. Remember, it is ONLY your relationship with Him that matters, and let everything come naturally.<br />
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Don't be in a rush. Let's take it one step at a time.<br />
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Hello everyone! How are you? It's already May and we are down to 6 months and 20 days before our wedding day!! Itās beginning to become a little busy for both me and my groom for all the wedding preparations and prePAYrations <span class="_5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t53/1/16/1f605.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">š
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We hope you had a beautiful day of rest with your families at home. </div>
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Speaking of home, Chaps and I would love to ask and request for you, our dearest guests, to utter a quiet prayer for us, as Chaps and I have just entered this season of preparing our HOUSE for our marriage. </div>
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1. Please pray for WISDOM as we face "adulting" decisions and responsibilities for our house, that we may always be reminded to seek God in every decision we make for the house we will be moving into after the wedding. </div>
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2. Please pray for PROVISIONS. Before you will be hearing our Wedding Bells, Chaps and I are currently hearing Wedding BILLS HAHA but we believe PAYables are also PRAYables. (Please excuse my puns) We thank the Lord for His provision as we overcome our financial needs for both our wedding and our house at the same time! </div>
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3. We are praying for MINISTRY. Staying true to our verse Ecclesiastes 4:12, <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/youmeandjesus?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #365899; font-family: inherit; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: inherit;">YouMeAndJesus</span></span></a>, we pray that our wedding and our marriage most especially, will be a living testimony of that verse, and that everything we do as a couple will radiate with God's presence in our lives. </div>
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Your prayers will surely go a long way. Our hearts are just thankful that you have allowed us to be part of your lives. We're so excited to finally give you our formal invites! </div>
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Hazel Parashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10130620926340926937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051330656807671559.post-16073224859195671752018-06-22T23:30:00.000-07:002019-06-03T06:18:04.790-07:00I'M ENGAGED! #ChappyEverAfterWithHazel<div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
The Proposal Story & kinda-Our Story</div>
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MY DEAREST FIANCĆE,</div>
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Alam kong hindi ka mahilig magbasa ng mahahabang post kaya open letter na lang para mabasa rin ng iba <span class="_47e3 _5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;" title="smile emoticon"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t4c/1/16/1f642.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span aria-hidden="true" class="_7oe" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">:)</span></span>)</div>
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I woke up that day completely unassuming and clueless about everything that was going to happen that night. It was our 3rd anniversary and I knew it was going to be just another ordinary day aheadācommute, work, meetings, work, commute, event, home, sleep. You told me ahead of time that you were very very very sorry about being busy for work on our anniversary day and that we could celebrate the next day instead. I thought, āNot again.ā I was pretty smad (sad na mad haha) about it, signs of my tampo couldnāt help but show, especially a few days before haha.</div>
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Fast forward to that night, I was on my way to a ādebut eventā your mom had organised and asked me to host. They were just too nice to even fetch me from work. </div>
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On the way there, since it was our anniversary, I couldnāt help but sit still, keep quiet and think about the rollercoaster weāve been through togetherāboth the ups and downs, the twists and turns, the sudden drops, the fun and finally reaching to a point where our journey got stable, progressively heading forward and upward. I recounted our days as classmates in grade-school, in high-school <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=414836055712&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARCb_wNEtDZpJpCwdIxYplWS5pOyA5EDvQYxK7-RGbugdJ9YxIMQvgv7CWVCkIY-z6gYCmZPKFe16KJO%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/JesusFlockAcademy/?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARCb_wNEtDZpJpCwdIxYplWS5pOyA5EDvQYxK7-RGbugdJ9YxIMQvgv7CWVCkIY-z6gYCmZPKFe16KJO&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARA5MLj38Z-I5-av0vPTLEIB6UAQXB_vh8pbElHmIioIvYQY4iFa8POOX2lnGynkT_YbWt-T8xlO9IkxOpSaqosSgrkdrc2bIjVkaW5ySV1aRlH-8mzmE885qKGnSscjyVRCwtROCZof_YxAnx2vyOYHTvWJk91xriVEYKYZi4wspGxt4pJTl0bM_a3vyE-V3730ONDL-ZfIopo7xA" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Jesus' Flock Academy (Marikina)</a>, then meeting each other again on our on-the-job training during college in <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=118850004031&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARC_IRTJhyn7AI1U4G-Yi19xRkEzwBp8whNn24KytPQwX8261Z_l953GsthQG8nuseleGQw0w-INn7Gm%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/AranetaCenter/?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARC_IRTJhyn7AI1U4G-Yi19xRkEzwBp8whNn24KytPQwX8261Z_l953GsthQG8nuseleGQw0w-INn7Gm&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARA5MLj38Z-I5-av0vPTLEIB6UAQXB_vh8pbElHmIioIvYQY4iFa8POOX2lnGynkT_YbWt-T8xlO9IkxOpSaqosSgrkdrc2bIjVkaW5ySV1aRlH-8mzmE885qKGnSscjyVRCwtROCZof_YxAnx2vyOYHTvWJk91xriVEYKYZi4wspGxt4pJTl0bM_a3vyE-V3730ONDL-ZfIopo7xA" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;">The Araneta Center</a> and then meeting each other again in <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=852979451420493&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARAUpAQTZQ6XA6gD-1K2ejcE0u2QHAg6M6pUXrJB8q9p5PLCSnF5DCGTVV6zD6D_YIoasIMJli8CrwoU%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/JesusFlockGateway/?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARAUpAQTZQ6XA6gD-1K2ejcE0u2QHAg6M6pUXrJB8q9p5PLCSnF5DCGTVV6zD6D_YIoasIMJli8CrwoU&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARA5MLj38Z-I5-av0vPTLEIB6UAQXB_vh8pbElHmIioIvYQY4iFa8POOX2lnGynkT_YbWt-T8xlO9IkxOpSaqosSgrkdrc2bIjVkaW5ySV1aRlH-8mzmE885qKGnSscjyVRCwtROCZof_YxAnx2vyOYHTvWJk91xriVEYKYZi4wspGxt4pJTl0bM_a3vyE-V3730ONDL-ZfIopo7xA" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Jesus' Flock Church</a>. I laughed to myself about those times where God crossed both our paths together, many times in that timeline, but we did not even bother to look at or mind each other. </div>
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Itās amazing to think that if weāve ever fallen in love with each other in an earlier time, with all our baggages, struggles and emotional immaturities, we might have not ended up with each other. And this beautiful relationship we have right now may not have happened anymore. God mustāve put up something like an invisible wall between us during those times, so that we can have a glimpse of each otherās lives from afar, until He saw that both of us were ready.</div>
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Little did we know, years and years later, the time our eyes finally met and stayed there a little longerāthat was Godās perfect timing taking place. </div>
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I sat in the car, wishing you were there so I can hug you like ādi na ako tampo babe HAHA jkā. And then, my mind got distracted from memory lane as beside me was Bebe Chumchum, scratching my purse with her chubby hand and looking at me with eyes that could actually pierce your soul. And before I knew it, we have already arrived the ādebutanteās venue.ā The view was nice, so serene by a wide lake with a bluish pink sky. It's a navy blue and rosegold sky (wink) haha! Itās pretty!</div>
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Things got weird for awhile. </div>
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A split second as I got off from the car, a lapel was attached to me. WHAT IS HAPPENING? As I walked, I was asked to wear this pair of gloves because the debutās theme was āprincess.ā OKAY COOL, SURE. BUT WHAT IS HAPPENING? Ate Kylie and Tita Cel (Chapsā Mom) tied a long pinkish white dress on me. TITA, ANO PONG MERON? (I couldnāt hear her answer)Then this place was next, with music playing, a projector flashing my photos from my childhood, and rose petals all over, Ate Maine gave me rose and told me it was from Bebe<br />
Chumchumā¦ AAWWW ANONG NANGYAYARI?<br />
She escorted my to a seat in front of the projector. HAH?<br />
Think I finally got what was happening? NOPE.</div>
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From the back, my MOM came to me and put a tiara on my head. OKAY I GOT IT. THIS IS AN ANNIVERSARY SURPRISE! </div>
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āAwww, this is such a ma-effort anniversary. Pero wala ka namanā I thought.</div>
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The next thing I knew, you tapped me on the back and when I looked at you, you were bawling your eyes out crying!</div>
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Then I cried and cried, while you were making this sweetest speech about our journey together, and I was so shocked because no one has ever surprised me like this. Super effort! My knees got weaker as I fell more in love with a man in front of me who was being sooo sweet, kasi diba itās just another anniversaāoh, why are you kneeling na?</div>
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Then you pulled out a ring. </div>
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COMPLETELY DUMBFOUNDED, I said āTotoo ba?ā<br />
Then I held out my hand for the ring, and forgot to say YES muna haha</div>
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The rest is history. Everything was just too perfect to even describe! Iām just so blown away by the love present in each and everyone, from both our families and our friends, that were there physically and spiritually to witness this miracle, that is our relationship. (If people knew our story, they would say that our relationship was indeed a miracle.) There is just so much joy, love and peace overflowing from me! And I know that is because we are living right in the palm of Godās hand and that is the best place we could ever be. I know in my heart that God has orchestrated our friendship into our relationship and into the marriage we are about to enter. I know marriage can be intimidating, but knowing this: āYOU, ME & GOD. A cord of three strands is not easily broken!ā </div>
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I look forward to the wedding preparations and to the rest of our lives full-on without fears. Because truly, perfect love casts out fear!</div>
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I'm so blessed to have been surrounded with so much intellectual, emotional, physical and spiritual support. (Yung financial kasi kapit lang sa sarili haha and kay God haha!) Thank you Ms Faye @fayeyoingco you have not only been my very hands-on thesis adviser but you have also been a real friend and a stage mother. You have gone ABOVE AND BEYOND! <span class="_47e3 _5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;" title="smile emoticon"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t4c/1/16/1f642.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span aria-hidden="true" class="_7oe" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">:)</span></span>) also thank you Sir Bagaman for saying yes to being my Critique Reader, the OC-kind-of editing and criticing has really helped me a lot in improving the flow and structure of my content. And to Dr. Acosta and Ms. Garcia for being there for me as panel members ever since my College Thesis up to my MA Thesis. I wonder if you will still be my panelists in my PHD Thesis. What. Haha! Why am I suddenly making a grad speech. Thesis speech palang toh! Haha Thank you Mama and @gisdotselle for keeping up with my moodswings at home whenever I'm stressed out with thesis and Giselle for offering me Mcdo Iced Coffee pero ako magbabayad. And to my bebe @charlescarino for actually helping me out with my thesis!! <span class="_5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t75/1/16/1f618.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">š</span></span> and my SantĆ© officemates too for cheering me on! And Tita Minette for opening doors for me to be able to excel in my study <span class="_47e3 _5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;" title="smile emoticon"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t4c/1/16/1f642.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span aria-hidden="true" class="_7oe" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">:)</span></span> God has been so faithful for making everything fall into place!</div>
Hazel Parashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10130620926340926937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051330656807671559.post-33717530148268636882016-08-12T01:56:00.000-07:002016-08-12T01:56:13.162-07:00Harley Quinn VS. Holy Queen <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hazel Parashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10130620926340926937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051330656807671559.post-69021344089345176412016-06-28T05:28:00.003-07:002016-06-28T05:54:39.261-07:00Things You Need to Know About Introverts Like Me<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And it took me (like) about 23 years for me to discover that I am not the extrovert that I've always believed myself to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So now, whenever I tell people "I'm an introvert"--all I usually get as a response are doubtful smirks that almost feel like "WEH?" or sarcastic laughs that very much tell me "WHATEVER, ZEL."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But again, YES. I am an introvert. And there are so many (misunderstood) people like me who are very comfortable in public speaking and being friendly with various types of people...but are the same time, introverts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And if you find yourself having close friends who are my type of introverts, these are the things you'll need to be aware of to understand them (well, us) better:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think the first thing you'll need to know is...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>1. INTROVERT AND SHYNESS ARE NOT SYNONYMOUS.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm not shy. In Tagalog, <em>wala akong hiya</em>. Haha!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can be the giggling, talkative, bubbly girl who dances at random places and at random times. Okay, you get the picture. And Iām not afraid of people, BUT being around too many people for too long always leaves me feeling drained. When I talk to many people, I can be my real best energetic self, but when I get home, I drop dead. As in like a dead battery!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Sometimes, when I hangout with too many people for toooooooooooo long, I run out of energy and spiral into silence and my mind is already doing other stuff...like, I don't know. Probably contemplating about life or something to that effect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I discovered that I was the type of person who needed "purpose" for every interaction I make. Which leads me to my second point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>2. INTROVERTS LIKE ME LOVE CONVERSATIONS, BUT HATE SMALL TALK.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">As much as my witty-self loves joking around (I mean I love puns and I have my <em>kulit-likot-daldal</em> moments), I have to be honest that introverts like me prefer REAL conversations with REAL substance rather than just small talk that are just full of <em>'banats' 'joke-joking'</em> and stuff. I didn't mean it like we love to be "serious", but we just love to have a purposeful time with people. We're (over) thinkers and we get energized by heavier conversations about life, you know....ideas, life goals, theories....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We're good listeners and most of us are great at giving advices. In my case, I've noticed that in every interview I make (especially back in my magazine-days), I've always had that strength to transform a chit-chat interview into a real life talk <em>ala Boy Abunda</em>, where the people I interview suddenly open up their life views, up to their tear-jerking feelings and their past stories to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Just as I love reading books and discovering stories, I also love interviewing people and discovering their real stories. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Basically, I love substance!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>3. WE CAN HAVE AS MANY FRIENDS AS WE WANT, BUT WE REALLY HAVE FEW ONES WE TRUST AND KEEP CLOSE</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I can be chummy with everybody so easily but it honestly really takes a little more while for me to really bring down my walls and be open to someone and trust them with my feelings, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">thoughts and opinions. It's like we are NOT anti-social but we're probably selectively-social.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It takes a little more warming up for me to really be open. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>4. INTROVERTS LIKE ME DON'T GET BORED ALONE. AT ALL.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My mind is a very VERY twisted place. If you go inside my mind, it is probably exploding with colors, ideas, random thoughts, life questions, memories, imaginations, choreographies, unicorns and weird stuff. In most of my friends' words to describe me: "<em>malikot ang utak</em>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">My alone time has gotten me to write stories, to paint, to choreograph, to think of advertising ideas, to ACTUALLY meditate on His Word and see things in a fresh perspective, my alone time has gotten me to question life, to imagine my future, and to just end up sleeping--and most of all, my alone time has gotten me to write this blog! :P </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">This fourth point already supports my fifth point which is:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>5. INTROVERTS LIKE ME ARE MOSTLY CREATIVE AND ARTISTIC. BECAUSE WE KINDA OVERTHINK.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I have my silent moments. I swear I can't believe I can't even control my silence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">But in my silence, it doesn't mean I am not paying attention, my silence usually means I AM PAYING TOO MUCH ATTENTION. Yup. I'm overthinking what just happened or what has been said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">And because I am paying TOO MUCH attention and my mind runs wild, I collect a lot of information. I pick bits and pieces of information everywhere. I am helplessly a silent <em>chismosa</em>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">And all these information I get make me feel something. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">And that feeling inspires me to write something, or do something maybe artistically. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>6. INTROVERTS LIKE ME ARE VERY OBSERVANT!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">My keen observance with people has gotten the best of me in acting and impersonating people. Hahaha! If we're close, I can probably impersonate you already! :D MEHE.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I could add more to the list, but these are just the first few things I can only think of. If you feel like adding more points to this, you could share me your thoughts on the comment sections below :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">So my point is, actually <em>wala akong</em> point (<em>charot</em>). My point is, we need to understand each other more and we need to be aware that there's not really like a specific set of traits limited to either if you're an introvert or an extrovert.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Just like in every clichƩ, everyone is unique and everyone deserves to be understood better. Just because you're not a shy person, doesn't mean you are automatically an extrovert. Just because you're talkative and bubbly (like me), doesn't necessarily make you an extrovert. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It's just that we all have different ways of keeping ourselves energized and we shouldn't force others to think the same way as we are. Or we shouldn't judge them for feeling tired or for being too <em>makulit</em>. I don't know where this paragraph is going...so before I get lost in my thoughts (again), just like to say thank you for stumbling into this blog and giving some minutes of your life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">'Til next time,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Chiao!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br />Hazel Parashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10130620926340926937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051330656807671559.post-91294529542666124512016-03-22T01:22:00.000-07:002016-03-22T01:37:18.995-07:00My two-cents: Unlabeled Relationships <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So it's been a while since I last wrote in this blog(....that nobody reads.) </span><i style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Y</i><i style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">eah yeah, I'm okay with that.</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (ugly cries)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I was thinking about what to write about for now in this blog (...that nobody reads), I thought that maybe we should discuss about important things that weigh a lot......................</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ME! </span><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There goes my self-esteem jokes. And I cannot handle it.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first thing that comes up to mind is (<i>ba-dum-tss!)</i> Unlabeled relationships that remain unlabeled for too long. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. So here's mine: Unlabeled relationships shouldn't even be considered a relationship in the first place. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hold your horses, I know many would disagree, I suggest you write your thoughts on the comments below. </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm just blessed that God blessed me with a mature and loving boyfriend who was man enough to define our relationship to our families, friends, our church and most of all, the world! The universe, rather. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We all pretty much know that there's always someone who is usually always playing the
guessing game in un-labeled relationships. And that is never fair..especially
nowadays, that the "trend" is "<i>Parang tayo pero hindi</i>." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Usually the woman gets confused whether she is supposed to act as if she is
still being courted (thus, a little <i>pakipot</i>) or if she should act like a
girlfriend already (because that's what guys in un-labelled relationship always
demand/expect from the girl) The thing about labels is similar to "knowing
your job description." Or else, you're lost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People are scared of labels because they don't want the
commitment yet or they don't feel like holding a responsibility yet. They are
scared of the "job description." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kumbaga, mga "interns"
lang. "Try k<i>o lang ganern</i>" or <i>baka ma-</i>Sam Milby <i>ka</i>: "I never
said, that I love you"....<i>Charot</i>.....<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And if you feel like you are still scared of labels, then
you are not ready for a relationship yet. THEN DO NOT ENTER ONE. Unless, you
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No one deserves to be left hanging. Everyone of us deserves to know where we stand in someone's life.
People may say that 'Labels are just mere words and the important thing is you
know the feelings and understand your importance to someone. Blah blah.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BUT putting a
label would determine your boundaries on expressing your self to the other
person. It is as important as your feelings to someone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Moving from <u>Grief</u> to <u>Grace</u>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When tragedy strikes, questions just start to follow. And it's just honest to admit that there are those moments in life where we feel like God isn't making any sense...like, failure in an important exam you've prepared for so long, loss of friendship, being cheated on, abuse, bankruptcy, betrayal by the person you love the most, diagnosis of a terminal disease, death of a loved one, and the list goes on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mine was when I dealt with the death of my own father. I remember that exact moment at the 2nd floor of Philippine Heart Center, I was running towards mom who was talking tearfully to the nurse beside her...my heart was beating so fast, I knew my mom was about to tell me something...something that will scar me forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And there, I screamed. You know how it felt? Every part of my mind, my body, my heart, my spirit, my soul--every molecule of my being just ached from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet. It was if every cell in me was desperately screaming in protest, "NO! NO! NO! NO! TELL ME YOU ARE LYING! THIS CANNOT BE TRUE!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That has already been four years ago. Until now the pain of it remains real. Sometimes, I still sleep in tear-stained pillows. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But there's a great thing called "grace" and "purpose" that strengthens me to smile in the morning. Life goes on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This morning I woke up to a heartbreaking news that infantile leukemia took the precious life of an 8 month-old baby (the only daughter of one of our faithful church workers). And I sat on my bed blankly, wondering...WHY?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are the moments one can't help but cry out to God and ask Him real (and somehow rude) questions...like, "Why are You not making sense to me anymore?" "What happened to Your miracles?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I pause and ask myself..."Wait. Is it even legal to ask God these questions?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But then in the process of moving from GRIEF to GRACE, one's first step is <b>ASKING QUESTIONS. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good news is...</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GOD UNDERSTANDS MY QUESTIONS.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are so blessed that the God that we serve is not a kind of merciless god who will send a glorious thunder to strike down anyone who ever doubts and questions him...but rather, our God is a God that is full of mercy, love and understanding. God is a father who will embrace us and wipe our tears and tell you, "Andito lang Ako." God will listen to our questions--no matter how rude it may even seem to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because God understands us when we do not understand our circumstances. God wants to hear our hearts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Even Job asked these kind of questions</u>, when he lost his family as well as his health and possessions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At one point in Job 3:21, Job asked God, "Why is light given to him in misery, and life to the bitter of soul?"</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then in Job 6:11 he asks, "What strength do I have that I should even hope in You?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And in Job 10:3, "Does it seem good to You that You should allow pain and persecution?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And what makes his story interesting is that God didn't answer him right away. It took a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And He did. He answered in an unexpected way. God turns the tables and asked Job questions as well:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="text Job-38-2" id="en-NIV-13796" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">āWho is this that obscures my plans<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13796C" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13796C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">with words without knowledge?<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13796D" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13796D" title="See cross-reference D">D</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Job-38-3" id="en-NIV-13797" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">3 </span>Brace yourself like a man;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-3" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">I will question you,</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-3" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">and you shall answer me.<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13797E" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13797E" title="See cross-reference E">E</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="text Job-38-4" id="en-NIV-13798" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">4 </span>āWhere were you when I laid the earthās foundation?<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13798F" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13798F" title="See cross-reference F">F</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Tell me, if you understand.<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13798G" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13798G" title="See cross-reference G">G</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Job-38-5" id="en-NIV-13799" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">5 </span>Who marked off its dimensions?<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13799H" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13799H" title="See cross-reference H">H</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> Surely you know!</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Who stretched a measuring line<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13799I" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13799I" title="See cross-reference I">I</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> across it?</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Job-38-6" id="en-NIV-13800" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">6 </span>On what were its footings set,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13800J" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13800J" title="See cross-reference J">J</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-6" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">or who laid its cornerstone<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13800K" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13800K" title="See cross-reference K">K</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>ā</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Job-38-7" id="en-NIV-13801" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">7 </span>while the morning stars<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13801L" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13801L" title="See cross-reference L">L</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> sang together<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13801M" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13801M" title="See cross-reference M">M</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-7" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">and all the angels<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NIV-13801a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-13801a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job%2038#fen-NIV-13801a" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b34b2c; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13801N" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13801N" title="See cross-reference N">N</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> shouted for joy?<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13801O" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13801O" title="See cross-reference O">O</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="text Job-38-8" id="en-NIV-13802" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">8 </span>āWho shut up the sea behind doors<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13802P" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13802P" title="See cross-reference P">P</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">when it burst forth from the womb,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13802Q" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13802Q" title="See cross-reference Q">Q</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Job-38-9" id="en-NIV-13803" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">9 </span>when I made the clouds its garment</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">and wrapped it in thick darkness,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13803R" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13803R" title="See cross-reference R">R</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Job-38-10" id="en-NIV-13804" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">10 </span>when I fixed limits for it<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13804S" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13804S" title="See cross-reference S">S</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">and set its doors and bars in place,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13804T" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13804T" title="See cross-reference T">T</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Job-38-11" id="en-NIV-13805" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">11 </span>when I said, āThis far you may come and no farther;<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13805U" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13805U" title="See cross-reference U">U</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-11" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">here is where your proud waves haltā?<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13805V" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13805V" title="See cross-reference V">V</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="text Job-38-12" id="en-NIV-13806" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">12 </span>āHave you ever given orders to the morning,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13806W" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13806W" title="See cross-reference W">W</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-12" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">or shown the dawn its place,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13806X" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13806X" title="See cross-reference X">X</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Job-38-13" id="en-NIV-13807" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">13 </span>that it might take the earth by the edges</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-13" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">and shake the wicked<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13807Y" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13807Y" title="See cross-reference Y">Y</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> out of it?<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13807Z" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13807Z" title="See cross-reference Z">Z</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Job-38-14" id="en-NIV-13808" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">14 </span>The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13808AA" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13808AA" title="See cross-reference AA">AA</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-14" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">its features stand out like those of a garment.</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Job-38-15" id="en-NIV-13809" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">15 </span>The wicked are denied their light,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13809AB" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13809AB" title="See cross-reference AB">AB</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-15" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">and their upraised arm is broken.<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13809AC" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13809AC" title="See cross-reference AC">AC</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="text Job-38-16" id="en-NIV-13810" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">16 </span>āHave you journeyed to the springs of the sea</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-16" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">or walked in the recesses of the deep?<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13810AD" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13810AD" title="See cross-reference AD">AD</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Job-38-17" id="en-NIV-13811" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">17 </span>Have the gates of death<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13811AE" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13811AE" title="See cross-reference AE">AE</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> been shown to you?</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-17" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13811AF" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13811AF" title="See cross-reference AF">AF</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Job-38-18" id="en-NIV-13812" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">18 </span>Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13812AG" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13812AG" title="See cross-reference AG">AG</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-18" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Tell me, if you know all this.<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13812AH" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13812AH" title="See cross-reference AH">AH</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="text Job-38-19" id="en-NIV-13813" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">19 </span>āWhat is the way to the abode of light?</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-19" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">And where does darkness reside?<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13813AI" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13813AI" title="See cross-reference AI">AI</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Job-38-20" id="en-NIV-13814" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">20 </span>Can you take them to their places?</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-20" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Do you know the paths<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13814AJ" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13814AJ" title="See cross-reference AJ">AJ</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> to their dwellings?</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Job-38-21" id="en-NIV-13815" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">21 </span>Surely you know, for you were already born!<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13815AK" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13815AK" title="See cross-reference AK">AK</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-21" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">You have lived so many years!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="text Job-38-37" id="en-NIV-13831" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">37 </span>Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-37" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Who can tip over the water jars<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13831BJ" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13831BJ" title="See cross-reference BJ">BJ</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> of the heavens<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13831BK" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13831BK" title="See cross-reference BK">BK</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Job-38-38" id="en-NIV-13832" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">38 </span>when the dust becomes hard<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13832BL" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13832BL" title="See cross-reference BL">BL</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-38" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">and the clods of earth stick together?<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13832BM" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13832BM" title="See cross-reference BM">BM</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="text Job-38-39" id="en-NIV-13833" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">39 </span>āDo you hunt the prey for the lioness</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-39" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">and satisfy the hunger of the lions<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13833BN" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13833BN" title="See cross-reference BN">BN</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Job-38-40" id="en-NIV-13834" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">40 </span>when they crouch in their dens<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13834BO" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13834BO" title="See cross-reference BO">BO</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-40" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">or lie in wait in a thicket?<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13834BP" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13834BP" title="See cross-reference BP">BP</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Job-38-41" id="en-NIV-13835" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">41 </span>Who provides food<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13835BQ" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13835BQ" title="See cross-reference BQ">BQ</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> for the raven<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13835BR" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13835BR" title="See cross-reference BR">BR</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-41" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">when its young cry out to God</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-41" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">and wander about for lack of food?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 2;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God's answer to Job (actually, God's questions to Job) all point out to this: "I am sovereign. I am powerful. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;">And I know what I am doing. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 2;">I am love. I love you, my child, I understand your pain. Give me your pain. Be still and just let me be the God of your life."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 2;">It's okay to cry out of weakness and hopelessness in prayer...as long as it is in prayer. Because in prayer, we can be real to ourselves and God will surely be real to you. There are things we will never understand of course. Our ability to understand is only that of a human. And there are questions where answers will not be found during our lifetime. Sometimes, your questions will be the mystery that will motivate and inspire us to keep seeking the Face of God. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 2;">But the greatest comfort of it all is that God is real. Heaven is real. Eternity is real. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The miracle wasn't my father getting healed from heart disease and surviving cardiac arrest, the miracle was Mom, my little sister and I being able to stand back up in our feet to not only move <u>forward</u> with our lives, but to also move <u>upward</u> in our lives! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 2;">And what ever our life questions may be, Jesus is the answer. And it is Jesus (and Jesus only) who can carry you through the toughest times in life. So whenever you feel like God doesn't make any sense, whenever you feel impatient about God not answering your prayers, remember to put it all in prayers and in prayers only, do not let it turn you to things that will only harm you, "Above all else, it is the peace of God which surpasses all understanding that will guard your heart and your minds in Christ Jesus." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ONWARD AND UPWARDS! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 2;"><br /></span>Hazel Parashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10130620926340926937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051330656807671559.post-10382135520784150692016-01-11T21:57:00.000-08:002016-01-11T21:57:02.423-08:00Reality Bites<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-PH"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So now that the whole happy āreindeer-riding,
gift-giving, bells-ringing, families-eating, more than 8 hours-sleepingā season
has finally come to an end, we can hear almost everyone whine and say, āHay
nako, back to reality nanaman,ā as we drag ourselves at 6am in the morning
to work or school, or worse, back in the most hated inevitable route that is
āEDSA.ā</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Back to reality. </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We wonder why
those words have so much negativity in it, like...why is it so hard for us to
find joy in ārealityā? When we say
reality, what comes to our mind? Some say their reality is their stressful
workload, some say itās their demanding bosses; for some, reality is going back
to their ordinary āblahā days; for couples, reality is coming back from a happy
honeymoon and facing real life problems like bills, jobs, house chores, and the
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<span lang="EN-PH"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While those things are part of
reality, yes, didnāt it ever cross our mind that our reality is also God? And
that God is the biggest part of our reality? And He alone is already an enough
reason for us to smile whenever we say the words āback to reality.ā<br /><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember the story of Peter and
Jesus walking on water? Peterās reality was the deep wild waters and the
violent winds whirling against him; but what was his reality? Jesus was there.
Matthew 14: 27-33 quotes:</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-PH">Jesus said, āTake courage <span class="woj">It is I. Donāt be afraid.ā</span></span><span class="text"><b><sup><span lang="EN-PH">28 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span lang="EN-PH">āLord, if itās you,ā Peter
replied, ātell me to come to you on the water.ā</span></span><span class="woj"><b><sup><span lang="EN-PH">29 </span></sup></b></span><span class="woj"><span lang="EN-PH">āCome,ā</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-PH"> </span></span><span class="text"><span lang="EN-PH">he said. Then Peter got down out
of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-PH"> </span></span><span class="text"><b><sup><span lang="EN-PH">30 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span lang="EN-PH">But when he saw the wind, he was
afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, āLord, save me!ā </span></span><span class="text"><b><sup><span lang="EN-PH">31 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span lang="EN-PH">Immediately Jesus reached out his
hand and caught him.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-PH"> </span></span><span class="woj"><span lang="EN-PH">āYou of little faith,ā</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-PH"> </span></span><span class="text"><span lang="EN-PH">he said,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-PH"> </span></span><span class="woj"><span lang="EN-PH">āwhy did you doubt?ā </span></span><span class="text"><b><sup><span lang="EN-PH">32 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span lang="EN-PH">And when they climbed into the
boat, the wind died down.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-PH"> </span></span><span class="text"><b><sup><span lang="EN-PH">33 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span lang="EN-PH">Then those who were in the boat
worshiped him, saying, āTruly you are the Son of God.ā</span></span></span></i></div>
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<span class="text"><span lang="EN-PH"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This story demonstrates
the importance of being grounded on the Word of Godāto be confident to declare
to yourself that His Word is my reality. Godās promises are my reality. Take
your eyes off your current circumstances and look unto Jesus, and there you
will see how God is working in your lifeāhow will see how these circumstances
can lead you to the destiny that He has for you!</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span lang="EN-PH"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is time we live in the reality of God, His Word and His promises! </span></span></span><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hazel Parashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10130620926340926937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051330656807671559.post-7007607625481846572016-01-10T07:33:00.000-08:002016-01-11T23:48:27.037-08:00Happy All Things New! <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead of greeting you a "Happy New Year!," please allow me to be do it differently, as I welcome you in a season of "Happy All Things New!" </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let me start my first blog entry of
2016 by asking you this question: How was the twelve months of 2015 to you?
What were the changes that took place in your life this year?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Personally, 2015 felt like the wrecking
ball of my lifeānot that it was the ādestructiveā wrecking, but it was more
like a <u>purposeful</u> wrecking that fearlessly eradicated all the old
things, the past struggles and all the issues around me left without closure
yet. It was a wrecking that guaranteed the change I was looking forāmy lifeās
greatest renovationā¦the promise of <u>ALL THINGS NEW</u>ā¦a newly built fortress
where I find real security and stability. And this, I claim in 2016!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But honestly, of course, the āwreckingā
process was definitely NOT an easy feat. Iāve found myself dealing with bigger
issues and more complicated circumstances that I never thought I would face. It
was a kind of season where I was kind of living day to dayā¦wondering where I
was heading to, if I was going anywhere, if I could still take it the next
daysāit was a kind of season that brings on excitement, but also extreme
anxiety and itās like you never feel like youāre standing on solid ground. Everyday
of 2015, things just came up one after the other, blessings from God and
attacks of the enemy came one after the other. Itās like one day I feel happy
and contented and the next day, itās all fears and insecurities. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then eventually, Iāve discovered the most
efficient and encouraging formula for getting through the season of wrecking
(and I hope it will encourage you whenever you find yourself in the middle of
your own āwreckingā season). And the
answer isā¦ā¦to keep in tuned with your spiritual senses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay. Pause, hold on. I think it mightāve
sounded a bit too spiritual, but itās actually really simple! And in Pastor
Jerome Ocampoās preaching last Sunday, I think he explained thoroughly yet comprehensively
how it is to ākeep in tuned with your spiritual sensesāāhow to look beyond what
the eye can see.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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trapped in, always look at Godās viewpoint. He is above, so he looks ABOVE your
problemsā¦so do not look AT your problems, but look ABOVE your problems. See to
it that there is a greater purpose for the wrecking. Wrecking balls smash
buildings down to pieces but they are what architects and engineers need if
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do yourself a favor and admit to yourself your old bad habits, struggles and issues that held you back from fully grasping the "new things" God has for you! If you keep holding on to those things, you are (at the same time), delaying yourself from reaching your own destiny. </span><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The more you play, the more you delay. </b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let your problems wreck every
old things you had a hard time letting go of. If you are struggling with
sicknesses, let it help you let go of the unhealthy lifestyle or habits you
were once living. If you are struggling with emotional pain, let it help you
let go of your insecurities and let it push you to seek security and intimacy
in the love of God. It itās financial problems, let it wreck your habit of
worrying with the amount of money left in your little bank account and let it
help you build a trusting relationship with the unlimited resources of your
Provider through seizing every opportunity to save and grow your money. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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issues your situations are exposing, then <b>WRECK WHAT HAS TO BE WRECKED, BUILD
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>"Wreckings" in life are actually blessings in disguise.</b> It leaves you with no choice but to build again from scratch. It frees you from your chains or "attachments" to the old habits, old cycles, old struggles. It crashes down your walls to show you that there is more outside your little comfort zone. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">So whenever you feel like going through these "wreckings," look beyond your situation and see how you can improve from it. But for now, I invite you to ask yourselves: </span>What changes have you been praying for this 2016? What are the old habits you need to wreck down? What are the new habits you need to build? What are the old issues you need to deal with and close? What are the new things in your life that you have to strengthen and flourish? </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How will you PUSH yourself to make every single day in 2016 a step closer to the person that God has destined you to be? What can you accomplish today that will help you accomplish your biggest goal for the year?<br /><br />Because you know that God cannot hand you something new, unless you let go of what you were holding onto, right?</span></div>
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like 2015, 2016 holds so much more for usāblessings and trials, laughter and
pains, victories and setbacks. And as a church, we surely are all in this
together! AS ONE! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forgivenessāsuch an abused, over-used underrated word that takes a second to utter, but takes
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because even when JUST the memory of that offense done
to us suddenly comes back again, we can't help but suddenly feel exactly the
pain we've felt before. </span></div>
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world seems so unfair because it's not even our fault. It's like picking up the
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Macadangdang talked about 'The Power of Forgiveness' last Sunday, I sat there
thinking to myself: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So is it really
possible to forgive? How can forgiveness restore whatever has been ruined? How are
we sure that we have already forgiven the person when the pain of the offense
done still hurts the same? </i></span></span><br />
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we've been doing it wrong. Maybe we mistakenly think we've already forgiven
when we've brushed all the offenses and hurts under the rug (in Filipino
"<i>pinalalampas na lang</i>")...but this is where roots of bitterness
starts to take over, this is where 'hurts' become 'inner hurts' which will be
harder to deal with. What if one day,
every pain we've brushed off under the rug blows up destructively in our faces?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">This is NOT the
kind of "forgiveness" that God has called us to. It was an 'AHA!'
moment when Ptr. John pointed out a verse in Ephesians 4:32 that says we are
called to "forgive one another as God in </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Christ forgave you."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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did Christ forgive us? Look back at the cross. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus forgave us, not minding the pain He had
to suffer for us, because of a bigger purpose...and that is to spare us from
Hell, to give us eternal life and to open a way to God. No matter how many
times we break His heart, Jesus chases us with forgiveness. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rather than magnifying the pain the person caused you, LOOK AT THE BIGGER PURPOSE of forgiving. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Magnifying on the pain and nursing the bitterness can only bring you the sense of insecurity, bring you trust issues and thoughts of revenge...all to the point that you do things that could dishonor God. </span></div>
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case study of forgiveness. He was betrayed 4 times; by his brothers, by
Potiphar's wife, by Potiphar and by the chief cupbearer. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But
despite of all the injustices that happened to Joseph, he had kept his
integrity intact. He was careful not to do anything that could dishonor God. Ptr.
John shared Joseph's secret to forgiving truly. Joseph looked at his situation
from God's eyes. Joseph saw that everything that happened to him was in fact
part of God's plan to save lives. He did not put his life to waste by sulking
in bitterness and plotting revenge in anger. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">He saw things from His Throne's vantage point.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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hurt at times, people will fail us. </span></span></div>
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"You have intended to harm me, but God intended it all for
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Hazel Parashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10130620926340926937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051330656807671559.post-18536472880155424622015-08-05T20:38:00.000-07:002015-08-05T20:47:28.851-07:00 Why I Quit My Job<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lately, I've been getting tons of private
messages from Facebook friends, concerned text messages from high school and
college friends and random calls from <i>Titas</i> and <i>Ninangs</i> around the world who
are altogether asking why I just decided to quit the job āthey dream ofāāor put
in Andyās words from the movie Devil Wears Prada, I had the job āmillion girls
would kill for.ā<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just two years ago, I landed a job as the professional
magazine writer that I've always wanted to be. It was a childhood dream that
was manifested back when I was 5 years old where the support
of both my so-called āstage-parents,ā coupled with my āI am a princessā
philosophy and my penchant for being in the spotlight, finally got the best of
me when I turned 19.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I graduated from college and took the job as
an entertainment, fashion & beauty writer under One Mega Group Inc.āwhere working
my way up didn't feel like working at all. Except, of course, those midnights
in the office I rushed articles until I could feel my blood turn into caffeine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But this dream job gotten me to āWonderlandā
and had me rubbing elbows with celebrities, directors, fashion designers,
models and business owners, sitting at the front row in concerts, wining and
dining in newly-opened bars and bistros and gastropubs, and getting dolled-up by
the same makeup artists of the stars just so I could attend a grand ball in a five-star
hotelājust so I could do my...yes, job. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It would always feel like cloud-nine after
every event I would go to. But then in just a matter of seconds, I am faced by
the fact that my designer gown fades and I turn back into my casual shirt-and-jeans and a pair of <i>tsinelas</i> only to ride a <i>dyipney</i> and a tricycle on the way home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps, a Cinderella story. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I felt like living two livesāI was living the life of the rich and famous, but in reality, I
couldnāt even afford one-fourth of it. Maybe not even one-eighth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My little salary could barely pay for H&Mālet
alone Jimmy Choo! <i>Kamusta naman ādi ba?</i>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the freebies and gift certificates from
the job helped lessen the pressures that come with being in the āeditorialā
world. I would suddenly receive skincare products, makeup samples, VIP tickets to
shows, boxes of cake every now and then from the brands I featured, and
invitations to the most exclusive celebrity eventsāwhich, the biggest if it all
was the Asian cruise vacation with together with a family of āgutz-yā celebrities.
And just lately, I was given the chance to rise from āprintā to ātelevisionā
through an episode appearance for āI Am Megā that airs on ETC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And at the height of such a frenzied life, I
quit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But that decision wasn't overnight, alright. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It happened slowly. Early before I even
entered this āWonderland,ā I have already decided to myself what success is to
me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I promised myself reinvention and improvement
every two years. I promised not to stop learningā¦ to take every opportunity to
be the best that I can be. I decided that I donāt ever want to be the same old
person for too long, I want to constantly change. But not to the point that people wouldn't recognize me anymore, I just simply want to improve. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also promised myself to never to correlate
success with the perks I have, but to measure success by the impact I am making
to peopleās lives while I grow more as a person. Because years ago, when Papa
passed away, I made a mutual agreement with my God that my ministry is my
career and my career is my ministryāno matter what my job is. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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could focus on my career.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, those two years in Mega was definitely a
learning experienceāan experience I will forever be proud of. This is where I found Hazel Paras version 2.0! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is where I
first learned how to be an employee. This is where I figured out how to approach
celebrities and get them to actually chat with me. This is where I got my
first pay. This is where I first stressed ātil 4am in the office beating
deadline after deadlines. This is where I first felt how it was like to be promoted. This is
where I've first seen my name published on the pages of magazines and finally,
just for once, seen myself appear on television for a straight whole segment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My resignation did not mean the end of my
life in media. I will always be in media. This is the territory and ministry God
has given me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I've come to the point of realizing that
if I want to fight bigger battles and if I want to level up my career, I would
have to equip myself better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And by the desire to equip myself better, I've decided to spend the next two years of my life, studying for a Masterās degree in
Integrated Marketing Communication, so that I could take on bigger responsibilities
for the next company where I will be of service to. And perhaps, find a closer
way to become the āStrategic Branding Directorā I've always wanted to be since I started in college. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, equipping myself better will not be only
limited ācareer-wise,ā for I also aim to equip myself to
become better, as, simply putā¦a woman and as a child of God...learning the ropes of housekeeping and also, keeping myself active in the church ministry, where my DNA tuns so strongly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since my classes will be scheduled ONLY Saturdays, I know Iāll be at home more than ever. That is definitely the best time and opportunity to give back to my Mom and sister by preparing them meals and doing
their laundry as well....while on the side, Iād be reading big Branding Communication
books and typing a 2,500-worded campaign-proposal homework.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't wait to see how life would turn out the next two years. I can't wait to find out what God has in store for me, the challenges and the blessings altogether. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Change is always a scary thing. Reinvention
is always risky. And just like your iPhones, I am also upgrading my own āiOsā
toāHazel Paras version 3.0!</span><br />
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Hazel Parashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10130620926340926937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051330656807671559.post-9413172172404316022015-04-06T23:39:00.001-07:002015-09-02T23:16:53.802-07:00REAL TALK: Does God Play Favorites? <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One time, a Christian friend of mine approached me saying, "Ate Hazel, you're really blessed! I</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> feel like you're one of God's favorites, Ate, d</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o you think maybe someday God would notice me too?"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At that moment, I felt dumbfounded by her question. Of course, I know God doesn't play favorites. But that time, I couldn't explain why. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her question felt like God's homework for me...something I needed to first bring home to work on, to explore and reflect upon and to pray about before I could give her the answer she needed to hear.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So to that lovely girl who asked me this question,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>DOES GOD PLAY FAVORITES?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Deeper Look into the Favor of God</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would start by quoting this very straight-forward verse:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Romans 2:11</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>"God does not show favoritism." </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But right, that probably wouldn't be enough. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The common misconception of God's favor is that when people think that if they have it, they could laze around while God showers them gifts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another misconception people have of God's favor, is that God is a God who chooses which people to bestow His blessings upon--and that He plays favoritism. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, <b>NO</b>. It is <b>NOT</b> how it works. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Proverbs 8:35</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"Whoever finds me, finds life, and receives favor from the Lord." </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you decide to fully commit yourself to God, you let the favor of God come into your life, which will bring you to greater connections, wider horizons and a bigger territory--other than just your life. You will live a life bigger than yourself. Activating yourself to pursue God will give God the opportunity to bless you. God wants to bless you and all you have to do is let Him.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But before anything else,</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> y</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ou've got to ask yourself two important things:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. Am I at the center of God's will?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. Have I agreed to let God's favor in my life as I work towards His goal?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Think of God's favor like Wi-Fi, and the center of His will as the Wi-Fi zone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The farther you go away from Him, the weaker your Wi-Fi becomes. The nearer you go, the stronger His favor in your life is, and the easier it is for you to connect with others and receive the blessings through it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The decision to whether you experience God's favor is UP TO YOU. It's really not up to Him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe that's what they mean when they say....God is your STRONGEST connection. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BE AT THE CENTER OF GOD'S WILL.</b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which way to the center?</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being at the center of God's will means living life accordingly to His Word.It is living life in obedience to what God has meant you for. You know you are at the center of His will if you have the same heart with God when it comes to living your life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's when you decide to live your life not as if you own it, but as if God owns it....I think.</span><br />
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<em style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;">You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;"> ā </span><a class="bibleref" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2016:11&version=NIV&src=tools" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;" target="_BLANK">Psalm 16:11</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe yes, you are at the center of His will, but your life still hasn't grasped the "Wi-Fi" yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This leads us to question number 2, have you activated your phone's Wi-Fi yet? Have you agreed to let God's favor into your life? Have you committed your daily life to pursuing His purpose and achieving His goals in your life?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Manual of Life has all the instructions you've been looking for. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not a pastor or a theologian to begin with, I'm just like you who happens to wonder and most of the time, stare at nowhere because <i>malalim ang iniisip.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1. God's favor comes from, first and foremost, who you are "inside" (your mind, your heart and your character) NOT what you have "outside" (your money, your ranking, your friends). </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meaning to say, God's favor doesn't necessarily measure up to our life circumstances.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The life of Joseph makes a great case study of God's favor and success. It is a classic story of how someone can face terrible rejections and extreme setbacks and still come out on top with God's favor. Imagine how painful it was to have your own brothers sell you to slavery? Imagine how betraying it was to have a woman like Potiphar accuse you and have you punished for something you would never do? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joseph could have fallen into the trap of anger, bitterness and resentment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who Joseph is "inside," his life settings, was activated to God's favor. He chose to remain at the center of God's will....<i>sa "Wi-Fi zone" ika nga</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this horrible time, where Joseph was a slave and owned absolutely nothing, his connection with God remained strong that he was able to rise above it through his faith in God's destiny for his life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See that Joseph did not seek "God's favor" through his circumstances, but he was able to find God's favor inside him, through his character. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I lost my father to heart disease the same year I was about to graduate college. My situation would've been a perfect excuse to go on depressed and lose my motivation to graduate with flying colors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But thankfully, I found God's favor in me (not in my circumstances) and I was able to graduate with honors, because I chose to be activated at the center of His will and because I believed so much in His plan for my life. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I knew that soon I was just about to conquer a greater territory God has meant for me. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Well...Thank you, to that Jesus' Flock church retreat for reminding me of this truth!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And when you have activated God's favor in your life, "all these things shall be added unto you." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do believe that ALL Christians are called for a mission, NOT despite our professions, but rather THROUGH our professions. Sometimes we Christians fall into the trap of going to our secular work thinking we are in the wrong place and that we should be out there as "full-time" missionaries. This misconception robs us from ministering in the places where God has placed you to shed The Light. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a whole new different way of looking at our daily lives and our careers. If you want to experience the favor of God in your work, you must first decide "to work unto Christ" in everything that you do. EVERYTHING. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His favor is already experienced whenever you wake up in the morning. Your existence today is already a proof of God's provision today. He continues to provide you life. Which therefore, our thanksgiving to Him should be, well, "new every morning." </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember that with each new sunrise, God reminds us that He is with us in our second chances and new hopes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure the persecuted Christians and martyrs all over the world will agree with me in this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that was three points of a message...probably my baby-step closer to being a "Pastora." </span></div>
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Hazel Parashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10130620926340926937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051330656807671559.post-67842183674008464722015-02-24T01:20:00.001-08:002015-02-26T03:57:11.747-08:00REAL TALK: Channeling my Inner "Maldita"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Sometimes I feel like I've been too nice to everyone, that I forgot how to be nice to myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay, so I've always played the role of the "nice girl"</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ā</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">probably someone you can easily be friends with, someone you could quickly turn to for help, someone who'll willingly say "yes" because she</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ā</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ā</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">am scared to turn you down. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was actually "too nice" to the point that my favorite words were (number one) "Yes" and (number two) "Sorry." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was once that kind of person who apologized all the time because I always felt like I was in the way, it's like apologizing for existing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used to even say "sorry" whenever someone gets in MY way. <i>Ang lala talaga.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes after speaking up, I would still end up </span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">apologizing because I was scared I might have offended someone. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was so passionate about protecting other people's feelings that I ended up letting them step on mine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well. Guess what? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started to get tired of it, not because being nice isn't me, but rather for the reason my niceness has suffocated me with pain, frustration and utter disappointment until I reached the point of<i> FINALLY</i> saying: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"That's it!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through all the daily and gradual frustrations that wore on me, it just took THAT one moment to feel that something changed within me: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I found my voice. I found my fire. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found the empowered woman in me that I've long been looking for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I finally connected with my inner 'maldita'</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ā</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a part of me who just had to be heard, who has so much to say and who knew what she deserved. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My inner 'maldita' is not a bad mean provocative jerk...but she is another side</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of me who is only assertive, bold, confident and wildly opinionated</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ā</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which trust me, this "maldita Hazel" has ten thousand opinions the "nice Hazel" wouldn't dare say out loud. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's okay to be nice, but when you are talking about the niceness in that "God-forbid-you-to-upset-someone" way, well I guess you've gotta stop right there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Know that niceness and manners are not exclusive. You can cut yourself off from the nice-girl routine but still be the helpful angel you always were.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe I've gotta learn to stop saying "sorry" for who I am because I would rather be "nice" than be myself; I've got to stop choosing to be pleasant rather than to be right. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Kindness never goes out of style, but being a pushover can hurt in so many ways.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've seen how niceness can make someone</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> an easy target, like a laundry basket for big tasks that no one else wants to do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, and that power point presentation? Assign it to that nice gal over there, because I'm sure she'll love to. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, how about some jokes that could come as offensive or harsh? Throw it to Little Miss Nice who doesn't know how to fight back, she'll just nod and say sorry anyway. <i>Hindi naman pikon yan eh</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, she said "Don't"? Nah, I'll go on. <i>Hindi naman siya marunong magalit</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Channel your inner Maldita.</b></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're reading this and you can actually relate to me, here's what I am just about to do: I am about to channel my inner maldita. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And when I say 'maldita' I do NOT mean it in a bad way. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a different (and better) way of defining Maldita, despite the "mean" or "wicked" connotation attached to the word in Filipino culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But a real <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.malditastore.com/lookbook" target="_blank">"M</a></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.malditastore.com/lookbook" target="_blank">ALDITA</a><a href="http://www.malditastore.com/lookbook" target="_blank">"</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is the woman today. She is the modern woman--strong, empowered and driven. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She knows when to speak her mind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She doesn't let people abuse her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She won't let you take advantage of her skills.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And as a woman, she believes that she is to be treated with respect and to be taken seriously</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This maldita was once the sweet and feminine bubbly girl who grew up to become the wiser and bolder woman that all of us women are meant to be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To all "too nice girls" out there who can relate, whenever you feel like falling apart...you could start with this: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Say a prayer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Swipe red lipstick, wear THOSE stilettos (for better effects! haha)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Smile that million-dollar smile</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Then, <i>politely</i> say "NO."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've tried it. I felt like Wonder Woman afterwards! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Follow: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">@hazelparas17</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">@malditaofficial</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">People of our very own generation, from different walks of life, unite with top influencers Bianca Gonzalez, Daniel Matsunaga, Laureen Uy, DJ Mars Miranda and the Philippine Junior Marketing Association (PJMA) National Executive Board, to altogether launch the new revolutionary campaign last Saturday (February 21) outside Eastwood City Mall. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The "Live To Feel" movement aims to speak out to each and every individual that there is more to life than just existing. It is an invitation to live full lives by FEELING and DOING. It is how you take in the feelings that come with each experience and manifest them in your actions that truly defines you. </span><br />
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Hazel Parashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10130620926340926937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051330656807671559.post-65881652473064634732015-02-19T02:12:00.003-08:002015-02-19T17:36:45.787-08:00BEAUTY FEATURE: Getting my Lips "StyLIZed!" <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here's the news! Inspired by her bestselling book, <i>StyLIZed: Liz Uyās Ten Style Essentials, </i>celebrity stylist<i> </i>Liz
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am personally a fan of lipsticks, lip balms, lip creams and anything lip-related. I used to be insecure of my pouty lips, but I've finally learned to embraced this imperfection and to actually flaunt it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The color I put into my lips are now like my statement of the day. If you see my lips in red, I'm actually feeling strong, independent and daring...or maybe I'm on my way to a night event for work. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would then wear my lips in pink or corale, when I'm about to have a light coffee date with friends or something to that effect. Then I love wearing it in a nude color when I'm just having a carefree day or when running some errands...or when probably I'm feeling like I just want to keep my day low-key. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So imagine my excitement when I got these three new "Shut Up & Kiss Me" lippies from Happy Skin! (Thank you, work!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">To be sold at P599 each, the </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Happy Skin StyLIZed collection </b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">gives you new pouting essentials in </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">three limited-edition Shut Up & Kiss Me Moisturizing Lippie shades:<b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This StyLIZed red shade compared to to millions of red lipstick brands we've already got out there, comes as just-the-right kind of red....it's not a red that is too neon-y bright that you turn heads in a wrong way...it's not the deep-wine dark red that would remind people of dracula....but it's just-the-right red. The kind of red you could still wear anywhere! Anywear. Haha K. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This <u>LIMITED-EDITION</u> (I repeat LIMITED EDITION) shades offer the THREE-FOLD LIP SERVICE you've always wanted:</span></div>
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Just like the multi-tasking women in us, this "multi-tasking" lippie comes as our perfect partner for our daily lives! It's like all at the same time, playing dress up, working your way up and making your own mark....lipstick marks....K. </div>
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I think "Self-importance" exists because we live our lives as if we own our lives--that we end up thinking we have the right to do whatsoever with it "kasi buhay ko naman 'to eh."</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 17.0666675567627px;">Do you remember that story of a really BIG fish in a somewhat little pond--being contrasted to a really tiny fish in a wiiiiiide ocean?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 17.0666675567627px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 17.0666675567627px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 17.0666675567627px;">Sometimes I feel like one tiny fish in a very big sea...probably insignificant, probably unnoticeable. </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 17.0666675567627px;"><br /><br />But here's a little trivia I hold on to. The small fish in an infinitely wider space HAS GREATER CHANCES OF GROWING even beyond the size of that arrogant king-sized creature swimming in its lonely paltry pond.<br /><br />So to all "bigger fishes" out there looking down on 'tiny me'...I want you to know that God has placed me in this BIG ocean, in this industry, because this is my territory. No matter how small I am, I'm surely meant to GROW and to be GREAT.<br /><br /><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/hazelwrites" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">#HazelWrites</a><br /><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/bignsmall" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">#BigNSmall</a></span></span>Hazel Parashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10130620926340926937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051330656807671559.post-4991337322975011502015-02-15T18:44:00.000-08:002015-02-15T18:44:42.718-08:00REAL TALK: Just Adjust.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think they way we use our own magnifying glasses tells so much about how we see our own circumstances and how we deal with it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some people tend to magnify their problems making it seem bigger than it just actually is, and they end up discouraged. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other hand, some people aim their "magnifying glasses" on goals that truly matter and they become more motivated to move forward and forward despite any obstacles that come their way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Probably, the more we focus on what we want to achieve, the more our problems naturally fade in a blur. The more we focus on our problems, the more our goals fade into a blur, and then seem impossible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe most of the time we try so hard to change our situation, sometimes we badly want to change the entire picture, but really, all we just have to do is to JUST ADJUST the FOCUS. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are you focusing on the right things or should you adjust your magnifying glass? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For over a decade, my best friend and I grew up together. We laughed at the same things. We cried over the silliest things. And on mall dates, we splurged on useless things up to the last coin we had. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And growing up, we started to pray for each other's lives. We shared words of encouragements during hardships in school and careers. We loved each other's family like our own. We cheered each other's successes. We corrected each other's mistakes. We accepted each other's failures. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a nutshell, it felt as if the bond we had, promised us the so-called "forever"āthat both of us could easily picture how it would be like to be grandmothers together, sitting on our rocking chairs while knitting our grand-kids' mittens as we reminisce about our 'glory days' back in our childhood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And for no good
reason, it had to wither. No, we weren't really mad at each other. It wasn't a
big war that ended what we had. There was nothing to scream about, nothing to
fight about, just nothing really.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I figured our
individual lives were just starting to take a form of its ownāour lives were
becoming way too different and separate from each other, that in order to grow,
we knew we couldn't stay together for any longer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My values and her
values weren't the same anymore. My vision and her vision were two poles apart.
My priorities and her priorities never found its way to match one another. My
world was eventually becoming a totally different dimension from her world.
And the way to my lifeās fulfillment was away from her, and hers was away
from me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a quiet and
natural way of drifting apart from each other, but, it was at the same time,
sad and solemn. We were like two tree branches bound to naturally grow apart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Have I lost
a best friend in her?" I asked God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"No. Not at
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To my "main
chick," remember that you are eternally stuck as my 'best friend' in the
storybook of my life, no matter how many friends I am bound to meet tomorrow
and the days after. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We met for such a
time and in such a momentous way, that we couldn't avoid entwining. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our lives may
have started to branch out separately, but we will forever be unified by the same tree
trunk we grew from side-by-side, and by the same roots that brought life to us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are forever
bound by that one point in our lifetimes, despite both of us journeying in
entirely different directions now. </span></b></div>
Hazel Parashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10130620926340926937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051330656807671559.post-22121191870601201802015-01-19T21:26:00.000-08:002015-01-19T21:27:28.579-08:00REAL TALK: Beauty Queens & World Peace. Miss Israel & Miss Lebanon.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Hazel Parashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10130620926340926937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051330656807671559.post-60552870611245240182015-01-19T21:08:00.001-08:002015-02-26T03:49:45.629-08:00HAZEL WRITES: Real Talk with Maja Salvador<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Me:</b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You seem to have everything right now, do you feel like there's something more you want to accomplish, or there's probably something more you want in life?</b><br />
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<b>Maja Salvador:</b> Sobrang grateful na talaga ako sa mga meron ako ngayon. Feeling ko parang who am I to ask for more? Sobra-sobra yung blessings ni God sa buhay ko. Pero may mga bagay ako na gusto ko pang ma-experience...mostly sa buhay ng isang normal na tao.</span><br />
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<b>MS:</b> It has always been my dream to have my own family. Yung pamilya na kumpleto at masaya. Na may simpleng buhay rin. </span><br />
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<b>MS:</b> Not necessarily related naman to being a celebrity. But coming from a broken family myself, matagal na akong may longing na magkaroon ng buong pamilya. To the point na I promised myself na parang "One day, Maja, pag nagakapamilya ka, magiging maayos ang lahat. Magiging masaya lahat."</span><br />
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<b>Me: Now you can say na your work has the power to impact other people's lives.</b></span><br />
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<b>Me: I've always wanted to ask you this, since I've watched The Legal Wife myself, naiinis ako kay Nicole! Hahaha!</b></span><br />
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<b>MS:</b> NAKO! AKO DIN!!! Appear tayo diyan!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Headed to annex with the whole Inside Showbiz and Celebrity Mom magazine team for two major shoots! Talk about being productive and professional, despite...everything? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As of press time, we still keep our "Maja Salvador project" confidential and under the covers, but we sure do believe you are going to love what we've worked on. I promise. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a whole day of all the work, we were able to have a good time chatting about real life, and it has always been such a blessing for me as a writer to be able to have an access to the "real" side of celebrities like Maja Salvador...a side where the stars are just people--people (as in) like you and I. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't wait to tell you the things we have talked about and what I learned from her being someone who has been in such a glamorous but crazy cut-throat industry. She is such a girl with a bubbly and energetic aura but at the same time, a woman full of wisdom and independence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Catch more of that on my next blog entry soon, okay?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And by "coffee" I meant FREE coffee. </span></div>
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</span></span></span>Hazel Parashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10130620926340926937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051330656807671559.post-23811719142207497412014-11-27T02:05:00.003-08:002014-11-27T02:24:06.632-08:00Hospitalized but Healed<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello, so I got food poisoned. Yes, vomitting and LBM tragedy. Just a request for prayers upon my white blood cells count, it's way lower than normal. But faithfully claiming my healing! :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Thanks Chappy for the pagbabantay while I'm maputlang-haggard-looking and for helping out with my hospital documents, Ate Trish, James &</span><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"> </span><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1787955874" href="https://www.facebook.com/gilianeleigh" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-decoration: none;">Leigh</a><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">for the kwentuhan, and Mama for EVERYTHING @booleighleigh @charlescarino @trishvinoya</span><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/healedinjesusname?source=feed_text&story_id=10204400924956637" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_58cl" style="color: #6d84b4;">āŖ#ā</span><span class="_58cm">HealedInJesusNameā¬</span></a></span></div>
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