Tag: Family
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Mommies, Love Yourself… Live Out Your Dreams
When we welcome motherhood and embrace it fully, we tend to lose ourselves along the process. It’s all about the family now. Our energy, effort, money, and basically all of our sanity goes into our family. We make sacrifices no one would see and sometimes even appreciate the love of our lives. For me, I…
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Your Faithfulness now Will Launch you to Your Success Tomorrow
This is me with the other teachers of His Mission Academy, a school I pioneered right at the heart of Davao City dump site in 2007. We were ministering to the families in the dump site when the Lord prompted my heart to open a school there since many of the kids did not have…
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When Kids are “Distracting”
I love to wake up early so I am ahead of my tasks. I love the feeling of having hit coffee on a cold morning when it’s still dark. I get to prepare breakfast early, pray and organize tasks for the day before family wakes up and need my attention. But sometimes I sleep late…
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The Real Rewards of Homeschooling and Freelancing
And so I thought… I am proud homeschooler and freelancer. This a spirited choice my husband Jay and I embraced for our family. And being an idealist, I had noble reasons as to why we are doing what we’re doing. We still hold to these guiding lights until now. But the more I am homeschooling…
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God’s Heart for Me — A Woman
Unspoken Words A woman… We take on roles and responsibilities for the people we love. We give ourselves selflessly. All out. For the things that we value. For the people that we love. For the principles that we care for. There are sleepless nights. Silent lips. Happy smiles. Broken hearts. Tired bodies. Hopeful spirits. Sacrifices.…
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Homeschooling: The Why
The “Why”, The Cornerstone There are a lot of ways to do homeschool. There are also different experiences that come with it. Oftentimes, it’s fun and exciting. But there are also times when it’s stressful and challenging. This is why it’s important to be grounded in the “why” of your choices. Why homeschool? Why stick…
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Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death: A Wife’s Confessions on Her “Dying” Husband’s Condition
It happened so fast. It came out of nowhere and we did not even have the chance to brace ourselves to it. “Chronic Kidney Disease” clearly came as a thief in the night… The Death Sentence We just noticed Jay getting weak and pale. We thought it was just because he worked night shift. We…
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Family: Together & Dysfunctional
I first learned about dysfunctional family few years back in Discipleship Training Center (DTC) when Eric Miller (one of the teachers there, a spiritual father to us) taught about Family and Relationships. Not sure if the class had this title, if not it was something close to this. It opened my eyes and I prayed that God will…
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