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Month: August 2006

God’s loving discipline….hebrews 12

“No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening- it is painful!  But afterward there will be a quiet harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.” heb.12:11 in hebrews, it expounds on God’s love through discipline, or God’s discipline as an act of love.  Love within discipline and discipline within love must always go hand in hand.  you can discipline without love but that is wrong.you can discipline with love, and that is right. you can love without discipline, but that is wrongyou can love with discipline, and that is right. love and discipline go hand in hand while we’re here on earth. looking back on some of my adolescent years to my young adult years, i’ve been so hard headed, not just to my family, but to God most of all.  I’ve seen Him see me go through years of living for me and going after things that i wanted instead of things He wanted for me, because i thought i knew better, i knew how to handle what i’ve gotten into.  But once you’re a child of God, He doesn’t just let you continue with things that do not glorify Him, and things that […]

a little nostalgic

i’m listening to zem’s disney lullabies, the ones that the capistranos burned for us.  the solo piano keys make me feel like christmas.  zem’s sitting on my lap and rubbing her eyes. she just ate the cheese sandwhich i made for her.  i flattened it very thinly, and cut it into slices so she could easily eat it.  it feels like the beginning of fall outside and it makes me think of college days when i would be by myself.  and it doesn’t make me sad, just a little nostalgic, a little younger, with memories… i don’t think i miss those days too much, but i liked knowing i came to know myself.  somehow, i think that’s important to me. it’s the piano that makes me feel like christmas in august.  i’m one year older next week.  when did life come?  will i get to where i want to be, what i want to do? and not just work, but to make a difference.

state park at netcong

after a little over a year, we finally went to see the state park that was near us.  yesterday, we drove five minutes, not expecting to find a really clean, family friendly expansive park that included a beach area to the lake, picnic and bbq areas, fishing areas, playgrounds, etc.  emma was sleeping when we got there, so when took her out of her car seat and walked around a bit, he woke up to the slight breeze on her badly cut hair.  as perze carried her, she looked around and birthed a huge smile that took forever to fade.  she really enjoyed being outside, seeing all the green instead of the cream sterile walls of our place.  she also winessed live birds and ducks instead of having to settle for the one dimensional images in her baby books.  we also let her feel the sand and let an adult wave pass around her baby feet. she really enjoyed it, and seeing you child with such wonder of something so simple makes you think about why as adults, we lose that wonder with something like nature.  nevertheless, here are some stills of our small visit.  the album is also included in my […]

Melchizedek and Jesus…Hebrews 6-10

  i continued further in hebrews since 2 sundays ago, i taught on hebrews 5, spiritual maturity.  i wanted to finish hebrews since i only know it for that topic as well as its chapter on faith (ch.11).  those are the only two chapters i’m familiar with so i read ahead to chapters 6-10. although the crux of the chapters led to Jesus being the ultimate High Priest and sacrifice, it alluded to a character in the old testament- Melchizedek, a king and priest of God who had blessed Abraham during his wars described in Genesis 14.  This was still before the tribe of Levi was called by God as the ordinated priesthood to be set apart as the holy bearers of the Arc of the Covenant, and who performed strict sacrificial duties in the Tabernacle.  Although i’ve heard of Melchizedek, this was the first time i researched who he was in the old testament and to what purpose he served as a mention and function to the New Testament.  Who knew that a minor character of the old testament would resurface as a type for Jesus?  i know there’s still debate going on as to whether he was a representation of Jesus or […]

my space on myspace

when i joined myspace, it was because the youth were getting spaces, and were asking me to join, so i did.  it was only this year that i dared to go further than the people i knew and search for people in my highschool, because out of 500 graduates, i wanted to know what my ex-classmates are doing with their lives.  i found out that a lot of the people who i assumed were gay, actually came out of the closet during college.  some people got married and already had two kids with a house, 2 cars, 1 dog, and a couple of gaming consoles like the xbox360.  i also wanted to know if out of 500 people in my class, who stood for Christ.  there were a couple that i found to be encouragingly in that category.  but as i was adding highschool friends, i wondered what they would say if they’d see my request to add them as a friend.  i knew that they’d end up reading my page, and for some reason,  i had an uncomfortable feeling that my old close friends would roll their eyes at me for my blogs, or some that may even call me […]

numbers.

zem is 13 months. her cousin isabel is 2 weeks. her cousin samsam is 7 months. it’s amazing how time goes by and numbers become sort of an assessment, as if your age is in direct proportion to what you should already have done in life, or what you’ve already acquired materially, personally… soon, i’ll be turning 27, yet i have not yet started my career as most people. but somehow i can’t complain. i can’t because i’ve really really been blessed with things in life that you can’t acquire in 4 years or 6, or seven…or by applying and working hard. i’m also not saying that others who have not yet been blessed in personal matters should be less satisfied as well. what i am saying though is that numbers can be very deceiving. numbers most often times requires you to have due dates, pressures that most often times make you fail at taking things slow…for example, some people buy material possessions that they’re not financially responsible for yet, or some people get married so they don’t reach their 30’s still with their single status. for perze and i, we were a bit unconventional. i was the first in […]

a baby and her cheetos

a baby and her cheetos Originally uploaded by Perze Ababa. I was going over some of the pix that I took using my treo and found this one. Talk about someone being caught in the act. Emma grew her first set of teeth when she was 4 months old. Now that she is on her 13th month she has 10 total, and looks like there are two more on the way. Just like her dad, this girl is an eating machine. We’ve asked her doctor what are the stuff we could feed her and he said that we could try whatever we want but we have to check for allergies. So far she hasn’t really reacted to food in a violent manner … the only violence you’ll get is if you wont give it to her after showing that it can be eaten. Like this bucket of cheetos for example.

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