This is my
journal that I wanted to leave behind for you (sons and daughter) hopefully
that it would be inspire, encourage, uplifting your spirit and build you up in
the Lord. If you read this at the same time that I wrote, it may not seem
much to be appreciated or you might feel like it another one of mom preaching.
But, when we away, you will find this to be as special in the right time to
comes.
I loved you all the same, not one more nor less than other. Being a
middle child you might felt left out, but the truth is not so. You have
not seen the heart within. You have not seen the tears that drop.
I, myself, have never seen my mom tears when she cries, but I do know now
that they are many. I appreciated all the hardship that her and her mom
went through and every penny that they saved to keep all of us survive.
I appreciated every grain of rice’s that on our plate. I thanks God
for my whole family, never once would I trade for another and proudly to say
that I’m glad to be born into in the farmer’s family and I thank God for my new family that is; my new dad and my brother. This is my love for
them and here is my love to you. I cherish every moment about all of you
in my heart from the day that you were born. You were created unique and
different in your own special way. Sometime you maybe obedient and
sometime disobedient, but I always came to understand of what you can
comprehend and not comprehend according to your age, and how you see
life. One day you will come to understand and see life in the eyes of the
parent as I have saw my life in the eyes of my patent. We went through life and experiences life more than you
and we still fail, as to this failure I regretted in that moment of time and in my closet I got down on my knee and cry to the Lord as I pray. We
always spent time together; I will go only to the places that you can go.
I only watch what you can watch, this example I leave within you.
You would always see me at home, either working in our nursery, cooking,
cleaning and doing something around house. My life
are delicate to you without no regret nor ask for any
return, but only to teach you how to appreciate every little things in life
with honor, so that you all will grow up and be the truth person in heart as
mighty men and mighty woman of God in your time to come.
Please do remember this, when you
get marry and the day that you decided to have a children, you life is not all
about you, but it is to be committed and delicate for your family (wife, husband
and children). Delicate yourself to build up your children in the way
that they should go when they are young and when they get older they will not
depart from it. Being a parent is a great responsibility, and it is
a gift from above, because you are training up another life, how to see life,
and be the person in heart, mind and soul. First build yourselves up in
good foundation in the Lord then you can build your children up in the good
ground, as you are they living example in life. That is to stay in the Word of God and raise up your family in church. Learn to understand what truth love is so that the fruit of the spirit will fall upon you. And the fruits of the Spirit are; love, peace, joy,
patience,gentle, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, forgiveness,
righteous and wisdom, not selfish, gossiping, high minded and look down at
people who are less fortunate than them and judge other people. But be
a kindred heart person with understanding and wisdom with
the reverence fear of the Lord.
As you should
already knew, that there is no secret under the sun. Be truthful and
righteous as you can and never think that you are better than other, for that is pride, but be humble. Know this truth; don't ever think that you can hide
a skeleton in your closet, "Whatever hidden in the
darkness will be brought out into the light," as it always have been from
the beginning of time." Don't let the word “secret” fool your mind. for there is no secret under the sun. There is reaction in every action and it is always consequence to be
pay. If you do good, good will follow you no matter what it will be manifest into light. You might
not see it in that instant time, and if you do evil, evil will stand at your
door. You can run but you can't hide from it. It will creep up on
you when you least unexpected. As you have seen before how God reveals
thing in our life.
Life can be rough,
heart breaking, devastating and depress, but don't let it tear you down.
"But fear not nor be dismayed; be strong and of good
courage (Joshua 10:25)." In our life there are many seasons and
there is a reason in every season. There is a season for planting, season
for growth, season for fertilize, season of harvest, season of prosper (more
than enough to bless other) and there is also season of drought. There
also a season of joy and season of sadness, season of gain and season of lost,
there is a season of surrounded and there is also a season in the
desert. You have seen all of these seasons in your youth life with us,
but not quiet experience and learn how to handle all of these seasons out on
your own, but these seasons will come to everyone life.
Here I am, to
let you know, “Have faith my child.” We have walked though together in many
season of my life. As you see I used the term of "My life," is
because it is my journal of life and how I act and react with in all of this
season which will bring effected into your life. I can drown in my
storm and bring disaster into my own home and you will be affected from
it. Though many seasons that we went through together, we still
stand with strong faith because of Christ.
We have season of plenty, our
wheel is over flow. Whatever we wanted we can afford and share with
other. There is season of heart breaking, but we don’t stay down, we get
up and flight the good flight with faith and hope, believed and trust in the Lord. There is season of dry
out, economy down, landscaping stop moving and green went low, struggle to keep
our business survive. But, within this season I learn how to appreciated
life more and more than ever, especially appreciated God and my family that is my mom, dad and the rest of my past family. Through hard time God will always comes
through for me no matter what. He let me see life in most precious
way. I look at hard time as an opportunity for me to growth and to be
strong of good courage in Him. It became a school master that taught
me how to teach you to have faith and learn how to survive. Do you see
that these seasons are like a pattern which goes around and around from
generation to generation. When my parent and their parent experienced it in their life, I don’t understand much how it feels and the great responsibility that they have to carry to keep the family survive,
because I was a child. What we go through here is not half of the
hardship to what our parent and grandparent all went through.
Don’t let the love of money bring greedy
to your life. Yes, we needed money, yes we work and not to be lazy.
The Bible say that He will prosper the work of our hand. I have
seen and heard of the collapsed of the millionaire, lost all that they have,
some learn how to survive by making homemade sandwich and sale them,
and some give up life by thinking that the short way out is the answer, but didn't see all the problems that they left behind for their family/children to
carry on. The survived one, they make it in life with their family in
less amount and value the little of what they have and they learn the value of
life that money can not buy, that is loving one another. Truth happiness is from with in that will last forever as your grandpa Don will always said. Be a
survival and never give up life for you will never going to see the sun.
Life is too precious. There is never a short cut that
considers to counting more and last. Don't think that the wider gate is
the way out, as the Scripture said, "Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for
wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many
are they that enter in thereby.. Matthew 7:13"...Learn how to trusted in
God my child, and believed.
I hope that this will
encourage you when different seasons of your time come. Remember this
child; riches of money cannot be comparing to the riches of heart, for heart is
what count most above all in human life. I set an example for you how to
give and to share and not be selfish. Money is not the only thing to
give, but love and time with a extension hand to the need and also
understanding mind and forgiveness heart can be countable much more. For
God see the heart of men. Don’t brag on the good things that you do,
speak good of other and if there is nothing good to speak about them don't
speak at all, as long as that person don’t committed into evil that will destroy
other people life. Don’t let gossip, cheat, liar, steal and high minded
become one of your character, it is not the way of the Lord and it will bounce
back to you no matter what. For this will bring fall with consequences to be pay. The world
around you is composing of many like that, but as the same time there are also
many good people out there, don’t judge people, but instead learn to observe people so you know who they are and
be careful who you are hanging around with, don't judge the book by it
cover. Learn how to acknowledge wisdom, for wisdom wills guild your
life. If you lack of wisdom, then ask God for the wisdom and learn of
Him to the Word of God. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.. book of proverb is
the book of wisdom. You words are very important, use it wisely.
Don’t use it to tear people down, but instead build them up in doing good. Inspire your
friends to do good and what is right, don't inspire them of evil thing. Don’t rejoice of
the evil doing, for evil of what been done will strike you down without mercy,
for there is the consequences of what been done will be pay, repent and turn
away from it, so the merciful of God will be over you.
At last, learn
how to encourage yourselves in the Lord. Don’t wait for other people to
encouraging you. Sometime your friend might not be there for you or you
might not be there for your friend for certain reason. Sometime people
might not be able to encourage you with the right word in your season of time.
People cannot read your mind and know exactly what kind of word do you
need or what season are you in. Don’t let that be offended and bring
disappointment to you if they are not around to give you the right kind of
words. Learn to have an understanding heart and stop putting blame on someone
else, but instead examine yourself on the daily bases. Judge yourself,
your attitude, your action and your reaction of how you received things within.
Learn how to see life with great range of understand, forgive, faith and
hope. Your life only you can walk, and no one can walk for you. I can preach or teach it to you, but the walk is your choice to
take. With hope and pray that you will choice life in the Lord
direction. I hope that this will encourage you to grow up to be a mighty
men and a woman of God, being mature in physical and spiritual full of wisdom
and understanding….” I like to leave you with a short pray…
"Lord, no matter what dark clouds settle on my life,
You will lift me above the
storm and into the comfort of Your presence."
"O Almighty God, from whom every
good prayer comes, and who pours out on all who desire it the spirit of grace
and supplication; delver us, when we draw near to you, from coldness of heart
and wanderings of mind; that with steadfast thoughts and kindled affections we
may worship you in spirit and in truth, through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
-William Bright (1824-1901)
That You will guild sons and daughter in their walk of their life and that you will lead them in your path of righteousness, so this is my pray of petition I bring to you. Will all of my grateful to You oh Lord, in Jesus Name I pray
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