The Holy Alphabet

I did some cleaning in my mailbox earlier and i find this greeting nice and inspiring.

Although things are not perfect

Because of trial or pain

Continue in thanksgiving

Do not begin to blame

Even when the times are hard

Fierce winds are bound to blow

God is forever able

Hold on to what you know

Imagine life without His love

Joy would cease to be

Keep thanking Him for all the things

Love imparts to thee

Move out of “Camp Complaining”

No weapon that is known

On earth can yield the power

Praise can do alone

Quit looking at the future

Redeem the time at hand

Start every day with worship

To “thank” is a command

Until we see Him coming

Victorious in the sky

We’ll run the race with gratitude

Xalting God most high

Yes, there’ll be good times and yes some will be bad.

but

Zion waits in glory…where none are ever sad!

Gloomy Day

It’s the weather but yet i went on a trip to Ozamis City to check on my brother’s school performance.  I always take a day leave from work to do an errand like this as the trip takes me 3 hours to get there.  The morning started with grey skies and just enough showering.  I was praying that the wind won’t blow strong as well as the rain because I am going to take a 20 minutes ferry ride to the other side of the mainland.

Anyhow, the trip was successful.  Though the sky looks so bad, the rain didn’t pour like cats and dogs and the wind was just enough to make you appreciate it as it hits your skin and the seas not rough.  The bus rides was fine.  The driver seems careful in driving the bus — not the ones that seems  to think life is just today.   

I was praying the rain is not much when i reached my hometown so that i can still pick some vegetables for the week-end and yeah —- the weather just cooperated well.  The skies are still gray now and let it rain now if it want to as am already home and now am blogging about it.

Great week-end everyone!

Bottle-fed Baby

I saw a dad this afternoon travelling for 10 hours by bus withh his 5 months old baby. He travelled from Zamboanga City to Iligan because the mom is here. He said he really did not have a hard time (although he looks like he’s having a hard time) because the baby is bottle fed. Surely the mom would be the one who will travel if the baby is breast fed. I wonder how many dads could really do that. He was carrying a baby in a carrier strapped on his shoulders and on his left hand a baby bag and a handcarry box for bottles and water. Maybe some can make it easy if travelling by private car — but this guy travelled by bus and he said he was able to changed the diaper once. Only once in 10 hours

Hearing him said about that bottle-feeding i then remember when Dimple was 6 months old and we a took a trip to Bacolod City, Negros via Iloilo City. D is also a bottle-fed baby. I travelled with her milk and bottles and 3 pcs of pacifier. I don’t mean to say i don’t support “breastfeeding” — i do but as a mom i was not able to breastfed my kids because I just didn’t have the milk. There’s a little but not enough to nourish her.

D grew up drinking milk that is not hot neither lukewarm. I mix the milk with just enough hot water and then mix it with cold water. I can remember one time– she threw her bottle because the milk was abit hot. We ran out of sterile water so my mom boiled some hot water for her to have milk. But she didn’t appreciate it. She threw it and started to cry. hehehe. Naughty baby.