FROM ADING JUNICO

Ipagpatuloy mo nawa ang pagbuhay ng mga tula

Kung saan puno ng mga tugma

At mga malalalim na salita.

Hindi man maunawaan ng iba

Bagkus magalak ka dahil ang Dios na nakakaunawa nito at nakakakita

Ay natutuwa dahil Siya’y dinadakila

At ika’y sa Kanya’y nananampalataya

At Siya’y masisiyahan sa pinagpaguran mong gawa

Sabay buhos Niya ng mga biyaya at ika’y tiyak na mapapagpala.

Ika’y pinili at hinirang

Nang Dios na lumalang

At pumili sa iyong mga magulang

Upang ika’y maisilang

Sa mundong Kanyang kinahabagan.

Sa kabila ng ating mga pagkukulang

Minahal Niya pa rin ng labis ni walang kulang.

Ligayang nadama ng aking pagpunta

Sa kabila ng layo at pagod ng mga paa

Ay hindi ko ininda

Dahil hangad ko ang magpasaya

Sa mga kaibigang nakakatuwa

At patuloy na pakikiisa ko’y kayo’y makakaasa

Dahil lahat tayo’y may pag-asa sa Dios

Na may akda ng biyaya ang siyang lagi nating kasama.

Kaya isang matagumpay, pinagpala at maluwalhating kaarawan sa iyong pagsilang,

Lingkod ng Dios – Ate Yhang.

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FROM ATE MINS

Ate Yhang, aking kaibigan

Kailanma’y hindi kakalimutan

Nang pusong matagal ng naghahanap

Nang kaibigang tunay.

Ikaw ay espesyal

Tahimik at simple

Subalit naparamdam mo sa akin

Ang pagmamahal ng isang tunay na kaibigan.

Salamat sa iyong buhay

Sapagkat sa’yo ko natagpuan

Kung paano maglingkod sa Dios

Nang walang pag-aalinlangan.

Laging pakakatandaan

Narito lamang kaming mga kaibigan

Upang dumamay at umunawa

Sa lahat ng iyong nais sa buhay.

TAYO’Y KANYANG LILINGAPIN

Isinulat ni: Junico Villaverde Bato

Ang malalim na panalangin

Ay binubulong sa hangin

Ay narinig ng Dios na gumawa ng araw at bituin

Na siyangmay diin na hangaring tayo’y pagpalain

Ang sa Kanyang lumalapit na may dalang hinaing

Sapagkat ang Dios ng kahapon, ngayon at bukas

Ay kailanma’y hindi nang-aalipin

Kundi tayo’y kanyang lilingapin.

Ituon natin ang atensiyon

Sa librong nag-aayos ng sitwasyon

At daan ng magandang koneksiyon

Patungo sa mabuting aksiyon

At matibay na relasyon sa Dios

Ng kahapon, bukas at ngayon.

Isa lang ang pinagmumulan ng mga karunungan

Sa Dios na makapangyarihan

Na walang sukat kalagyan na kakayahan

Ang kaya Niyang bitawan

Para ipagkaloob sa Kanyang mga hinirang na mga manananampalataya

Na magtatapos ng Kanyang kalooban.

Huwag nawang mapako ang paningin sa mga bagay na nakikita

Mga bagay na ano mang oras ay puwedeng maglaho na parang bula

Bagkus magkaroon ng pananabik sa mga bagay na hindi nakikita

Ngunit saklaw ng iyong paniniwala at ika’y magtiwala

Sapagkat ang Dios mong dakila ang siyang magdadala sa’Yo

Sa paraisong puno ng biyaya at puno ng pagpapala.

Hindi natin maiiwasan na minsan

May mga taong hindi maunawaan

Ang mga salitang malalim at may galak na kahulugan

Kung talagang nagbukas lang sila ng kanilang puso at isipan

Tiyak may aral at ngiting mararanasan na hindi pangkaraniwan.

Minsan pa’y nasabihang “O.A. naman/baduy naman”

Pero wala kang magagawa kung ganoon ang kanilang paniniwala

Bagkus ipagdasal nalang at nawa’y matutunan nilang magpahalaga

Sa mga bagay-bagay na dapat isaalang-alang

Dahil masayang magkaroon ng kahalagahan

Sa mga bagay na bigay ng Dios ng kahapon, ngayon at bukas,

At ng magpakailanman.

Kapag wala ang Dios ng kahapon at ng ngayon

Tayo’y nasa dilim maghapon

At walang liwanag na tutugon

Kundi puro apoy na nakabaon

Na mas mainit pa sa bulkang mayon

At pagdurusang hindi ilusyon

Ni wala ng pagkakataon dahil sa mga kasalanan at pagiging rebilyon.

KUNG AKO MAN AY NAGKULANG, AKIN PA RING PATUTUNAYAN NA ANG PAG-IBIG KO SA IYO AY TOTOO

Isinulat ni: Mark Acub Muedan

Aking nalalaman na ang lahat ng salita sa mundo ay kulang’

Kulang gamitin upang Ika’y pasalamatan;

Kulang gamitin upang Ika’y purihin;

Kulang gamitin upang ipahayag ang aking pag-ibig.

Kulang man ang lahat ng salita sa mundo,

Mimithiin ko pa ring sabihin sa Iyo, Panginoon na…

“Kulang pa ang aking buhay upang isukli sa kabutihan Mo.”

Panginoong Dios, tunay na napakabuti Mo.

Hindi man sapat ang aking mga papuri’t awit

Pero sa aking puso’y Ikaw ang laging pinipintig.

Tuwing sa pagsikat ng bukang-liwayway

Kasama ko ang mga ibon sa kanilang mumunting himig.

At sa tuwing paglubog nito, pasasalamat ang aking tugon;

Kasama ng mga kuliglig,

Kasabay ng paghampas ng alon sa dalampasigan,

Ang himig ng aking awit ang Iyong mapapakinggan.

Panginoong Dios, mahal na mahal kita.

Hindi man sapat sambiting, “Iniibig Kita,”

Dahil ang Iyong habag at awa sa akin ay sapat na;

Mula sa aking pagkalugmok, ang Iyong kalakasan ay sagana;

Sa aking pag-ngiti Ikaw ang kanilang nakikita;

Kaya ito ang aking buhay, handa kong ialay para sa Iyo,

Upang patunayan, ipagmalaki, ipagsigawan…

“ANG PAG-IBIG KO SA IYO AY TOTOO.”

-kuyamark.

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler

Long I stood and looked down one

As far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim

Because it was grassy and wanter wear

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay in leaves

No step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how many leads onto way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and agences hence;

Two roads diverged in a wood,

And I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

BY: ROBERT FROST

THE STRANGEST SECRET

30 – Day Action Ideas For Putting The Strangest Secret To Work For You:

For the next 30 – days follow each of these steps every day until you have achieved your goal.

1.      WRITE ON A CARD WHAT IT IS YOU WANT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE. It may be more money. Perhaps you’d like to double your income or make a specific amount of money. It may be a beautiful home. It may be a success at your job. It may be a particular position in life. It could be a more harmonious family.

Write down on your card specifically what it is you want. Make sure it’s a single goal and clearly defined. You needn’t show it to anyone, but carry it with you so that you can look at it several times a day. Think about it in a cheerful, relaxed, positive way each morning when you get up, and immediately you have something to work for – something to get out of bed for, something to live for.

Look at it every chance you get during the day and just before going to bed at night. As you look at it, remember that you must become what you think about, and since you’re thinking about your goal, you realize that soon it will be yours. In fact, it’s really yours the moment you write it down and begin to think about it.

2.      STOP THINKING ABOUT WHAT IT IS YOU FEAR. Each time a fearful or negative thought comes into your mind, replace it with a mental picture of your positive and worthwhile goal. And there will come a time when you’ll feel like giving up. It’s easier for a human being to think negatively than positively. That’s why only five percent are successful! You must begin now to place yourself in that group.

“Act as though it were impossible to fail,” as Dorother Brande said. No matter what your goal – if you’ve kept your goal before you every day – you’ll wonder and marvel at this new life you’ve found.

3.      YOUR SUCCESS WILL ALWAYS BE MEASURED BY THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF SERVICE YOU RENDER. Most people will tell you that they want to make money, without understanding this law. The only people who make money work in a mint. The rest of us must earn money. This is what causes those who keep looking for something for nothing, or a free ride, to fail in life! Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success – and success is in direct proportion to our service.

Most people have this law backwards. It’s like the man who stands in front of the stove and says to it: Give me heat and then I’ll add the wood.” How many men and women do you know, or do you suppose there are today, who take the same attitude toward life? There are millions.

We’ve got to put the fuel in before we can expect heat. Likewise, we’ve got to be of service first before we can expect money. Don’t concern yourself with the money. Be of service… build… work… dream… create! Do this and you’ll find there is no limit to the prosperity and abundance that will come to you.

Don’t start your test until you’ve made up your mind to stick with it. If you should fail during your first 30 days – by that I mean suddenly find yourself overwhelmed by negative thoughts – simply start over again from that point and go 30 more days. Gradually, your new habit will form, until you find yourself one of that wonderful minority to whom virtually nothing is impossible.

Above all… don’t worry. Worry brings fear, and fear is crippling – The only thing that can cause you to worry during your test is trying to do it all yourself. Know that all you have to do is hold your goal before you; everything else will take care of itself.

Take this 30 – day test, then repeat it… then repeat it again. Each time it will become more a part of you until you’ll wonder how you could have ever lived any other way. Live this new way and the floodgates of abundance will open and pour over you more riches than you may dreamed existed. Money? Yes, lots of it. But what’s more important, you’ll have peace… you’ll be in that wonderful minority who lead calm, cheerful, successful lives.

Start today. You have nothing to lose. But you have a life to win.

BY: EARL NIGHTINGALE

BREAK AWAY FROM DEBT, BREAKTHROUGH FOR WEALTH

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR THE DEBT-FREE LIFESTYLE

The author advances these principles: (1) Your Calling in God’s Economy, (2) The One Thing You Must Do, (3) End a Deadly Practice, (4) What To Do with Debt, (5) A Proven Way out of Poverty, (6) Plan your Children’s Future, (7) Cultivating the Winning Attitude, (8) Make your Money Make more Money, (9) Learn the Secret Formula, and (10) How be Debt-Free Forever.

“God’s Economy,” according to Liuson, recognizes God as Owner of all, “and He has appointed us to take care of His creation… to administer every resource and every blessing.” The advantage of being an administrator is, when a really big problem comes, the owner comes to the rescue.

The “One-Thing-You-Must-Do” Principle gives the wisest but rarely practiced advice: Have a budget, instead of yielding to impulse spending. “Easy?” Use an envelope for every essential or non-essential expense.

He has this witty advice with a warning: “When you shop for food, you’ll spend only the money found in that envelope. When it runs out, that means you should stop buying food.” It’s like saying, stop breathing!

One or no credit card at all. What’s the “deadly practice” mentioned in Principle 3? It’s the ubiquitous, powerful, addictive credit card! What’s Liuson’s advice: “Cut your credit card into pieces, “if necessary,” he quickly adds. Then he tells a heartbreaking story of a Nestor, who has eight credit cards, and piled up half a million of debt in the principal alone!

He relents about credit cards, and dishes out four tips in using these cards: (1) Get one credit card only, (2) Never recklessly charge to your credit card all purchases that you can pay with cash, (3) Pay the total bill on time, and (4) Don’t be greedy for points (or be seduced by points).

And what’s the secret formula in Principle 10? Liuson volunteers the “10:20:70 Formula.” It is a shorthand to “Tithe” 10 percent, save 20 percent, spend 70 percent. He advances the concept of tithing (10 percent of income) as mentioned in Genesis 14:18 of the Scriptures – believed by Christian faiths.

Debt-Free Forever?

And he cities a policy among Cityland founders that every stockholders should be a “tither.” He attributes the continuing growth and expansion of this condominium builder, to giving the tenth to God’s work – meaning, in a Church, a chapel, or any of God’s “storehouses.”

So becoming “debt-free” is an attainable goal after all. Even the poorest of the poor can achieve such a feat. And then move on realizing wealth, creating wealth – and “honoring God with our wealth.”

As I said earlier, this is a different guide to getting out of the present – day bondage – financial debt. And evangelical leader as he is, Liuson advises readers to be debt – free forever. He just leaves these thoughts to ponder: “What good would it do to live free from financial debt in this life only to find out that we have an unsettled debt to pay in the afterlife?”

After reading this book, living up to the 10 principles of a debt-free lifestyle, one realizes that the issue of debt has material and spiritual dimensions. And it is necessary to settle both dimensions soonest. As one author puts it, not Liuson, “Nothing is settled until it is settled right.”