What are you praying for?
Every time I close my eyes I always think of something that I want to happen to me tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, this year, next year, and the years to come.
After thinking of all these, I will start praying for it. As they always say, just PUSH! Pray Until Something Happens.
I was having breakfast with my husband in our favorite quick service restaurant ( Jollibee! What else! ) when we both open each page of the morning newspaper that we were holding. Joey would always open the sports page and for a typical woman like me what do you expect for me to open? Entertainment of course! But there's one thing that struck me so much and I wasn't expecting it from an entertainment page. In big bold letters the headline says,
“WHAT ARE YOU PRAYING FOR?”
After reading this line, I didn't take the time to read the article. What I did was I put down the newspaper that I am holding and started thinking… after a deep thought I asked myself the same question, “What am I praying for?” It made me pause for a while…and started thinking what's inside my daily prayer. Is my day to day prayer sounds like I had memorized it in time because I never change it? Or is it something that always change because I would always ask for new things to happen in me?
I can still remember one of the lessons I had with Christian Living when I was still in my primary years. We were taught to pray by following the A.C.T.S.
Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication ( which we all love most! Ask! Ask! and Ask! We are all good in that?!?!)
I must admit that my prayers would spend so much time on the last part, where I am given the chance to give my prayer requests. I am so much guilty of that! Whenever I think of my prayer intentions, I would always recall first all my complaints in life. Like what? Whew! A lot sometimes! Come on' let's face it, most of the time we will never be contented with what we have.
Human nature tends to want everything, everything and right now! It's like we're always in a hurry. Most of us get impatient when we miss a bus, when somebody bumped into us. Simple things that we are all guilty of. When we pray for our dreams to come true, we want them to be fulfilled immediately. But did we ever think that God has an appointed time to answer our prayers. And the truth is, no matter how badly we want it sooner, no matter how much we pray and plead to God, it's not going to change His appointed time. It's still going to happen in God's timetable! When we say appointed time, it maybe tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, after 5 years, after a decade? Nobody knows! What we must be sure about is that it will happen in God's perfect timing! The only thing that we can do is WAIT and HOW ARE WE GOING TO WAIT.
Are we going to wait with a good attitude? Or are we going to be upset and be filled with a lot of complaints?
Let me share this to you and let me quote Joel Osteen ( Thanks to Joel for inspiring me everyday! ) for this:
“Why not be happy while God is in the process of changing things? After all, there's nothing we can really do to make it happen any faster. We might as well relax and enjoy our lives, knowing that at the appointed time God is going to bring His plan to pass.
...it's going to happen, and the good news is, it's not going to be one second late. “
He has promised that at the right time, He will bring your dreams to pass and answer your prayers. The answer will come, and it will be RIGHT ON TIME!
I was born on a cool, rainy Saturday on June 11 1977 in Manila. I am the eldest daughter of my parents Ed & Rory Domingo. I have one sister, Carla Bianca. I am now happily married to my husband Joey Jasper. We've been together as a couple for 6 years now and was blessed with two wonderful kids, Julianne Andrea ( aka RAIN ) 5 and now on her first grade, and Jamil Reginald ( aka SHINE ),2.
I started school when I was four. I went to kindergarten through secondary one at St. James College of Quezon City. I was able to finish the last three years of my secondary school at St. Patrick School with flying colors! This is also where I was able to learn how to get out of my shell completely and bloomed! I became very confident and I was given the chance to shine in this school. I involved myself in almost all the activities and never wasted time. I worked hard and prove everyone that I can excel and God rewarded all my hard works. I graduated Valedictorian that paved way to better opportunities in College.
I took up Bachelor of Science in Accountancy in
Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila.
Taking up that course was really not in my heart back then but due to the love that I have for my parents especially my dad, I followed his advises and enrolled myself. It was really a pain in my heart then but what can I do? As they always say, “Parents' knows best!” I wanted to take up Communication Arts as I really wanted to be working in public, talk and share all the things that I know not to mention that I also look forward of knowing more things about life. Though I studied Accountancy, it never stopped me to dream and continue to do what I really want in life. I started to look for ways how I can be with people, and not just to spend the rest of the day computing for net income, net loss and balancing the trial balance which my course requires me to do. At 17, I worked in a quick service restaurant, Jollibee and Mc Donalds' as a service staff. Working there allowed me to meet new people whom later became my friends, customers whom I can get to ask how their day was, and made them smile through my service.
From then on I told myself, “This is what I really want to do and soon I will make it big!”
After college, I joined the first company who believed in me, Jollibee. I worked as an Administrative Assistant for a very short time and later became a manager. Having held this position, I get continue the things that I always love doing. And with my 8 years of stay in the company I met a lot of friends whom up to now I still communicate with, learned a lot of humbling experiences and touched hundreds of lives through my words and actions which I only found out when I was about to leave my second home. When the people that I get to work with started saying, “Thank you for all the things that you have told me!” “I learned a lot from you! “ “Thanks for inspiring me to be a better person.”
It was only then that I realized
“Hey! Am I really that sensible? Am I really making miracles in their lives?”
I continued to search for the meaning of life when after I left Jollibee in 2007, I joined Pizza Hut Singapore in the same year. Leaving my family was really a hard decision for me but I told myself that I am doing this not for any simple reason but for them and to rediscover myself. It was very difficult to live alone and my experiences in Singapore thought me a lot of things.
I thought I was doing well already in any aspects of my life but when I started to make my first step I learned that what I think I knew is not even half of my full potential. I am drowned in loneliness when I came to this country but still I never let this emotional crisis bring me down. I spent the idle hours of my day writing. I started to write how I feel and shared everyone my life experiences through writing blogs. I am not sure how many readers get to open my blog spot but I did it to get out from the hot water that is drowning me.
In Singapore, I met a lot of new people, different races, different folks, different strokes! But God was so good to me and He never left me in my new endeavor. He blessed me with new good friends, supportive boss and loving staffs! Unconsciously, I never expected that I am starting to touch peoples' lives again and inspire them to be on their best everyday. I never did it in purpose but their overflowing love for me measured how much I became part of their lives.
And now that I am back with my family, I wanted to continue the journey that I started and I want you to be part of it. I am working in an international language school now as a teacher and is starting to learn something new again. It may be a new career for me, another humble beginning to start, but I am happy and excited because I am with new people, new experiences, new learnings! I just love LEARNING! This will mean new things for me to share to all of you. May you be inspired with all the life experiences stories that I will be writing in the future.
May it touch your lives in one way or another and learn from it.
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