We will stand as children of the promise #famjam

 

Thank God for holidays! (In Christ Alone)

"No power of hell, no scheme of man, 

Can ever pluck me from His hand

Till He returns or calls me home

Here in the power of Christ I'll stand."

When you cannot keep silent in a meeting and the "colonotonia" body type

I was in this middle management meeting and before I went to the meeting, I resolved that I will keep silent. I did for some time, but towards the end of the meeting, eventually I started raising my hand
and then I started talking a lot. The resolution didn't work.

That's one reason I wanted to leave, and left the that council in the first place. Because I seem to be
always seeing issues which maybe aren't issues. Then I talk and everybody gets stressed.
And I get stressed. And wished I had just shut my mouth. But it seems I can't. So better not to have attended the meeting.

But because of a promotion, I am back with this council. I had no choice.

Anyway, I will try again next time. Or maybe when this COVID thing is over, I should just
send my staff to attend the meetings. That way I need not talk when I think there is something amiss. If they don't see the issue then neither should I.

WWJD I wonder. I think that maybe He'd keep silent rather than rant. I think that maybe He will not talk much. Maybe.

Maybe I took after my Dad. I think maybe he talked a lot too during meetings. I heard he was always
the spokeperson for controversial issues or he always advocated for those who won't.

Or well maybe, it's about this "8-body type-principle" where mine, according to Ptr. Soh, the Korean practitioner in Baguio City, is "Colonotonia" (see https://www.blueroseacu.com/what-8/). Quoting from this website

"2. Colonotonia – the constitution of metal minor, born with hyperactive large intestine and a weak gallbladder, highly ambitious for the will to power, very intuitive and visionary. Born to be a leader. Should not eat meat except fish."

Sigh. I have been contesting this "born to be a leader" characteristic because I really think I am not. I resigned twice after being forced to be division head at PhilRice. I again resigned at BSU after being "designated without consent" to be a center director. No, I was not cut to be a leader. I am only "pakialamero" hehe. Yet he did successfully treat me during one of my worst "cough" ever (I was given third-gen antibiotics, and was on steroid for a month but nothing worked. I would still cough incessantly and would even pee my pants while coughing.).  He treated me with acupuncture for "colonotonia" body type, and it worked (which is, by the way, the procedure for confirming a body type).

He said, "It is because of how I was raised, and my not following the right food for me," that my being a leader didn't surface. (daw, buti na lang isip isip ko naman).

Anyway, back to my talking a lot during meetings, I don't like it but I can't help it. The curse of my body type I guess.

I just hope anyway that my rants will result to better decisions.//04232020

Essay on Enhanced Community Quarantine

[As part of their learning from home activities, and to keep them from gadgets and TV, I asked my two boys to write an essay on the effect of the Enhanced Community Quarantine. Here are their compositions (unedited).]

The ECQ Essay
by: Khane Kits C. Launio (12yo)

The Covid-19 Pandemic has forced our government to implement the so called Extended Community Quarantine. The ECQ means that people will only stay in their corresponding municipalities and will only go out of their houses once a week. The ECQ has given us a suspension of classes. But what are its real effects on us? What are the positive and negative effects of ECQ in our daily lives?

This pandemic makes us stay in our homes, so what are its positive effects. First, it lets the family have a closer connection with each other given that they are all locked up in their house 6 and a half days each week. Second, the family learns more about each other like sharing their problems and sharing their achievements. Third, each and every one of them will learn how to balance their chores so that not only one or two family members will work at home while on regular days some of them just become couch potatoes. Lastly, it gives the family a time to bond with each other.

This pandemic also gives us some negative effects in just staying home. First, our daily schedules will be ruined and might let us have difficulties after all of this. For example, on regular days, we wake up at 6:00 am and now we wake up 7:30 am just because nothing important is gonna happen. then when every thing goes back to normal, we will have difficulties in waking up at 6:00 am. Another problem with this ECQ is that people might just be all-day computer sitting people. Some people might just take advantage of this ECQ and use it to just play or have fun all day long in front of their gadgets.

Overall, the ECQ is a good idea to keep this pandemic from spreading. I think that we should all spend our time wisely. We should all use our time to bond or get close with our family or do responsible acts. I don't think we should waster our time being couch potatoes, or computer addicts or gadget addicts. We should be careful of the pandemic while enjoying wisely using this time with our family while we still can.

The Effect of ECQ to Our Daily Lives
by chairo (8yo)

The effect of Covid, the government told us to stay inside our house. Inside our house, we were very bored. So what we did is cleaning the house every saturday. After cleaning, we get our notes and review. The government gave online learning, it was named commons deped, we did it we did quizziz, flashcards. And if we have nothing to do we take care of our sister.

More effects of ECQ. the effect is we cant go out so we just eat pancakes, chocolates, breverages. So what we do is everything we can do. at home, we are like in school learning, eating, playing we do. We also write, color, do paragraph, constrac sentences, we read our notes. We do lots of things, its just sad because we cannot go outside and play, go near someone outside because of ecq.

We have more. Every friday we have prayer meeting. every Sunday we praise the Lord online because we are at home. we miss our freinds our teachers everybody.

Chairo's question on Trinity

(over supper)
Chairo (8yo): Di ba sabi nila Jesus is God.
             Pero sabi din nila father ni Jesus si God.
             Ano yun tatay niya ang sarili niya?
Daddy:

Gloria, gloria, glory to God alone

 Worship from home!

"Kasiya Na" (Dearest Kharece 2)

Our lovely lovely Kharece,

Some weeks ago, you turned two years old and just like in our last letter, accounts of God's grace in your life and to our family, never waned at all in your second year. And believing that one of God's many purposes in giving you to us is to display that His mercies never end, we resolved to continue making a yearly account of God's goodness in your life as long as we can so you will read them when you're bigger and see how God's plan in your life is unfolding yearly.

For your year 2, we have these specific thanksgiving accounts and we give all glory to your and our Creator, His Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit who as before the foundation of the world together as the triune God planned you as part of our lives.

1. Kharece, as 2018 ended, we had to release your Tita Weng back to her family in Mindanao because they needed her. And we haven't found a new Tita or Ate to help us look after you since then. It was difficult for us all and your Dad sacrificed the most. But you are one sweet kind little kid who didn't make it very very difficult for us all. God used your Lola Elsie, your Ate Joy, Ate Cindy, Nanay Rebecca every now and then to look after you with love so that each of us can still assume our various responsibilities.

2. In 2019, you were most of the time healthy, had colds and cough a few times but not hospitalized. Two weeks before your birthday this 2020, Pneumonia hit you badly again and no amount of oregano oil or "gawed" leaves or Mama's prescription meds can race with your fast infection, you had to be admitted at the hospital. But thank you for withstanding oxygen tubes  in your nose and IV inserts even when they irritate you, we were out in a week just before your birthday.

3. Thank you again Kharece for the same things you bring to our family and to every one you meet, as I accounted before-- the pure joy and happiness. You learn fast and execute what you learn and people you meet get delighted despite your condition.
"kasiya na" is how your MP blood family would term it, "kasjato" is how your Ibaloi blood family would say it. Born and bred in La Trinidad, your hometown, I would say again and again "Only by God's grace". "Kaasi ni Apo Dios" indeed.

At 2 years old, you can now walk, though a little wobbly still. But I say you are doing very very good and we are all so proud of you.

We continue to pray that God will continue to show miracles in your life, as He also continually does to us. Slowly, together, we will continue with our temporary journey in this beautiful world God has created for us.