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Career and Money

It Is Not Yet Too Late For You

it is not yet too late for you“Your last chapters can be your best.  Your final song can be your greatest.  It could be that all of your life has prepared you for a grand exit.  God’s oldest have always been among his choicest.”

-He Still Moves Stones

Too old.  Too late.  Too hard.  How do we know they’re true unless we try?

What’s too hard for you to do?  What age is too old?  When is it too late?  Sometimes, we’re the ones who are limiting the very things we are still capable of doing.  We hear these words said all the time that we believe them and claim them as our truth, as our limitations.

Once in a while we hear certain people succeed despite all the challenges they faced in life.  We hear of athletes that broke world records.  We hear old people marry and even do amazing things like finish a marathon or earn a black belt in martial arts.  We hear success stories like that but we don’t accept them as part of our reality.  We consider them as “exceptions” rather than as part of our truth.

Why do we have this tendency to accept the things that would bring us down and to reject the things that would lift us up?  Why do we look at what we can’t do rather than rejoice at what we can STILL do?

Never mind what other people said.  What’s that inner voice within you saying?  What’s God’s voice saying? Making your dreams come true starts with claiming YOUR dreams as your own, not anyone else’s. (Read more on “Making Your Dreams Come True”)

We should also remember that wherever we are in our journey towards our dreams, WE CAN ALWAYS BEGIN SOMEWHERE.  And that somewhere includes many places including those often called as TOO OLD, TOO LATE and TOO HARD. “You can always begin somewhere.” (Read more on 5 Things to Remember When Reaching for Your Dream

Remember that GOD OFTEN CHOOSES THE MOST UNLIKELY PEOPLE FOR THE JOB.  And that includes Moses who was already in retirement and Abraham who was thought to be too old to have a child.

It is not yet too late for you.  If it is God’s plan for you, it will come true even if the whole world says it couldn’t.  What’s your greatest dream?  What’s your greatest joy?  Take heart because this could yet be your greatest moment.  It is never too late for God’s plans to come true.

To Believe What the Eyes Cannot See

To trust when you cannot see the way,
To keep on believing when there’s no one else
to cheer you on,
To keep on hoping
To keep on dreaming
Even when your way seems blocked,
Even when you’ve waited for so long,
Just carry on, carry on.
Drop by drop
Your cup shall overflow,
Inch by inch
You’ll walk the mile.
Be impatient not for the day
For it will surely come!
It will give way
To the man who knows
What he truly desires.
Clouds shall gather without your knowing,
Seeds shall grow beneath the ground,
And soon the clouds that have gathered
Shall pour as heavy rain,
With showers of blessings before your very eyes.
Soon the seed shall be a tree,
Mighty and strong,
And yielding a hundred fruits for the picking.
Trust that none can stop that rain from falling,
Or that seed from breaking free.
And you shall break free!
One day you, too, shall see
How God’s own plan comes true
How He shall make a way for you
Until you reach your destiny!

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Poems

This Is It!

This Is It!

This Is It!

This is it!
It’s make or break,
It’s forward or backward,
It’s sink or swim,
and it’s focusing on the light ahead,
instead of fearing the raging tides.

Go ahead.
Reach ahead.
Claim your prize
for your years of toil!
Fear not.
Doubt not.
Retreat not.
This is the moment
you’ve long been waiting for!

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Poems

In God’s Perfect Time

In God's Perfect TimeIn God’s Perfect Time

In God’s perfect time,
every pain shall be comforted,
every tear wiped away.
All our wounds shall be healed,
all our fears cast away,
in God’s perfect time.

In God’s perfect time,
all the good we did shall be revealed,
and what was whispered in the darkness
shall be broadcast aloud in the light.
Every sacrifice made in secret
shall be revealed,
in God’s perfect time.

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Spirituality

A Lily and a Loaf of Bread

“When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.”  A Lily and a Loaf of Bread

“When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.”  – Chinese Proverb

We do not live only for bread.  We live for each moment of beauty, of awe, and of love.  We need moments where we transcend the mundane to crossover to the glorious, for we are after all, not only flesh, but heart and mind and soul.

It is not that we should forget the physical, but that we should always remember what’s beyond that.  It is not that we should take for granted this life on earth, but that we should always remember the eternal, for there is where our true home is.

When we get so stressed working for a living, maybe it’s time to pause and see the reason why we’re working so hard for.  Work is not an end in itself.  Work is something that we do so we could continue to nourish what’s really important in life.

Better yet, the work that we do should be that kind of work that does not require us to leave our hearts at home.  The best kind of work is that kind of work that can nourish both our body and our soul.

(How much time are you devoting for you physical wellbeing today?  How much time are you devoting for your spirit?  Stress is not the key.  The key is balance.)

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Words of Wisdom

Falling Apart and Rising Again

falling apart and rising again quotes“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.” – Mockingjay, Book 3 of The Hunger Games

Falling Apart

Falling apart is never easy.  It’s like watching yourself break into a million shattered pieces, not knowing whether you could put the pieces back again and be the whole person that you were.  Falling apart is falling into brokenness.  It is also falling into aloneness, for in that dark place of brokenness, few people would ever want to reach out and take part in your darkness.

Picking Up the Pieces

All these is hard, and yet what’s really more difficult is picking up the pieces one by one and putting yourself back together.  Yes, it takes ten times as long, even a hundred times as long.  By picking up those pieces, you face all your hurts again.  By putting them back, you re-live all your sufferings, your shame, your anger.  You can’t put all the pieces back without learning from them and becoming stronger.  To stay as you were is to fail to hold them back together, and you would only fall apart again.

Awareness and Kindness

Many people do not realize this and so they are careless with their words or their actions.  They don’t know how others are merely holding on, trying hard not to fall apart.  Awareness is sometimes the key to kindness.  Had they been aware of the other person’s struggles, they could have been gentler and more careful of other people’s hearts.  Do something of the sort today.  Try to be kinder and more tolerant.  Forgive more.  Love more.  Other people may already be falling apart.

Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games)

MOCKINGJAY is the third book of THE HUNGER GAMES. It is the conclusion to the trilogy of a dystopian world where children of a rebellious region were made to undergo a deadly game as a yearly reminder of the costs of rebellion. It is meant to exact fear, although it guises itself under the banner of peace.