Christmas Gift Suggestions

Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.

Picture courtesy of Ms. Carolina Reed

For Your Own Good

Picture Courtesy of Dr. Irene Alban

GIVE but don't allow yourself to be USED.
LOVE but don't allow your heart to be ABUSED.
TRUST but don't be NAIVE.
LISTEN to others but don't lose your OWN VOICE.

God Could Not Be Everywhere And Therefore He Made Mothers

Moms are special people
They hug you all the time
They help you do a lot of things
You might be scared to try
They take us to the playground
The movies and the zoo
Mom, we're really lucky
Cause we've got you

When we get in trouble
As little angels can
We know we're gonna get that look
From our biggest fan
She lets us know we messed up
And sometimes she gets mad
But even then, she's still the best mom
To kids ever had

Oh, Mother, we need you every day
We think we'll keep you
Oh, Mother, we love you
Even more than songs can say

You're funny and you're smart
You finish what you start
If we could, we'd elect you
President of the Mothers
No matter where we go
We hope it always shows...
You're the very best Mom we know

Oh, Mother, we need you every day
We think we'll keep you
Oh, Mother, we love you
Even more than songs can say

You're the very best, specialest person in the world

olsen twins song

Overcoming Difficulties

Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them. 

Joke over your troubles but gather strength from them. 

Have fun with your difficulties but overcome them.

Thai lady offering prayers and flowers. Infront of the Centara Grand, CentralWorld. Bangkok.

Grateful and Serving

Never be tired of doing little things for others, for those little things are the big things they treasure and keep in their hearts. Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it.

Picture taken at the Kanchanaphisek (Chinese) Temple. Nonthaburi.

Emotions

There will always be faces that you can never look at without emotion. And there are names you can never hear spoken without that same old feelings returning. Just when you think you can move on, you will remember all the reasons why you held on so long.

Picture taken at Wat Phra Singh, Chiang Mai City.

What's Inside You

If there is war inside you, that war will flow outside you.

If you don’t like yourself, you won’t like anyone else.

If you are angry at yourself, you’ will be angry at the world too.

If you don’t accept your weaknesses, you won’t accept other people’s weaknesses.

And if you feel unworthy, you will be looking to others to fill your need of worth, which is downright impossible, and you begin to blame others for the mess in your life. When there is no peace inside you, there can be no peace outside you. The war that rages outside you is merely a reflection of the war that rages within you. –B.Sanchez

Picture taken at the Wat Khanla Yanamit, Bangkok.

Thankful 2011

All praise and thanks to God the Father now be given;
The Son and Him Who reigns with Them in highest heaven;
The one eternal God, Whom earth and heaven adore;
For thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore. 
HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY TO ALL... BLESSING AND LOVE BE WITH YOU ALL...GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME!

Picture taken at Lumphini Park during the Loy Khratong (Thailand's Thanksgiving)

Excel

It is better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing. For even a flawed diamond is more valuable than a perfect brick. People who fail also have victories. Sometimes the winner is just a dreamer who never gives up.

Picture taken in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. 

As we look back to the past, we can remember the tears we cried, the jokes we laughed at, the things we missed and lost. But there is one thing we should never forget: It's not the years in your life that count, it is the Life in your years that do. 

Picture taken at the Assumption Cathedral, Bangrak District. Bangkok.

Life, Book and Forgive

Mistake is a single page of LIFE.
But relation is a complete BOOK.
So don't lose a full book for a SINGLE PAGE.
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Those who forgive others are no fools;
Only fools never forgive.

Picture shows the hand of my nephew, Ivan. He caught a spider. This picture was taken in Samut Phrakan's Crocodile Farm.

Real Love and Affection

It is not material things that give us a good life but, real affection, respect, and the genuine love and friendship of the people around us while walking each day with God.

Picture taken inside the Vimanmek Mansion compound. Bangkok.

Steadfast and Strong

The strongest people have the worst problems, the worst trials and the worst situations. 

It is not because God wants them to suffer. But it is because God trusts them so much that he gave them something He knows they can overcome and something that would help them realize that everybody can be your companion but not everyone can be your friend. 

Be thankful for God's trials. They are His gifts to strong people.

Picture taken at the Lumphini Park. Central Bangkok. 

Touched Specially

When special people touch our lives, they show us that our hopes and dreams can take us far. 

They bless us with their love and joy and teach us how to live. 

God bless you.

Photo taken at the Wat Niwer Thammaprawat in Bang Pa-in, Ayutthaya. The temple looks like a Catholic church from the outside, but it is a Buddhist temple inside.

Real Treasures

Real treasures are not what the hands can grasp, but what the heart can hold. Real peace is not found outside ourselves but within and with God alone.

Picture taken at my daughter Leecia's playpark within the Lumphini Park. 

While watching and waiting for her play, I took pictures of this tree above me.

Yours to Choose

Your feelings are powerful and they are yours to choose. Whatever happens, you always have the option of dealing with it from a position of strength. 

In every challenge you face, there is great potential value. Choose to feel powerful and positive and that value is yours to create.

Picture taken at the Erawan Museum in Samut Phrakan.

God's Reflection

Wonderful people reflect God in their lives. 

They think God’s thoughts. 

Speak His words and love without discrimination. 

May you remain such a wonderful person. 

God bless.

Photo courtesy of my friend Nona Santiago-Newby of Spain. She is into baking and this is one of her creations. 

You Reap What You Sow

Honesty reaps trust. 

Goodness reaps friends. 

Perseverance reaps contentment. 

Humility reaps greatness.

 Hard work reaps success. 

Forgiveness reaps reconciliation. 

Faith in GOD reaps a harvest. 

Let us be careful what we plant now, make sure it will be a worthy harvest.

Picture captured in Lumphini during the Loy Khratong (Thanksgiving) Festival in Thailand.

Live Your Life

Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he becomes so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present. The result being that he does not live in the present or the future. He lives as if he is never going to die, and he dies having never really lived. (Delai Lama)

Wake Up and Make it Come True

All men dream big dreams, but not equally. The dreamers by night, dream in the dusty recesses of their minds and wake up in the morning only to find that it was just vanity. The dreamers by day are dangerous men, for they act their dreams with open eyes, and make them possible.

Picture shows an ancient Thai (myth) of an Angel or Guardian. This was inside the Wat Phra Keao.

Homeward Bound

We are tested or tempted, let us not panic but place our hope in God. We are 

If we are tested or tempted, let us not panic but place our hope in God. We are Christians and our homeland is not here. Like good children, let us turn our steps homeward, that our course may be approved and guided to its conclusion. Heal and open our eyes, Lord, that we recognize Your will.

(Picture taken at the Santa Cruz Churh. Chao Phraya, Bangkok)

Acceptance

We can be happy once we understand that the only place we will ever find genuine happiness is right inside of us. Happiness begins at the point of acceptance. The point when we stop questioning why life cannot be perfect and just accept the world the way it is.

Young Monks in Wat Mongkholbophit Ayutthaya.

The Lord is My Life

The LORD is my WAY....... I shall never be lost.
The LORD is my TRUTH....... I shall never be wrong.
The LORD is my LIGHT....... I shall never be in darkness.
The LORD is my LIVING WATER...... I shall never thirst.
The LORD is my DAILY BREAD....... I shall never hunger.
The LORD is my SAVIOR....... I shall never be apart from GOD.

Spring Season in Calgary.

Steadfast

Understand that we can always find strength in God. He has a plan for every single part of our lives. In our troubled times and anywhere we go, He is there with arms open wide. Obstacles do not frighten a heart that has a firm faith because it knows well that God’s love does not abandon those who trust in Him. God loves you.

San Francisco's Skyline.

Stand by You

If you stand for a reason, be prepared to stand alone. If you fight for a cause, fight even if there is no hope. If you fall on the ground, fall like a seed that grows back to fight again. Believe that in all these, the good Lord is with you and will stand by you all the way.

This is the Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall.

Imposing People

When people try to impose their will on others, teach them to respect people and to accept that others are free and distinct. When people refuse to give themselves, remind them that they have received everything from the Almighty. When people want to earn more, teach them to give more. When people think everything is for sale, teach them that life cannot be bought.

This picture was taken in Changdeokgung Palace in Seoul, Korea.

God By Your Side

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M♥net

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I created this video for someone who has loved us so much during our stay in Baguio City while me and my brother were in our university days. Monet, was our foster sister and she went beyond the duty of being our landlady. She became our friend, our sister and our family. We have shared so many life changing experiences, shared so many joys and sorrows.

The pictures in this slide movie are all taken in Monet's Facebook album. All taken in different places in Canada.

God's Only You

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God for All Eternity

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God's Gift

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God's Music Box

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God's Promise of Love

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God's Long and Lasting Love

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Every Moment Counts

Every moment has a lesson, and when we learn it, the moment has served its wonderful purpose. May the lessons learned strengthen and resolve us to do better. Be inspired to lead a purpose driven life.

In the picture: Me and my daughter. Picture was taken at Wat Yai Chai Mongkhol in Ayutthaya.

Always in Our Thoughts, Forever in Our Hearts

Yahweh, I Know Are Near: That was the prayer / song I always whispered to my Mommy & Daddy's ears while they were sick, until the day they found their ways back to heaven with God. It is a sad but a comforting song. It gives "life" a very beautiful meaning and "death" a very beautiful beginning. Today, we remember and pray for all our dearly departed beloved. They will always be in our thoughts and forever in our hearts.


Thoughts today, Memories forever.
Remembering you, As time goes by.
Sadly missed, Lovingly remembered.
Always in our thoughts, Forever in our hearts.
Forever remembered, Forever missed.


Love's greatest gifts Mommy & Daddy - remembrance.
Loved always, Sadly missed.
A little tribute, small and tender, Just to say we still remember.
The tears in my eyes I can wipe away, The ache in my heart will always stay.

Tenderly we treasure the past, With memories that will always last.
As you were you will always be, Treasured forever in our memories.
Mom & Dad holds their children's hands for awhile, Their hearts forever.
Remembering you on this day, Comforted by so many memories.

Though absent you are very near, Still loved, still missed, and very dear.
In the hearts of those who loved you, You will always be there.
Dearer still as the years depart, You live forever in my heart.
Your beauty is missed in every way. "Forever in our hearts."

Mommy & Daddy, we treasure still, with love sincere, Beautiful memories of you so dear.
There is a link death cannot sever, Love and remembrance last forever.
Silent memories true and tender, Just to show we still remember.
The Lord watch between thee and me, While we are absent one from the other.

You still live on in the hearts and minds, Of the loving family you left behind.
A garden of beautiful memories, Sprayed with a million tears.
Beautiful memories are treasured ever, Of happy days when we were together.
Loved with a love beyond all feeling, Missed with a grief beyond all tears.

Your memory is as dear today, As in the hour you passed away.
Memories are like threads of gold, They never tarnish or grow old.
He laboured hard for those he loved, Then left us to remember.
Wherever I go, whatever I do, Memories keep me near to you.

I lost my best, my dearest friends, Dear Mommy & Daddy when I lost you.
Gentle, unselfish, a friend ever true, My best possession, Mommy & Daddy, were you.
While you, dear Mommy & Daddy, rest and sleep, Your loving memories we’ll always keep.
I keep in my heart the love of the past, For there it was planted forever to last.

Together in the same old way, Would be my dearest wish today.
Loved with a love beyond telling, Missed with a grief beyond all tears.
Safe in the arms of Jesus, Safe on His loving breast.
Sweet little flower of heavenly birth, She was too fair to bloom on earth.

No length of time can take away My thoughts of you today.
We love you forever Mommy & Daddy.