27th

I am so grateful to GOD that despite  all the things that happened last year: a roller coaster of events, HE gets to give me another wonderful and exciting year. I am blessed to receive birthday wishes and greetings from friends all over the world. I get to have extended birthday celebrations also. My life group bought me doughnuts and put candles on it to blow on the night before my day.

I get to go out with Joem, Hannah and Argenne during "Labor Day" for movie and lunch. And an extention celebration on the next day with the other Filipino gang. They surprised me with a birthday cake at the videoke place.

I am looking forward to incredible events in my life this year. I know that GOD will continue to prune me and cut things that HE doesn't need to grow and take root in my life. There will be more people that I get to meet and learn with. Excited for what HE's going to unfold this year. I'm praying that I get to survive and continue to have the ears and heart that would listen and obey to whatever HE tells me to do. Even those things that doesn't make sense for me.

Psalm 139:1-18

You have searched me, Lord,

and you know me. 

You know when I sit and when I rise;

you perceive my thoughts from afar. 

You discern my going out and my lying down;

you are familiar with all my ways. 

Before a word is on my tongue

you, Lord, know it completely. 

You hem me in behind and before,

and you lay your hand upon me. 

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from your Spirit?

Where can I flee from your presence? 

If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 

If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

if I settle on the far side of the sea, 

even there your hand will guide me,

your right hand will hold me fast. 

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me

and the light become night around me,” 

even the darkness will not be dark to you;

the night will shine like the day,

for darkness is as light to you.

For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well. 

My frame was not hidden from you

when I was made in the secret place,

when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 

Your eyes saw my unformed body;

all the days ordained for me were written in your book

before one of them came to be. 

How precious to me are your thoughts, God!

How vast is the sum of them! 

Were I to count them,

they would outnumber the grains of sand—

when I awake, I am still with you.

I am reminded of these verses today. HIS Words give serenity to my troubled heart.