July Must Have Heard My Plea. It’s Starting To Be Good To Me

Pardon me for my rants and ramblings at the beginning of this month.  I hope I did not annoy or bore you too much.  I want to THANK everybody who bear with me and sent their good luck wishes.  The good news is that your wishes are all working!  July must have heard your good wishes and my plea - I can feel that  it’s starting to be good to me.

I received a wonderful blessing yesterday.  I apologize if I can’t share the details because I find it funny and I don’t want you all laughing at me (LOL to myself). But to give a clue - this will make me very busy again in the coming days.

On the day that I was waiting for this news I’ve been sitting for hours waiting and I was starting to be impatient.  I rummaged to my bag to find a pen thinking of scribbling something that I can use for my blogs.  As my hand do the blind search from my (huge) bag, I found this small book.


Oh yeah I almost forgot!  One day that I was hurrying out for some errands I picked this book on top of the three books stacked on my home desk that are on queue for my reading.  It was the day after I experienced a horrible queuing at the bank.  I remember throwing it on my bag thinking it would be a lot of help if in case I will be trapped in such situation again.  Using of mobile phones and gadgets are not allowed in most banks here in Manila so I grabbed this book to help me bear the annoying (and near to inhuman) waiting time. (See I developed a “queue phobia” this month ha ha.).

As you can see in the photo the book is still wrap with its original packaging.  It looks exactly like this when I put it on my bag. It’s my habit not to unpack gifts which I won’t be using yet and not to unwrap new books that I won’t be reading yet.  I love to preserve the crispness of a new book because I love the feeling and smell of it while reading.

This book is a Christmas gift from a dear friend. who is also one of my running buddies.  The "Coach” written in the dedication is an endearing term this dear friend calls me and so with my other friends whom I influenced into running.  (Please don’t take the “Coach” seriously LOL).

It’s a compact-kind of book, easy read with simple vocabulary.  It is like an itemized positive reminders and scriptures written like it is directly talking to you.  When I started reading it I felt that it is a perfect read for me right at that moment and time.  Why?

Let me share what I found in the first few pages of this book.  From Page 11 of the book:

365 Things Every Woman Should Know
By: Emilie Barnes
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“Having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day?  Bad days are a given so you might as well accept them.  But can you find hope in them?  I think so.

• No matter what, 24 hours from now the day will be over.

• Marinate your heart in Scriptures and prayer.

• Go ahead and gripe a little bit to someone who cares.

• Count to 10 before you respond to someone.

• Give yourself a lot of TLC.  Get some exercise, eat well and rest.

• Ask for help if you need it.
• Ask God, “What do you want me to learn from this yucky day?”

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These are all basic things that most of us already knew.  But sometimes we are all so caught up with our everyday chaos that we sometimes fail to do what should be done and needed to be reminded by other people... or by a book.

This “read” is like a reality potion to me.  What is simply written here are definitely the “power answers” to what I’m currently feeling these days.

I thank God for this day.  I thank God for this book and the person who gave this to me.  And most of all I thank God for all of you!

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
~ Mark Twain ~