My year just started right. A wish granted, love fulfilled, happy and healthy family, loyal friends, good job and a blessed life. It took a long time before things settled into place. God has surprised me with so many things lately and in a span of 6 months, He carried out His plans for me wondrously. Short as it may seem, but perfect in all angles, not too tidy, not too rumpled, it just fits snugly and comfortably.

Not so long ago, when Ervin and I were still "going with the flow", I've already foreseen what our purpose would be. It was just there hanging, suspended in air for learning. Our love wouldn't have flourished from a magical beginning for nothing. So it's time to put that into use.

True love comes in scarcity nowadays, hope usually tramped down, faith challenged and bent; "Been there, done that..." and it surely is demoralizing, . . dead duck. But life goes on, whether you like it or not, you have to move your butt and fight, otherwise, life just passes you by. It was never easy for me but I took one step at a time until hope dawned on me. Faith became my friend and then Love found me. It came in a disguise at first but the magic was simply irresistable.

In no time at all, Ervin and I realized how plenty of colors appeared in our palette and so we started painting the canvass with our brushes. Now, we are putting colors to people whose lives are in the gray scale, sharing the fire of our love to ignite that tiny sparks of hope to those who despair.  

It feels great, incomparable joy whenever we witness a transformation right before our eyes. To actually infect someone with desire to be alive again, is one that's driving me to be a better person. Not all circumstances are favorable, we often hear criticisms, tactless comments, a vaunter's ruthless remark while strutting like a peacock. . . . pity on them. . . I choose to look at these people with empathy for they have already prevented themselves to experience true miracles of life.

Nothing disappoints me more than a person who stagnates and fails to grow. Life is what you make it. Each day, each moment is a learning process and if one chooses to ignore the lesson, then it's as good as a stale bread. How could one heal the world with a stale bread?