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How to Teach a Hopelessly Stubborn Heart

April 14, 2008

for the past few days we havent been doing our devotions
rarely un utter of prayer a day
all our thoughts were about work
what to wear
what to eat
but nothing much about God
or our Christian life
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last sunday we skipped church
so tired because of the heat
too tired to stand up and commute to church
prayer meeting we also skipped
nightly prayers skipped
reading the bible skipped
quite time skipped
we worked hard
we deserved rest
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Second of a series: A doubtful heart

April 14, 2008

It took me a while to realize that what is “small and petty” in my eye is “big and bold” in the eye of the Lord. When I thought I was simply being a brat, stomping my feet and insisting on “logic and reason”, I was actually committing the one sin that God hated the most – idolatry.

Last night, while Warren and I realized upon assessment that we are just like any other couple who fight, he mentioned the importance of keeping Christ in the center of our marriage as our only hope, he explained to me that this is precisely the reason why we need to continue growing spiritually as Christians. Instead of me submitting to my husband at that moment and agreeing with what he said, I turned away and made my own “little scene”…
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Written by hazelrchua · Filed Under BLOG, Family, Love, Personal, Relationships, Religion, Women | Leave a Comment 

How Great Thou Art

April 13, 2008

An experimental timelapse work i’d like to share and show how God’s work is just sooo beautiful…

Please click on this to see the video.

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Weekend (with my mom’s car)

April 13, 2008

praise God for the time He has given my wife and i to spend more time with each other
though i have to borrow my mom’s car for that to happen
yeah so we dont have a car yet
i felt like a 13yr old pimple-faced boy borrowing things from my mom though
and i borrowed it at the time my mom was about to do her regular chores
so we have to do that for her
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at the end of the day after doing my mom’s chores, hazel and i went to the mall of asia
probably the biggest mall in asia i dont know
i felt a bit of a pity on myself realizing that i have to borrow the car from my mom
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Filthy Rags to God’s Grace

April 12, 2008

The other night, Warren was deeply immersed with reading the book of Luke (which he always does) when he suddenly bobbed his head from behind his Bible to share with me what he understood from the verse.
“To me, this means we as Christians are representatives of Christ, so wherever we go, whoever it is we are talking to, we should always remember that we are there to represent Christ, then there is really no need to tell them, “hey, I’d like to invite you to our church…”, instead, we can go right ahead and evangelize from there…”
I have forgotten what part in the book of Luke that is, but I remember coming by his side and reading it to see how I would understand what is written. I agree with my husband.
The following morning, we were walking around the community for morning exercise when he expressed his fear of not being able to share more openly with other people, of not being able to evangelize and of not being a zealous soldier of God.
I have always known my husband to be an introvert, in fact when we first met; I repeatedly had to ask him what was bothering him because there were moments during that day when he would just cave in, like something would wrap around him that not even I could get through. He would be staring from afar and be silent for minutes on end.
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Written by hazelrchua · Filed Under BLOG, Family, General, Lifestyle, Love, Opinion, Personal, Relationships, Religion, Women | Leave a Comment 

Me on Grace Talk Soup?

April 10, 2008

Me, on Grace Talk Soup? I could not believe it, but yes, and I am soooo thrilled!

In between blanching the broccoli and grilling the baby back ribs, my eyes would dart to the laptop and my fingers would be, figuratively speaking, itching to type this post… I could not wait long enough to have the time to sit and start announcing to the whole world about the invitation I received from Jojo Tabares this morning.

I was reading KC Concepcion’s blog (well, I do read local celebrity articles, too, and it’s fun!) which I stumbled upon at Clare’s when an email alert popped up on my screen.

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Written by hazelrchua · Filed Under BLOG, Blogging, Events, General, Internet, Lifestyle, News, Personal, Podcasts, Religion, Women | Leave a Comment 

Catholic Church vs Davao City

April 8, 2008

They will storm the Davao City council meeting on Tuesday. Find out more at Catholic Church vs Davao City

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Osteen’s Desecration of True Christianity

April 2, 2008

For those who may have stumbled upon yesterday’s post and are wondering just who Joel Osteen REALLY is, this post is for you.

According to Wikipedia, Joel Osteen is the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, he is married, was born in 1963 so that makes him only fourty-four years old as of this writing.

“He was featured as one of Barbara Walters’ “10 Most Fascinating People of 2006″ and was named “Most Influential Christian in America in 2006 by The Church Report. His second book, Become a Better You, was released in October 2007 with a first printing of three million copies.”

Sounds like a really impressive guy, huh? But wait till you watch this:

(Watch and read more here…)

Written by hazelrchua · Filed Under Blogging, Opinion, Personal, Religion | Leave a Comment 

Rich young man

April 1, 2008

Yesterday, Warren and I were invited to have lunch with a former client from Houston, Texas. He is in the country for a three week vacation with his family and to do some business as well.

Tim and I go a long way back, back to late 2006 or early 2007, but back in the days we never discussed anything that is near religion. I have always assumed he is a Buddhist.

You see, this man is a Vietnamese, he was one of those boat people who paddled their way out of Vietnam in the 1980’s. He was eleven at that time. Staying six full months in a Vietnamese refugee camp in the Philippines (he could not exactly remember if it was in Batangas or Palawan), he was later boarded on a plane for the United States of America where he was eventually naturalized as a citizen.

Tim, indeed, is a very lucky man for having been given the opportunity to rebuild his life in the land of milk and honey. He got his education, became a software engineer, earned enough to start his own business, got laid off from work and finally had reason to become his own boss, and now, he is one of the young, successful and powerful (hey, you are powerful when you are rich, by human standards, isn’t it?) rich men in Texas. He is only thirty two years old and a father to two beautiful boys. Life is rosy and full of promises for him. Or is it?

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Written by hazelrchua · Filed Under BLOG, Blogging, General, Lifestyle, Opinion, Personal, Religion | Leave a Comment 

Pinoy DepEd launches Sex Education in High School

April 1, 2008

Despite persistent lobbying by the Catholic Church, the Department of Education is bent on teaching sex education in the public high schools. Find out more at Philippines Department of Education launches Sex Education in High School
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160-Year Old Oslob Church Gutted by Fire

March 30, 2008

Horrors of horrors, that was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw a local paper’s front page last Thursday. It carried the news of the destruction of one of Cebu’s oldest churches. The 160-year old Immaculate Conception Parish and its convent in the southern town of Oslob was gutted by fire.

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Catholic Church vs Quezon City: Round 2

March 27, 2008

After suffering a defeat, the theological empire strikes again. Find out more @ Catholic Church vs Quezon City: Round 2

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Wiwannastarhavinahbeybeeh!

March 26, 2008

After the wedding, the honeymoon, the weekend dates and being constantly a twosome, Warren and I finally reached that point where we are already thinking about getting pregnant. Uh-huh, you read it right. PREGNANT. Wiwannastarhavinahbeybeeh! (spoken in a childlike manner for emphasis) Warren is not oblivious to the fact that I might not be able to give him a child. You see, I was with a man for eight years and not once did I get pregnant, so before our wedding I told Warren about the possibility of my being infertile. He would always display a very positive attitude towards this and there were times I would wish for myself to feel the same way.

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Written by hazelrchua · Filed Under BLOG, Blogging, Family, Lifestyle, Love, Medicine, Opinion, Personal, Relationships, Religion, Women | Leave a Comment 

Oh, the Irony! The Most Hilarious News this Quarter

March 24, 2008

This is too good to be true. I literally have tears in my eyes when I’ve read this piece of news. Find out more at expelled from Expelled.

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Flagellants, faith, customs and traditions

March 24, 2008

I took Warren for a short visit to my mother’s hometown in Barrio Panipuan, San Fernando, Pampanga last Good Friday to show him a tradition that this quaint village celebrates year after year. Needless to say, it was also a tradition that has formed part of my childhood.

Barrio Panipuan is about 30 minutes from our place in Balibago, Angeles City. We took the old MacArthur Hiway route, passing Telabastagan and stopping by a subdivision at the back of Paning’s to pick up my niece Asia and my sister Aissa. We took a left at Barrio Baliti and went straight ahead towards our point of destination. Just as we were taking a right to enter the village, we were slowed down by a melee of young men. One of them was holding a long rope which, to me, looked like a makeshift “latigo” or whip. He was bent over and talking to another man whose head was covered with a white makeshift turban, he had a crown of bougainvillea stalks, he had no shirt on - just denim pants, was barefooted and his back was soaked in blood. He was holding a cord with short sticks at the end. He whips the cord on his back to make the blood ooze, sometimes, the young man with a whip would take out a bottle of water from his pocket and pour a little on the sticks to make it look like there is just too much blood coming out of the man’s back. Continue reading>>

Written by hazelrchua · Filed Under Blogging, Events, Opinion, Personal, Religion, Travel | Leave a Comment 

Pasyon sa Mantalongon

March 23, 2008

“We went there just to watch someone being nailed on the cross?”

And so asked my younger brother Andre Sandino on our family’s way home from Mantalongon, Dalaguete in Southern Cebu where we spent the Holy Week to witness the Pasyon sa Mantalongon last March 21, 2008.

Apparently, local Mantalongon residents, along with people from neighboring towns and barangays, the Cebu City-based media, freelance photographers, road trippers (like Eloise who have more artistic photos of the event here), and foreign tourists also went out of their way to be in Cristo Rey Mountain Park, Mantalongon first hand to watch the live reenactment of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion by Gilbert Bargayo.

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Easter

March 22, 2008

If you are wondering where the Easter bunny and Easter eggs came  from, well it is a symbol representing the gods of the spring and  fertility passed on from generations to generations.

According to holidays.net,  the name Easter is thought to come from  the Scandinavian “Ostra” and the Teutonic “Ostern” or “Eastre,” both  goddesses of mythology signifying spring and fertility. Traditions  associated with the festival survive in the Easter rabbit, a symbol of  fertility, and in colored easter eggs painted with bright colors to  represent the sunlight of spring.

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Glicthline’s Visita Iglesia

March 21, 2008

Visita Iglesia is a Filipino Catholic tradition, its not just visiting seven churches every Holy Thursday. Usually, the celebration begins with a mass, mostly at 6pm. Read more…

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Do you worship carved images?

March 19, 2008

The other night, I was doing my usual Bible reading when verses 4 to 6 of Exodus 20 hit me like an avalanche. It said:
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.”
Memories of my Catholic days came back to me in a flash. I remembered those days I’d kneel and bow my head in fervent prayer in front of the statue of the Santo Nino, the Virgin Mary and the crucifix - these are all CARVED IMAGES!

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Written by hazelrchua · Filed Under Blogging, Opinion, Personal, Religion, Women | Leave a Comment 

The New Seven Deadly Sins: I’m Screwed

March 11, 2008

So, the Vatican has introduced seven new deadly sins. Do they have a committee that decides this kind of shit or something? The Committee of Sins, perhaps? Anyway, these new deadly sins (Genetic Modification, Experimenting on Humans, Polluting the Environment, Causing Social Injustice, Causing Poverty, Becoming Obscenely Wealthy, and Taking Drugs) are more hip than the original seven, and it doesn’t sit well with the old guys.

seven deadly enemies of man

Pride: We were the first! Why do we need another seven?! We were the stars of a Brad Pitt movie, goddammit!

Wrath: DIE, N00BS! DIE!!!

Lust: Fakers. We can totally kick their pretentious asses. Mmmm… asses. Gangbang, anyone?

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My Jealous God

March 7, 2008

I grew up “knowing” God.
Growing up in a Catholic setting, I was practically spoon-fed with stories of God’s overflowing love for mankind, his merciful nature, his kindness, patience for sinners, tolerance for man’s sinful nature, his loving ways and his pure heart.

So, just imagine my shock and utter disbelief when, at age 31, I was being “indoctrinated” into believing that my God is a jealous God and a God full of wrath for man because of man’s sinful nature. God, a jealous God?

(Continue reading the rest of the story here…)

Written by hazelrchua · Filed Under Blogging, Family, General, Lifestyle, Opinion, Personal, Religion, Women | Leave a Comment 

Interfaith Rally

March 1, 2008

I was there at the the Interfaith rally yesterday. A light drizzle greeted me when I arrived hours before the start of the rally. . That didn’t dampen my spirits though. I had faith that the InterFaith rally will continue despite the drizzle. Hope reigned in my heart that the InterFaith rally will set the ground for Filipinos to take a look at our current situation. Continue reading, Interfaith Rally in Makati

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