Bon Voyage

"Bon Voyage" the phrase people usually utter everytime someone leaves for a journey.

An expression for good wishes.

Keeping the hope in our hearts that those voyager souls find joy and passion in their journey into the unknown.

Nevertheless, voyage doesn't just mean about going to places from places.

Little did we know that we are all voyager, maybe not in places but in our own beautiful life journey.

Come with me and let me take you to my world. Follow my trails and let us together explore the beauty of this life voyage.

Leaving the Seashore

I came from a broken family. I have no father beside me when I am starting to gain my common sense. My mother leave my father the moment she found out that she was a mistress and my dad actually had a family in the Manila.

She choose to nurture me all by herself not until I reach my high school life where she meet my step father.

I was known to be a responsible and obedient daughter. I always made it on top in our classroom and performed well. No one would ever think that I've got my little dirty secrets that I keep on hiding from my family.

I was on my 7th grade that time when I started to drink and smoke secretly. I have a lot of out of school friends.

Everything went smoothly without anyone in my family discovered my vices. Therefore, I continue what I am doing and even engage in relationships. Hoping that I could find the love that I've been longing and searched for it from one person to another , but I couldn't find it.

It was 2016 when my life turn upside down. A very normal day for me, just so I thought.

My classmate approached me and started to talk about God. I am not that religious person , so I think of a way to get away from her without offending her. I told her that I have something else to do and was about to leave when she said the words that brought me to my knees and tears starts to drop one by one until I couldn't count it anymore.

"You are not a mistake, He made you with His unfathomable love."

All throughout the years, I've been treating myself as a mistake. A result of mortal sin. I always think that I am no good and don't deserve to be happy. But then God erase it all in just a snap. He let me go of the lies I keep on carrying.

It was God who made me new again and remind me that my life has a big purpose. That I am fearfully and wonderfully made. My whole life changed a lot. I gave up my vices and start serving the Lord.

Sometimes, we are all afraid to go far away from the seashore. Afraid that if we do, we would drown and can never step into a seashore again. We are so coward to leave our comfort zones, without knowing that growth and changes can only be found outside our comfort zone.

You cannot receive what you really deserve if you don't let go of the things that were not for you.

We are always anxious about the things we shouldn't worry about and carry the things we should not. We forgot that everything happens for a reason and regardless what will happen, God is always in control.

God only uses two things to get us out from the seashore, it's either He'll give you a boat or He'll make you walk in the water. One thing is for sure, either of thr two. He will always go with you.

Big Waves

We maybe tempted to think that the battle is over after we get away from the shore.

No, actually real battle begins when we are out of the shore.

Waves doesn't exist in the shore, it happens in the sea.

Like you, I am still sailing and currently facing gigantic waves. Sometimes, I think to just give up and go back to the shore.

But whenever I feel like going back, I always look back and realize how far I've come and how many waves I've encountered just be where I am today.

I am not giving up today , not tomorrow and never will.

Life would be so much fun with waves. Waves are there to mold us who we are today just like how it gives beauty and authority to the calm ocean.

Let the waves hit you. Sometimes, a lil bit of hurt will make us back to our senses.

I hope that wherever you are right now.

No matter how big the waves you face.

I pray that you'll make it through.

As long as yoi are breathing, don't stop sailing.

Don't stop my great voyager!

Bon Voyage!