@curiouscat 17 August 2022

Grateful I always want to be grateful. From the smallest to the biggest things that happened in my life, there's always something to be grateful for. It's the simplest thing and effort that matters. I am not saying that we will settle for less, but rather should appreciate even the smallest effort we received. At difficult times, we may feel hopeless however even how bad our day went, if we look at the things around us we can still see the goodness of life. Actually, it's how we live our lives that will dictate what is happiness for us.

Sacrifice with love (sakripisyong may pag-ibig). One of a good way to show how thankful we are to whatever we have is to sacrifice for other people. Sacrifice without love is nonsense, and love without sacrifice is not love at all.

Recently, I've been worrying and get afraid regarding certain things. Then, this verse is one of the verses taught during one sermon that I watched. Now, this is what I always tell myself whenever I feel so weak and afraid. So I'll be reminded that presence of fear is absence of faith. I am grateful that God helped me understand this. I am always amazed and thankful how God help me in many ways. Sometimes, it's difficult for me to distinguish that it's already His answers to what I am praying and asking but He is always patient with me. I experienced God's great love on the cross, and this is a great great grace I received and I am really thankful. I hope you'll be able to understand and experience His love too. He sacrificed Himself, he who don't have any sin and a God Himself out of love for us. As His blood flows, all the sins of world, past, present, and future are all forgiven. Perfect redemption. Perfect love. I am grateful to experience such love.

***Edited this from Canva but the pic is mine hehe***