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This is the continuation of the series of stories in my blog about the Lord. Now the Lord has made the world better and is suitable to live in. He has also made the first man and woman who will then be our ancestors….
A Beautiful Garden
Look at the earth here! How pretty everything is! Look at the grass and the trees, the flowers and all the animals.
How did this beautiful garden come to be? Well, let’s see how God got the earth ready for us.
First, God made green grass to cover the land. And he made all kinds of small plants and bushes and trees. These growing things help to make the earth pretty. But they do more than that. Many of them also give us foods that taste very good.
God later made fish to swim in the water and birds to fly in the sky. He made dogs and cats and horses; big animals and small animals. What animals live near your home? Shouldn’t we be glad that God made all these things for us?
Finally, god made one part of the earth a very special place. He called this place the Garden of Eden. It was just perfect. Everything about it was beautiful. And God wanted the whole earth to become just like this pretty garden he had made.
But there was something missing. Do you know what God saw that was missing? Let’s see.
The First Man and Woman
Who were the first man and woman? Who made them? It was God. And the first man and woman come to be called Adam and Eve.
This how God made Adam. He took some dust from the ground and with it he formed a perfect body, a man’s body. Then he blew into the man’s nose, and Adam came to life.
God had a job for Adam. He told Adam to name all the different kinds of animals. Adam may have watched the animals for a long time so he could pick the best names for them all. While Adam was naming the animals he began to see something. Do you know what that was?
The animals all had mates. There were papa elephants and mama elephants, and there were papa lions and mama lions. But Adam had no one to be his mate. So God made Adam fall into a deep sleep, and he took a rib bone from his side. Using the rib, God made a woman for Adam, and she became his wife.
How happy Adam was now! And think how happy Eve must have been to be put in such a beautiful garden to live together in happiness.
God wanted Adam and Eve to live forever. He wanted them to make the whole earth as pretty as the Garden of Eden. How happy Adam and Eve must have been when they thought about doing this! Would you have liked to share in making the earth a pretty garden? But the happiness of Adam and eve did not last. Let’s find out why.
Through the past years of my life, I’ve been so damn bad that I could hardly think of those things I’ve done. I’ve been talking to my parents as if they were my level of respect; I steal things not just from the purse of my mother but also from the things of other people. These things are just some of the things I would describe as rebellion against God.
Since then, God has told us to be good in this world, he has told us to follow him and obey his orders and of course him.
Last night an amazing thing happened, I dreamt about my crush and I holding each other’s hands never letting go until the end of time. I woke up and faced a new morning, it was a beautiful day and I thought to myself, what a wonderful world!
I’ve realized that every little act we do is seen by God. He is the light that we see each day and the stars that we dream each night. He is the Alpha and the Omega, he is the beginning and the end.
I’ve also realized that there’s more to life than being depressed, crying all day and thinking about all the worries in life. What we should do is to start changing, changing for a better life.
This month of March, I’ve decided to make a blog on a series of stories about the Lord, these are stories about God that we could reflect upon until we die…
God Begins To Make Things
All the good things we have come from God. He made the sun to give us light by day, and the moon and stars so we can have some light at night. And God made the earth for us to live on.
But the sun, the moon, the stars and the earth were not the first things God made. Do you know what the first was? God first made persons like himself. We can’t see these persons, just as we can’t see God. In the Bible these persons are called angels. God made the angels to live with him in heaven.
The first angel God made was very special. He was God’s first Son, and he worked with his Father. He helped God to make all other things. He helped God to make the sun, the moon, the stars and also our earth.
What was the earth like then? In the beginning no one could live on earth. There was nothing but one big ocean of water all over the land. But God wasted people to live on earth. So he began to get things ready for us. What did he do?
Well, first the earth needed light. So God made the light from the sun to shine on the earth. He made it so there could be both nighttime and daytime. Afterward god caused land to come up above the water of the ocean.
At first there was nothing on the land. There were no flowers or trees or animals. There were not even any fish in the oceans. God had a lot more work to do to make the earth really nice for animals and people to live on. To be coninued.....
Hi friends and enemies! It’s me again. Please bare with me if this month, I’ve written so many blogs. Peace!
I’m now going to write again, about my life as a boy, loving a girl.Have you ever been in love? Have you ever been so desperate to see her, talk to her, hold her with your arms and tell her you love her from the bottom of your heart? Yes, I’ve tried it and I desperately have been so in love. So in love that I felt I could die for her.
It all started during first year high school (to all UP students just guess who she is). It was the first day of classes when I first met her. I still remember that very scenario; she was standing by the door, wearing a jacket. When I saw her, as if I was struck by lightning! She was so pretty I wanted to grab her and talk to her, but I thought, who am I to talk to her when weren’t even still friends during that time. We were completely strangers to each other.
After that, I kept thinking about her. But after the many things we did that day, I just simply forgot about her.
The third week of high school came. Many students were now joining clubs and other extra curricular activities. As for me, I joined the UPSTAGE or the University of the Philippines Theater Arts Guild for Education. This club involves theater activities, many forms of dancing, and singing. But it specialized in ethnic dances and presentation as to what the club’s adviser, Ms. Ligaya Rabago Visaya’s theme is.
Before joining the club, of course we still have to audition. Many first years joined the audition. Including the VIP Delegates, a social group in our section which I am in.
My classmates, or should I say group mates sang, danced, acted and impersonated our teachers. And I, the king of impersonators in our school, impersonated some of my teachers including the club’s adviser.
Then out of the blue, I saw her, the girl I was so amazed with. I was again as if struck by lightning. What she did was, she sang. She sang a very familiar song which I recognized as the song, Happy Ending by Avril Lavigne. From then on, I had a crush on her. I thought about her always. And she just couldn’t get out of my mind.
November came, as for many universities, intramurals month. I still remembered that very day, Thursday, November 23, 2006 the whole world fell upon me and I was as if, I couldn’t breathe when I heard the news that the very person I like was now the girlfriend of my previous best friend.
There were no nights I wouldn’t think of her and there were no days I wouldn’t suffer of depression. I didn’t actually know why but it’s as if she was a very dear person to me, it was as if, I fell in love!
December 22, 2006 was a day I couldn’t forget. It was the eve before their (well you know who) monsary. For 2 hours I cried and cried. I just stayed in my romm remembering the days when we were still friends, talking to each other, hanging-out and walking to many places near our school like the College Department in our school.
The following days worsened. Her boyfriend knew I had a crush on her, so I couldn’t dare talk to her or simply go near her. I wouldn’t dare go near a person whose boyfriend is so angry at me and has a very feared group. But I told myself, “how could you be a coward, if you love her you should fight for it”! But I just didn’t have the strength to do it.
It feels very odd seeing both of them holding hands, talking to each other and just having fun. It’s like I’m going to burst! During break I would sit at our bench and watch her from there, she would be inside her room by then. I would just feel sad be depressed and sometimes cry.
I’m not very lucky when it comes to love, but somehow and in someway, I’m going to be lucky at it and I hope I could find the person who would love me truly too. I’ve learned something from this “ ‘wag hanapin ang pag-ibig, ito’y darating” as a famous OPM song goes.
Helping – a very strong word. It is the act when one takes pity to anyone. This is what the crew of the MV Doulos has been doing ever since it was made. They have been crossing nation to nation, helping the people who are poor, oppressed, in war, or even the most corrupt people they have been helping.
Here are some facts of MV Doulos…
The MV Doulos is the world's oldest active ocean-faring passenger ship. She is now owned by the German charity Gute Bücher für Alle (Good Books for All), and is used as a floating bookshop. Over the years, she has been known as the SS Medina, the SS Roma, and the MV Franca C.
History
The Medina was built in 1914 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company for the Mallory Steamship Company of the United States. She was a freighter serving the Atlantic; during World War II she served with the United States Coast Guard.
The Panamanian company Naviera San Miguel SA acquired the Medina in 1948; they renamed the ship the Roma, and converted her into a passenger ship with cabins for 287 people, and dormitories for an additional 694 people.
In 1952 Naviera San Miguel resold the Roma to Linea Costa, an Italian company. At this time the SS Roma, a steamship, was converted into a motor vessel and renamed the MV Franca C. She carried passengers between Italy and Argentina. In 1959, the Franca C was adapted into a cruise liner, principally cruising the Mediterranean.
In 1977, Gute Bücher für Alle acquired the Franca C, and renamed her the Doulos. In her current role, she is manned by a volunteer crew and visits sea ports world-wide.
Did you know that it was built only 2years after Titanic?! Wow this boat does has something to be well remembered about.
Why would we say, love affair with MV Doulos? Because this boat is full of love, it takes with them love from every country they go to and in turn they also give love to every country they visit through helping and caring for the pity citizens.
Actually, last February, we visited this historical ship ‘cause it visited us here in Cebu after several years. It docked in Pier I near the South Reclamation Project. We, the students of the University of the Philippines High School Department, were lucky enough to have the special treatment when we visited the boat.
We had so much fun! We read books, ate ice cream, talked with the crew, drank juice, and enjoyed the scenery of the ocean! Actually I was so sad when I saw my crush hanging-out with his male classmate, just enjoying the wind and the scenery of the ocean. Well that’s life.
After enjoying the books we bought and read, the crew made a program just for us and this lame lame school, the Asian College “chuva” something. The crew had several games for us, and our host was Brazilian.
We went home with stomachs full and with books from the boat. (their books were very high quality).
Well that’s it for today….BBBBByyYyYEEEEEEEEeee!!!!!!
