Baby

A worried woman went to her gynecologist and said: 'Doctor, I have a serious problem and desperately need your help! My baby is not even 1 year old and I'm pregnant again. I don't want kids so close together. So the doctor said: 'Ok and what do you want me to do?' She said: 'I want you to end my pregnancy, and I'm counting on your help with this.' The doctor thought for a little, and after some silence he said to the lady: 'I think I have a better solution for your problem. It's less dangerous for you too.' She smiled, thinking that the doctor was going to accept her request. Then he continued: 'You see, in order for you not to have to take care 2 babies at the same time, let's kill the one in your arms. This way, you could rest some before the other one is born. If we're going to kill one of them, it doesn't matter which one it is. There would be no risk for your body if you chose the one in your arms. The lady was horrified and said: 'No doctor! How terrible! It's a crime to kill a child! 'I agree', the doctor replied. 'But you seemed to be OK with it, so I thought maybe that was the best solution.' The doctor smiled, realizing that he had made his point. He convinced the mom that there is no difference in killing a child that's already been born and one that's still in the womb. The crime is the same! If you agree, please SHARE. Together we can help save precious lives! "Love says I sacrifice myself for the good of the other person. Abortion says I sacrifice the other person for the good of myself..." Jesus sacrificed Himself for the good of sinners! That's perfect love! -unkown

God Is Faithful in So many Ways

Dear Lord,

I just want to ask you for the opportunity to be faithful with you.
I've been asking for something and you gave more than I asked.

Thank you so much Lord, I gave you back all the praises and glory. AMEN.

Food for the Soul

Just want to share something….

Yesterday, after having our Sunday service in Evangel Family Church, I was so blessed when Pastor Marion Lim, our Senior Singaporean Pastor visited Cebu Evangel (our church). Pastor Marion Lim as God’s anointed servant had full-heartedly shared to us about the rewards of obedience. How I wish I have invited more people to hear such sermon. It was indeed a joy to us Christians hearing upon God’s word being refreshed and purify again from this sinful world. She shared to us the verse in Proverbs 3:1, it says “My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart,”. It reminds us that we must not forget His Law. And to move on to verse 2, it says “for they will prolong your life many ears and bring you prosperity”. See how awesome our big God is? The reward of keeping His commandments is prosperity. Now, do you want to live life victoriously? Simply follow His Law!

God’s word is living and life-changing. In Psalms 119:72, David says “The law from your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of silver and gold.” There is no more precious thing as God’s word. Nothing! Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

We Christians are often neglected of guarding our hearts especially when we are already in our comfort zones. Sometimes we forgot God in times of prosperity. We only call upon the Lord if we are in trouble. But God is God! He is always accessible, always available anytime in anywhere in bad times and in good times. He is not only a God of Help for emergency and our last resort to lean on. Most of us are guilty to these attitudes but our God is God of mercy, willing to forgive us and if we will just allow Him to truly come and live in our hearts, then no doubt we will live in perfect peace and happiness with Him even in the middle of the storms in life.

The key to blessings is obedience but often blessings can be caused to obedience. If you really pay attention to this statement you could probably say it’s absolutely right. In fact, I remembered Pastor Marion repeated those lines to emphasize that this is what happens to most of us. Now, let’s take a move and be awaken of wrong doings and negative perception of blessings. We are blessed yet we are curse because of our disobedience. Some people tend to harden their hearts, enlarge their prides and become feeble-minded after receiving so countless blessings that they have desired. My fellow Christians, let us be watchful enough and learn to humble ourselves that we cannot do anything without God. God created everything in this world. And that everything belongs to Him. We are only stewards of His creations. Let us stay focus to our do things which are glorifying to God. Let us honor God with our resources, money, time and energy. In the end, all our hard works for Him is not in vain because our God is not dead. We serve a true and living God – Almighty Father creator of heaven and earth!

Thanks for reading and God bless you!

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So What (Toastmaster BS#4)

What profits a man if he owns the world and loses his soul?

I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Lalene. I am 21. I am enormously ambitious. I never stop dreaming. Dreaming of the things I wanted to possess – I want to be a billionaire –own a big business, live in a palace, riding in a limo and enjoy all the riches of the world. I want to be featured by Forbes ranked number 1 as the richest woman in the world. I want to travel around the world. I want to have a great marriage someday. I want to have all the health and wealth and prosperity. I want to have all the goodness in this world.



Fellow Toastmasters and guests, believe me or not, most of us desire to have everything we want in this world. Don’t we? People are so busy building treasures in this world. They spend their time and talents to achieve that great career and to have that name for their selves. Some people prizes beauty and health. They are spending their life doing what they can just to “turn back the clock”, having vigorous outworks, expensive clothing, costly cosmetics, beauty treatments, hair styles, and even plastic surgeries.

I tell you, there is no wrong about having ambitions and desires but when we live only to save ourselves, to build warm nests, and to make money entirely for our own use and enjoyment, we become the most discontented and miserable mankind. There are lots people who are living in selfishness and pleasure-seeking, only to find their capacity for joy has shriveled and end up into gloom and despair and even to give up their own lives. They have lost their souls!

If great marriage and perfect relationship can truly satisfy our lives, then why is it that there are lots of couples who eventually divorced. Remember the shocking divorces of Renee Zellweger and Kenny Cheney, Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Philippe, Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey and many more. Aren’t they had the luxurious wedding but still ended up in failure?

If money and fame can truly make you happy, then why even one of the richest people in the world, Dr. Adolf Merckle committed suicide? In fact, he achieved everything a man could ever hope for in life. Because of his severe depression, he apparently allowed himself to be run over by a train.

If successful career and a name for yourself is what life is all about, then why there are still successful people gave up their lives? In 1994, Kevin Carter, a South African photojournalist won the Pulitzer prize for his disturbing photograph of a Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture. Instead of helping this toddler Sudanese to make her way to the food station, Carter took 20 mins to take photo, wanting the best shot possible. Then after that he chased this vulture away. Carter has spiraled into depression of receiving heaps of criticism for his actions. That same year, Kevin Carter committed suicide.

Where do you think their souls were going? These examples and even our personal testimonies prove that nothing in this world can satisfy our hearts. Even if we already have everything that this world may offer, still we feel the emptiness because you know what, we started at the wrong point. We think that this life is all about ourselves. But I tell you, true peace and happiness can only be found if we embraced the fact that life is not all about us. It’s all about our relationship with God through Jesus. By faith, in Him we believe that at the end, He will conquer all pains and sufferings in this world. If we understand this truth, we will live with full of hopes. We will not be discouraged. We will not be depressed no matter how hard the situation is because we will live for Him alone and not for ourselves anymore.

I would like to introduce myself again. The old Lalene has gone, the new Lalene has come. But I am still 21. I delight in the Lord to receive my countless desires in life. I am not ashamed of my Lord Jesus and His word. I’m on my way to greatness and I’m currently building up treasures in heaven.
What profits a man if he owns the world and loses his soul? Nothing.

Good Evening!

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An Attitude of Forgiveness (Toastmaster BS#3)

Why? Why did you forgive that person?

Forgiveness is a door to peace and happiness. It is a small, narrow, and cannot be entered without stooping. It is also hard to find. But no matter how long the search is , it can always be found.

Fellow toastmasters and friends, is your life driven by anger and resentment? Do you have grudges and never get over of it? Do you have someone whom you can never forgive? In the same way, have you also tried to ask forgiveness from someone whom you have hurt? When that person can’t forgive you and will never forgive you, how would you feel? 

Isn’t forgiveness will bring us the capacity to love and to be loved again?

How should we forgive and why? I can’t really tell you. It’s probably the hardest thing you’ll ever attempt to do.

But I can tell you what I’ve experienced personally. When I was about 11 years old, I witnessed my family being oppressed by the family of the brother of my stepfather who owned the house we have rented. At my young age, understanding what life is all about is still unclear to me. What I clearly understood at that time was we were going to leave our house as soon as possible. And the worst thing about it was we don’t even know where to move. I have learned that both parties agreed an installment payment of that house. Indeed, we already paid 1/3 of the full payment. So I asked my mother, why do they let us leave the house. There was silence. Her tears began to fall. I was so hurt. It seems that my heart was squeezed out. I could not just bear seeing my mom in pain. I could also see that she was angry and helpless but not hopeless. Then I have learned that this greedy-fat-wicked wife of my uncle had sold the house to another buyer fully paid. Unfortunately until now I don’t know exactly the details why my father did not fight back and call for justice. We have been cheated! – that’s all I know. I was really a dilemma for us since we have nowhere to go. But a good Samaritan, a neighbor of ours indeed let their vacant room for us to stay while our new small house is on construction. Life is so bitter for us since we live like a broken family. My father has a very timid personality with some pride of him that he did not stay and slept with us in the room. I felt so pity with my father since he only slept at his truck. My father is a driver hauling fresh pineapples in Del Monte. Every bite of mosquito in his sleep at night is equivalent of my anger I felt to that family. I have promised that one day I will take revenge. I said to myself that time will come I would burn their own house and that they will have nowhere to go like what had happened to us. I will show no mercy and they will come and beg to us like beggars in the street.

Yes, my plan to revenge is one of my motivations to be optimistic in life, to work harder and be successful. Years later I meet a person who changed my definition of life. It’s Him. He taught me that it’s His love that keeps us alive. And that one of the most beautiful expressions of love is forgiving. He also taught me that revenge is not ours to make. Vengeance is God’s. Let me tell you that honestly that after such a sincere and clear understanding of the right attitude of forgiveness, I live a life peacefully with a healthy heart free of hatred. Plus, God is faithful to his words. We happily moved in our new home. Then I’ve heard that this family who oppressed us was in financial crisis because someone had a serious illness in their family. I tell you I’m not really glad of what had happened. I have already forgiven them and love them once again.

Fellow Toastmasters and friends, it is such nice feeling to forgive. Humility is the essence of forgiveness. Why did I forgive that person? It’s because I believe that once you are able to let go of wrongs that had been done to you, it changes everything. It will change your relationship, your attitudes, your emotional make-up—your whole approach to living. It will give you a better life. And you will find that when you forgive, you’re always a winner. You don’t lose a thing. Because it’s not a sign of weakness to love somebody who hurts you, it’s a sign of strength.

Typed by raipyo with love. <3<3<3

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Love and Hate (Toastmaster BS#2)

“I hate you, Then I love you.. Then I hate you, then I love you more!”

“Sometimes I love you, sometimes I hate you. But when I hate you, it’s because I love you!”

Fellow toastmasters and guest good evening! Those lines are the thoughts of Celine Dion and Nat King Cole respectively. Love and hate are two distinct emotions which most people naturally possess and express these feelings in their own ways. We normally felt loved and be loved. On the other hand, we also desire to hate others and sometimes we find to confused ourselves. We merge hate and love. We hate the one we love and we love the one we hate.

There was a time when I got troubled about being in love with a person I really admired.

But I don’t exactly know if this is just an infatuation and not true love at all. Does hating this love will ever free me from the bondage of being in love? Or hating this love will instead push me through to prove that love finds no reason; that love has no eyes but love is not blind; it can see but it doesn’t mind?

To be honest, I never experienced true love yet for I had a feeling that it never and will never exist in me. Love… love… love… so vague... too complicated… so deep to fathom it’s true meaning. Only those who know how to love can understand what love means. Different people define love differently. Most of them define love according to the beat of their hearts, to the power of their thoughts, and to the learning of their own experiences.

The Bible says love is kind and patient, never jealous, boastful, or rude. The love of God to us is a perfect example for this. And my own definition of love is love itself. See! I am not really good how to define love. At some point of my life, love finds me but I used to hide on it. Not because I don’t want to be loved by someone but maybe because I am just afraid of the consequences of loving and being loved. What if one day, this love will run out from me? What if at the end of the day, this love will just cause me sleepless nights and breaks my heart? Sounds scary and I am not yet prepared for all of these. Maybe this is the reason why I tend to hate love once in a while. As the Christian teaching says, “Hate the sin but not the sinner”. So I tried to hate the love but not the lover. Sounds funny and weird! Yet, I can’t deny the fact that I later hate the person instead because of some reasons. It made me so guilty especially that the bible says “Do not hate your brother in your heart… Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer. Indeed, as far as your heart is concerned, to hate is to murder. In other words, hating someone is no different that murdering them in your hearts”. Although it sounds harsh but it is exactly true. I don’t want to be a murderer! From then on, there was a vicissitude in my heart.

From the love I felt before, I then, desire to hate it because I was once a coward. But when I knew that love conquers all, I learned to love more.

Thus, it is no surprise that we all want love rather than hate. Hate leaves ugly scars but love leaves beautiful ones. Fellow toastmasters and guest, our life is too short to spend it hating but life is worth-fulfilling to spend it loving.

Good evening!

The Stars of my Life (Toastmaster BS #1)

Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are.

Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky.


Fellow toastmasters, friends, guests, ladies and gentlemen, good evening.
When I was a little girl I wished that someday, somehow I could reach my stars in the sky. I called them stars because they are as wonderful as my dreams but they are as high as the sky.

I wish I could turn my dreams into reality. But how could I make them possible yet the reality is that they are actually improbable.

I was once a victim of that so-called poverty. I was born from a poor family. I already lost my father when I was two years old. Every day is a hard day to live.

During my school years, I could still remember my classmates wearing new clothes, new bags, and new shoes. I wish I could have them too. But I know we can’t afford any of them. There was also a time when my mother brought me to the city where I wish I could have a dine-in in the Jollibee or McDonalds but unfortunately my mother was just took me to the messy market instead. What a poor girl I was!



I cannot avoid that I was craving for new things – new clothes, new shoes, new bags and eat in the Jollibee every day. Well, my desires lead me to strive harder in my studies amidst the lack of resources. Imagine for four years in High School, I studied every night with just a ‘lampara’ in my study table since we have no current at that time. I tell you, it’s not really easy to read books and do the homework with a badly lit light. But I took it as a great challenge. I graduated with flying colors in fact awarded as a Salutatorian in our batch.

That gave me an opportunity to study in college. I was an academic scholar for two years and a DOST scholar for the remaining two years. Being a scholar is not an ease at all. You have to maintain your grades or else you will be dead! – You will be stopped studying. There were more challenges to face, more struggles to make. I love to spend my snack time in the library. My favorite shopping mall was in the E-Library where I surfed over the Internet and doing a lot of research. Aside from focusing on Academic matters, I also joined Bible services to feed my soul and to gain more wisdom.

It was indeed a contentment and fulfillment of my dreams when our Graduation came. “Lalene C. Cababat, Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Cum Laude”. I had mixed feelings when I heard those words. First was a joy because at last I made it! Second was pressure because of the big expectations of my family, relatives and friends. Third was worry. I was worried because I might become part of the problem to unemployment or underemployment in our nation. And lastly, I was challenged because I believed that I would be employed and would be part of the solution to our country.

Since I already reached my dreams, I can now buy new clothes, new shoes, new bags, and of course eat in the Jollibee everyday if I wanted to! See! It’s God’s grace. It’s God’s will. It’s God’s plan. I thanked God for His unending guidance that I surpassed those bitter-sweet experiences and for putting me on where I am now.

As I flashed back on my stars, they are still in the sky but they are not anymore as high as the sky simply because I am already now with my stars so high.

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