Food for Thought : Blessings are Everywhere

From my last post, I shared with you that I'm sending daily food for thought to my mobile contacts. Quotes that I believe can help brighten up their day. 

However something unexpected happen. I received a text message that contains these words: "Stop texting me". I was shocked! I was really, really shocked because this was the first time that I received such message. Other people in my contacts are thanking me for the messages I'm sending them daily. There's a friend that even created a folder for me because he's loving my daily food for thought messages. 

So I told her that I will not send her daily food for thought messages anymore. In short, I removed her number from my phone so that I will not commit the same mistake of sending her inspiring words ever again. In this way, a win-win situation for the both of us. Win for me because I will save a couple of minutes just to send her the message and a win situation for her because she will not be irritated by the inspiring words I'm sending everyday. 

Good thing she's the only one out of all my friends who does not want the food for thought. 

Upon reflection I remembered the talk given by our preacher, Jon Escoto, in Feast Laguna last week. It was about seeing the blessings God is giving us. He shared that God's blessings are given to each and everyone of us. No exception. Whether you are rich or you are poor. 

Everyday God is giving us an avalanche of blessings. However, most of us are not seeing those blessings. We don't realize that the blessings are just right there in front of us. 

It is true that the size of our expectations for these blessings would be the size of the blessings that we can receive. And we cannot receive anything bigger than that. 

Friends, I want you to increase your expectations to see God's blessings. 

Until my next post!

eLviN

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Food for Thought: Discovering Your Passion

Everyday I'm sharing my friends in the mobile world inspiring quotations I got to read from books and blogs. It is called Food for thought. Before, it started out as a text message from my fiance Edel Ramilo, however, since I'm the one reading books nowadays, it is my time to share daily messages to my friends. My friends are loving it! Since they are loving it, I want to share Food for thoughts here in my blog as well.

So here it goes.

"Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last."

I got this nice quote from Nicholas Spark's Dear John.

This quote is telling us that we need to do our passion and at the same time be satisfied with the results we are getting. In that way, we can have total satisfaction.

But most of the time, we are stuck in determining our passion.

I would like to focus my thoughts on finding your passion on this post.

HOW TO DETERMINE YOUR PASSION?

Photo from Hugh Mcleod's blog GapingVoid.com. 

I remember a facebook wall comment from my mentor Jomar Hilario. He is suggesting that to know our passion, we write down hundred things we love doing. Then try it out one by one. From that list, we can determine that thing we are very passionate about. The thing that enables you to enjoy waking up in the morning even though there are a lot of resistance to do that certain task (cold weather, lack of sleep, etc) is your passion.

By the way, in doing this exercise don't limit yourselves with what is real and what is not. You'll be surprised that anything is really possible.

I remember last year, Edel and I realized one of our passions. We realized that we love to travel. We are passionate to conquer the world by visiting beautiful places, meeting new people and experiencing different cultures.

We had no budget for travel by that time but I told her that "don't worry, before this year ends we will go to Cebu". Do you know what happened? Days after that, we received a text message from our friend looking for ten volunteers who will facilitate and lead delegates all over the country on their historical field trip to Intramuros and Cebu. We immediately said yes!

It was an amazing experience. And by the way, that's my first trip to Cebu and it was for free.

Until my next post!
eLviN

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