The desire to be rich

I desire to be rich. I guess I am hungry for some money. I need to be employed or have a business. I look forward to the blessings that will come my way. I need to put in mind the needs of my family and myself and so I have to practice seeing myself as a worker for money, for God's providence. I hope God will answer my prayers soon.

Doing God's will

What is God's will for you? How do you find out if it is God's will? If your heart beats for it, then it is God's will. If your mind thinks about it, it is God's will. If your spirit agrees with it, with all its goodness, then, it is God's will. For me, it is easy to find out what is God's will. I love my family and so it is God's will that I love my family and that I serve them. Plus, I have this desire in my heart to provide for them financially which I know the grace of our Lord is gonna provide soon. I also support them spiritually with prayers, and emotionally with my company. All the rest, I spend time with my friends even though it is only online. The simple life is so much better. I have some desires in my heart which I look forward to doing in the future but in the moment I am patiently waiting for them to come true. Like having all the things that I want and helping other people who may have a greater need than I am.

Get away with the bumps

Life is sometimes full of troubles. Sometimes, you can not get life perfectly. It had to have some problems. And so, if these problems are unavoidable then you just have to do with them and learn how to manage your tasks with the problems at hand. Problems are there to challenge you and make you grow. They are there to help you grow into an improved personality that you can be. They are there to help you reach your full potential. You cannot have life and not have any problems at all. All you need to do is to have the habit of managing yourself with all these problems present and just solve them to make you a stronger person. You cannot have your day sometimes without a problem arising and so you must adjust, you must solve, you must adapt. Problems are opportunities for growth. Once there is a problem, there is a hidden opportunity for you to learn something out of it. God gives us these problems so that we may grow to be the person that God wants us to be. He is perfecting us by the problems that we face. As gold is tested by fire, so does the heart of man tested by God. Let us be happy that God molds us into the perfect persons that we ought to be in His sight, someday when it is time for us to go back to Him.

Laugh out loud

Happiness comes from doing the most important thing for you. It may be helping a person in need. Feeding a hungry child on the streets.

Spending time with your loved ones.

Finding new friends, like soulmates.

Watching a sitcom that gives you 30 minutes of laughter.

Watching an engaging television show.

Reading a good book.

Talking to interesting people.

Working

It doesn't really take a lot to be happy. Just sometimes, you just think of what your life is all about and you say that you're just good. Life is good. As God is.

What do you do when you have no job?

What do you do when you have no job? You just make things work out. I help out my mom. Help out my family. Go to church. Greet the neighbors. Connect with friends. Find new friends. Read the paper. Watch tv. These are all the things which can keep you busy, to make things matter. You have all the time in the world to do all the stuff that you wanted. You have valuable time in your hands and you can say that not everything that matters in life is a job. You just don't have money but you enjoy the time that you have with the people that matters to you. Life is an adventure.

God's will

I live with my mom. My life revolves in doing stuff for myself and taking care of my mom, spending time with relatives from time to time and doing surfing on the net with some friends. I think it is God's will that I spend my time with my mom for almost 12 years now, since my father died some 8 years ago. I am the moral support of my mom, through thick and thin. I think this is my divine mission. To be with my mom for almost all the time. For some reason, God didn't give me work, at least ones which I wanted so that I can spend time with my mom and support her all the way. There are times too when all the person I can reach for a day is only my mom or some neighbor or a few relatives of ours and that's it. No social life for that entails money allowance for gimmicks and outings. Just a few fellow churchgoers and that's it. I guess that's what you really call God's will. Other people reach out to a lot of people because of their families or their work. It's called God's will. Me, I sort of spend it with my mom alone and that's it. But there will come a time when I have to find somebody to be with, what if my mom dies or leaves me alone? I will have nobody and I don't want to be alone in this world. God give me a mission, please. And change me for the better. For all my misgivings in the past may He give me a new mission and a better self. I would always want to spend time with other people mostly with family and friends. At this time in my life, what I do now are things that matter to me until I am old. I am looking for forever friends. With this new mission from God, I will certainly have a new life, new relationships, new friendships.

Material things in this world

You shop and you shop and what will you do with all these stuff in your closet or in your house when you're gone. It cannot be used anymore by you for you cannot bring them to heaven. Everything is just temporary even if you accumulate all these stuff on this earth. They are all nothing. I guess what is important are the things that you have learned all your life, your contributions to other people, the friendships you have fostered, the conversations, the life you had.

When you receive money what do you do? Do you go straight to the store and purchase things? Me, when I receive money, it goes directly to food, magazines and books and clothes, very minimal and much just goes to my needs. It is just merely enough for my needs and a few things more. I do not buy expensive items anymore. I feel it is just a waste of money.

Finding work is kinda tough because I didn't want accounting. Whenever I apply somewhere, I hope, but unfortunately, it passes out on me. I keep on changing my ideas, my plans because you keep on hoping for the job to be yours but you always fail to get it. It's been 10-12 years and I am tired. God please let the HR and the would be employers explain to me what they have been doing to my resume. And so you see, I have not much option or not much money to splurge.

But I am happy.

I found out that material things are not the most important things in this world.

That what's more important are the things unseen, the treasures that God is giving to you.

I have learned to budget and handle my finances well because I now know that every peso counts.

And I have learned to spend on valuable things alone and not wasteful things.

I have learned to finish my food everytime.

And enjoy myself even with the little that I've got.

I keep on looking for employment but it doesn't come. I am not much into selling. And I don't know how to have a business yet. But I am working towards it. Everyday. And as you can see I can say that my life is a blast.