TODAY'S TIDBIT: “I call on you, O God, for you will answer me; give ear to me and hear my prayer.” – Psalm 17:6

I was feeling sad because my best friend will be away for a few months. She left to work in another country. Sad, because I will miss having her around. Sadder still because the work she was going to was not something to be excited about. Although she did not like the life she was facing, she had been praying for it as a solution to her financial difficulties.

TODAY'S TIDBIT: “Then I would still have this consolation— my joy in unrelenting pain— that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.” – Job 6:10

Brother Paeng is one of the funniest men I have ever met. His sharings during community gatherings always give my abs a thorough work-out from laughing. The amazing thing about him is that his stories are not always about wonderful, funny events in his life but also about his trials.

AS NOVEMBER ROLLS in, one special tradition is much anticipated not only in the U.S., but also by Americans all over the world - Thanksgiving Day. The most celebrated holiday after Christmas, in the States, Thanksgiving was originally a form of harvest festival that dates back to 1621. It is usually held on the 4th Thursday of November and this year, will fall on the 27th.

It is said that one could find a Filipino in almost every corner of the world. And in a charming little corner in southwest Brittany, France called Quimper, a provincial lass from Mauban, Quezon sparkles…

TODAY'S TIDBIT:"God is with you in everything you do.” – Genesis 21:22

In this season of ghosts let me greet you in Christian lingo: Happy Hālo-ween!!!

I remember the movie “Ghost” with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. It was shown just a few months after my husband died. None of my friends and in-laws wanted to take me to watch it. They were afraid I might cause flooding in the theater.

And that means, puts her worries in “ice”! Today’s economic state-of-affairs is as austere as a comedian with a bad joke. The recent financial crash doesn't make life easier for the mother of three seeing her kids through college or the young woman working double shifts just to pay for her sick dad's hospital bills.

TODAY'S TIDBIT: “Because I love your commands more than gold, more than pure gold…” – Psalm 119:127

I found this funny entry in Ripley’s Believe It or Not: “Driven by love for the Berlin Wall, Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer of Sweden married it in 1979 and took its name as her surname.”
We may think it’s crazy that this woman loved the Berlin Wall so much that she married it. We may not do something so outlandish but are we any different in our love for material things?

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Dr. Victoria Belo or more popularly known as Vicki Belo is the “Cosmetic Surgeon of the Stars.” Her association with her famous patients has made her name a beauty byword. It has also elevated her to celebrity status with her name occasionally getting linked to these stars’ controversies.
What is little known to the masses that follow showbiz happenings is her being a pioneer in Philippine cosmetic surgery.

TODAY'S TIDBIT:
“He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body as already dead for he was almost a hundred years old and the dead womb of Sarah. He did not doubt God’s promise in unbelief; rather, he was empowered by faith and gave glory to God and was fully convinced that what He had promised he was also able to do.” – Romans 4:19-21

TODAY'S TIDBIT:
“Do not disdain the discipline of the Lord or lose heart when reproved by him; for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines… all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it.” – Hebrews 12:5-6, 11