When God Reveals Glimpses of Himself

Tonight, after returning back home from celebrating my sister's 29th birthday at "Tex Mex" restaurant, I decided to walk around the local high school parking lot where I live nearby. Usually, I walk around the school for more than an hour while I pray and just spend precious time with God. I thank God for provisions, blessings and opportunities He had showed me during the course of the day. Tonight, I was especially grateful to Jesus for bringing me through a tough situation with housing; the last walk that I did it was painful one. I was in tears from distress that God had left me all alone and, at that time, I was troubled greatly as I felt God to be far from me. At one point I had to stop walking and paused while I sobbed. Then, later in my walk, I saw a beautiful sunset over an evening sky and I felt a rush of peace sweeping over my body. I was at rest at the end of my walk that night (last week). Today, however, I was simply praising God for His awesome provision of my new apartment and laptop-all in the same week!

While I was at the end of my walk, I lifted my hands toward the night sky and remembered these words from Revelations 4:8 "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come." I repeated these words three time simply out of grateful heart. My heart was so overjoyed that I told God to take these words of praise and carry them up straight to His ears. Suddenly, I felt a little breeze and a group of several birds surrounded me and began to chirp! They just appeared from now where out of dark sky and began encircling me around. To me, it appeared they were singing in unison and so I, like a conductor of the choir, began directing these little birds. In several occasions, I stopped, and they stop too and then I continued again by saying out-loud: " One more time!" It was as if they obeyed, then that's when it hit me; God was revealing Himself to me through bird song in the middle of the night! Then as if it didn't happen, the birds flew away and it became quiet again. I didn't hear anymore chirping afterward as I finished my walk with a joyful heart.

I believe tonight I had experienced yet another hopeful signs from the Maker of heaven and earth (and those little birds too). Living the christian life isn't just doing what God requires of us, but also experiencing God in personal and unique ways.

I Got New (and my very first) Laptop!

Today I have finally joined the world with those who have been living in the age of wireless, carry on computers, known as laptop. My new laptop is HP Pavilion dv5-1002nr which I bought from Best Buy yesterday. When I first began to look around for laptops, HP;Dell, Acer were not my point of interest-rather MacBook totally won my heart. I wanted MacBook because everyone, everywhere seem to have one but after talking to several experts from the computer world, I received completely opposite view from what I have been exposed to. I was told that even though Apple proudly claims to have redefine notebooks, all other PC are just as much up to date, if not better than MacBook. Apple's price for their computers is just simply ridiculous-in other words, I'm glad what I have chosen and I hope it will last me for a long time. Many of my blogs will be written and posted right through my new laptop.

This Sunday, July 20, I will be moving to Philadelphia where I will be going to Temple University, starting September 2. The place where I will be living is located on Willington Street, across the street from 22 and 23rd Philadelphia District Police Department. This should give me a little comfort but still I have to be very careful in my wanderings in the city-after all I will be living the the worst section of city of Philadelphia where crime is at all time high. Recently, I heard that many people are literary fleeing Philadelphia because crime rate there is out of control. God help me and all other students!!! I will be sharing a 5-bedroom apartment with four other students whom I have not yet met. I hope they will be descent individuals with whom I could get along with nicely. Please keep me in your prayers as I make this transition this weekend and slowly try to adjust to the city life.

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