Some couple of weeks before my birthday, I had this wish list:
- french toast for breakfast
- lunch at McDonald's
- shrimp/prawns for dinner
- calls to and from my family and friends
Well, I got all I wished for yesterday except the meal at McDonald's. I didn't have the time to go. But I didn't feel bad because I knew I had enough to be happy about - I had a good talk on the phone and received greetings from my family and friends, prawns for dinner, french toast for breakfast and a glass of wine before I called it a day!:-) Besides, a week before my birthday, my friend Angel gave me already many advance birthday treats- a walk at Singapore's business and tourist areas, Starbucks caramel frapuccino, burger and french fries at McDo and Carl's Jr., etc. Whoa!
So, I told myself, "forget McDo".
This morning, Angel's mum invited me to join breakfast with them. She said it's her birthday treat for me. Guess where they took me! McDonald's. :-) Yey! I was so delighted. Gosh, my wishes were heard and taken seriously!:-) I am so grateful.
Sometimes, we dream and pray for things and don't necessarily care about them anymore. We just lose them for many reasons - lack of time, faith, interest, or simply change of plans. But I am thrilled to know that there is Someone who hears our silent and loud wishes - and delights to give them to us anyway.
I just had my McDo meal.:-)
p.s. I just wanted to treat myself at McDo because it will make me feel at home. I love french fries and cheeseburger. Back in Cebu, I and my friends, especially Dia, were regular customers of McDo. Even in times I was alone and wanted to unwind from work, I would watch a movie and buy myself a large box of fries and cheeseburger. :-)
When I was in Pittsburgh and New York last year, I was surrounded by many choices of food and restaurants. Cool and yummy.:-) But I was always thrilled and at home when I had meals at McDo. My friend DJ who was with me on that trip would just laugh and crack up.
...some people feel the rain,some just get wet.
since December 2006
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
In 1977 today...I was born
I just turned 29.:-) I am saying that not with sadness (because I'm a year older now!:-)) but with joy and thrill as I move on to another year of my life, another turn in my journey. Thanks to my dear family and friends who have seen me through. I am grateful beyond words. I sing with David in his Psalm that goes:
"O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.
You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast...
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand...
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting."
"O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.
You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast...
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand...
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting."