cephas diaries

The entity of life: living is leaving our simple ways behind. Yet life is a process that we must be on a progressing state. "Your achievements/victories before cannot sustain your present life". I have encountered a woman named FOLLY, and FYI, she loves the simple! Therefore I can assume that simplicity is not beauty! Simplicity is an imperilment. It gives us a mindset to settle. It pulls us down, it is an enemy called satisfaction! It is a barrier for growth.. We all know that growth is intentional, no one grows by itself.  Embrace discipline: read books, exercise, donate blood, write a song, a poem or a book, give cake to someone,  water the plants, bear-hug your mom, run a marathon with your dad,  treat your siblings, go to church, join cell groups.  EMBRACE LIFE, Life is coupled with hardships and challenges. Challenges are directly proportional to time, as the year increases, the greater are the challenges. So leave your simple way...

Mounted picture start to be put on the walls, insights, comprehensions that must be documented in writings, our ambivalent feeling where we want to express ourselves through music and compositions. Yes, we can write, we can dictate, we can emphasize, but not all of us can influence. If given a chance to speak about our society, all of us are big-mouthed about it. There are many things I want to stress out. As I have marked in my recent article, that "the predominant issue in our society today is not poverty, but the inability to raise up men of honor, integrity and character (see Affordaboy). In this piece, my focal point is the minor details that most people made inattentions. We tend to see the bigger picture yet we fail to notice the crucial points. Jesus said in Matthew 7:3-5 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck o...

A year of my existence where catastrophe and triumph collide Where feet may fail and hope surrounds. The mortar of deception has aim its target Yet His grace abounds with never ending pavements God is faithful even when you're not 24 years of my existence, I've chased a life where its day was on fire I've embraced a moment where skies are bleeding above me I took a step near death And walk these lines of blasphemy But harbinger of love awaits in every minute of misery Then the world arose all around me, And mountains stood in the path I see I look to love that never fails, That eventuate at the cross of Calvary 24 years of my existence, I found a love greater than life itself I found the love in my union with Christ Everything I need is in Him, Now there's nothing in this world that could ever satisfy me So I thank my God each day I woke up, for the trials and circumstances, I thank my God for every pain and sorrow. I thank my God for every good ...

Sunshine, won't you be my mother Sunshine, come and help me sing My heart is darker than these oceans My heart is frozen underneath We are crooked souls trying to stay up straight, Dry eyes in the pouring rain The shadow proves the sunshine The shadow proves the sunshine Two scared little runaways Hold fast to the break of day light were The shadow proves the sunshine Oh Lord, why did you forsake me? Oh Lord, don't be far away away Storm clouds gathering beside me Please Lord, don't look the other way

A Priscilla is an Overcomer Protecting her relationship with God is the first thing she consider She augments her desire in using her leadership ability With the approach of enticement she determined to disagree She can comprehend her own daily strife Yet she masters the enemy’s traps in her affectionate life. A Priscilla is proficient in communication She knows to connect in different kinds of person Her pleasant voice liquefy the stony heart of the isolated With her strong personality disciplines the life of a discontented The status of the melancholy would just caught her attention She has words of affirmation that leads to their determination. A Priscilla can handle every negative situation She listens, obey and follow when God seems to fail her expectation She never settle in discourage nor being adverse In every minute detail, she cares like a nurse A world full of futile and unworthy canvass During her hopeless situation she draw near t...

I’ve got greater responsibility now, the more I need God. It’s been many sunrise since I left Cebu. And obviously I missed them already.  A single day is like a hundred days here.  Time moves so slow..   Everyday I'm always introspecting about the things I need to do. Nevertheless, it’s not my first time to visit my home town (Iligan City), but staying here for so long is quite unparalleled. Cebu is where I face my giants, were deeper battles or war inside pre-occupied my daily routine.  Challenges and responsibilities were echoed at the four corners of my crib. But the good thing was, I'm so used to it. I've begun to grow and experienced a life were everyday I must wear my “armadora”. Maturity and Managing are the 2 M’s that comes on my pavement, or should I say 3, but it died (chuckles). Cutting the long story short. That’s my brief impulse in Cebu.               ...

" Where there is no vision, the people perish Proverbs 29:18" Let us mourn of our death. The death of the youth, for we no longer value or insights and the quality of our lives. I am placed in various situations already where youths should have been the forerunners. But the truth is we, the youths prefer to be just behind the scene. We just don't care enough. A lot of systems in our community need changes. We do complain a lot, no doubt about that, this could only mean that we feel, we discern and we realize that something is wrong. Do know that grumbling alone will not change anything. Are we so    pathetic not to do anything about the things we complain about? Are we so naive to think that we are not personally or permanently affected? We are the youth, we are the future. But we do not prepare for it. We will end up becoming the adults that we complain about today. The hard fact of this cycle is that we actually do not end up on the same spot that t...