June 2009
10 posts
gabebondoc:
Just, um, you know.. spittin’ some...
There's no greater happiness then what the Lord...
I was having a nice chat with one of my girls about who I was and how I lived before. She responded my story with this question...
K: Hey what happened to you? You were all for Jesus and now you've given in to worldly pleasures. You were just as happy before why did you trade in that life style for the one you have now? Are you happy, genuinely happy?
and this is how I answered.
V: I don't know.
I often feel like I've been happier since I've moved to California, adapting to a life style that I would never have adapted to if I stayed in Hawaii. No one had ever questioned my decision or if I was happy or not, not even myself. I always just accepted the momentary happiness and was content with it. I never stopped to think about the future and if this was the happiness that really made me happy or not. Her question led to me thinking about how I felt when I was walking the same path with Jesus and all his other followers. About the things that made me happy, the stuff that I did, my daily attitude, and everything else. After all that thinking I've come up with an answer to her question.
"No I will never be genuinely happy at the rate that I'm going now. I have moment of happiness but it's not the same as the happiness that the Lord has to offer. I am doomed with this life style."
To everyone that see's this, check yourself and your relationship with God often. Without him there is no true happiness. I've heard it said to me many times and thought that christians said it just for publicity to get others to become christians as well... but I was wrong, it's definitely 100% true. The christian life style isn't promising no pain or sadness or difficulties, but it is promising eternal life and happiness with the Lord."Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart." I hope that your happiness is a part of your testimony through every day living to the WORLD. [=
xoxo
“You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the...”
– from the Sutta Nipata (via gabebondoc)
19 more days
I got 19 more days till the grand departure from SJC to HNL. I’m stoked to be going back home! First stop zippys, then haircut, then mother daughter bonding time, then time to see my friends!!! I’ve been thinking about what I’ve been most excited about and it’s church. I haven’t been to a church that made me feel welcomed and showered Jesus’ love all on me in a...
Ladies and gentlemen..
gabebondoc:
.. something that rhymes with “Orange.”
“Door hinge.”
Gabe <3