"....to a land flowing with milk and honey"
"Have faint."
"We can do it!"
"...for I will be with you whithersoever thou goest"
Exactly what I needed to hear. 🙏
"....to a land flowing with milk and honey"
"Have faint."
"We can do it!"
"...for I will be with you whithersoever thou goest"
Exactly what I needed to hear. 🙏
Last weekend, a song I knew from eons ago—like 3 decades and more— suddenly popped up in my mind. So I went to YouTube to listen to it while folding the newly laundered clothes. It surprised me how after 3 decades of not hearing the song, I still knew EVERY WORD of it—that I was able to sing along without even pausing to recall the lyrics. The words just came out effortlessly, like it's as easy as ABC.
To think that I couldn't trust my memory anymore, sometimes, since I keep forgetting some things that just happened and even some lyrics of some more-recent-than-3-decades popular songs I memorized before. I guess it's true that the heart remembers what the mind forgets. This song, I'm certain now, was absorbed by the heart.
CLOSE TO YOU
Tricia Amper
I need to understand
Your perfecgt will
Your perfect plan for me
In my life, my Lord
Help me to be strong
Lord, I need to know where I belong
Stay with me, I need to get back
Chorus:
Close to You
I’m so afraid to walk alone
I’m needing You
To carry me and make me see
That You will always care
Lord, I have lost my way
But now I find myself
I’m here to stay with You
To serve You more, oh Lord
You’re the one I need
If my life is all that I can give
Take it, Lord, I need to get back
(Repeat Chorus)
PS. But why did it have to make me cry buckets while repeatedly singing my heart out to it while driving on my way home? Or is it just the hormones?
So today marks our Autumn in Europe trip. I’m currently here in Marhaba Lounge in Dubai, waiting for our connecting flight to Amsterdam. Funny how I managed to sneak my way to the lounge without my actual Priority Pass. Ninja moves for the win. 😄 Dad would’ve called me “kawatan” again had he been with me. Bad girl!
P.S. First time I noticed this Journal app in Iphone so yeah, got curious and tried it.
Sept 7, 2024
The inner lane. That's where you'll mostly find me when I'm in the streets. It's the fastest way, and I have little-to-none patience when it comes to driving. And that short patience somehow scares me.
Anyway, I went out on a public holiday to submit documents. As usual, I was taking the inner lane, even though there was no traffic. Little did I know that at the end of the flyover were policemen working on a holiday, catching motor vehicle (MV) violators using the bus lane––which happens to be the inner lane in some parts of the metro. It was too late to change lanes; they already spotted me, plus there's a blue MV to my right blocking my way.
So there. I was issued my first violation––disregarding traffic signs (with notes at the bottom that read: unauthorized passing of MV through busway)–with a penalty of 5k. Crap. 5k for a first offense. Crap again.
But maybe that's a good thing 'coz I've been inclined to live a life where I can brush off minor rules because I know I can almost always get away with it. And this is a good reminder for me that there's a price to pay for not minding them.
That changed my perspective.
But, I dunno, I guess the heavens love me too much it still kinda worked in my favor for I was only asked to pay 1,010 when I was retrieving my license. Lol. I guess the staff didn't read the whole violation and so what's put on record was only the 'disregarding traffic signs,' which costs only that amount.
I never thought I'd be this ultra grateful for someone else's lapses. Hahaha. To that encoder, you just don't know how thankful I was for your mistake. 😁
To Magz, cheers to your first appearance in a public video. Lol. But sorry just the same that it had to be that way. 🙈😁
No worries. I learned my lesson. 😁