Craved for Cakes!

Last night was one of the happiest moments in my life because I got to experience the unlimited cakes and coffee promo! *Yey* While eating, we also celebrated the birthday of my friend who's turning 18 this Saturday~ So yeah.. There's no actually purpose for this blog entry.. I just want to share the yummy cakes we ate that I suddenly craved for again today. :))

The 5 of us ate in Shangri-La Mall, at Coffee Beanery. I think it's below the floor with the movie theaters and Happy Lemon. So yeah.. The unlimited cakes and coffee costs P200, but you have around only 5 cakes (i think?) to choose from and the unlimited coffee they serve is just latte. If you want to have more cake choices, you'll have to add P100 for an upgrade and you get to choose from around 5 more different cakes.

My favorite were the cheesecakes. It was soooo good. :"> So, if you're the type of person who looooves to eat, especially sweets, this is the place for you! ^^

Fearless

If there's one thing that could hinder us from doing greater things, it's FEAR. We all have fears and we can all feel fear. It may be small things like fear of spiders, fear of falling, fear of crowded places, etc. Or the more serious ones like fear of insignificance, fear of failure, fear of being an outcast, and the like.

Sometimes, there are even opportunities that we fail to grab because of fear. There are so many "What if.." or "This/that might happen.." statements in our mind that it causes us to be paralyzed.

Now, it's normal to feel fear, but it's what we do despite our feeling that counts. Recently, I've listened to a few podcasts by Elevation Church's Pastor Steve Furtick and the part which struck me the most was this verse:

"...Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. ¹² After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper." - 1 Kings 19:11-12 (NIV)

The Lord chose not to show His power in the form of a mighty wind, an earthquake, or in fire. He made His presence felt through a gentle whisper. He whispers, because He's CLOSE. He is with us all the time.

Why are we afraid when we have our most loving Father holding us and never letting go? Why are we running from certain situations that we need to face?

We may feel fear, but if we know that God is always with us, there's no need to be afraid.

UST Graduate Incident

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/300296/2-suspects-in-killing-of-ust-graduate-arrested

This is kind of a late blog entry about the news but anyway... HEHE. ^^;;

There was this news about a girl from UST who got raped and killed by a tricycle and another guy. I'm not so sure about how it all happened but yeah, you get the point (You can read the article above). Since I wasn't really watching television, I wasn't able to get the whole picture of the incident. All I heard was the cry of the mother on TV, telling the people that she would never forgive the men who killed her daughter. On the other hand, the two guys who killed the girl were crying endlessly and apologizing.

Upon hearing that, our househelper reacted by saying, "Dapat yung mga ganyan pinuputulan ng kamay para matuto." (English: "They should have cut the hands of those guys so that they'll learn.").

In my mind, I thought of the idea as "harsh".

But then, that comment made by our househelper kind of made me think more of God's grace. If cutting of people's sinful hands was already harsh for me, what more if it's God's wrath that'll be poured out on us because of what we did?

"..For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus." - Romans 3:23-24 (NIV)

A lot of people just don't realize the consequences of their actions. NO ONE in this world is good. No one is right with God. We're all supposed to go to hell. That is the bad news a lot of people don't understand. They think that if they do good generally, they would go to heaven. And if they do really bad deeds (the major one's like stealing, killing, committing adultery, etc.), they'll go to hell.

That's not how things work. And again, quoting from the youth pastors in our church: "You will never appreciate the good news until you understand the bad news". Well, I already told you the bad news about hell, the good news is Jesus Christ!

"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." - Romans 6:23 (NIV)

I'm thankful for God's mercy, grace and for Jesus Christ who died on the cross for us. I'm thankful that He adopted me as His lovely daughter to spend eternity with Him in Heaven. I'm thankful for His great and indescribable love for me! ^^

"Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." - Lamentations 3:22-23 (NIV)