Know it is Possible

Knowing that something is possible is a significant step toward achieving it. As soon as you know, without a doubt, that you can achieve it, in many ways you immediately begin to benefit from it.

Of course achievement requires more than just knowing you can do it. You must actually take the steps which will make it happen. However, those efforts come much more readily when you know that they will surely lead where you desire to go.

Look at all the things others have achieved. Consider everything you have already accomplished. Know that what you desire is possible. Convince yourself of it. See yourself living it in every detail. Fully and sincerely expect it, and you're well on the way to having it. 

Trek to Anipa

Trekking to Anipa is definitely better than going to the gym. Why?

1. You do not have a choice but to follow the group or else you'll get eaten by a big butiki, or get lost in the wild. It's a good thing I always watch Man vs. Wild just in case. The trek was pure adrenalin and pure hingal! 
2. You have a free and instant bath. You have to cross four rivers and a bamboo boat ride to get there. Make sure you bring your organic earth friendly soap. Interested to buy organic soap from me? Just email me your name and mobile phone number.
3. The view is for real. Do you ever get frustrated every time you're in the gym, or maybe a not-so-sosyal gym, where you get to share the remote control of the TV while doing you're on the treadmill, and you are forced to watch a telenovela? Yikes. Well, that can happen unless you go to Fitness First, which is really cool. (I hope i get an ex-deal for mentioning it). 
4. Fresh air versus body odor. Again, that may not be the case if you're in a sosyal gym. Hehe. Nothing beats the smell of the trees and mountains, and even the occasional smell of carabao poo maximizes your outdoor adventure experience.

5. You can get a complete body workout at no cost. Trekking to Anipa requires no monthly payment or uniform, no restrictions, only the dedication and passion to get there. Well, I really wanted to meet Ate Minda and Chief Oca of the Dumagat Tribes so I can have fellowsip with them and ask them how we can help build their community.

Seriously, our two Hectares red rice is already almost ready for harvest there in Anipa, where we are thinking of putting up short term and long term livelihood projects.

 

I enjoyed trekking with the church and the Trivani foundation peeps, espeically with Mary Rose and her mom. I can't believe her mom was able to do the trek!  Anyway, my brother and I are finding ways to help build the community in all aspects because I think we all have this social responsibility to give back. It is indeed better to give than to receive. Giving should be our natural response because the Lord said, after loving the Almighty with all our hearts, we should love our neighbors. It is a really good feeling helping our brothers and sisters in the montains who are usually marginalized and discriminated. I see a big potential in them only if they are given the right opportunities. I do believe and declare that this place will be a tourist spot, a place where there will be an abundance of food and livestock.

 

We are going there again soon. Wanna sign up? Game! It's a crazy idea to go there but it sure would affect and change a person's life. Wanna HOP-in?

I AM

He didn't say "I was" but "I am.' God is on top of time, time was God's creation. Thus, never say it's too late, or that you wasted your life, or that you still wish you could go back in time. All you have to do is ...recognize the "now," for God will take care of your past, present and future. It may sound weird, but we have an outragous GOD! Crazy, 'di ba?

"Before Abraham was, I AM."
Wow, I am amazed that He is my loving Father who is the source of my everything, He is not bound by space and time, He is my omnipotent Father who inspires me to dream and to declare and realize my potentials. How amazing and awesome that truth is!......

Helping, Building and Loving

To see the need is not enough.

One has to take action.

One has to believe.

And move to help.

Move on to build lives.

Move on with love.

And this I did and I will keep on doing as long as I live.

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Mary Rose, the 12 Year Old Scavenger

- by CMRE, May 3, 2009

H.O.P.E. - Helping Overcome Poverty through Education (videos)

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This is the video that started it all.

In the summer of 2007, Jayjay Lizarondo, at his rock-bottom, decided to join his brother, RJay Lizarondo, in his outreach to the families in the Payatas dumpsite. A film enthusiast, he brought his video recorder and while filming, noticed this little girl who was more aggressive than the rest of the children in scavenging the lumps and lumps of garbage that arrived from the trucks. Jayjay decided to talk to this 12 year old, Mary Rose.

This is Mary Rose's own account recorded; the very real words and emotions of a scavenger, yet a child with pure and well-intent dreams.

Jayjay uploaded this film on the internet that same summer with these words:

'Mary Rose, a 12 year old scavenger, wants to go back to school as a Grade 3 student. Unfortunately she doesn't have a choice but to go back to the dumpsite and scavenge to earn only $2.00 a day for an 8 hour work. She said that what she's doing is honorable because she's not begging nor stealing and she'd do anything for her family. Her dedication and love for the family moved me while I was shooting and editing this film. Let's help Mary Rose fulfill her dreams. I really see a lot of potential in her, I pray and would do my best to put her back to school, will you help me? God bless.'

Jayjay was touched by the young scavenger, but little did he know that his life would be changed forever by the life of Mary Rose Dizon.

So did many others. 

It's Possible

"Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him…"

Before Abraham was, I am, those are powerful words by God who definitely is saying I am not under time but time is what I created, He could've said I was but God did'nt, many times when i was a kid, everytime i make i mistake i always wished i could turn back time, and when i became adolescent i wished I was this and that, you know typical preacher's kid in an emotional roller coaster ride, but you know what, i started to ask God to enlighten me, to take me not out of the box but beyond the box of religion, status quo, comfort zone, i said with a super dooper loud voice then"set me free" and the impossible happened.

I now see......wow.......seeing the invisible.......seeing God.

What looks impossible with man is possible with God.

In the Bible, God told Abraham he would be the father of many nations. But the human us would say, this looked impossible. Both he and his wife were beyond child-bearing years. They had no reason to hope or believe it would happen. They had nothing to go on in the natural. But one translation of this verse says, "Hoping in spite of hopeless circumstances, he believed." And you probably know the story. Abraham finally had a son, Isaac and his son, Jacob had 12 sons—the twelve original tribes of Israel with descendants outnumbering the grains of sand on the shore!

I encourage you to ask God for you to see. Most of the time we just look but we barely see. This time, do what Abraham did and go against all the odds; hope on in faith anyway. Keep believing. Keep praying. Keep moving forward. Don’t focus on the impossible circumstances, focus on the God who makes the impossible possible! Keep looking through your eyes of faith because He has blessing and victory in store for you!

Heavenly Father, today I choose to hope in You even when everything around me looks hopeless. I invite You to breathe Your life into the impossible circumstances around me. Have Your way in and through me as I dedicate every part of my heart and mind to You. In Jesus´ Name, Amen.