In the Christian calendar, today is Good Friday, the day we remember when Jesus was crucified on the cross, the sacrifice He made for our sins. Growing up in the Philippines, Easter time (specially Holy Week) was marked with somber traditions and ceremonies held by the Catholic faith, including a gruesome reenactment of all that […]
Movie Review: Jesus Revolution
Jesus Revolution is based on the book of the same name written by Pastor Greg Laurie. It’s based on the true story of a young Laurie (played by Joel Courtney), hippie street preacher Lonnie Frisbee (Jonathan Roumie), Pastor Chuck Smith (Kelsey Grammer) of Calvary Chapel, and their involvement into what TIME Magazine called a Jesus […]
5 Ways Singles Can Survive Valentine’s Day
For years, one event has marked Valentine’s Day for me: babysitting for my church’s couple’s valentines dinner. The pandemic lockdown gave me a break, but it’s back to the same old same old this year. I babysat ten kids for five hours. “Do you like babysitting?” asked one of the children. “Hmm…not if there’s so […]
Turning 38 Years Old & My One Word
I turned 38 years old, and I have been trying to figure out how I feel about that. It feels like an in-between age with an added sense of urgency. Thirty-eight isn’t a milestone birthday like 35 or 40. It feels like just another year. Yet it’s close enough to 40 that it also feels […]
Remembering Lola
Last September, my grandma went to be with Jesus. This feels like déjà vu because Nanay (my maternal grandma) passed away last year. This year, it was my paternal grandma, Lola (that’s Tagalog for grandma). She wasn’t very religious or spiritual, though she accepted Jesus a few times in her life and went to both […]
My 2021 OneWord & Turning 36
Let’s be perfectly honest. 2020 was a whole year of nope. There’s a global pandemic that’s still ongoing. California fires that came close to where I’m at. Racial and political unrest. My dad had two heart attacks. My grandma went to heaven. It still catches me off-guard, especially when I do something that I think […]
Remembering Nanay
My OneWord for this year is Story. Ha! I laugh because there’s nothing else I could do. I’ve rewritten this blog post so many times and it never felt right. Nothing about this year feels right. 2020 isn’t the story I wanted. 2020 isn’t the story any of us wanted, but it’s one we can’t […]
