God's Boxes


I have in my hands two boxes,
Which God gave me to hold.
He said, "Put all your sorrows in the black box, And all your joys in the gold."

I heeded His words, and in the two boxes,
Both my joys and sorrows I stored,
But though the gold became heavier each day, The black was as light as before.
With curiosity, I opened the black,
I wanted to find out why,
And I saw, in the base of the box, a hole,
Which my sorrows had fallen out by.

I showed the hole to God, and mused,
"I wonder where my sorrows could be!"
He smiled a gentle smile and said,
"My child, they're all here with me.."
I asked God, why He gave me the boxes,
Why the gold and the black with the hole?
"My child, the gold is for you to count your blessings,
The black is for you to let go."


Source: http://www.christianlifestories.com/poems/popular/godsboxes.html

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Chocolate

I am an addict of Chocolate, I 

Yet another chocolate day, made me feel so odd.
Yesterday, I woke up early around 5:55 am.  For my sister Sharrah and Cousin Errell rushed towards school and the rain was pouring so hard. So hard that made the river so high. Later that river beside my auntie's house in Phase II Scions, Canito-an, was overflowed and flooded the whole community. It was my first time to witness how the water rises vastly. We need to pack up our things immediately, put the appliances in a high places as  possible (hoping that the water can't reach them)  and evacuated the area. Crossing the flooded streets with water in a knee level, freaked me. I can't believe it. The river was so wild with its color brown that somehow reminds me of the chocolate I left in the refrigerator. 

We stayed for awhile in the mother in law of my auntie Ellen. The water has not yet reach them. Yet in just 5 minutes we had received a news from a neighbor that the water was already a waist level high, then the water had started to rise and reach Lola Mars  house (Mother in law of my auntie Ellen). That pushed us to evacuate again the area. My mother Jessie and Auntie Ellen (yet I call her also a mama), requested me to go to Carmen and bring the clothes we packed up in Carmen (my Lola Esing's house where mama Jessie, my sis and I lived also).

I met also my classmates for the payments of the theater tickets, Magazine in our DC84 and Marketing Reports for our 2major production in Devcomm. Unfortunately, "hindi sila sumipot". So I need to go back in Canito-an to bring food for my Mom and Auntie. For they haven't receive any relief goods from the government.

After the flood had subsided, we cleaned the whole house. We use the Dipper, Pail, dust pan, brooms and foams to take take out of the water and rid off the mud. My auntie Ellen, her husband Uncle Jerry, my mother Jessie and me, had a general cleaning "limas". It was so tiring. so we had a break for a while, have some coffee and eat the bread that my lola had bought for them. I look for the chocolate and eat some of eat.


snapshots of the flood
This time, every time I see a chocolate I am reminded of how odd was the experience I had in the flood in Canito-an.













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