My new everyday life
Coronavirus was making everyone's life change, small and unseen but makes a person scared to death. I don't know how to explain it scientifically but its impacts on all of us humans are overwhelming in almost every aspect of our daily life.
The moment I actually hear the news about the virus in Wuhan China around February, I was skeptical and feared already that's why when I go to Oslo to renew my passport last winter vacation I was very paranoid to protect myself knowing that I would be exposed to the virus. I was traveling alone and choose my seat carefully to ensure there is no seating beside me during my travel on the train and in the airplane and also I used my scarf as a protective mask and I used winter gloves too. I was so shocked when I got home because that day Norway have the first man infected with the coronavirus. Then after two weeks, Norway has 400+ people who are infected already then a day after became 600+, my husband and I were panicked already. I actually thinking of my son who lives in Bergen. It's good that the government imposed a total school lockdown and my children have to be home for two weeks.
My everyday routine is to be at home mom, ensuring that my children will be waking up around 8 am to attend the online class as per school rules. I make sure I prepare breakfast or snacks in between the online classes of my children. During their online classes, my husband and I take our usual breakfast and watching the news on TV. After that, I do my daily household chores such as washing clothes and cleaning. When my husband goes to work at around noon, my children and I took our lunch or light snacks. After taking our lunch we usually have a physical exercise such as dancing on the Xbox games called Just Dance. We were having a good time doing that and really enjoying it. After that, I am preparing our dinner and making sure we eat healthy food such as vegetables. After dinner, we usually watch a movie that we like to discuss. After watching the movie I go to my online job and school work such as this. I don't like boring days or monotonous activities sometimes we have a variety of things to do such as walking to the lake and to the seashore near our house.
At the end of the day, I always think that the coronavirus effect on people's lives is both negative and positive. Negatively because it overwhelmed us with so much fear, and on the positive side is that we as a human can think of a way to live each day and enjoy every moment with our family. And thank God for giving us a chance to live and wake up again day by day as long as He permits.
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
My Temporary Assignment
As I see my life back then, so many things I done, so many places I've been to and so many people added as friend, acquintances and enemy as well. Those years that I didn't blog, I hope I found something interesting to write now, but although I change a lot in terms of feelings due to my current circumstances, I failed to identify "what is now" in my life or maybe I'm so lazy to think something or am I?
Life events such as marriage break-up, children's unending needs, life demands and self fulfillment seems permanent. After two years of not writing anything in this blog because of those things happen to me, I feel so alone and uncomforted even with family, then I ask God "where are you in my life at that momrent?", then he answered in my thoughts "you focus so much in life that is temporary, focus on me and you'll never go wrong" and I feel His comfort.
Now, everytime I feel lifes' pressing matter, I commune with God in every opportune time. Everyday I feel renewed and everyday I feel born again. If I have a big problem I talk to him, I say it to Him, I explain to him and I complain it to him like a child to his father. And I hear He says to me that the earth is just your temporary home.
My temporary assignment seems a lifetime to me, but the Lord of Host, my God had given me is nothing but to accept my temporary assignment.
What is yours?
Life events such as marriage break-up, children's unending needs, life demands and self fulfillment seems permanent. After two years of not writing anything in this blog because of those things happen to me, I feel so alone and uncomforted even with family, then I ask God "where are you in my life at that momrent?", then he answered in my thoughts "you focus so much in life that is temporary, focus on me and you'll never go wrong" and I feel His comfort.
Now, everytime I feel lifes' pressing matter, I commune with God in every opportune time. Everyday I feel renewed and everyday I feel born again. If I have a big problem I talk to him, I say it to Him, I explain to him and I complain it to him like a child to his father. And I hear He says to me that the earth is just your temporary home.
My temporary assignment seems a lifetime to me, but the Lord of Host, my God had given me is nothing but to accept my temporary assignment.
What is yours?
Sunday, December 30, 2012
avoid all extremes...
I remember our Pastor says that avoid all extremes. Extreme emotions, love, affection, rage, anger, sanity, insanity, etc, anything you could think of from positive to negative emotion, and whatever extreme emotion one could posses and accidentally acquired through his/her environment should have, he said that at least make reservation for ourselves and to others as well. The wisdom behind these are really simple, to somehow keep ourselves from hurt and/or pain, it maybe self-inflicted or accident it can hurt us.
Avoiding extremes and or at least put a margin to prevent you from getting to the edge thus keep you safer and less risk.
Whatever extreme things you experiencing right now, give a just-a-thought or put it in your things to ponder activity this coming new year!
Avoiding extremes and or at least put a margin to prevent you from getting to the edge thus keep you safer and less risk.
Whatever extreme things you experiencing right now, give a just-a-thought or put it in your things to ponder activity this coming new year!
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
my temporary WORK
Thursday, May 10, 2012
"The Five Love Languages" by Gary Chapman
"The Five Love Languages" Can Help You Connect With One Another
Dr. Gary Chapman, Christian counselor and author of The Five Love Languages (Compare Prices), writes about the importance of being able to express love to your spouse in a way that your spouse can understand. He calls this type of communicating using the five love languages.
Chapman's Five Emotional Love Languages:
Words of Affirmation
This is when you say how nice your spouse looks, or how great the dinner tasted. These words will also build your mate's self image and confidence.
Quality Time
Some spouses believe that being together, doing things together and focusing in on one another is the best way to show love. If this is your partner's love language, turn off the TV now and then and give one another some undivided attention.
Gifts
It is universal in human cultures to give gifts. They don't have to be expensive to send a powerful message of love. Spouses who forget a birthday or anniversary or who never give gifts to someone who truly enjoys gift giving will find themselves with a spouse who feels neglected and unloved.
Acts of Service
Discovering how you can best do something for your spouse will require time and creativity. These acts of service like vacuuming, hanging a bird feeder, planting a garden, etc., need to be done with joy in order to be perceived as a gift of love.
Physical Touch
Sometimes just stroking your spouse's back, holding hands, or a peck on the cheek will fulfill this need.
Determining Your Own Love Language
Since you may be speaking what you need, you can discover your own love language by asking yourself these questions:
How do I express love to others?
What do I complain about the most?
What do I request most often?
Speaking in your spouse's love language probably won't be natural for you. Dr. Chapman says, "We're not talking comfort. We're talking love. Love is something we do for someone else. So often couples love one another but they aren't connecting. They are sincere, but sincerity isn't enough."
Emotional Experiences
The number one emotional experience reported by folks is feeling the presence of God in their lives. The emotional high of being in love (which generally lasts around 2 years) is the second highest emotional experience that people reportedly have.
That is why it can be so difficult to try and talk some sense into someone who is in the midst of falling in love. Chapman stated that obsessive love can render people mentally incompetent. "There's not much difference between being in love and being insane."
Fading Tingle and Empty Love Tanks
After the first or second year of marriage, when the initial "tingle" is starting to fade, many couples find that their "love tanks" are empty. They may have been expressing love for their spouse, but in reality they may have been speaking a different love language. The best way to fill your spouse's love tank is to express love in their love language. Each of us has a primary love language. Usually, couples don't have the same love language.
Tank Check
Dr. Chapman recommends that you have a "Tank Check" 3 nights a week for 3 weeks. Ask one another "How is your love tank tonight?" If, on a scale from zero to ten, it is less than 10, then ask "What can I do to help fill it?" Then do it to the best of your ability.
The Five Love Languages by Dr. Gary Chapman.
Dr. Gary Chapman, Christian counselor and author of The Five Love Languages (Compare Prices), writes about the importance of being able to express love to your spouse in a way that your spouse can understand. He calls this type of communicating using the five love languages.
Chapman's Five Emotional Love Languages:
Words of Affirmation
This is when you say how nice your spouse looks, or how great the dinner tasted. These words will also build your mate's self image and confidence.
Quality Time
Some spouses believe that being together, doing things together and focusing in on one another is the best way to show love. If this is your partner's love language, turn off the TV now and then and give one another some undivided attention.
Gifts
It is universal in human cultures to give gifts. They don't have to be expensive to send a powerful message of love. Spouses who forget a birthday or anniversary or who never give gifts to someone who truly enjoys gift giving will find themselves with a spouse who feels neglected and unloved.
Acts of Service
Discovering how you can best do something for your spouse will require time and creativity. These acts of service like vacuuming, hanging a bird feeder, planting a garden, etc., need to be done with joy in order to be perceived as a gift of love.
Physical Touch
Sometimes just stroking your spouse's back, holding hands, or a peck on the cheek will fulfill this need.
Determining Your Own Love Language
Since you may be speaking what you need, you can discover your own love language by asking yourself these questions:
How do I express love to others?
What do I complain about the most?
What do I request most often?
Speaking in your spouse's love language probably won't be natural for you. Dr. Chapman says, "We're not talking comfort. We're talking love. Love is something we do for someone else. So often couples love one another but they aren't connecting. They are sincere, but sincerity isn't enough."
Emotional Experiences
The number one emotional experience reported by folks is feeling the presence of God in their lives. The emotional high of being in love (which generally lasts around 2 years) is the second highest emotional experience that people reportedly have.
That is why it can be so difficult to try and talk some sense into someone who is in the midst of falling in love. Chapman stated that obsessive love can render people mentally incompetent. "There's not much difference between being in love and being insane."
Fading Tingle and Empty Love Tanks
After the first or second year of marriage, when the initial "tingle" is starting to fade, many couples find that their "love tanks" are empty. They may have been expressing love for their spouse, but in reality they may have been speaking a different love language. The best way to fill your spouse's love tank is to express love in their love language. Each of us has a primary love language. Usually, couples don't have the same love language.
Tank Check
Dr. Chapman recommends that you have a "Tank Check" 3 nights a week for 3 weeks. Ask one another "How is your love tank tonight?" If, on a scale from zero to ten, it is less than 10, then ask "What can I do to help fill it?" Then do it to the best of your ability.
The Five Love Languages by Dr. Gary Chapman.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
On Children by Kahlil Gibran
On Children
Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
less is more
After cancelling 3 of my schedules for two consecutive days it feels so liberating. I find it relaxing in cancelling those 3 seem-important thing in my to-do list. Less is more because it makes you more focus on the things that are really needed, not just your wants.
Having less in the center of your concern is more easy than anything, like having less unnecessary gadgets or things you think you want but it's not really needed in performing daily works, having less money makes you work on the essence of your budget. Furthermore, less clothes lessen the burden of dressing up every morning specially when you are in a hurry. Less expose in the limelight keeps you in touch of your true self.
Have you ever thought of keeping your life simple? Oh yes, less is more to your life!
Having less in the center of your concern is more easy than anything, like having less unnecessary gadgets or things you think you want but it's not really needed in performing daily works, having less money makes you work on the essence of your budget. Furthermore, less clothes lessen the burden of dressing up every morning specially when you are in a hurry. Less expose in the limelight keeps you in touch of your true self.
Have you ever thought of keeping your life simple? Oh yes, less is more to your life!
Sunday, January 29, 2012
To Focus
One of the goal I write in my 30 things I want in my life is to have the sense of focus, it's everybody tool in achieving goals while I set this as a goal. It's sounds funny but I have to have that kind of ability since I'm a big worrier and emotionally weak, I'm easily overwhelm by the things and experiences in my life, I don't know why but according to the book written by Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Life explains that everything we experience since childhood is known to God and use it for His purpose. It could mean a stumble block that we can use to challenge us to be a good and new creation again or we can use this things in our own good and for God's purposes in our life. It's sounds rewarding in deed!
I have some links here to help us to achieve a focused life.
http://www.wikihow.com/Accomplish-a-Goal
http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2011/03/18/how-to-stay-focused/
I have some links here to help us to achieve a focused life.
http://www.wikihow.com/Accomplish-a-Goal
http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2011/03/18/how-to-stay-focused/
Thursday, December 01, 2011
reviewing my purpose
four days ago i was in the midst of chaos because my room is under renovation
(thanks for my mother and my ate lota for the support in renovating it.)
its almost 5 years that i haven't look my purpose driven life book to review it because of my life's earthly concerns and everything (like what the famous tv personality bethong and mae usually says)
and its amazing that it gives me anew start, a fresh start, so rejuvenating and worth reading as if like i reading it for the first time...
i am now on my 11th day of reviewing my life's purpose, during my reflection i sometimes cry and there are times i'm happy it's a roller coaster ride but God said "trust on me, i'll take charge or your worries"
and it made me still yet the joy inside is kept on growing and i'm glad i did red and review,
i thank GOD he found me he always looking for me when i'm lost in his light, i know HE loves me much!
(thanks for my mother and my ate lota for the support in renovating it.)
its almost 5 years that i haven't look my purpose driven life book to review it because of my life's earthly concerns and everything (like what the famous tv personality bethong and mae usually says)
and its amazing that it gives me anew start, a fresh start, so rejuvenating and worth reading as if like i reading it for the first time...
i am now on my 11th day of reviewing my life's purpose, during my reflection i sometimes cry and there are times i'm happy it's a roller coaster ride but God said "trust on me, i'll take charge or your worries"
and it made me still yet the joy inside is kept on growing and i'm glad i did red and review,
i thank GOD he found me he always looking for me when i'm lost in his light, i know HE loves me much!
i forgot...
so long...
i almost forgot that in this world we have a lot of responsibility
as for me
i am
...God's creation
...mother/wife
...daughter
...friend
...teacher
...leader/member of a group
...career woman
...businesswoman
huh...a lot of things that matter to my life right now...
but God said focus on me and i will put your life in order, in accordance of my will
(just a version of me)
in my list it means that i just have to focus on number which is the things
i almost forgot!
i almost forgot that in this world we have a lot of responsibility
as for me
i am
...God's creation
...mother/wife
...daughter
...friend
...teacher
...leader/member of a group
...career woman
...businesswoman
huh...a lot of things that matter to my life right now...
but God said focus on me and i will put your life in order, in accordance of my will
(just a version of me)
in my list it means that i just have to focus on number which is the things
i almost forgot!
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