Perfect 2.5!!!
Monday, September 17th 2007
Just got Jasem's afp report today. My heart is still jumping for joy as I update this page... it's like I've scored a 100 points in my chinese class today, hehehe. Jasem's latest afp is an awesome 2.5! Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers. PRAISE YOU DEAR FATHER! And thanks to my LORD, my real best friend.
As advised by our wonderful oncologist in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Dr. Hung... Jasem will have a ct-scan this coming thursday, sept 20. His next afp check will be next year October 2, 2008. So expect more good news on my next update.
Thank you and it's really wonderful having you!
May our good and loving GOD bless you all and all the people in your hearts.
Your Sis in Christ... quely =)
ps: there's a newly added video.. check it out and I hope you'll enjoy it. GOD BLESS!
September Update
Tuesday, September 4th 2007
Hello dear friends!
Just want to let you all know that we're all doing good. Jasem is scheduled for his next afp check this coming monday Sept 10, but the result will be released a week after, so that's Sept 17th. I am so positive on this but your prayer for him and for the afp to be low and normal will be deeply appreciated.
3 months of no site updates... all our birthdays for this year had been celebrated... May-Jasem, June-me, August-daisy and rod. A 2-week vacation in the Philippines (Aug 11-26)... first week with typhoons followed by a week of fun, I hope I can spend some time posting our latest pics here. I'm kinda busy these days but it's amazing how I managed to do many things at this point of my life without feeling tired. Perhaps, I'm just really happy with what I'm engaged to right now. Besides trying to be the greatest advocate any child and husband could ever hope to have... I am still able to maintain and secure the portal site of my beloved Savior... join the IT team and editorial staff of the Hope Workers Center in our church... and study chinese for two hours during weekdays. I've been having job offers and I thought I'm ready to work but my husband suggested that I enhance my chinese language skills first before I go to work. I think it's about time to help my husband recover our finances since Jasem's diagnosis.... but GOD just really knows what's best, HE knows that I really need to study and I just don't want to tell rod about it for I know it will be a big minus on his bank account again. We just had our vacation and I just think there is no way I am going to spend a US$687 for my chinese lessons. I said "no way" but GOD said "yes way" so, there HE goes making a way for me. See, how GOD wonderfully moves in my life?
"When I find myself trying to do things on my own or in my own way, I will stop and ask Jesus to lead me and do what He would have me to do. I will listen to Him and seek to know His voice over all others, so that I know I am following my Good Shepherd just like the sheep know the voice of the shepherd they follow. This way... I need not worry on anything for I know that as long as I listen to his voice, I will never get lost."
Forgive me but I suddenly feel like being sentimental... I don't know why, but as I am writing this update, I felt the urge to share something. I want to share the answer given to me when I asked "Why my son need to suffer from cancer for GOD to let me know my calling?" This was made clear to me a month ago while I was praying. Here's HIS answer: if it was me who've been seriously ill, it will still be ok for me cos I will be still happy knowing that at least all my child are not the ones suffering. My children... they're my everything. Their lives are more important than mine.... that's how I see it. They are my most precious gifts. Seeing any of them suffer from any serious ailment is the greatest heartache I could ever feel. So, during the days my son was enduring all the pain from chemo treatments... my heart was completely bleeding and it was totally hurting me. Last month, the following thoughts cross my mind and I figured out that these are the answers to my whys: if GOD didn't allow me to experience the extreme pain that I could possibly have... I wouldn't know how merciful and powerful HE is... I wouldn't truly feel HIS presence in the name of JESUS through the HOLY SPIRIT... I wouldn't experience true happiness and peace... I wouldn't feel bad when I miss any of my 3,6and12 o'clock prayers or the chaplet once a day... I wouldn't stop making excuses and find ways instead just to celebrate the sunday masses regularly... and I wouldn't be this crazy craving for the truth about our HEAVENLY FATHER, our SAVIOR, the HOLY SPIRIT, and THE KINGDOM in HEAVEN. I now understand that no matter how hard I try to convince anyone to fully trust JESUS so they can live a life full of peace and joy not with problems and pains... they will never feel the same way I am feeling right now until they completely let our Savior come into their hearts and surrender to the will of OUR ETERNAL FATHER. It shows when these are achieved... for it is only when GOD is reigning in your entire being that you'll do things for the good of others... that you'll keep singing praise and worship songs every day no matter your voice is not that angelic... that you'll stop worrying and stop being materialistic... that you'll start forgiving those who've had hurt you... that you'll think of your acts first whether it will be pleasing to your CREATOR or not before doing so... that you'll be grateful for every blessings and graces you receive no matter how small or how big it is... that you'll value your own life... that you'll give your best for others to glorify GOD's name as well... that you'll work for your spiritual nourishment than for your physical's ... and that you'll have unlimited ways of showing that GOD's will is really reigning in you!
GOD BLESS!!!
~ Racquel
Jasem's 3rd Birthday
Wednesday, May 30th 2007
There are many thoughts that flash my mind on this blessed day. Remembering the 3 years that passed since Jasem was born, the joy that he and her sister bring, the "test of faith" that I and my family had been through, thoughts and prayers, the wonderful blessings after every storm, awesome people who helped keep our sanity during our dark days, and above all, GOD who has been so loving and merciful to us. In his first 3 years, he got his perfect foundation... and I can confidently say that he's ready to be the man GOD wants him to be.
Happy birthday, my precious boy! Love you baby. Thanks for making me the proudest mom of all =)
Today's captured moments:
(Left to Right: Daisy, Birthday Boy and 2 cousins; On the sofa: Grandma&pa)
It makes me always happy and proud that I've got the two most beautiful children in the globe and I often tell them that I am the luckiest mom in the whole wide world! (Of course, I haven't gone through the teenage years yet! =P )
Ok that's it for now! Hope you tasted the sweetness of this moment with us =)
xoxoxoxoxo,
Quely
PS: HAVENofKINDNESS.org has been registered today to mark this day a very special one. Designs are done but I'm not yet happy with the words so I still can't let you in. It's password protected, so don't consider this announcement as an invitation =).
My article got published!
Sunday, May 27th 2007
Let me share the 2nd Bible reading today (Pentecost Sunday: the commemoration of the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Jesus following his ascension; considered the "birthday" of the Christian church.):
1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13
Brothers and sisters:
No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit;
there are different forms of service but the same Lord;
there are different workings but the same God
who produces all of them in everyone.
To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit
is given for some benefit.
As a body is one though it has many parts,
and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body,
so also Christ.
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body,
whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons,
and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.
This is so meaningful to me for I know people who have gifted by the Holy Spirit and I've been told that I've been gifted with one as well. Being one of the LORD's living instrument means the world to me. Things that I do, missions that I accomplish, plans that I succeed... these I can't do without the Holy Spirit that moves me. Just for instance, the article I've written and submitted last month. Although I love to write here in our own website and some blog sites, I don't consider myself a good writer... but look at these:
If you want a closer look of the texts, you can click here. My testimony is being read all over Taiwan now. Call me crazy. But don't laugh at those words because they're not mine. The courage of sharing my testimony to the Migrants here in Taiwan, the words that popped out from my head while writing it... I'm sure I won't have those without the guidance of the Holy Spirit. I am not sure what my friends and my readers believe, or what they will think of me for doing these things. I am just being myself... doing things I love to do with the guidance of an unseen but mighty one.
Loved and Loving,
Quely
Daisy and Jasem's Video
Wednesday, May 23th 2007
Hello All,
I know... it's been exactly 3 months since I last update this page. Forgive me! I've been busy maintaining my other sites (ApoDivineMercy.com, PinoyTw.com, other 2 sites that I'm currently building and HavenOfKindness.org--> to be launched on Jasem's 3rd birthday this coming May 30th). We're all good in here. Jasem's latest afp is normal and perfectly wonderful at 5.24. Our lives are really amazing... more than everything that we deserve. PRAISE AND THANKS BE TO GOD!
I have a lot to tell and I hope I'll find extra time to post them here next time. For now, I just want to share a video of my two wacky kiddos. The two were in the mood for a "karaoke" last night, I grabbed my camera then took a short video clip.... click here to see what I captured.
That's all for now! I'll try to post before Jasem's 3rd Birthday =)
Please Don't forget: GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME!
God Bless,
Quely
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