greetings!!

Wanna greet each one a very "HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR". May this year be a year of plentiful harvest from hard work in the previous year......

God help us.....

awesome!!

Our church service today was just awesome!! Such spirit-filled one. God moved in His very mighty way.. Remember my last entry about those people who were devastated from the recent typhoon?. Some of them attended our service today. Were blessed and encourage. Masaya sila noong binigay namin ang konting tulong sa kanila, clothings and etc.... So thankful that we could be a help to them even in a humble way. Siyempre yong makakaya lang namin....We had water baptism afterwards. One of those who were baptized is the wife of one of our faithful member. They have been married for a long time but he could never get her to be baptized. God`s time finally came for last night she just decided to get baptized. She was crying and raising her hands worshipping God in the baptistry.... such a wonderful sight!


We just had a long week behind us. We were with our church youth department in a three day camp in Antipolo. Dave had organized this one for the young people in our section but extended the invitation to other churches in different sections especially in Manila and Quezon City. Success po mga kapatid.... it was well attended and you could never see such move of the Holy Ghost anywhere else. It was there in that 3-day camp..The theme is E3...... to empower, equip and evangelize...... and it surely live up to its title. I could see, i assure you! We have 3 youths added through water baptism and four received the Holy Ghost in HCJC. But the camp in general 13 got water baptized and 9 rec`vd the H.G. Praise God!

Napaka-notorious po ang traffic ngayon. Seems that everyone is victim of the so-called holiday shopping rush and compulsive buying. Sa Divisoria ngayon parang imposible ang mamili. Sa mga kalsada pa lang hindi ka na makakilos at patagilid na lang ang lakad sa dami ng tao.... Paano pa kaya kung papasok ka pa sa mga tindahan!! Who could say na naghihirap ang mga pinoy? Last week nga, nagpasama si Verniel sa akin kasi bibili daw siya ng maong na pantalon... Umuwi po kaming walang dala. Hindi dahil walang mabili. Nagkalat nga sa dami pero sumakit ang ulo namin sa dami ng tao that we decided to just go home empty handed. Saka na lang kami babalik pagkatapos ng holidays... grabe talaga!! Paano sasabihin na ang pilipino ay naghihirap? Totoo na ang hirap ay nasa isip lang... Gusto ng tao na maabot lahat ng mga "gusto" at hindi lang ang mga pangangailangan.. (lalim ah..)

Thanks for all your greetings guys... For the holidays. I send you mine too. I know you all have your own way of making yours memorable and full of happiness.

This is just an update. Only trying to connect. To let you know I am just here and God`s been good and faithful. Today is the 24th of December. Please remember us when you gather tonight for your christmas eve feast, hehehe!! And how about when you give out the gifts? Will i be there with you even in spirit?
Things will just be normal for the cutar family tonight... if you know what i mean? (walang noche buena). The children are talking they`ll go the star city, will take this brother visitor, Silas,from Malaysia and take all those rides. Save all the cooking and other preparations next week. I`d like to welcome the coming year with glee and thanksgiving because God has brought us this far, healthy, happy and rejoicing. Oh, how could I tell you how good God has been to us this year. This has been a fruitful year. The ministry, life in particular...

So here`s a big grin for everyone....... :)

luv u all......

ate virgie

missing the point.....

Today is wednesday. I woke up to a very ideal climate. Sunny but cool, windless morning and our yard is clean from leaves that`s usually scattered around the house making everything in a mess. Sana laging ganito. Just the other day, was another stormy day while we drove dave to clark air base to catch his flight to Singapore. I prayed he would have a safe trip. Once more, i plead the blood of Jesus over my son. We were in a signal number 2, i didn`t bother to know the name of the typhoon anymore........Yong nakaraan ay grabe ang pinsala na iniwan sa Bicol province. Sunod sunod na silang dumadating and it just drive me nuts knowing that everytime they come, many lives, houses, and even barrios and some barangays are erased from where they usually are situated. As of this writings, people from devastated places are suffering in evacuation centers, without food, clothes, cold and sick. I can`t fully comprehend why these things had to happen to some people? Why pain and sufferings to some......... at kadalasan sa mga mahihirap pa? Bakit hindi doon sa mga mayayabang na mayayaman na walang ibang ginawa kundi manloko ng kapwa at mangurakot?

I really have mixed emotions concerning this. Why let the poor suffer? Bakit palaging sila? Samantalang ang mga tao na nasa kanila na lahat ay patuloy na namamayagpag sa buhay. They have all the material things in this world and still remained unharmed? I can`t believe i have all this questions welling up inside me. Am i just missing the whole point of what life and the will of God is all about?

This kind of thinking didn`t leave me as I go through our family`s wardrobe and sorting out things, anything that could be of help to our brethren in Bicol. Sa ngayon mga kapatid, wala po tayong UPC churches na nakatayo sa Bicol, na-wash out lahat......mabuti na lang nailigtas nila ang mga buhay nila but minus mga ari-arian. We have one member in our church that has all of his family live at the foot of mayon volcano. Two of his brothers were victim sa flash mud flood na galing sa bulkan. Ang isa namatay dahil nalibing ng buhay, at ang isa ay naanod sa baha. Marami pa siyang mga kamag-anak na missing hanggang ngayon. But i doubt if they`re still alive below the ground hanggang ngayon? Ang iba, fled with their lives, nothing but themselves and dala-dala nila. Ang munting barrio nila ay totally erased from the map.... napalitan ng ilog at tubig at lahar.. I often ask myself, what future awaits them? Lord, please comfort them.........

I want to help. But how? Words of encouragement seems not suitable at this moment. I want to give them some warm. The point is, i hope people feels the same way that I do and extend a helping hand....`wag magkibit balikat at parang walang pakialam sa mga nangyayari sa paligid nila. Here`s an opportunity to serve....... please don`t just exist!!

Speaking of missing the point na naman..... Just now, our neighbor`s helpers knock at our gate saying their "amo" is asking for our phone number. Magrereklamo na naman ito tungkol sa ingay natin every church service. The last time na nagreklamo siya, we explain that we would not tone down our voices in worship because we believe in shouting and making loud noise when we worship God. I don`t know if she understands........some people only consider things if it concern them, their culture and nothing more. I again wonder, what would be her end if she`ll continue to persecute God`s people?

I often like to read halfway through a book and then take a quick peek at the last chapter to find out how the story i am reading would end. I can`t wait to know whether or not the book ends happily. To us who reads and know the contents of the Bible...... we know that its not always happily ended to everyone. Some gain the blessedness of the holy city, others into eternal damnation. Others receive the gift, others receive the curse....... It`s only our belief in Jesus Christ that would make the difference.

About that neighbor, I want to tell her this is an issue about life and God and she`s missing the whole point...

ok, i`m going further and further. I still have sorting outs to do. And I again have this nasty allergy. Hinihika na naman ako!! Namumula at masakit na ang ilong ko sa kapupunas!! But now is the time to let go of my favorite clothes that`s been in its hiding place for so long.... At least, they now have its purpose......

Lord, me too, help me live my life with a purpose. Please don`t ever make me miss the point why you have created me, and why I am here.... pls. pls. Lord!!

so, that`s exactly the point guys!!!

ate gie

paramdam lang....

at last, i have this computer for myself..... at least for now, lols. The boys are out today to take their friend ( from Malaysia) to lunch at siguro mamayang gabi na sila uuwi, dalhin daw nila sa filipino restaurant itong kaibigan na `to at ipapasyal din. It`s his first time in pinas and want to see what we have here. Of course ang pinaka-una niyang nakita ay ang pagiging hospitable nating mga pinoy. We just want to intertain, give and share our time and all just so he will be comfortable with us. I realized its not even an effort to do so because we love these people from Malaysia.
Dave and charis just came back from that place (malaysia) about 3 days ago. With them are inspiring reports about what God has done in their youth retreat there. It was such a success spiritually...Praise God. Kahit wala silang boses pareho, sama-sama na - pagod, kulang sa tulog and all, but everything is worth it, mission accomplished!!

dave is going back in two weeks time to singapore to attend another conference, charis, on the other hand have a lot of catching up to do in his lessons and exams in bible school...

This week as you know, another typhoon hit pinas. we were waiting for it to hit Manila yesterday morning......classes and work in the city were all suspended as the weather bureau said it is stronger than the melenyo. Said the eye of the typhoon is sure coming straight the path to Manila. Naghanda kami..... namili ng stock na pagkain at maraming kandila....at least nakahanda na pagdating ng bagyo!! But during the night, amazingly it changed direction, lumihis, at hindi na dumaan ng Manila. We thanked the Lord but sadly other areas like the bicol region especially albay were totally devastated... maraming bahay ang nailibing kasama ang mga taong nakatira sa flash mud flood na galing sa bulkan..... talagang nakakaawa. Ang dami na namang namatay... Sunod sunod na yata ang mga catastrophe na nangyayari sa bansang ito?

Maliban sa nagdaang bagyo, life here is normal. Only when you walk out the streets one could not deny that christmas is in the air. Could feel it everywhere. Kapag nagpadala ka pa, malulungkot ka lalo na kapag naiisip mo na wala ka na namang kapera-pera.. Nagkalat ang mga pwedeng bibilhin. Kung impulsive buyer ka, aandar yan sa ganitong klaseng panahon, hehehe!!. In my part, i`m not getting any younger or richer either. Kung hindi lang dahil sa Panginoon and the church, i could say that life is just so achingly boring....

see you guys around... *******GRIN****** paramdam lang po. hihihihi!!!

ate gie