My desk tomorrow?

And here's hoping how it should be looking pretty soon.

Happiness!

My desk. My desk. My desk. My desk.

Returning from a maternity leave of three months, I was welcomed by heaps of paper at my desk. Mostly untouched unfinished files. Some mailers and stuff left on top of what's there. No less horrorific for a mom of three kiddies but horrorific just the same. It dawned on me my reality. I'm swamped.

Barely two weeks back I have yet to fully recondition my brain to function at its usual best, memory gap and all. I'm a little anxious to do checklisting because I know it will feel like to much too soon. It is however what I perceive now to be the better way for me to start- still.

So I am bringing home my notebook and I am going to reorganize my thoughts and get things back into perspective. Its going to take time before that desk clears up. But its a start.

New post. New tasks. Feels like I'm going to have to reinvent my wheel.

Contentment is key

We are as happy as we make ourselves to be, so they say.

Be it what we have and own. Be it where we live, what we drive or how we look.

Simple needs. Simpler wants. Lesser material desires- spells a happier contented life. A healthier self love is so essential to having the right disposition to a life or a beauty makeover.

Here's to us enjoying who we are or have become- and not what which we think defines us.

Contentment is key

We are as happy as we make ourselves to be, so they say.

Be it what we have and own. Be it where we live, what we drive or how we look.

Simple needs. Simpler wants. Lesser material desires- spells a happier contented life. A healthier self love is so essential to having the right disposition to a life or a beauty makeover.

Here's to us enjoying who we are or have become- and not what which we think defines us.

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Hand to God the Impossible

That's what my subscription message said tonight.

Hand to God the impossible.

We have a 24/7 limit to time. And we are as capable as only He enables us. We should be constantly reminded of our own nothingness and God's greatness. Otherwise we will fool ourselves that we can in fact address the impossible by ourselves.

Cest la vie. Such is life. It is not fully our own. Let's lift it all up to God- All possibilities. All impossibilities.

Hand to God the Impossible

That's what my subscription message said tonight.

Hand to God the impossible.

We have a 24/7 limit to time. And we are as capable as only He enables us. We should be constantly reminded of our own nothingness and God's greatness. Otherwise we will fool ourselves that we can in fact address the impossible by ourselves.

Cest la vie. Such is life. It is not fully our own. Let's lift it all up to God- All possibilities. All impossibilities.


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Grace alone.

My grace is sufficient...assured Jesus.
What a wonderful promise. So comforting in a world that keeps telling us that we don't have enough. That we need more. It is a stuggle to go against the grain of the exact opposite. Yet to adhere to God's simple truths, to trust in simply that- makes the difference between chaos and order, peace and anxiety, shopping and window shopping, savings and debt.

We can always choose to believe in enough and we most certainly can hang on to grace.

My prayer today- Lord, sustain in my memory that your grace is sufficient. I shall want no more. Help me desire (to shop and buy) less and less until I conquer my wants and stick truly only to what I need. Double your grace when I get double the impulse please. Amen.

Grace alone.

My grace is sufficient...assured Jesus.
What a wonderful promise. So comforting in a world that keeps telling us that we don't have enough. That we need more. It is a stuggle to go against the grain of the exact opposite. Yet to adhere to God's simple truths, to trust in simply that- makes the difference between chaos and order, peace and anxiety, shopping and window shopping, savings and debt.

We can always choose to believe in enough and we most certainly can hang on to grace.

My prayer today- Lord, sustain in my memory that your grace is sufficient. I shall want no more. Help me desire (to shop and buy) less and less until I conquer my wants and stick truly only to what I need. Double your grace when I get double the impulse please. Amen.

When Payless comes to town!

When I need to vent- sometimes I use shopping to do just that.

On a mega superficial level - bags, shoes and lipstick- they are my BFFs on a really stressful day.
Thank you Lord for leather, stitching, oversized storage, wedged heels, and creamy sheer textures
to highlight my off-colored day.

So imagine my wonderful amazement when I saw this billboard on SLEX.

Payless ShoeSource is coming to town. (Festival Alabang to be exact)

Not exactly branded but reasonably cheap comes in handy when saving a day.

Hey, quantity counts. =)

I just love it.

"at all times" stress

I realize part of my stress is the need to have everything working "at all times".

 

Home stress comes from managing and coping due or despite the "the lack of".  The "lack of" doesn't necessarily mean you are not functional as is or that you actually lack something. Sometimes it is a struggle identifying between wants and needs. Most of the time, we just end up wanting because we suddenly 'desire' to have things to make us feel henceforth, complete.

 

Eliminate that desire, and everything falls into proper perspective again.

 

Why then can I not apply this to my shopping sprees???

 

 

Taken from my phone bleeps of  June 28, 2010

My life on a list

Was doing my to do list for the day. I realized I could reduce my life
to a checklist. It overwhelmed me. Too many roles to fill. Too many
things to do. Unending , unnerving things to accomplish. How could so
little tasks be over demanding on you ?? Forging on none the less.
Tomorrow, more boxes will be ticked as new ones come dawning. At least
its moving. =)