What I'm Loving This Week: More Power Thoughts

Here are some links that I liked this week (plus stay tuned for a free download at the end of this post!): 1) Catalyst East 2010 Conference: Lessons, Observations, and Highlights by Samantha Johnson – I really wanted to be at the Catalyst conference at Atlanta last week, but I’m happy that my friends Sam [...]

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Back on the blog and what I'm loving this week…

I’m back from my blogging hiatus! First up, I want to thank the awesome guest bloggers who have helped me out these past two weeks. In case you missed their posts, here’s another rundown: Missing Melody Gersbach (by Joyce Burton Titular) Never Say Never (by David Bonifacio) Tell Me Thursday: A Question About Your Mission [...]

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What I'm Loving This Week: Potluck themes, games, and more links!

Another random week! 1) Potluck themes – This week, I had some of my close high school friends come over for our usual reunion. When we have potluck dinners, we’ve learned to have themes to help everybody decide what to bring. This time, we chose Asian Food, mainly because my newly married friend Jenny announced [...]

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It's the best time of the year to buy books…and I can help you save money while you shop!

Ever since I was a kid, there were three events of the year that I always looked forward to: Christmas, my birthday, and the Manila International Book Fair. This year’s book fair begins today (Wednesday, September 15) and ends on Sunday (September 19) and in line with this, I’m so excited because I have some great prizes [...]

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What I’m Loving This Week: All Sorts of Stuff!

Read them now or read them later! Here are some of the stuff I liked this week: 1) The question we all ask. by Jon Acuff – A really good Serious Wednesday blog post about what makes us special. I can’t recommend it enough. 2) Greatest Hits of TED Videos from Fast Company – There [...]

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What we want to do/will do/should do/must do!

My friends and I put together a small and intimate women’s event yesterday called SPARK! During the event, SPARK! creator Carisse Escueta asked us to fill up a SPARK! List. Similar to a bucket list, the SPARK! List was all about filling up the blanks: “I want  ______________” “I will  _______________” “I should _____________” “I [...]

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What I’m Loving This Week: Videos of Friendship, Hope, Love, and Music

1) Friends of Fate - I’m a sucker for heartwarming videos. This feature from ESPN is one of them: it’s a beautiful story of a friendship born from a divine appointment.  I can’t embed it on the blog, but to view it, just click here. 2) Liwanag by Julianne Tarroja and Back to Love by [...]

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What I'm Loving This Week: Thoughts on Love, Life, and Waiting

Some of my favorite posts from this past week: 1) Does God Still Restore Marriages? from Paolo Punzalan - my pastor just posted the video that made everyone cry at church last weekend (except for the men, of course….they don’t cry, their eyes just sweat!). I really hope you can take the time to watch [...]

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Practicing Leadership, Integrity, Faith, and Excellence at Work

The other day, I blogged about practicing what we preach. And if you missed it, I highlighted the importance of walking and working with other people. (If you want the breakdown, you can read the post here) With that in mind, I want to share a resource with you that I recently discovered, which I [...]

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What I’m Loving This Week (Blog-hopping & Extra-special delivery!)

I wanted to share with you some blog posts I enjoyed reading over the past week: 1) Your To-Do List as a Personal Command Center by Michael Hyatt – loved the practical tips. For someone who tends to procrastinate, I could use all the help I can get. Not everything will work for every person, [...]

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Inexperience can be a good thing.

I’ve been reading this book called Pivotal Praying by John Hull and Tim Elmore. I’m not yet done, but I’m liking it so far.  There was this one portion that really grabbed me, and I wanted to share it with you today. TIm Elmore writes: I chuckle when I read these words: “Never be afraid [...]

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What I'm Loving This Week (I can't believe it's August already!)

Here are some blog posts that I loved this week that I’d like to share with you: 1) “Let your love grow” by Holly Furtick – As a single woman, I’ve learned to appreciate every day that God keeps me single, because I know it’s another day that God uses to work on my character [...]

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In the meantime…

It’s been a crazy month, so I’ve been terribly behind on blogging. I really want to blog about my trip, but I need enough time to let the words spill out and settle in such a way that makes some significant sense. In the meantime…it’s time to announce the winner of my last book giveaway! [...]

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What I'm Loving This Week (June 28 to July 4, 2010)

1) Fishforpeople.net – I can’t remember if I’ve blogged about this before, but I’ve always liked this site, which was recommended to me by @carissescueta. Visited it again today. Really awesome stuff. Here are some of my faves: But some of his best stuff are the ones made on Flash. Be sure to check these [...]

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My simple joys

It’s funny how time and time again we get deceived into thinking that happiness is tied to wealth, success, fame, or power, and yet some of the simplest things in life that we often don’t notice can bring such joy! All throughout this trip, God has romanced me in ways that seem too simple and [...]

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