Milestones in Life's Journey

Aren't you counting your blessings?

How many significant breakthroughs, if any, have you gone through in your career, profession, entrepreneurial, or ministerial life so far?

Beginning in my early 30s, I have had since then my share of such a kind of "Breakthroughs" though not in the scale that caught the attention of national or international media. But you can be sure the record remains in the hearts and minds of first hand witnesses. Some of whom are gone, others are still around in their respective orbit.

I really couldn't figure out exactly how I've been that instrumental in touching the life of a former associate, Chap, who said to me, "You really are 'heaven-sent', boss". Really, every time he calls me "boss" I feel uncomfortable. In the first place, I didn't call or invite him to join our company. He was kind of just walked in, expressed his need of a job, and management hired his services as sales agent. His stay in the company didn't last a year, but the brief period that he was with us turned monotony into ease and gaiety in the office given his ingenious sense of humour. Not very long after he left the company for some personal reasons, I learned he passed away. He was only in his forties, I guess.

In another occasion, my surprised mother kept me reflecting for some time after she said on the spot, "That fellow speaking on stage wasn't my son, Jimmy, as I knew him since childhood!" (Mother didn't articulate further but I remember too well being timid & clumsy in my boyhood). A little later when the assembly was over, my father who sounded figurative approached me and said, "Son, like a farmer, what you are doing is kind of sowing seeds!".

Truly, I cherish the days when I was still that dynamic on stage delivering "Motivational & Edifying Messages" to docile audience during our monthly general assembly in a group of small to medium scale labor-intensive manufacturing & marketing companies in the NCR, Philippines, at its peak in the latter 80s.

Today in my senior years, that dynamism of youth maybe past but the testimonies of my parents, associates and friends remain my inspirational companion even to this day. Today, in my peace & quiet time, I still challenge myself with a poke like, "Hi, Jimmy, where are you now?"; "What are you doing in keeping with that significant milestone ever in your life?"

Fellow Believers, Gentlemen, Friends & guests, believe it or not, the "Gifts & Calling" from heaven-above are irrevocable. Strive in good faith to keep your lights burning and continue on building & strengthening the foundation of those milestones ever in you life. Rise up from there and soar like an eagle, and reach out for your goals and realize your noble dreams in life.

Be of good courage!...Good cheers!

Graceful Character Determines Success!

Welcome to Breakthroughs in Life!

One of the odd obsessions that can stagger a natural person in his journey to attaining success in life is to strive hardest just to get equal to the standard he or the secular world sets out for him to reach. If in the interim he is humbled because of his intermittent shortfalls against what he adopted and pegged for himself to attain, he may not be tagged more of a super-ambitious than a frustrated fighter whose style is in accord only with his self-conceived beliefs & caprices.

However, as he gets back up, presses on, pursues in earnest, perseveres, and in the process succeeds in some areas, he can give credit to himself by affirming and confirming he isn't after all made for nothing. And, if he presses on further inspired with “Good Faith” and endures to the end in aspiring for the ultimate good life has to offer, the high probability is for things to fall into place in his favour. This latter attainment is all because of Providential Mercy and Grace unmerited.

As I autosuggest to my self by faith, so I’m pleased to suggest the following unto my fellow sojourners in life’s journey to ultimate victory: “NEVER GIVE UP in doing good, and DOING IT IN GOOD FAITH. Take note though that our act of doing well and good isn’t anymore motivated by the thought of getting or earning salvation, for by Divine Grace through repentance and faith in the ‘Living Word-Made-Flesh In Christ’, we already are. As ‘Sinners Then-Saved Now-By Grace’, our earnest pursuit in doing that which is Good, Right, and Just is but our humble way of expressing and witnessing who we already are”.

“Take note furthermore that our inspired act of doing well and good in itself is virtually its own reward. Acknowledgement and recognition follow suit in due season”.

“Yes, our undertakings in the now and here need to go through a process of transforming and becoming in the realm of Space, Matter, and Time-Line. Yet, Time-Line itself doesn't determine success….GRACEFUL CHARACTER DOES!”

“Be of Good Courage!”