Chronicles of Charyl

Waaaaah!!! I lost my ballpen case!!! I was frantically searching through my bag last night to look for that gray box, where my truly prized pens are kept, but I just can’t find it! How can I afford to lose it, or even not mind about it! No! I just can’t accept that it’s nowhere in my sight! I know this may sound crazy to anyone, because I guess nobody else in this world existed to share my passion for pens. But if you lost something you truly value, whatever it is, I know you could relate with me. My pens are the extension of my being me. I use them to express my thoughts. I use them to plot my daily, monthly or to-do schedules. I use them to underscore striking thoughts in my own readings. I use them to calculate my bi-monthly allowance. I use them to take down notes every time I listen to somebody speak. I use them to write personal notes to valued people. And my list could just go on! So you could just imagine my uncontainable joy when my friend texted me this morning th...

A friend of mine quoted the popular line about patience this way, “patience is a talent.” I thought it funny at first because it was supposed to be virtue and not talent , but I later understood the truthfulness of that matter. Patience as a talent does need to be cultivated, developed and practiced, in order to be professionally performed . One day, I was praying about matters of the heart and I asked God to help me be patient as I wait for His timing for me. God’s answer was this, “Are you really praying for patience? Or you’re just asking to be spared from the pain while waiting?” It was a shame to realize I was just actually asking God to shield me from the hurt and frustrations of the waiting period, in the guise of patience. There are so many things to wait for in life, and patience is such a vital element in that. But we also have to recognize that while waiting is hard, we have God’s promise like this, they who wait upon the Lord will renew their strength. They will rise up wi...