Countless Blessings

Monday was a bit frustrating. I wasn’t able to do an actual survey for my thesis because I still had to pass something to the establishment where I will be conducting my survey. I bummed all day, tortured myself in front of the laptop, trying to search more infos about my thesis. Nighttime came, I was chatting with a friend. We were talking about something and she suddenly said, “Huy, for interview daw bukas? May nagtext sakin! Sayo ba?” I was a bit sad because my phone was beside me and no one texted. I was about to hit enter to send my reply to her, but then I received a message too. And yes! It was from the hotel! Unexpected blessing. God’s surprise! :D

The following morning I was up so early for the interview. I went there together with my friend. Before going inside the room, I told my friend, “Teka, pray muna tayo.” And so I prayed. We went in as confidently as possible because there were a lot of applicants in the room. We answered a series of questionnaires first, and the facilitator called names one by one. I was thinking that I would be the last to be interviewed since I was the last person who passed the questionnaire. But then I was fourth out of the 14 applicants. The questions weren’t hard, and it was mostly just about me. When the interview was about to end, the interviewer said, “We’ll definitely get back at you mid October, because your ojt’s not until November pa naman.” That gave me the assurance that I made it to the initial interview :D Again again, Praise God for that.

“Do not fear for I am the Lord your God.”

Absolutely true.

Last week, I was worrying because of my TQM Professor who gave us deductions in our exams. Last tuesday, he gave us the Midterm grades. 11 failed. I was completely nervous that time. I was praying I’m not among those students who failed. He called us one by one and we had the chance to look at our grades. When I saw it, i wanted to jump up and down. I didn’t fail!! Upon sitting back on my chair, I was uttering “Thank You, Lord!” repeatedly. After everybody got their grades, our professor called some names. I was the last one called. The bell rang. Our professor went out and I asked my other blockmates why we were called. Their answers were all the same:  I was among the students who got the highest grades. I didn’t believe it at first, but then I asked all my blockmates who were also called and we were on the same grade brackets. I AM NOW COMPLETELY AMAZED. “Praise the Lord!” :D

After TQM, we had our Tourism subject. Our professor was so moody. She made half of the class go out because they had no handouts. From 54, we were only 16 in the room. She enjoyed this because it wasn’t noisy. She called for a graded recitation. I answered a couple of times and when the class ended, she called two names: “Roman and Valenzuela, exempted for the finals.” I was like, “WHAT? Ano daw? Exempted sa finals?!” My friend answered me, “Oo na, ikaw na walang exam sa finals!” sarcastically. Again, unexpected blessing. Thank You, Lord!!!!

Today, during Sociology, our grades were released. My professor gave us our exam results and I got a high one. Not sure if I was the highest since i didn’t get to see the other’s grades. Our professor called us one by one and mentioned the midterm grade. She said, “Lozano, highest. With a rating of 96” I was like, “Wow, nice. Ano kaya score nya?” Then my professor said, “She got 78 out of 85”. I was wondering.. I got 81 out of 85. Wasn’t I supposed to be the highest? So I went to my professor and she corrected the mistake. She ‘dethroned’ my classmate from being the highest and called my name. Weee :) I felt so happy again. Praise the Lord! :D

I didn’t write this to boast, but to inspire others.

I am just so happy I wanted the whole blogland to know this. And of course, how powerful my Jesus is!

Here’s what I also realized:

We often worry about what lies ahead, but no. We should not worry. We should pray. Pray for God’s will and blessing.

He surprises me in very special ways. Specially in those things I was worrying about.

He tells me not to worry anymore. :D

xx,

Izelle