Family Healing

(While browsing over my unfinished articles, I came across this one which I completed on Sept.21, 2015 but I never got to post due to an equally sudden event. My wife, who was supposedly eight weeks pregnant, experienced painful cramps the following day Sept.22 which persisted and ended with the diagnosis that our angel in her womb is already gone. We took comfort in knowing that we now have two angels in Heaven. Kuya Zek named her Marian and we now seek her intercession during our night time prayers.

2 Corinthians 4: 16-18

Therefore, we are not discouraged; rather, although our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to what is seen but to what is unseen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal )

Si Lord Talaga

"The human heart plans the way, but the LORD directs the steps" - Proverbs 16:9

The suspense is over!

But before that allow me to give a one-liner description of my family life starting the year 2000 - it's "NPA" or No Permanent Address. I already lost count the times my wife and I changed residences mainly brought about by my OFW work destinations around China. We have moved and stayed in different districts in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and other Guangdong cities. We have transferred flats at least eight times during the span of 13 years. That means we were moving out at least every two years.

It was both a blessing and a challenge. A blessing because all those movements meant opportunities of meeting new friends and new locations to explore and tourist spots to visit. A challenge, well, because we have also to physically move all our stuffs with us each time. And believe me when I say our stuffs did not only multiply but increased exponentially once we started to have our children!

After a family tragedy some some six years ago and due to the poor health condition of our youngest (and an equally poor expat health-care system), we made the difficult decision to move back to Philippines and stay in our very own forty square meter flat unit within the metro city.

Our home was the fruit of five years of financial savvy and savings of my wife. It's small space is deceiving because it has a quadruple function feature - our classroom for Zek (who is a fifth-grade home-schooler), a play-area for our toddler Aim, a home-office for my part-time work and start-up business and of course, our cozy, though at times really chaotic, place of abode.

The past two years, we have put ourselves in a position to finally be accustomed and adjusted to our new home, our very own permanent address, so to speak. We have banded a 4-person think-thank how to scoop, organize, fix, organize, arrange, organize, decorate and, did I say organize our growing stuffs (Yes, sometimes I do feel that these non-living things have lives of their own and multiply at night). More so, we were really hoping that our small business will grow in time and that we can happily and permanently settle here.

Pero si Lord may iba pa pala na plano sa amin. Akala namin ay OK na kami sa aming sariling munting tahanan na kasya kaming apat. Akala naming pang matagalan na ito. Yun pala, isa na namang pang-samantala ito para sa amin.

This morning, our trepidations the past weeks has been put into rest.

My wife tested positive for our fourth baby!

We will have another angel !

Syempre, our main concern is the health of my wife (this will be her fourth caesarean delivery) and the health of new baby. Our Aim has G6PD thus he has lots of food and environmental limitations, which in turn, is causing him to catch serious ailments when exposed. Once again, we will solicit prayers from our prayer warriors that her pregnancy will get the pink-slip for both mother and baby.

Well, the second thing that comes to my mind, is how our maxed-out home space can still accommodate a new nursery for our coming baby. It's a challenge we will sort out in the coming weeks but the first thought is that we will need an increased space.

How?

We will leave that to our Lord because we always believe that God has been leading us everytime.

And where He will lead us, His grace will be enough.

He is always faithful (even if we are not).  

Si Lord talaga, na caught off-guard mo na naman kami.

Saan po tayo pupunta ngayon?

Excited na po kami.

"LORD, your mercy reaches to heaven; your fidelity, to the clouds." - Psalms 36:5