A Single Mom's Prayer

My God, I have such a wonderful child, a most precious gift I do not deserve. My heart melts into joy each time he looks at me, each time he calls me “Mommy“. He would embrace me and kiss me and all my troubles will disappear in a moment. Nothing else matters except his laughter and the brightness of his eyes. You know I would give him everything. I would give him the world if I can only do it. Gladly would I sacrifice everything for him, even my own life if need be so.

He brought me hope, he gave my life direction and a meaning I’ve never known before. Surely Lord, You have saved me through this child. Through him You have made known to me how much You love me.

But I am not worthy O God. I feel so incapable of taking care of your most beautiful gift to me. For what can I possibly give this child? My failures? My brokenness? My shameful past? What can I teach this child? How can I mold him into the person he was meant to be?  What shall a single mom like me pray?

Yet You gave him to me, You’ve brought him unto my cold and shaking hands. Surely You must know my weaknesses, yet You must have also known I would call upon you to help me and to provide for the things I cannot do.

Help me O God. Heal me of my wounds so I may not pass on to Him my bitterness. Heal me of my insecurities that I may teach him how to have confidence on himself. Blot out my sins that he may not be cursed for mistakes he wasn’t even aware of, and so that he can have a wonderful future ahead of him. Fill my heart with love even if I’m all alone. For how can I possibly give away that which I do not have? It is not easy indeed to be a single mom. Grant me wisdom. Grant me strength to face a harsh world so I can provide for him and give him everything he needs. Say unto me Lord that I am not alone for You will be my Husband, and You yourself will be his Father. This child is blessed, this I know, and I thank You for all that You have ever done and all that You have in store for us from Your boundless mercy and unceasing love.

A day in Tandag City

Tandag Boulevard: A view from Shacene by the sea

San Ncolas de Tolentino Cathedral (old church)

Goldbar Restaurant ( Seafood Restaurant in Tandag)

Laswitan Lagoon

Laswitan lagoon is located in Cortes, Surigao del Sur. It takes a 9kilometers motorcycle ride from the Cortes junction. It is best to arrange your travel with the Municipal Tourism Office of Cortes so you can visit other attractions near Laswitan. 

Laswitan is a salt-water lake. You can see huge rock formations along the shoreline that created three basins that makes it look like a lake, also high waves will create a waterfall-like in the rock formations. The place is best visited in months of November to March.

the tarp located in the junction of Cortes

the second basin where people swim. It is 15ft deep

All in all I enjoyed the rock formations and swimming of course. Thanks to my friends Lifeiz and Rambu for the company.

Hongkong Disneyland (Day 3 in Hongkong)

I am very excited in our third day in Hongkong as we planned to visit Disneyland for a whole day tour. We are not having a hard time in getting there as it is just a train ride away from the hotel we stayed and the MTR station is just a block away from the hotel.

finally.. :)

I feel 15 years younger than my age

day pass tickets and park guides.. this is it!

tomorrowland

oh I love stitch.. :)

my castle.. jk

tarzan

We spent the rest of our night in Mongkok night market to buy pasalubong. It is more like Divisoria in Manila. :)

A day in Macau (2nd day in Hongkong)

On our ur second day in Hongkong we decided to transfer to Macau since it will only take an hour and a half via ferry to reach there and said that immigration is not strict for tourists.

Using my phones GPS we got our direction to the ferry terminal, we walked about 10minutes to reach there. Great thing Hongkong – Macau ferries travel every hour so it did not took too long for us to wait to get in the ferry.

 

the view while approaching Macau Ferry Terminal

Again I got a tourist map from a Filipino we met in the ferry terminal

Hotel and Casino Shuttles to and from the ferry terminal are for free. You can ride as much as u can.lol

Snapshot while on the bus

Our first stop, The Venetian

inside The Venetian

We crossed the street to see Galaxy Macau just in front of Venetian

The white building is the Galaxy Macau (a view from The Venetian)

The Galaxy

Again, we took a shuttle from Galaxy to Starworld Hotel, again for free. Hihihi. From Starworld we walked around the place to see more attractions around.

We want to bring this home. LOL

Casino Lisboa (a view from Wynn Hotel)

wanna ride??

Macau Cathedral (the only Catholic Church I found in Macau)

Inside the church

Senado Square (Lagro de Senado)

 

Found along the sidewalks going to St. Paul Ruins, they offer free taste for these

St. Paul ruins

From St. Paul Ruins, we walked back our way to Starworld Hotel to take a free shuttle back to the ferry terminal. For this Macau trip, we never spend a penny for the taxi fares, everything is for free. Thanks to the hotels and casinos for the free ride.

Again, we took Turbo Jet from Macau to Hongkong