#lab reflections

1. Attraction = Burning desire to know Him better

2. Obedience= Obeying Him because you know He only wants the best for you because He cares. You’ll obey because you also don’t want to hurt His feelings

3. Loyalty= When you choose to love Him, its only Him, not entertaining other suitors

4. Unconditional Love= NO IFS, NO BUTS

5. Focus= All your attention, eyes and ears all to Him

“You cannot hate someone who doesn’t exist”- God’s not Dead, the movie

For me, its the same with “you cannot love someone who doesn’t exist or else you are just fantasizing”.

Believe in God no matter what. To people like me who read all kinds of stuff and entertain all kinds of questions in my mind as part of learning, it is one of the most difficult fight. To be contented that there are certain things that will remain a mystery because it is God’s will. Not entirely our fault, because we are created in His image. However, we need to accept that we don’t need to be all knowing, the wisdom God bestows us is more than enough.

1st Commandment. Love God above all else. Failed. Guilty as charged. Oftentimes, I just honestly can’t. I just love myself, my family and my earthly life as a whole so much. But when everything is said and done and I still feel empty, I realize that I am born to love Him, myG, my Creator.

Love him without questions, without doubt. It’s so difficult, I always ask for His help to wash away all the bad thoughts in my mind. I’m always fascinated with paranormal and extraordinary things but when I decided to love Him I commit myself in loving only Him.

Always think about Him in everything I feel, think and do. Because really..Do I need to say more? That’s just what happens when you love someone.

(Random thoughts and reflections that I was able to share to my sisters and brothers in faith. Please allow me to share it with you even though some thoughts are just replaying in my head.)

4/21/2015

Today, I realized that we will never be in a one sided love with God.  He will always loves us, more than we’ll ever know.

If I could give all my heart, soul and strength to someone who doesn't love me, isn't it better if not the best to love God, the only one who loves me when I felt that no one else does?

Sometimes we expect too much from God and too little from ourselves OR we expect too much from ourselves but too little from God. We need both. We need to trust ourselves as much as God trust us. Yes, He trust us so much He doesn't give up on us even when we already did. He is always waiting for us (I smiled when I realized that God is the greatest suitor I ever had). He believes in us. He trusts that we will eventually choose to love Him because He is our true soul mate. 

With these realizations I want to love, appreciate and honor God because it’s the least I can do to someone who truly loves me come what may.

4/24/2015

I have loved and maybe still loving someone who doesn’t love me for almost eleven years and it hurts like hell. To think that I’m just loving him without any major sacrifices. Then I realized, if this is how I feel, how much more to God? He loves me so much but I keep on forgetting him. I even snubbed Him.  To think that He sacrificed His only son for me. To think that despite of all my mistakes and unworthiness He’s always been there for me, waiting for me and protecting me from harm. I thought I’m crazy in love but in a way God is crazier than me. I thought I’m a masochist but God is way more than that. God’s love is the greatest, coolest and overwhelming. How can I not love Him?How can I not appreciate Him? Then I started to think about Him, not in the way I always do when I just need His help. I thought that if I love someone I should not cause pain to that person. If I decide to love God, I should do my best to show that I am now genuinely loving Him, with no hidden agendas. But how? In my own simple ways I’ll consider His feelings in everything I feel, in everything I think and everything about me will be for Him (Sabi ko nga: Lord, pasensya ka na ganito ako magmahal pati flaws and weaknesses ko kasama, buti nalang alam kong yayakapin mo pa rin ako sa kabila ng lahat, ang korni pero totoo).

I am learning to love Him with all my heart, mind, soul and strength. Yes, not past tense, “not learned” because I’m still learning. I’m still on the beginner’s stage but I’m trying my best not to stop even though its a constant struggle. Then another realization strucked me, if it is still a struggle for me to love someone like God despite of Him being perfect and after everything He did for me. I shouldn’t feel bad that the one I love didn’t learned to love me and I can’t force him too. In a way, I now understand that if I didn’t felt that pain, I may easily hurt people around me. Experiencing it taught me to be more compassionate to those who are hungry for love.

God is not choosy. He is always glad to accept our love and what we can offer even if we feel sometimes that we don’t have anything good to offer. Loving God inspires me to be my best so I can give Him by best. Isn’t that true love, to only want and give your best to the one you love? 

4/25/2014

God was never my priority. He was not important to me. I don’t even know why I should love Him. Does it matter? If it does, how will I love Him? 

Giving a gift to someone who already has everything is quiet a headache. However, I learned from experience that even those who have everything are just so happy to receive even a simple gift because it is really the thought for them that counts. Sometimes, we even have a gift in our pocket, but we are too afraid to give it because we fear that He might not appreciate it.

Here’s another fear. I’m afraid to love Him because I know that once I started loving him, I need to commit myself to Him. I’m afraid that He and I will get hurt. But then, who am I to hurt Him? I’m afraid to know He also doesn’t want me, that He really doesn’t love me. But He made me realize that He will always love me. No reason needed.

#1 Sin- I always justify my sins.

I’m searching for someone who will truly loves me for who I am and I found God. I found SFC. I’m just too glad to love God by serving Him through this community. I hope and pray you will too.

HOMEWORK DUE 9/9: Write a reflection that covers the process in this lab. What did you do each day and how did you do it? Talk about why you think each part of the mixture was separated in different ways. Reflect on the process. Any difficulties? Would you do anything different next time? Try to make any conclusions you can about the materials or their properties. Were the properties of each part the same as the properties of the whole? Talk about this (and maybe highlight each part of the mixture).

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The separation of a mixture lab that we did in class over the past two days was both challenging and fun.

On the first day during the pre lab, we were given three unknown (at the time) substances and all the materials that we would have the following day, during the actual lab. We were given a magnet, the substances, two beakers, a balance, a hot plate, one sheet of filter paper, distilled water and a funnel for our experiment. On the first day of the lab, my partners and I primarily toyed with the three substances and made observations about each of them. Firstly, we learned that the darkest substance, which we later learned was iron, was magnetic. When we mixed all of the substances with water, we learned that the small, white substance, which we learned was salt, was the only substance that dissolves in water, whereas the iron and salt (the third substance), form a suspension. Based on these observations, my partners and I had to create our own procedure to separate the three substances when they were given to us as a mixture the following day.

I think that each of the substances were separated in different ways because each of the substances had different physical properties that allowed for my partners and I to separate them from one another with the materials we were given. For example, the iron has the property of magnetism and because we were given a magnet, we could separate the magnetic iron from the nonmagnetic sand and salt in the mixture.