Here’s Our Daily Bread for today. It’s so beautiful. Enjoy reading.

Stagecoach Prayer
Whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. - John14:13

Five year-old Randy wanted a toy stagecoach for Christmas. While shopping with Mom, he found just the one he wanted. It was about 6” long and had cool wheels and dark brown plastic horses pulling it. “Mommy, I want this one. Pleeeeease!” he begged. As young children sometimes do, he threw a tantrum, insisting that he get that stagecoach for Christmas. Mom said, “We’ll see,” and took him home.

Randy was sure he’d get what he asked for. Christmas morning came, and he opened the package confidently. Sure enough, it was the stagecoach he had begged for. He was so pleased. But then his older brother said, “You really did a dumb thing to insist on getting that coach. Mom bought you a much bigger one, but when you begged for that little one, she exchanged it!” Suddenly, the small stagecoach didn’t seem so appealing.

Sometimes we’re like that with God. We pray about a specific need and tell Him how He ought to answer. We beg and plead – and God may even give us exactly what we ask for. But He may have had something better in mind.

Phillips Brooks once said, “Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger.” - Anne Cetas

Do not presume to know what’s best when you begin to pray;
But say to God, “Your will be done,” then trust His perfect way. – Sper

Large asking results in large receiving.

(Also read: John15:7-14, Ruth1-4, Luke8:1-25)

Remember my post two months ago about Jeff and his team getting the third place in the basketball game in their school’s sportsfest? I don’t have the photo of the trophy then, only his medal for winning third place in the Chess Tournament, so I’m posting it now.

We only not have a photo, but the trophy itself is here. Their class adviser gave this to Jeff a week before the classes end. Jeff was the captain ball of the team.

I’ve seen so many blogs tagging each other and I don’t know how and if this really works. Anyway, I got tagged for the very first time and this came from Raquel (thanks!).

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1. Make your Authority Technorati explode.
2. Increase your Google Page Rank.
3. Get more traffic to your blog.
4. Make new friends.
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2. Put your own blog name and link.
3. Tag as many friends as you want.
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2. Juliana’s Site
3. Hazel-My Life, My Hope, My Future.
4. Jeanne-The Callalily Space
5. Starz in De Sky
6. My Charmed Life
7. Denz Techtronics
8. Denz Recreational
9. Life’s Simple Pleasures
10. My Blog
11. Because Life is Fun
12. In This Game of Life
13. Scribbles of my Life
14. Changing Lanes
15. This is what my heart says…
16. A mom’s note
17. Tasteful Voyage
18. Jackie’s Everyday Life
19. Jackie Simply Pinay
20. Gerthy’s Scrapbook
21. Gerthy Sanctary
23. Asawa’s Love Book
24. A Mother’s Journal
25. Simple Life, Simply Me
26. Pinaymama’s Diary
27. so it goes. . .
28. the working mom
29. Through the rain
30. Regalo ng Diyos (God’s gift)
31. Abelle | Only in Silence
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And to keep this rolling, I’m tagging Adelle, Ambet, Cold Silence, Sexy Papa, abelle.blogrox, and all of you in my blogroll. If you are interested, please copy/paste this on your blog. Thanks!

Jeff and I were out the whole day yesterday. We went to his doctor in the morning for his check up. Then in the afternoon, we had a date – I’m talking about me and Jeff here, not me and his doctor

Anyway, since today is Tuesday, I’m making this post my 2^nd toot. I got two accomplishments so far. Here goes.

The trip to the ENT clinic
Jeff and I went to St. Luke’s Medical Center in the morning for his check up. The ENT doctor said, though Jeff’s tonsils are big, they are not that big to really recommend tonsillectomy, unless they give Jeff so much trouble like tonsillitis every month, throat infection every now and then and things like that. Jeff did not get seriously sick last year, just colds and cough but no fever. So Dr. Castañeda asked us to come back again on April21 for another routine check up and told me to observe if Jeff’s tonsils get bigger. On our next visit, we will know what the doctor’s final recommendation will be and if the operation will push through.

The trip to the movie house
From the hospital, we had our lunch in a nearby restaurant then went straight to the mall. Jeff wanted to see the movie Horton Hears a Who, so we did. The movie was funny and touching at the same time. I liked it! This is the kind of movie that the whole family must see. It tells about the value of friendship, trust, keeping a promise, believing, love, family, determination – everything! I can actually see the story as the story of mankind. That we all live in a tiny speck called earth, and the flower is the universe and Horton, the one holding the flower where the speck is, is God. One can really see and realize how small and powerless we are without God. Go see the movie, guys. It’s a good one.

WARNING: not for people with weak hearts

Here is another website that many of you might have been before. My sister came across it many months ago and it really made us laugh in the end. So if you’re looking for online pranks to at least get even with the people you love . . . . . or hate, turn your speakers on and winterrowd.com is the site for you.

You may try two of the games here: (WARNING: not for people with weak hearts)

Get the code at www.winterrowd.com

Get the code at www.winterrowd.com

My son’s school gives out what they call Student Handbook to each student in Grade School and High School every year. This handbook, aside from serving as a diary of activities of the students and as communication between the teachers and parents, also has pages with lots of information. There are pages called Food Trivia, The Internet, Ecology, Physical Fitness and more.

     My most favorite page is Recycling. This shares information on which products are made of recycled materials, as well how one can help reduce waste by recycling. They got it from World Almanac for Kids 2002. Though most of us may have memorized this, let me just write some of it here.

• From recycled paper, we get newspaper, cereal boxes, wrapping paper, cardboard, containers and insulation.
• From recycled plastic, we get soda bottles, tables, benches, bicycle racks, cameras, backpacks, carpeting, shoes and clothes.
• From recycled steel, we get steel cans, cars, bicycles, nails and refrigerators.
• From recycled rubber, we get bulletin boards, floor tiles, playground equipment and speed bumps

You may also search the web or get in touch with the proper authority in your area for more information.

Before we turn the lights off tonight for the Earth Hour, let me leave you with this.

Today was just an ordinary day. I woke up with morning breath and my eyes full of muta (I don’t know what’s that called in English, but we call it muta in Filipino – you know the thing that lurks in the dark and before you knew it, it has taken over the little space in your eyes where your tears fall?) Anyway, I went on my usual routine – washed my face, gargled, got a cup of coffee, went back to my room, turned the PC on and checked my emails.

Today was just an ordinary day . . . . . or so I thought.

As I logged in to my blog to post about my newly found identity, I was surprised when I noticed a new link in the ‘Incoming Links’ section in my Dashboard. I clicked on it thinking that it was just a link from a site that I left a comment previously. It was, but not as I expected. The link said ‘Winner of Drawings – March26, 2008’ and it took me to the site where I left a comment yesterday. This was what I found out:

I won the Graphics Package and this blog is going to be pretty! So as directed, I emailed Marie, the host of the contest, to claim the prize. I am just waiting for her response.

Meanwhile, I have been asking around for some help with my little problem here. Under the category ‘the life of an ordinary earthling‘, I have 18 posts including this one. But when I click on it, it only shows 10 posts and I can’t see a ‘previous entries‘ link at the bottom. Why is that? Can anyone tell me how to fix this? I hope someone provides me with a step by step procedure because I am not well-versed with codes. Thanks so much, guys!

Update: The little problem I was talking about has just been fixed tonight. Thanks to Ivan of Mabuhay Hosting Philippines.

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