Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Oh the glory of Your presence..

"Oh the glory of Your presence" is a contemporary Christian song sung and written by Steve Fry on 1983.

I am blogging about this song because I got stressed with my sister who was nagging and complaining about their issue the whole night and asked me what I think was the right lyrics for the song. Some of her friends also had the same problem that night because of this certain controversy at church about it's lyrics, specifically the chorus of the song which starts with.. "Come and rise.."

The problem is, one elder of the church specifically said it's "Come and rise TO Your rest" coz she heard the "original" girl who sang the song. Some of the members of the music group and my sister, who's incharge of the slides for the lyrics, contradicted with the said line coz for them it didn't make sense and it was on the old acetates that it said FROM there and that became the issue..

Eversince I was a kid, I remember singing this song a couple of times and everytime I blurt out the lyrics, now, it automatically says FROM on that portion, so I think, eversince then, that has been the lyrics that we used at church.

I have recorded the original song of Steve Fry, and converted it to mp3, sung 1983 and it even said FROM there, correct me if i'm wrong.. here's the song:


I have googled and yahooed alot of possible keywords for the right lyrics and came up with 3 possible lyrics for the line:

- Come and rise FOR Your rest - (Ron Kenoly sang this on the first chorus but changed it to from at the succeeding chorus.)
- Come and rise TO Your rest
- Come and rise FROM Your rest

Lastly, I decided to email Steve Fry himself and his wife Nancy Fry emailed back to clear up the said lyrics confusion.. Here's her reply to my email with that:

Dear Rosanna,

I¹m writing in response to your note regarding the line in the song Oh the Glory of your presence. Thanks so much for writing I hope we can clear this up for you. 

First of all the line should be sung ³Arise to Your Rest². Apparently when the original musical came out the book was printed incorrectly and it have been sung incorrectly ever since and several people have noticed the difference. The scripture Steve used to back up ³arise to Your rest² is taken from Solomon¹s prayer in II Chronicles, chapter 6, verse 41. Solomon is praying to the Lord and asks that His eyes be open and His ears attentive to the prayers offered up to Him to arise and come to the resting place of the Ark of the Covenant (See I Chron. 28:2)
The whole issue of God¹s rest is questioned at times. Some theorize that ever since He created the world He has been ³resting²-that we are in the 7th day (Gen. 2:2-3) and are encouraged to ³enter into God¹s rest². Now this is just my own personal thought here, But I believe that as we praise the Lord, He is blessed by that praise He inhabits that praise; and maybe it¹s like when we get so excited we can¹t keep still may He just can¹t keep still
anymore either. We ask Him to arise and join us in celebration of that place of rest that He is already in and we entering into. Rest doesn¹t mean ³sitting² it¹s a place of peace and joy. Again, this paragraph is just my own personal ³considerations² given to you for FREE.
I trust that the change of wording and the scriptures will help you and that you can sing the song with great joy in knowing the main emphasis of the song is to Glory in His Presence!

Grace and Peace,
Nancy Fry


I have the scanned original music and notes sent by Nancy Fry herself on my computer for references.

If it was me to decipher this problem, it's their pride that's coming in the way. Both parties don't want to accept defeat or be shamed. That's one trait everyone should have, to accept defeat that is, coz we aren't right all the time and no one knows everything except God.. So you guys decide who's wrong and right and what's the right lyrics..hehehe Hope this helps to clear your issues. :)

Monday, March 24, 2008

What Rosanna Lim means..

What Rosanna Lim Means
You are wild, crazy, and a huge rebel. You're always up to something.
You have a ton of energy, and most people can't handle you. You're very intense.
You definitely are a handful, and you're likely to get in trouble. But your kind of trouble is a lot of fun.

You are well rounded, with a complete perspective on life.
You are solid and dependable. You are loyal, and people can count on you.
At times, you can be a bit too serious. You tend to put too much pressure on yourself.

You are the total package - suave, sexy, smart, and strong.
You have the whole world under your spell, and you can influence almost everyone you know.
You don't always resist your urges to crush the weak. Just remember, they don't have as much going for them as you do.

You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection.
You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive.
You have the classic "Type A" personality.

You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people.
You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts.
You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals.





You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow.
You are light hearted and accepting. You don't get worked up easily.
Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is.

You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing.
You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long.
You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start.

You are confident, self assured, and capable. You are not easily intimidated.
You master any and all skills easily. You don't have to work hard for what you want.
You make your life out to be exactly how you want it. And you'll knock down anyone who gets in your way!

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Before sleeping..

Seth and I say a short prayer before we go to bed at night and when we wake up in the moning.. I recorded one of our prayer sessions..He couldn't pronounce all the words but he knows what's next.. hehe here it is below:


Thursday, March 13, 2008

Woman sat on BF's toilet for 2 years

By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer
Wed Mar 12, 7:27 PM ET

WICHITA, Kan. - Authorities are considering charges in the bizarre case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years — so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time the boyfriend finally called police.

Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman's skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital.

"We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Whipple said. "The hospital removed it."

Whipple said investigators planned to present their report Wednesday to the county attorney, who will determine whether any charges should be filed against the woman's 36-year-old boyfriend.

"She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body," Whipple said. "It is hard to imagine. ... I still have a hard time imagining it myself."

He told investigators he brought his girlfriend food and water, and asked her every day to come out of the bathroom.

"And her reply would be, `Maybe tomorrow,'" Whipple said. "According to him, she did not want to leave the bathroom."

The boyfriend called police on Feb. 27 to report that "there was something wrong with his girlfriend," Whipple said, adding that he never explained why it took him two years to call.

Police found the clothed woman sitting on the toilet, her sweat pants down to her mid-thigh. She was "somewhat disoriented," and her legs looked like they had atrophied, Whipple said.

"She said that she didn't need any help, that she was OK and did not want to leave," he said.

She was reported in fair condition at a hospital in Wichita, about 150 miles southeast of Ness City. Whipple said she has refused to cooperate with medical providers or law enforcement investigators.

Authorities said they did not know if she was mentally or physically disabled.

Police have declined to release the couple's names, but the house where authorities say the incident happened is listed in public records as the residence of Kory McFarren. No one answered his home phone number.

The case has been the buzz of Ness City, said James Ellis, a neighbor.

"I don't think anybody can make any sense out of it," he said.

Ellis said he had known the woman since she was a child but that he had not seen her for at least six years.

He said she had a tough childhood after her mother died at a young age and apparently was usually kept inside the house as she grew up. At one time the woman worked for a long-term care facility, he said, but he did not know what kind of work she did there.

"It really doesn't surprise me," Ellis said. "What surprises me is somebody wasn't called in a bit earlier."

read from: benzdiaz
original story from: yahoo news

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Believe and you will be blessed.

Believe and you will be blessed.

The problem with many of us is that we don't believe that God will open a window and pour out blessings that we won't have room to receive them. I dare anyone to try God. He is true to His word. God cannot lie and His promises are sure.

Three things will happen to you this coming week:

(1) You will find favour with someone you don't expect;
(2) You will be too relevant to be ignored;
(3) You will encounter God and you will never remain the same again.

My prayer for you today: The eyes beholding this message shall not behold evil, the hands that will send this message to others shall not labor in vain, the mouth saying, Amen to this prayer shall laugh forever. Remain in God's love as you send this prayer to everybody on your list. Have a lovely journey of life! Trust in the Lord with all your heart and He will never fail you because He is AWESOME!

If you truly need a blessing, continue reading..

Heavenly Father, most Gracious and Loving God, I pray to you that you abundantly bless my family and me. I know that you recognize, that a family is more than just a mother, father, sister, brother, husband and wife, but all who believe and trust in you. Father, I send up a prayer request for blessings for not only the person who sent this to me, but for me and all that I have forwarded this message on to. And that the power of joined prayer by those who believe and trust in you is more powerful than anything. I thank you in advance for your blessings.

Father God, deliver the person reading this right now from debt and debt's burdens. Release your Godly wisdom that I may be a good steward over all that You have given me Father, for I know how wonderful and mighty you are and how if we just obey you and walk In your word and have the faith of a mustard seed that you will pour out blessings. I thank you now Lord for
the recent blessings I have received and for the blessings yet to come because I know you are not done with me yet. In Jesus' name, I pray.

Amen.


Thursday, March 06, 2008

Back in 1986..

There was one time in year 1986, my parents and older sister pilarmarielim was strolling around gaisano city. You know how kids would want to let go of the hand of the parent or guardian and think they know what their doing but they don't.. So anyway, dad told us that, back then my sister insisted to let go of his hand, so he did. He then hid from her, but seeing where she would go, just to see what her reaction would be. A few minutes later she was worried where my parents were coz they were not within her view. Then she started crying and realized she wasn't ready yet so dad came back and explained to her why she was holding her tight.

Then my dad thought, if the case was different, if it wasn't intentional that we're lost, how would we answer the one asking us.. So he made up this script and taught us the most usual questions to be asked by strangers who would find us incase we get lost.

We have been trying to figure out how to transfer this 22 year old tape, containing all our audio/voice recordings since we started talking, to a cd for years now and just yesterday did I find the solution (or had the time to find it)
and immediately grabbed it from the tape.

Here goes our voice recordings since 1981 on mp3 format. Enjoy :)

This is my older sister pilar at 8-11months. The people at the background is my grandfather, my great grandmother and my dad..



This is me when I was a baby (1983) together with my parents and my older sister..



This is my interview training with my dad at age 2..



This time, a very confident me at almost 3..



My older sister, Pilar's interview training at age 5..



My younger sister, Joy's (miyahmayah), interview training at age 2.




Our talents back then..

Me and my dad having a duet with the song "Si Felimon"..



Lastly.. sister act.. me and my older sister pilar sing "Amen, Praise the Lord"..

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Dick Hoyt, a real hero



(courtesy of Sports Illustrated)

I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay For their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots.

But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.

Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in Marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a Wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and Pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars--all in the same day.

Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back Mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. On a bike. Makes Taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?

And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life. This love story began in Winchester , Mass. , 43 years ago, when Rick Was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him Brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.

"He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'' Dick says doctors told him And his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. ``Put him in an Institution.''

But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes Followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the Engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was Anything to help the boy communicate. ``No way,'' Dick says he was told. ``There's nothing going on in his brain.''

"Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a Lot was going on in his brain. Rigged up with a computer that allowed Him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his Head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? ``Go Bruins!'' And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the School organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, ``Dad, I want To do that.''

Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described ``porker'' who never ran More than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he Tried. ``Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. ``I was sore For two weeks.''

That day changed Rick's life. ``Dad,'' he typed, ``when we were running, It felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!''

And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly Shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon.

``No way,'' Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't quite a Single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few Years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then They found a way to get into the race Officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the Qualifying time for Boston the following year.

Then somebody said, ``Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?''

How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he Was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick Tried.

Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans in Hawaii . It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud Getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you Think?

Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? ``No way,'' he says. Dick does it purely for ``the awesome feeling'' he gets seeing Rick with A cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.

This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best Time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the world Record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to Be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the Time.

``No question about it,'' Rick types. ``My dad is the Father of the Century.''

And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a Mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries Was 95% clogged. ``If you hadn't been in such great shape,'' One doctor told him, ``you probably would've died 15 years ago.'' So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.

Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass. , always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father's Day.

That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really wants to give him is a gift he can never buy.

``The thing I'd most like,'' Rick types, ``is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once.''

Monday, March 03, 2008

If you think life's unfair...

If you think life's unfair.. Be thankful that's all you're worrying about. Open your eyes and be thankful for having just the basics in life, limbs, love, food and the wonderfull air to breath!

This video is about Nick Vujicic - who was born without arms and legs.


Here's another video of him which I couldn't upload at youtube because of it's video length, it got rejected. http://sanasanz.multiply.com/video/item/48/Nick_Vujicic_Preaching