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Self-Mastery: Humility

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My niece just recently celebrated her sixth birthday… I remember coming home on the very same year she was born… All these years 'outside the walls' ... Ah, life! ~fraught with challenges one after another... but in all these,  the Lord has been faithful.... constantly guiding and taking care of me. -----0----- September passed by so quickly. I took a leave of absence at the peak of our preparation for an international event.  I was left with no choice but to endorse my work to my brother and other colleagues.  "You are important but not indispensable," my head nurse from my mission area once told me several years ago when I had a fracture. How true for most of us, who couldn't  wouldn't want to leave work behind because of insecurity... I realized that sickness, like death, could come to anyone like a “thief in the night.”  And while we were taught that "prevention is better than cure," most of us ...

Self-Mastery Mystery [part 1: AI NO UTA]

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Light’s out... power lines were cut. There wasn't a single soul in the street...  t he wind howled like a hungry child in need of its mother... and there, without the daily hustle and bustle of life,  the Lord patiently waited for me... -----0----- Everyday is a practice to greet each morning with a smile…  I’m learning to receive whatever comes my way.  With my hands cupped, I reached out for God’s graces… What we had in Mongolia for the Medical Editors’ Meet was entirely unique. It was a quiet experience that will remain in my heart forever. I had a blessed time with my brother ... ... and with the rest of the doctors who participated. It was there, that the Lord established Himself as my rock... He was preparing me for something... -----0----- 25th of August, I felt a stabbing pain on my abdomen...  After three days of consecutive vomiting, I decided to see a gastr...