A work in progress

A work in Progress

 

A work in Progress

 “Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”

 

Paul was confident that Philippians uphold the highest regards to perseverance and sanctification.  "the action or process of being freed from sin or purified." the process of sanctification takes deliberate action on our part".

They are working on these areas with a real deal.” They  really mean business with the Lord. For they are branded as a “church in action” they supported the ministry, Paul, and other church workers to advance the kingdom of God.

We are not to wait around unchanged. Seeing Christ as the end goal, the faithful Christian will seek to grow in godliness until the day Jesus returns-  (connect us)

 What is happening is, is that you have become a work in progress.

* The grace of God is doing a work in your heart and life.

    When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own                   but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future.

John 16:13

“For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified” (Ro 8:29-30).

The progressive work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Philippians

1. Assured of Salvation

            All over again we are assured that we are saved by the Grace of God Jesus Christ and not              slaves of fear and doubt. We are adopted sons of God by Grace.

2. Acknowledge  Gods working power

         God is about His breaking into our awareness of Him and drawing us toward Himself.

Therefore, since we have been made right in God's sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us Romans 5:1

 

3. Saved to Grow

    If we were saved, then we are saved to grow. God doesn’t save anyone and then not turn them        into the likeness of his Son in one way or another.

 If you consider yourself a Christian but have no real desire to change and become like Christ, go and cry out to God. You either need to be genuinely saved, or you need him to lift whatever deception from your eyes makes you think anything other than, “To live is Christ” (Phil 1:21).

Conclusion

I am a work in progress by The grace of God in my life, in my relationship in my ministry, in my family in my workplace.

 

 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:14.Are you one with this goal? where are you right now?  Do you want to submit to God's working power to change your life?

" How to maintain a healthy body during summer time?"

I love the idea of summer because  it is the best time to  spend our vacation with our family and love ones ,as part of Filipino's  customs we love to go  to beaches, rivers and pools to have family recreation, bonding and celebration  but somehow we are aware that the heat of the sun is very unbearable to carry because of its scorching heat, it can make us uncomfortable and we can feel conscious of what might happen to our skin. In order for us to enjoy the summer here are some tips to stay healthy despite of the heat condition of our country. Let's try to look at this and apply in our respective homes.  . 

Here it is,,,,

1. Stay cool and hydrated. Drink water, at least two to four cups (16-32 ounces) upon rising, and similar amounts if you are going out for activities and exercise. Carry water with you in a hard plastic container (more stable polycarbonate rather than polyethylene that leaches plastic into the water). You may also use a traveling water filter. Check your local water stores or www.realgoods.com. Most people need two to three quarts of liquid per day, and more in hot weather or with sweating and exercise. Review Chapter 1 of Staying Healthy with Nutrition or Chapter 7 of The Staying Healthy Shopper's Guide for further information on Water.
2. While enjoying the sun and outdoors, protect yourself from overexposure to sunlight by wearing a hat and using natural sunscreens without excessive chemicals. Carry Aloe Vera gel for overexposure and have an aloe plant growing in your home for any kind of burn. The cooling and healing gel inside the leaves will soothe any sunburn. It works great.
3. Keep up or begin an exercise program. Aerobic activity is important for keeping the heart strong and healthy. If you only work out in a health club, take some time to do outdoor refreshing activities -- hiking, biking, swimming, or tennis. Reconnecting with these activities will help keep your body and mind aligned.
4. Enjoy Nature's bounty – fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables at their organic best. Consuming foods that are cooling and light -- fresh fruits, vegetable juices, raw vital salads, and lots of water -- will nourish your body for summertime activities. Include some protein with one or two meals. There are a number of light, nourishing proteins that don't require cooking. Most of these complement fruits and vegetables nicely-- nuts, seeds, sprouted beans, soy products, yogurt, kefir, and cottage cheese. Fish and poultry can also be eaten.
5. Take some special summer time with your family, kids, and friends who share the enjoyment of outdoors. Plan a fun trip if you're able and motivated for a day or longer -- hiking in the wild, camping, playing at the river, or a few days resting at the ocean. Rekindling our Earth connection has benefits that last beyond this season, continuing to enrich the whole of your life.
6. Relax and breathe. You've been working hard. This is the season to slow the pace a bit and absorb the light that stimulates your hormonal message center. Leave your cell phone at home or take a week off from TV. In many European countries, most of the population has a month off during the summer.
7. Sun teas are wonderful. Use flowers and leaves (or tea bags) in a clear half- or one-gallon glass jar filled with spring water. Hibiscus or red clover flowers, peppermint, chamomile, or lemon grass are all good choices, or use your local herbs and flowers that you learn are safe, flavorful, and even medicinal. Leave in the sun for two hours or up to a whole day. Moon teas can also be made to enhance your lunar, dreamy side by letting your herbs steep in the cooling, mystical moonlight. Add a little orange or lemon peel, or a sprig of rosemary and a few jasmine flowers.
8. Nutritional supplements can support you with a greater amount of physical energy, enhancing your summer activities. The B-complex vitamins are calming to the nervous system and helpful for cellular energy production, while vitamin C and the other antioxidants protect your body from stress, chemical pollutants, and the biochemical by-products of exercise. Helpful summer herbs are Siberian ginseng as an energy tonic and stress protector, dong quai is a tonic for women, hawthorn berry is good for the heart, and licorice root will help energy balance and digestion.
9. Use the summer months to deepen the spiritual awakening begun in the spring. Begin by checking your local bookstore or the web for ideas that interest you. Plan a vacation that incorporates these new interests and provides you time to read, relax, contemplate, and breathe.
10. Above all, give yourself the time to truly experience Nature. This can happen, even in a city park, if you relax and let in your surroundings. When traveling, take activities for the family and your first aid kit for bites, bee stings, and injuries. Check for ticks after your hikes. Watch for overexposure, take time in the shade, and drink your water.

http://www.healthy.net/Health/Essay/10_Tips_for_Staying_Healthy_in_Summer/676

Youtube: DMCA vs Content Creators

Maveric here.

Youtube has been caught in an uproar lately. With content creators rambling about how Youtube is a scary place? The Fair Use, DMCA, etc? Let's See what Fair Use looks like:

Fair Use: 17 U.S.C. § 107 Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17 U.S.C. § 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include: 1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; 2. the nature of the copyrighted work; 3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and 4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.

This could be used as a defense by the content creators as long as they follow the premises of the given law, but in Youtube? They never recognize Fair Use.

Since 2010, Youtube's landscape has changed quickly. It was bought by Google, and it became a that multi-media platform. Soon, studios began looking at Youtube's potential. Millions of viewers go to Youtube every single day. This is what advertisers are looking for and suddenly, ads popped everywhere. Because Youtube has difficulty of monitoring their site manually, they assigned robots, which does the automated system. These robots also respond to the complaints too, but the responses are nothing but arranged walls of text that doesn't even answer your questions. They are also responsible for taking videos and channels down. And this is just the surface. And this system? Broken. The Youtube customer service is also crap, which adds oil to the fire. Remember when I talked about DMCA?  To summarize DMCA, Youtube is not liable to such copyright claims by other companies as long as they take the videos down with no legal trial involved. Broken automated system + DMCA = You obviously know where this one goes.

This is where it is terrible for the content creators. Youtube tends to have this "GUILTY until proven INNOCENT" philosophy. Youtube tends to side with the complainant at hand. If you are the complainant, and you lost the battle, you get no consequences whatsoever. If you are the defendant however? Not only you lose the ability to monetize your content, you may also get your video taken down, much worse, if you hit three strikes, your channel will be terminated. Some even go as far as transferring the monetization of the video to the complainant if Youtube or the complainant deems so worthy. Most content creators stay at Youtube because they earn for a living. And hearing all the news here and there, these content creators that want to entertain a wide audience are scared. Scared because they might hit a certain company, or step on a landmine or something. Worse case scenario? lose their jobs.

It just hurts to see how Youtube went to a website where video sharing was made for fun and entertainment and now, we are filled with scumbags that work behind the scenes and do nothing to solve the problem. DMCA is flawed, the automated system is broken. Once the companies raise the bar and seek legal trial, the average content creator cannot defend himself/herself because lawyers are very expensive.

Is this the downfall of Youtube? I hope not.

This has been Maveric, see you next time.

I love New York

 City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.[1]Located at the southern tip of the State of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.[9][10] A global power city,[11] New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace[12] defining the termNew York minute.[13] Home to the headquarters of the United Nations,[14] New York is an important center for international diplomacy[15] and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world.[16][17][18][19][20][21]

^{This is one of my dream places where my best option of place to travel and get a regular job. My friend told me and she is currently living their, you can't feel the sense of belongingness to USA of you can't visit New York City. This place is incredibly fascinating to live and travel with. God willing I will apply work there together with my husband and to start a family there. I’ve been praying this all my life to have an opportunity to go there if God permits. I want to try if their city and mall will not sleep at night, or I want to try their time square how big and how many people will go there everyday if its numerous or just a few one. In God’s time,I’m looking forward to go there soon….} 

Rant: Anime

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Hey! Maveric here. 

Today I want to address one topic that not everyone talks about; anime, and how we live in a society where being an anime fan is more of a stereotype, rather than a brand we could be proud of. For starters, anyone of you, reading this now surely knows what anime is. "Japanese cartoons right?", well... You kinda somewhat get it. Kids from the 90's sure experienced how anime dominated the television during their time, and I am no exemption. True anime fans go beyond that. Watching anime to the extent of being obsessed with it, not just one genre alone, but the expansive medium as much as possible, and becoming a nerd in some cases may qualify one as an anime fan.

Now here comes the issues that go on with being a true anime fan. You could go around and be fanboys/fangirls of a mainstream celebrity and not get that much hate from society... Well except from a few haters that swing in a few times that might get on your nerves. Being an anime fan is a challenge. You have to put up with haters and flamers calling you "weaboo", stupid grown ups that claim to know anime but only watched one show their entire life, mainstream fanboys that roam everywhere claiming their anime is the "best", fellow anime fans, and this society's branding where "Anime is for kids". Being an anime fan instantly creates this virtual wall that separates you from the norms of this society. And by those "norms", you could see some people that "screwed" themselves up, disconnecting the links to this reality totally dedicating their lives to anime.

Mobile Suit: Gundam Seed Destiny

Being immersed in anime is a totally different experience. You get to see somebody's imagination at play expressed in the most astounding possible way of story telling that art has never seen in any other medium. That may be an exaggeration... But you get the idea. Well, not totally ignoring western cartoons and those big-ass studios with multi-million budgets at hand, but I could never care any less. They were meant to be targetted for kids, with weak plot and poor narratives to back up that poor concept and heavily milked theme compressed altogether. And seeing how this music industry is slowly crumbling in their standards(see my previous rant), even that aspect of musicality among these films gets its quality lost out of nowhere, making the effectiveness of our films drastically fall. And this is no joke. Everytime I listen to the main theme songs and BGM's of these "new" cartoons, all I could say is "meh..." . Now let's get back to the topic shall we?

Now this is where anime hits any medium hard. DIVERSITY. The anime medium as a whole is as diverse as the music medium, and can be executed with more freedom than actual films. The genres range from the tearjerking Drama stories that may spring Romance here and there, gruesome Horror and soul-taking Suspense, the ever-common Sci-Fi, Comedy, Military and Fantasy, the gender specific Shoujo and oversaturated Shounen, the hormone-stimulating bizarre Yuri(girl-to-girl) and Yaoi(men-to-men), and the brain-wrecking Psychological animes that make you question what you are watching. Pretty weird actually...

And when I say "weird", oh boy, we are just touching the surface. You have to handle some "anime tropes" and brace yourself from the Japanese culture shock. Even I was baffled when I first encountered Harems(one character, multiple "partners"), Tsundere, Yandere etc... And you have to prepare yourself from the Japanese vocabulary overload that gets repeated over and over, and you have no choice but to remember these terms for your convenience.

Plastic Memories

This anime wrecked my life. I cried so much from this scene.

And the next trouble is, what anime do you really want to watch? You could browse the web, listen to anime elitists and trust their suggestions and recommendations, but honestly, anime is so subjective that all of us has different tastes. That's one thing I could assure.

If your brain hasn't exploded yet, then I invite you all to watch anime... Oh no, not the most common and mainstream ones, rather, try watching one that is heavily regarded as a masterpiece. Never get intimidated by the usual branding "it's for kids" rather, watch it for that experience. My experience with anime has lead me to a roller coaster ride, from moments that made me sit at the edge of my seat raising my adrenaline to the highest degree, screaming "HELL YEAH!!!", getting my mind blown from the protagonists' cunning and genius mind, having myself educated from the culture of not just Japan, but other countries' practices as well, and down to covering my face with a huge pillow and a thick blanket sheet because my heart can't handle the too much sadness that's going on.

Umm.... Kindly give way to the shonen fanboys?

If you're still not sold, I don't know what will. I hope you too get involved with the medium. You might be surprised.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.

Ephesians 6:4

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Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord

Colosians 3:20

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