INT. APARTMENT - DAWN
4:42 AM 

   It is Friday and a holiday in the country. Slept around 8 PM last night so I guess this is why I am up this early. I am currently on my table, eating the leftover carbonara from PAW, and my sister is on hers reading the Bible. The other one is downstairs already doing her review. This week has been physically tiring - I had my first work travel this year, and meetings and classes are back on their regular timeslot. 😅 It is in these times that I long for a quiet time to process all that's happened, and I am glad that I have this moment now to write just whatever. 

   My Monday looked different than my usual - I went to Ormoc early in the morning and traveled home by the afternoon just in time to catch dinner with the church. I was able to witness the sunrise and sunset while on a ferry. I used to have a lot of potential stories and dialogues and imagined scenes in my head when watching such a majestic view, but, at that moment, I was just purely admiring the ordinariness of it while being in awe that the sun knows exactly when to rise and set every single day. With all the cares I carried all throughout the trip, it was comforting to remember that even with the sun's grand display of beauty and power, it is being held by a Greater One Who calls me His child. Unbelievable. 

   This sentimental moment led me to remember all the failings I had from the start of my day and I find it even more unbelievable to be known from the inside out and be loved far more deeply than anyone could - to see my unspoken wicked thoughts and dishonorable desires but look at me with mercy and warmth. Unbelievable.



   This week has been draining, but I've seen the Lord's sustaining grace in my limitations and imperfections refreshing me through the most mundane of things: the sight of the sun, a meal prepared by my sister, an honest conversation with a churchmate, and His Word being preached faithfully. What a week but oh what God I have. :) 


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