Life is precious.

That is one significant and obvious fact that I want to remind myself everyday.

Our country have been going through so much challenges the past months: war, chaotic politics, earthquake and super typhoons. And in all those, lives were lost. Either literally or figuratively.

I’ve been so affected by these events that I am becoming more and more pensive and more and more emotional. No thanks to the extra hormones this pregnancy brings me.

In all this I realize how fragile a person can be without a great God. I feel helpless seeing what’s happening around the world that I literally gag when I watch the evening news. But I thank the Lord for he is sovereign. It’s hard to understand and absorb that when all you see around you are hopelessness.

But there are days when sometimes this truth escapes me. I’d like to borrow Angelo Merendino‘s words, “Some days I feel strong; some days I fear the wind will blow me away.” That’s what I feel today and I just want to soak in it for a while.

I can’t fully express the tightness I feel in my core upon seeing all these pain. So I remain silent.

Just releasing this emotion out there in hopes that it diffuses soon after.

Life is precious. Celebrate it everyday.