3 Years of Blogging

‘When was your date of brain surgery? How many years back?

Ummm..it must be more than three years……

‘Can you tell me the date or which Month?

Probably, around November or December…
See, is that important, Sir?
I’m here with my papers for a regular check-up.

I tried to dodge the questions as we chatted on the matter for my visit. He took my imaging films and observed it quite close enough that it thrilled me.

Today is my three years of blogging using this domain! As if never getting personal, I’ll tell you small things, which matters to me. Help me thank the Lord for me. Come let’s magnify the Lord!

Oh yes! I just renewed my domain registration for another year from my saved money. It cost me $15.99 but totaling $21.23 with taxes applicable. I have been worried about this billing since the start of February this year. I hosted my site with Bluehost. You can click here for my referral. Bluehost plans

Money, when you don’t have a good source on your own, can scratch the back of your mind. Yet all our needs are attended beyond the measures of human. We only realized our blessings when we hit a wall or went through stormy seas.

Then, why bother blogging? There are many bloggers or writers, of any sort, who write for other people. It’s information overload most of the time. Yet I wanted to offer a low voice which at least one person may benefit upon.

It’s just that I want to tell people about hope, to encourage, and pour my heart out as I walked outside the Garden. I started this blog in the midst of my pain, around one year after my brain surgery and the subsequent virulent attacks on my way to recovery.

When I started out or if using ‘IN’ is the right word here, as an At-Home-Dad I could not foresee this coming. Should I had known about it beforehand I would have made more savings for buying all the add-ons to run a good site.

Instead, I was always hoping of being able to work again when our children are quite old enough to look after themselves. For now, I am hoping to get back to my best self just as the days I was working full time in a financial institute. If you want to know the feeling or transition of being a salaried person to non-salaried, you can ask me.

About My Domain Name:

Abiding Savior, or only abiding or abide as in to endure or enduring were my first choice.

It is because the Lord is dwelling with me, dwelling with us through thick or thin – in sadness and happiness, in good health and sickness, when in isolation and among many.

The presence of my God, Lord Jesus Christ, is with me everywhere even when I knew nothing. My God abides with me so I resume ‘me’ as I woke up again.

My domain name sounded plural but it’s not. By now, you already knew it.

Why I kept Blogging:

By writing in the form of books and short articles, pieces, and poems as I sometimes hear the still small voice, which tells me to keep going. Let me not talk about those days when it’s not easy to type for me. Therefore I make it shorter and into small pieces.

I am not a theologian but a part-time student in the School of Suffering since the year 2006. Wow! It’s been 14 years since. The roller coaster ride is awesome! I am unconsumed only by the grace of God. The journey, at times, hit the rocks and become an arduous task yet I’m happy – I should be happy!

Even when I can’t encourage others my posts are my prayer, letting my heart out, recordings of my time as a parent after I resign from a full time banking job; time with my children at home or outside. These are all valuable to me.

The Foundation of my Blogging:

Here is a verse from the Bible, which was given to me in my distress time; alone in a Prayer Cabin on a small hill:

Through the Lord’s mercies, we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I hope in Him!” The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. Lamentations 3:22-25

Sticking to a Subject:

The verses stated above becomes the foundation of my blogging as well as the books self-published by me so far.

There are choices to write other than Christian life, for example, the subject in congruent to my earning degrees in universities and for selling into greater audiences as I did in some of my works before. However, I tried limiting blogging about the love, grace, compassion of Jesus Christ.

As of today, I am feeding myself through the Free Courses by Denver Seminary or Dallas Theological Seminary, waiting to be a full-time student if possible.

About My Books:

I always wanted to be a good writer but with little or no success in my grip yet. I have self publish two books, and some in the offing, because the fee for submitting Christian Manuscript of $98 per book is beyond my reach. It needs polishing though.

Please remember that it’s not for passing my time. It’s me wanting to well spend my time because I don’t know how much I or we still have.

I have been there before brushing with the END – never want to be just realized how helpless I am when I lose my ticking brain. As I used to state earlier,I thank my God for giving me a good health and a performing brain despite all the changes of metabolism, as shown in the periodic scans and imaging, inside the brain although, technically speaking, the processor seems to wane down a bit.

I don’t know if readers benefit from it; a one-time visitor or a loyal subscriber. I thank my God for people around me whom I met through my frail writing. your love and support I cherish the most.

Moving forward is my goal, I don’t want to be left delving in the presence of the Lord. Although I seem to be carried away sometimes in my writing. And believing that there might be someone like me, I write, waiting yet comforted in his grace!

Thank you Lord for your blessings on me!