For the year that was and the year 2009

Dearest Father God,

As this year comes to an end, i would like to give YOU back all glory, honor and thanksgiving for the things that you have done in my life. Lord, You are so faithful and have never faltered in fulfilling your promises in my life despite my unfaithfulness and faithlessness. I can never thank you enough for your steadfast LOVE that never ceases and Your endless mercy. They are renewed every morning. Thank you for a victorious 2008 and for the wonderful years I had with my loved ones, relatives and friends. Thank you for the opportunity of meeting new friends and the chance of sharing myself to them. Thank you also for blessing me in my chosen career..Thank you for allowing me to impart myself to my students. I thank you too for the great challenge you have placed in my heart and indeed, learning is a two-way process, a give-and-take process ...I have learned so much from my students and have gleaned lessons from my teaching experience such as the value of patience and understanding. I have known and understood myself better through my students because they are a reflection of me.Thank you God for great students and the one-in-a-million chance of meeting and nurturing the future leaders of the land.

I thank you for every single moment you have made me savored life's sweet pain. Thanks for being there for me every single moment of my life. You never missed a thing in me. All my success and achievements are yours! All that I am, all that I have come from you!

Forgive me for not trusting you enough sometimes. Help me to keep on trusting you always no matter what. Everything that surrounds me speaks of you great love for me. I could not deny your love every time I look at the sky and see the brightness of the sun. It rings new hope, new assurance, new beginning of a new day. Lord, your love is so refreshing like a morning dew which strengthens me always. And as the day closes and evening comes, I could see the magnificence of your might, your greatness, your awesomeness, your power...You shade light when it's dark which gives me hope at the glimpse of it..You are my LIGHT..Shine in me Oh Loving God. I breathe the life you have blessed me with and I am offering this life back to you.

When I look back and gaze the path that i took, I can always see your hand guiding me to the right path, your hand comforting me, your hand holding me tight. Lord, forgive me for my shortcomings. I know I have hurt you in so many ways. But you cared for me so much that despite all my sins, You were always ready to forgive me and hold me close to you. Let me dwell in your presence always because in YOUR PRESENCE there is fullness of joy. I have experienced the feeling of loneliness, bitterness, pain, insecurity, inferiority,uncertainty, shame and doubt but YOUR love surrounded me and kept me secure and strong. You held me up and kept me standing still. and the truth is, when I thought I have fallen, You were there to catch me and gave a new start.

the trails i had me have been crooked and unpleasant, but you have brought me this far to come to you and make this life worthy of your love...Thank you Lord for all the countless blessings...You are indeed a living God. I claim for a more fruitful life in year 2009 and the years ahead, I claim another victory and peace of mind. Thank you for good health, for loving family, wonderful kids and husband, smooth-sailing relationship with people at home, neighbors as well as my colleagues. Forgive me for being mean with others and make me a blessing even to those who don't like me. Make me love my enemies and return evil with goodness. Let me live a life pleasing to your sight. Let the words of my mouth be beautiful music to your ears. Let me trust always in your WORD. Yes God, I keep you WORD in my heart. Let me speak and expect only of what's good and pleasant.

Lord, you have seen everything, my heart, my soul, my innermost thoughts and I offer them all to you...dear Lord, make me a better person, loving, understanding, and most of all faithful to you...God, my Lord, my Savior, my best friend, CHANGE ME and make me the person that YOU want me TO BE! I love you with all my heart...

I offer to you my life and my all. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

A BLESSED 2009 TO ONE AND ALL..