just dance...

just dance...
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

the enemies dance in gay abandon
enticing you to join the fair
laid traps carefully placed
tricky paths ready to snare
they sent crows and hawks to keep watch
and mushroom stools to keep track
and as if what they have ain't enough
they await for a weak moment so they could get what you have...

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one stress pause

one stress pause
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

"No opportunity to shadowbox when all is filled with light. Put God first, and everything will fall into place." --- Sarah Meier (from twitter)


*** one stressful afternoon last week... dealing with the 'prom stress' ... as always my favorite light made me stop momentarily to remind me of the wonderful stuffs i almost overlook... :) ps: quite late post description because yahoo was acting up yesterday... thanks to the sarah meier for the quote... shabba! :)

thoughts for ash wednesday

thoughts for ash wednesday
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

"So suggestion for Ash Wednesday: as we line up for the cross on our foreheads, we ask: 'what do I want to change in myself?'... then pray for it." -- Fr. Jboy Gonzales, SJ (found this on twitter)


" you must go through the trial before you have any right to pronounce a verdict, because by going through the trial you learn to know God better. God is working in us to reach His highest goals until His purpose and our purpose become one..." --- Oswald Chambers


*** lent begins tomorrow... giving up some of my faves... a sort of cleansing...

two and forty

two and forty
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

" walk with me
the future's in the wind
though the road is winding
i'll be near... "

--- Chynna Phillips, I Live For You

*** for yesterday and tomorrow...

for the chicken and a half

for the chicken and a half
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

*** i am tempted to boast... but i am not enlightened yet... maybe slightly aware but not all knowing... since taking my first step of faith many, many months back, i find myself jumping and running much, often tripping a lot... but still... i seem to like this journey... regardless of how tired i feel on certain moments... discouraged and demoralized at some points... one more baby step, one tiny movement seem all it takes to continue... i do not remember what you did exactly... all i know is at each breakthrough point, my mind go back... in remembrance... to the point when you helped me and my heart is again filled with gratitude towards you... it's been so long... but i do owe my first steps to you... still a long way off... and as i press on, i say an extra prayer for you...

thank you.

shabba! :)

stiff neck

stiff neck
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

my eyes
no longer see as much
a lot had come to cloud my view
my ears
jarred by silence
and noise far too deafening
the world had seeped in
blocking my senses
holding me down
stalling progress
but it seems
my old enemy forgot
that when you are down
you can most definitely look up...


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out of me...

out of me...
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

"Out of this noise, here comes the stillness
Out of this chaos, here comes the order
Out of this language, out of this language
Out of these words...


Out of patience, out of deed
Out of courage, out of me
Out of reason, out of truth
Out of conscience, out of you..."

--- Autamata, Out of This


*** heard this from a movie soundtrack.... but this is the only video i can find... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrcR7hcAzbs

i musn't stop...

i musn't stop...
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

"Our job is not to make up anybody's mind, but to open minds and to make the agony of the decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking." --- Author Unknown

*** thinking, believing, continuing...

lechon-de-light

lechon-de-light
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

"Hunger: One of the few cravings that cannot be appeased with another solution."--- Irwin Van Grove

*** on a yummy note, the lechon was good... on a deeper note... this is making me think...

tenants in the dark

tenants in the dark
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

*** a lot of people seem to have this inkling to set up walls and fences... and yet they want others to climb over and see their world... i know a lot of those people... some are totally clueless that they have build walls and are aimlessly looking for the entrance or exit to get to another level or place... and sometimes i'm guilty with this... only... since i think too much... i get them but they don't get me... i understand that no one else can see things the way i do... because God gave each of us a different set of eyes... and each of us has a special way of looking at things... expressing them and so forth... tonight, i can't sleep... and i have been sleepy since like eight o'clock... i dozed for five minutes and am awake all this time... eyes closing but mind wandering... i wonder if some soul is thinking of me big time that is why i am wide awake... my ruching work awaits me and i can't pick up a pin... darn! where is my shabba today?

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