Thankful and Blessed 2018

This is a late post. I wasn’t able to write this earlier due to consecutive bouts of fever the entire family went through after Christmas until the early weeks of January. But still, I want to look back on 2018, all the highs and lows of it—the year that truly challenged me and pushed me, and even then, I still consider it as my best year ever. 🌟

My heart is overwhelmed with gratitude and joy for everything that happened in 2018. God truly has reasons for every single thing that He allows to happen—whether that be good or bad, small or monumental. All of the problems, losses and failures, all of the joys and blessings—it’s all a part of His plan.

At the beginning of 2018, I was admitted to the hospital for a few days due to hypertension. I’m thankful for that, because if I hadn’t gone through that, I might’ve gone on with my unhealthy habits. For the first half of the year, I frequented the hospital, both for check-ups with my specialists and emergencies (that were mostly due to my hypertension). 

In my quest for healing, I was lead to natural treatment, where in just the span of a month, my blood pressure went back to normal without the help of maintenance meds, my symptoms disappeared, and the lump in my neck decreased a few millimeters in size. I lost weight and generally became healthier.

By God’s grace, I was on track for my healing journey. 3 months in, though, the treatment was forced to shut down. 

Saddened by the news, I was in a funk for a few days. But God picked me up and led me to other natural treatments. It was a struggle, where there were times when I would lose my focus and eat things that I wasn’t allowed to, times when I struggled with my self-discipline. 

But God stood by me. He never let me stray too far gone—He always led me back to Him, back to His good ways, to His plan, to His light. ✨

And to think that He turned this challenge into something I can grow and learn from. He led me to a deeper relationship with Him—and not just Him, but with the people that surrounded me: my family, my friends.

Through this health condition, He lead (pushed) me to launch this blog. But the greatest thing that came out of this is me realizing my life purpose, a quest that I had been on for years. To finally know that is nothing short of amazing. 

This year challenged us in many different ways: financial, job-wise, health-wise—but in the end, He brought so many good things out of it. This was the year where I strengthened my relationship with my husband and daughters, the year where our bond as a family became deeper. 💖

During the times I stumbled and fell in my journey towards healing—that I am still on—He never failed to pick me back up and forgive me. Even there, He never failed to tell me that the moment He allowed this to happen, He had already healed me. He never failed to tell me how much He loved me, never failed to let me know that He is always there for me.

I just can’t thank God enough—for His love, for His goodness. Even through my sin, He has loved me. Even through my weaknesses, He has loved me. What an incredible God He is, this all-mighty being who chose to love us, even through all our faults. 

I am so grateful, for all that had happened this 2018—all my highs and lows, all my triumphs and losses, for all that there is, and all that there will be. 🌈

Be blessed, 🙏🏻

Alpha

February 1, 2019