A Letter to God, A Prayer for My Parents

Dear God,

         You're the one who made the heaven, earth and all the wonderful creatures that has ever been made. You gave me things so much worth thanking for, even if all the blessings you gave to me are all worth thanking for. You are the one who guided me through my life, You are the one who provides everything I need and takes care of me. You protect me and my family each day. You give us Your blessings. There are so many things that I want to thank You for. One of those greatest things that I want to thank You for is for giving me such wonderful parents.

          My parents whom You gave me for You to be able to make me feel Your love and Your care. I want to thank You for giving me such understanding parents like them. They are the ones who guided me as well. They are the ones who let me knew about You. They are the ones who taught me about You. They are my first teachers, and for that I thank You. I thank You for giving me responsible and caring parents like them. Even if they are strict to me, I know they have their own purpose and reasons why are they as strict as what they, which sometimes people can't understand their strictness, I'm still thankful for that because I know it's for my own good. Thank You for giving them long patience to handle a moody teenager like me, and for taking care of me when I was still a toddler. I also want to thank you for giving them the strength and again the patience to teach me how to walk, to speak, to read and to write. i hope that you will continue on giving them the strength, patience, and the will to continue on guiding us and watching over us. I know that You know, that me and my sibling still can't stand alone without them, and even if we can already stand alone, there is still a part of us that need them. I don't know if this is too much to ask but, I hope that they could still live long, long enough to spend their lives guiding us throughout our lives. I know that You are always watching over them, Lord God Almighty, I hope you would continue on showering your blessings over them. Give them everything that they deserve.

          Another thing God, I hope You could forgive me if there are times that I disrespect them unintentionally. Sorry if I don't treat them as much as how You really want me to treat them

            Lord God, to end my prayer for them, I hope You could tell them how much I love them, and I'm sorry for all the things that I made which hurt them.

                                                                                                                                   Your Daughter,

                                                                                                                                            Ivana





[Blog 4.2]

Bittersweet Oversight

         Mistake is something most people wouldn't want to have. It's like every people is looking for perfection in all things. Mistakes are the stepping stones to learning. If you haven't commit any mistake in your whole life, you probably haven't tried anything yet but there are mistakes that we really shouldn't commit. There are things that we regret that we've done in our past and we wish that we shouldn't have done those things. In the other hand, we can learn a lot of things in our mistakes.

              One of the worst mistakes I've ever done in my life is that there were times that I had some opportunities, and the sad part there is that I just let those opportunities walk in front of me and just let it pass by me. I should have taken the opportunity to enter some contests that I was asked to join into. Later on I've realized that if only I have joined those contests I may have been able to develop my skills. I realized that I should have took the opportunity when I was asked by my mother to join a swimming lesson, and good thing I have realized immediately that I need to learn how to swim. Swimming is like a way of life. There are times you feel like you are already losing air, that's why from time to time, you have to reach the surface just to get air. Sometimes, when you are swimming in lower depths, you feel the pressure in your body, it's like the whole world is on your shoulder. Swimming in depths are times that you experience problem in your life. There are instances in your life when you are losing all hope and you feel like you are drowning like a hopeless bird that does not know how to fly yet and suddenly fell into a pond.

                  Another mistake that I have committed is being too sincere to almost everyone in most of the time. My friend told me about this mistake. She even quoted a quote saying: “A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.” She explained to me that being too sincere to someone could lead that person to take advantage on my sincerity in all things. 

                    I knew a way on how to avoid the first mistake that I've mentioned is, you should trust yourself. Always be ready to take chances and don't be afraid to take opportunities. So that you wouldn't regret that you just let it pass by you. The second mistake could be avoided by lessening the sincerity you give to people that you don't knew that much yet. 

                There are times when we have problems, we refuse to let others know about it. It goes the same  with our mistakes, we are ashamed to admit our mistakes. All of us have committed mistakes, but some just don't want to admit that they have one.

[Blog 4.1- Figures of Speech (credits to whoever own the picture)]