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(Jez First Round) 'KAW AY mapakagKAPE bisag WA KA'Y PAKE ANO PA't PAANO si APEK NAGING EPEK na PARANG PEKEng GINANG na naNGARAP NAGYABANG nung UNA wala pa ang LABAN piling BANAL pero napa ANU sa BANGAYANG ALAK ng INA, di niya INAKALA! Nilabanan si Mhot HANGAD niya makaakyat sa HAGDAN ng PALAKPAKAN pero naTAMASA niya SA MATA ay malagim na KAPALPAKAN Oh, si Jezreel PALANG to TAGOS sa SOGAT na ang mga bato Pinakitaan lang KITA . . . TIKA, sa AKIT ng Palindrome ko sinamahan ng anagram para ika'y mataohan. Sana'y ika'y maging honest sa iyung Pangalan. Kasi pag jina-jumble ko ang Mariel Nagiging LIAR ME. Pero ang di BIAS na maBISAng SABI ng tunay na BABAE ang TAPAT ay tapat kahit pa balikbalikatarin ng MARAMI! TIME! Anygma ~ Jezreel Madsa

    Can It Be? ~ Jezreel Madsa Can it be, can it be? Can by a handful of sand suffice to pay the  depths of your ocean can it really be? Tell me!  so that in every blow and in every slam,  of your billow  may remember to visit the parched  shore of my low-nging.  Oh can it be, can it really be? Can those grains  be made to ride  onto the wings of  the wind so wide . . . as they fall off  from the cliff of my very palm—in grief. Can it be, can it really be. . . So that as they fall and kiss onto your water of sleepiness.  you will feel  in the whisper of the air the sullenness confided  to it they only tell. 

PWEDE BA? (An Anagram of Sadness) ~ Jezreel Madsa Pwede ba  pwede ba'ng bay'ran ko sa usa ka KUMKOM nga balas  ang imong MUKMOK nga kadagatan? Oh, sultihi ko kung pwede ba! Aron ang matag hampak sa matag LABOD sa  imong mga BALOD muhandom sa pagduaw— diha sa GAUNANG  NAUGANG baybayon kong mamingaw. Pwede ba, oh sultihi ko,  kung pwede ba . . . pwede bang sa pagSANGKA  i-ANGKAS man lang diha  sa kapay sa kahanginan— ang matag grano sa BAYBAY  nga gi-YABYAB gikan sa lunsay'ng pangpang sa maLAPAD kong  mga PALAD. aron sa paghalok nila sa  nahikaTULOG mong LUGOT  nga katubigan MATABI mo ug MABATI ang BUG-AT  nga TUBAG sa GUBAT  nga ilang giSUGId   diha sa pag-USIG sa kahanginan.

I'M IS YOU ~ Jez  In nature, them story I, my silence the secrets.  rhythm of my sigh long to pull each breath tell . . .tell no more a lie. rivers in me calm I plead I miss those rocks  against these yearning  waves . . . bathe you, rain you,  storm each arms  of your unmissing earth. Summer is not all there is #I MISS YOU WEN :'( 

My Review on C. J. Mahaney's "True Feelings God's Gracious Purpose for Our Emotions" This book of Carolyn Mahaney and Nicole Mahaney Whitacre is a welcomed edition on the subject of emotions particularly viewed in a theological Christocentric perspective. Formally, It is written in an excellent prose with fascinating use of fine language that ultimately makes the write-up even more aesthetically elegant. Each chapter opens up a succinct narrative story that serves to explicate analogically the points to be later on elaborated. The book is well-written, nicely-organized and page-turner at its best. I have learned several things while delving into its material content. These are as follows:   Our emotions by virtue of the Fall have been corrupted by sin and therefore requires to be redeemed.   Our emotions are not necessarily evil. In fact, emotions, although marred by sin, are still integral in the Christian life; i. e. our theological knowledge i

Dalawang Buwang Nakangiti Dalawang Buwang nakangiti tila ba biyaya sa kadiliman ang paghihikayat nilang masidhi. Sa uniberso'y  naghihimok ng tanaw . . . tila, gustong mamasilong,  ng animnaput Araw sa biloy ng kan'lang tuwa kanlungan niyang gawa dadami man ang mananahanang bituin na parang butil sa paningin.  magpapatuloy pa rin sa mumunting lupain ang binatang nakatingin sa pagrami ng buwan sa dilim #metapuns #practicing_tagalogLanguage

His Divine Psaltery -Jezkoy When sadness slits  the skin of our emotions we bleed poetry But as soon as prayer stitches the wound there the salve  of God's  consoling grace  in stillness abound ere those mournful hymns blended were by the dulcimer of elegy would sooner be surpassed by the tune of His Divine Psaltery.

A HEART SET FREE: A Journey to Hope Through The Psalms of Laments by Christina Fox -- A REVIEW A Heart Set Free of Christina Fox is a good read. She writes in a way that her readers could easily understand. It was biblical and principally, it is Christ-centered insofar as she interprets our individual lamentation and sorrows as reflective of the ineffably mournful experiences of the Man of Sorrows-- Jesus Christ. This book gives us a good deal of comfort because it affords us the privilege to revisit the Gospel almost page after page. I did not know that our negative emotions can still become a medium for us to see our great need in Christ. Aside from that, I have also learned several things: (1) Negative/disturbing emotions are inevitable. It happens both to Christians and non-Christians  (2) That the existence of such can be accounted for as we read back its inception in the garden of Eden where the Fall of Man took place.  (3) Because of the Fall, we experience