Prayer

Today was one of those days, where it went well. Have you had one those days where it was like, “wow today was like a good day.” I hate to say it but not everyday feels like that and I want to blog about a particular day like today because I don’t want to miss the opportunity of these words and feelings that I am feeling right now.

Lately, I have been in such a good mood. I’m one of those people that usually looks like I’m in a good mood because I’m always smiling and happy. But that is just my personality and knowing God loves me no matter what. But on the side of that I do have bad days where I don’t feel up to par and that is completely normal because we all get tired and we just need rest; just as long as you are not feeling down all the time, then that’s when you need to talk to someone because that could be signs of depression.

Anyways, back on the good mood trail, is that these episodes of bursts of energy is what I pray for everyday. I like a busy schedule because I feel like if I’m not doing something I need to be doing something. I do balance that out, because I know relaxing is healthy for everyone.

Hear me out on this Prayer is so Powerful. It’s not that I haven’t been in a good mood ever since this post, it’s been the waiting period of seeing my prayers being revealed right before my eyes. (certain ones of course) God can do anything! I am literally feeling like I can run a marathon right now and  I haven’t had one ounce of sugar or caffeine all day. It’s all the Holy Spirit having a party.

For the longest that I could remember, is that I always had this belief system that if we start with the Youth the future generation will rise and lead the next generation into transformation. A transformation that is Christ led. Change for more Jesus people and the future living a better life because the Word of God was instilled in them as a youth and the cycle will never end.

Now back to my original thought, my prayers long before I could see them working, I sometimes would get disappointed because I was praying for things to happen fast. Trust me if you are reading this God is not on our time, we are on His time. First I had to change me heart because having a relationship with God is not a business deal. I would pray for  certain things and put conditions on it, and then nothing would happen then I would get mad and not understand why. I learned I needed to pray for God to be my patience and not worry about what is next. Ever since that day every walk and step has been more intimate than ever. His forgiveness, love and every day Mercy is all I need knowing He is right there by my side.

My vision of the Youth being so on fire for Jesus is so big and attainable. Today I got to see the glimpse of God’s miracle right before my eyes. The growth, the seed planted of Jesus and seeing that the seed  sprout. I am super joyful because today was the first day for me a student lead a bible study that I have been leading. Being faithful in the Lord and obeying his commands, is the Love He gives back to something like this in my life.

Seeing this transformation made me want to share this to the world because God makes beautiful things happen in our lives and every step to this moment was because of prayer, obedience, trust and having peace in my heart. Prayer works! It doesn’t have to sound fancy, it comes from the heart and communicating with God. It’s building that relationship with God. This is just the beginning and nothing can stop God’s love. I’m so encouraged by this experience and so thankful that God loves me and He loves you. He intricately designed this moment for me because he loves everyone and specifically this school that’s in this city.

Feeling Frustrated?

Having one of those days, where you can’t keep it together. You keep thinking about so much stuff and the littlest things just bothers you? 

The dictionary says frustration means: a deep chronic sense or state of insecurity and dissatisfaction arising from unresolved problems or unfulfilled needs.

Why do people feel insecure about things? Is it because of jealousy? Why are people so dissatisfied that they go to this point of shutting themselves out and allow frustration to cover over happiness?

I don’t know what makes you tick but I know what gets me there . Sometimes its hard to keep the words that come from your mouth and some hurtful things come out and then after that; not only do you feel worse, it didn’t really resolve anything in the first place. Sometimes people think being open and honest is the key of perfect communication. But the the one thing they left out was being open and honest in a “loving way”.

I keep this verse in my mind when I feel like I can’t take much of what is bothering me:

John 16:33  “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

This makes me really feel so at peace but while I’m here so upset about something that isn’t going my way. I’m not alone because Jesus has overcome it and He is with me every step of the way. When your heart aches and when the fire inside of you just wants to rage and show off a side of you that you don’t want most people to see, is the enemy attacking . The enemy is winning when you give in to anger, frustration, doubts and selfishness.

God is everything good and He wants you to give it up. There is so much freedom when you let go. You think your problems are so big at the time like the whole world is going to end, then you look back later and it wasn’t even bigger than a grain of sand. You are worth every bit of happiness and God your Father is waiting for you to give up that thing that is holding you back from having a long lasting, full-fulling relationship with Him.

A good good friend of mine once told me, “God won’t give you anything you can’t handle. If He led you there , He will equip you too.”

When you are feeling frustrated there are some things you might want to consider:

-Take yourself away from the people, place or situation if you can.

-Do your best to not fight back commenting or being sarcastic while frustrated.

-Stop whatever you are doing, relax and calm down.

-Write it down.

-Forgive, forgive and forgive.

-Listen to music that can calm you down (avoid angry, mad music lyrics) it will just make it worse.

-Worship

-Pray, talk to God…nothing you can give him is too big. He will listen and overwhelm you with his love.

-Run (exercise let’s out a lot of things plus gives you time to think stuff through)

Lastly, talk to someone preferably someone who will just listen and someone you trust that will help you back to thinking rationally and someone that won’t pump you more to get you even more frustrated.

2 Corinthians 13:11  Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another,agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Whatever it is that you are going through restoration is available and it starts with YOU! Clean the junk out of your heart and ask God to forgive you because He already knows. Our God is all knowing and he can give you a clean slate, if you just ask for it. I’m so amazed by everything God has done for me & he can do the same for you!

Not only do I love this verse, but it also has God’s favorite number in it “7.”

Mathew 7:7  ”Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

If you even got this far into reading this blog; God is doing some amazing things inside of you right now and it trully makes me smile that when a person can lay their lives down and give it all to the Lord: transformation happens. It’s all because of Him.

<3 Angela Garliyo

Day at the dog park

Meet my soon to be 1 year old puppy

Meet my little cute and fluffy buddy. Her name is Ponyo.

She is usually at home with a lot of people, so I try I best to take her to the dog park as often as I can.

She always wants the attention and she will not leave my side.

(Photo above: proves my point!) She is mainly protective and still opening up to meeting new dogs.

This time she spent half the day with me or sniffing other dogs. I was very proud of her progress.

I just wanted to blog about this because as I was leaving the park, I realized her birthday is coming up and I wanted to do something super special for my first puppy. She is seriously like my practice, a little baby daughter to me. I’m the youngest in my family, so some of you may understand where I need a lot of practice. I’m learning to take care of a living being and putting my needs aside to make sure she is safe and staying healthy.

I know she isn’t a human baby, but she is a living breathing creature. I am so glad she is my little pal. She keeps my company.

Anyways, I have decided to bake her a really cute doggy treat, not sure what I’m going to bake but I will blog about it as soon as her birthday passes.

A few tricks she is learning this week is to “leap” and to “catch” an object in her mouth. So far, not much progress but we’ll get there.

Have a beautiful week!

<3 Angela Garliyo

 

 

 

When you can’t recover your old username

Ever have one of those days when you just want to delete all your social networking sites and just be all alone and want no one texting or calling you…just a little break?

Okay then you do it! You press delete account or deactivate account.

They do warn you that you won’t be able to use this username ever again and that once it’s done it’s permantley done.

So that’s what I did today or let’s say all year. I have these ups and down episodes where I just need to let go of modern technology and keep it real like the 90′s, but to be serious though I can’t get away from it. Look at me I’m typing up a post about it and it’s probably got you thinking. This is not why I clicked on this post.

Good title, I’m not here to show you HOW to recover it. I’m going to talk about keeping it. Committment is the OLD word that everyone and their mom’s used seriously. This generation committment is not so important anymore, we can easily cancel through a text, ignore a phone call because now we have caller id or pay the extra charge no big deal.

Listen here, I do it too. No need to feel bad, because it’s just being REAL. That’s why I blog about these things because most likely if I’ve felt it hundreds of people have to. I’ve learned one thing in my life is that what I go through ain’t nothing new.

Now I’m on a roll because I totally deleted my angelagarliyo.wordpress.com site and that is the name that looked more pleasing but now since I deleted it I had to settle with my full name.wordpress.

All I’m trying to say is that I can be very indecisive, if you are my friend reading this then you are probably nodding your head in agreeing with me. But if you don’t know me personally, a quick snippet on how I make choices. I take a long time deciding, praying what will be the best choice. Then after that I go all nuts and go all out then I burn out. As I’ve grown I’d like to say I have  in some areas…I’m learning to keep it simple and commit to it, if I can’t don’t stress.

So…final words..to recover your username…first KEEP IT..just keep it plain and simple. [booosh!]

Have a beautiful and blessed week!

<3 Angela Garliyo

ISFJ – Introverted Feeling

Hello there, if you are reading this I’m glad you came across my blog. I decided to create this main blog for a few reasons because I am better at writing things out then explaining it in person. (I am working on that)

Anyway…I have a few creative ideas I’d like to share, for example how I journal, craft ideas (stuff you might see on pinterest) and simple tutorials. I will of course post pictures every now and then. I enjoy doing Photography and will do my best to post some post-production pieces. I just want to encourage you to be yourself and sometimes blogging is scary because you are wondering so much what people are thinking. Don’t worry about it. I’m opening up my diary for the world to see.

Hope you have a beautiful day and look forward to writing another blog as my week progresses!

<3 Angela Garliyo

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