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“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.

Watch your words, for they become actions.

Watch your actions, for they become habits.

Watch your habits, for they become character.

Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

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Lord, bless my tongue,

silence my tongue,

use my tongue for your glory and

for other’s nourishment.

A guard on the mouth makes life secure,

Whoever talks too much is lost.

Proverbs 13:3

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I was a Good Samaritan but I could have been a BETTERSAMARITAN.

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Lord, let me not stop with just being good.

Help me to become BETTER & BETTER

as I go on. Amen.

Don’t get tired of doing what is good.

4:9

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Stay sweet

Stay in love

Stay in GOD

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Lord, let not the years and troubles of life

make us lose our sweetness and love.

Amen.

Don’t get tired of doing what is good.

Don’t get discouraged and give up

for we will reap a harvest of blessing

at the appropriate time.

6:9

THOUGHTS

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A half-empty glass or a half-filled glass

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Lord, help me to be focused

not on what I have lost or what I lack,

but on what I still have and

what will still come. Amen.

... No dear friends, I am still not all I should be,

but I’m focusing all energies on this one thing:

FORGETTING THE PAST &

LOOKING FORWARD

TO WHAT LIES AHEAD

3:12-14

CHARACTER

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Don’t fill your life

with worthless

things that will

never make you full.

You can have all

the money, power,

positions,

pleasures,

but if you don’t have

God in your life,

you are still

not complete and

you are never full.

Lord, help me not to forget

what is really important and

what really matters,

You, the living water. Amen.

Set your heart first on the Kingdom and justice of God

and all theses things will also be given to you.

6:33

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There is more to life

than external beauty;

what is more important

in life is the sweet

fragrance of

character…

UGALI,

hindi BEAUTY

Lord, give me a

beautiful heart

that is pleasing

to You. Amen.

31:30

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Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last;

but a woman who fears the Lord

will be greatly praised.

HEART

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A whole lifetime

in pain and hurting all because of

a resentful and an unforgiving heart.

•PROBABLE CAUSE:

• Squeezing all the joys of the heart in favor of money or position, etc.

HEART ATTACK

•PROBABLE CAUSE:

• Long-standing emotional problems.

• Lack of joy.

• Hardening of the heart.

• Belief in strain and stress

HEART PROBLEMS

Lord, remove all the pains,

hurts, and “ tampo ”

in my heart. Amen.

19: 17-18

Do not nurse hatred in your heart for any of

your relatives… do not seek revenge or

nurture a grudge against one of your people.

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Stay awake, then, for you do not know

on what day your Lord will come.

Matthew 24:42

Lord, help me to love now.

Help me not to postpone

my loving and coming

back to you. AMEN.

Fr. Larry Tan, SDB