money management

Last year, I took responsibility of booking some of my friends to and fro Manila using my credit card with the promise that they pay me later on. Yes, most of them paid real quick, unfortunately, I had not kept their payments nor recorded them. I just checked their names away and put paid beside it. When Christmas break came, I had to report to my mom these money matters. With no accounting skills (I say skill because it can be learned through practice--my brother says so), I began to be weary and asked myself  "Where has the money gone?".

So there I go- humiliated (for a while only though). With the help of some scattered notes from everywhere (notebook, phone, Ipod, papers, post-its) I was able to account everything. The lesson?

• Record all the money you receive. Include date, amount, and description. Keep it in one notebook.
• Keep receipts if possible. You never know when you might need it. 
• Make sure to pay debts.
• Read about money matters like credit card and savings interests, investments, etc. 

Also, I may have to start a travel agency of my own soon but I still have to study it though. Be blessed!

                                                                                                                                    Sincerely,

January3: wish-Dom

9 Honor the Lord with your wealth
and with the best part of everything you produce.
10 Then he will fill your barns with grain,
and your vats will overflow with good wine.

@@don't just wish for wealth-- honor the Lord with what you have now. More will come later.

11 My child, don’t reject the Lord’s discipline,
and don’t be upset when he corrects you.
12 For the Lord corrects those he loves,
just as a father corrects a child in whom he delights.

@@It's good to position yourself to correction. You change. You grow.

13 Joyful is the person who finds wisdom,
the one who gains understanding.

@@Start of class na! Will my grades come Screaming for a beating or otherwise?

January2: So you want answers?

1Kings10:2b-3
When she met with Solomon, she talked with him about everything she had on her mind. 3 Solomon had answers for all her questions; nothing was too hard for the king to explain to her

*lots of questions popped up today. Really--Life's getting more complicated every year. Nonethless, God is there to answer! (even the most insignificant things of my life)

January1/ Confirmation of the Declaration

1Kings9:4-6
4 “As for you, if you will follow me with integrity and godliness, as David your father did, obeying all my commands, decrees, and regulations, 5 then I will establish the throne of your dynasty over Israel forever. For I made this promise to your father, David: ‘One of your descendants will always sit on the throne of Israel.’

6 “But if you or your descendants abandon me and disobey the commands and decrees I have given you, and if you serve and worship other gods, 7 then I will uproot Israel from this land that I have given them.

It takes teamwork between father, son and descendants to claim God's promise. It does not matter whether they belong to different generations. If one wants to see God's promise come to pass,then one has to make sure that everyone in the team is keeping God's word.

*Did some business benchmarking today. Observe2 Lang Gud