Hello sweeties! We’re in the last week of talking about “New” things in our life as couples. This week, let’s talk about new lessons that we’ve learned at the start of the year. Or valuable lessons that we picked up in the past that we want to carry on in our lives as a couple for this year.

Last night at church, a video testimony of Nonie, a brother from our church in Mindanao was shown to us. He’s a survivor from the flash floods in Mindanao during the typhoon Sendong. It’s like a nightmare when he and his family saw how the waters climbed from the first floor to the second floor in a rapid 30 seconds. There’s nowhere to go but up. So they climbed up on their roof through a hole in the ceiling. Only two of his five family members can swim. And he said while these are all happening, his family were all praying, crying and wailing for the uncertainty of their life. They stayed on the roof until a rescue team reached them at 3AM. Until now, his wife and children are experiencing trauma for witnessing all that happened. Lots of families and people were buried alive in thick mud. There are still a hundred people missing.

Nonie mentions in his testimony over and over that in loving God, you have to give your all and your best. You have to give your best to your family. Give the full extent of your love to them. Coz you don’t know until when you’re going to be with them.

It struck me that there are times when I don’t give my all to my hubby and kids. Now, I want to decide not to have my own selfishness hinder me from giving all my love to them. You’ll never know what you’re missing until you lose it.