A Butterfly in the Spring and Meeting Coney Reyes

While having snacks with Karen, I met Coney Reyes!  Just being with these two makes me so holy and so close to God!  I love the feeling 🙂  I am hoping I can share as much as I can from what I got from them – but its different to really listen to them So I hope you will all get to meet themAside from talking about food, Karen told me about her blog!  She has a blog too! And in her words, this is how she describes her blog 🙂  ( Best it come from her 🙂 )

“It’s all His grace! i can’t take credit for what’s not mine, everything is borrowed on borrowed time! the blog is intended to give faith encouragement (to me) but can be shared with anyone who may need some heart refreshments… many stories of people who have overcome ordinary challenges because of an extraordinary God. i’ve been speechless pa lang since i became a deer in headlights when i got named as the author by another kind-hearted food blogger whom i appreciate too. hehehehe it feels like suddenly walking naked but it is a blog i share (eyes closed like about to skydive) so that anyone who needs it will see the constant everpresent eternal hope in God she has No Matter What passing circumstance she may find herself in. thank you to the beautiful gifted art of Karla Smallwood-Dornacher. i had been carrying around with me a selection of several gauges and types of paper for the store placemats i would use but was stumped for over two weeks. then i came home one day to find that my manang “out-of-the-blue” cleared my desk but left One envelope on top. when i opened it, it was Karla’s artwork i had purchased many months ago. Another “yeyeeeas thank You Lord” moment as pieces of the shop were coming together like a unified picture of restoration. so i know Who is amazing, tandararan… only God!!”

Click below to go to her blog Butterfly in the Spring

 So happy to meet Coney Reyes in person. When I was a kid I would watch her all the time on TV. Yesterdays schedule of mine is not my doing even if it seemed like I made it because I asked Karen  if I could visit her since I was in the area. With her busy schedule too we kept changing to the point where the schedules clashed which is how I met Coney. And it’s not by chance but God’s plan! She told me that she became “born again” in 1990. And she told me that even if I am not “born again” being “born again” is not necessarily a group of people or a religion but an Intimate relationship with Christ. It’s a personal decision to follow Christ. It’s about being a follower of Jesus and turning your back from sin. So it doesn’t mean that because she’s born again and I’m a Catholic – we can’t be “born again” in this context. It’s the best decision she made in her life. She made me see something which I’m sure all of us misconceive about doing good. We are saved by Grace through Faith not from good works. Meaning we don’t do good things because we want to go to heaven. God already gave us free passage to Heaven by sending Jesus to die for us and save us from sin. Hence we do good because we are grateful for that.  To TRULY Love God we must Obey God – We do good things out of a grateful heart – grateful to God because Jesus died for us on the cross. Accept Jesus in your heart. Acknowledge that we can’t do anything without God. Coney was looking really young and alive not only on the outside but on the inside. Her goal is not just to earn money and be famous but To be able to glorify God. For people to listen, you should be a personality with credibility and she uses that as her way to spread the word of God.  On the show biz side, She has a new TV show called Nathaniel right after TV patrol every night and it’s #1. She’s a contrabida there which is a role she doesn’t normally do but she agreed because you will see later on. She told me, Only God can Turn bad  into good