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People who know me would know that one of my biggest weaknesses as a person is worrying. I worry about anything under the sun. I worry about my life, my health, my future illnesses the cause of my death etc. I worry about Nicole if she is happy, if she is okay, if no one is bullying her in school, if she is being treated right etc. i even worry about her future mother in law! I also worry about my husband and his health,his spiritual life, his temptations, his work, his ability to provide for our needs etc etc.

Worrying is a bad thing because it takes away God’s power in our life and I am really slowly taking away this bad habit of mine by praying more and trusting God more. I have to remember too that based on experience more than 90% of the things I worry do not happen.

But this post is not about worrying.

This is about something juicy like show business(as in!) so I hope you read on till the end.

In the past as I said I was big on worrying. I loved to worry about how Rene is faring as a dad and I worried if he would go to heaven if he died. I kept on forcing him to go to church, pray more, attend D Groups (which until now he refuses to do). Although my husband is now a man of the Lord ( in fact he is even more prayerful and steady in his faith than I am at times), he still has to overcome his dislike to a small group christian fellowship. Because he is like this, I worry that he won’t have anyone to model for him how it is to be a christian Father and husband. I threw a lot of people I like him to befriends with for this purpose but the more I forced him the more he didn’t do what I wanted him to do. 

So I finally I decided to stop being “his holy spirit”. I stopped forcing him to listen to parenting videos in youtube and stopped shoving to his face parenting books and articles which I have been obsessively gathering for his information. I stopped and just prayed that one day God will send someone to lead him in this area.

Guess what? (Here comes the juicy part so hang on…) 

To those who also know my husband, you would know how much of a workaholic he is. He is just plainly obsessed with work and business. He isn’t negligent at all with his family, but you’d know that everything about being productive, earning money, strategizing about business would INSPIRE him. He treats his work as a hobby on his spare time. (Remember how I shared to you before how he likes MICROSOFT EXCEL).

Anyway, some weeks ago my husband has been in contact with this man who was a CEO of a big company. They were on the phone almost everyday because we were going to have a collaboration with his company. I didnt pay much attention to it until the time my husband went to Manila to meet him face to face and ink our long term partnership with his company.  Guess who the guy turned out to be?

The guy unknowing to us is a Dad of a famous showbiz personality (christian Dad, christian businessman, upright and very intelligent but jolly man).

The good thing about it is, Rene liked the man already before he even knew who he was.  Because he already had a good impression on him as a businessman, it was not hard for Rene to listen to his stories.
So it turned out that this CEO friend of my husband is the Dad of the girl who just recently had a major breakup with someone very famous in showbiz.  Coincidentally,  the daughter has the same name as my daughter.   She was controversial because a couple of years ago, it was a big news that her long term famous boyfriend broke up with her because she refused to give him what he wanted and stuck to her guts of being pure and save herself before marriage.

During that time that news broke out, people were skeptical about her.  She also lost face when her then ex-bf immediately replaced her with a bombshell girl who was  total opposite of her.

We may have imagined her crying and sulking and feeling really low.  Of course at some point she was sad over the heartbreak and the Dad said everyone in the family grieved for her.

The Dad who’s my husband’s friend already spent two nights over dinner with my husband — sharing to him how happy he was that his daughter and that showbiz man did not end up together.  It turned out that  since the daughter was a little girl, the Dad has been praying for his child.  The Mom too and all they did while their 2 kids were growing up was pray and pray for their children’s future. He said the break up was an answered prayer but the heartbreak was not.

Finally at present the daughter is already married and expecting her first child.  She married a guy who comes from a very good family.  The boy is a christian, a very respectful one and even more handsome and wealthy than the ex boyfriend.  The most important part is, the boy has the values that they both wished their daughter would marry. 

According to my husband he learned these things after meeting his new CEO friend.

1.  It is important that parents are strong in the Lord to bring the children in the way they should go.

2. It is important for Fathers to have a close relationship with their daughters.

3. Praying for the kids even while they are still very young holds a big impact when they grow old.

I am very happy that God has finally sent someone who will inspire and model to my husband about the areas I have been praying about. 

Amazing too that this person is someone who will be working closely with my husband in the next few years because of our business collaboration.

It is amazing how God works!  It is more amazing how well HE ORCHESTRATES things to work our for the best! 
Are you worried about something today?just pray, let go and let God.