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“My soul sings ‘Great Is Your Faithfulness”
(Elevation Worship)
💌Love notes from and to God
🌸Digital Journal of His goodness
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My 28th birthday plays in my mind like a supercut.

💌 There’s a small city in Samar called Calbayog where my parents were born and raised one street and 5 years apart.

In a slightly bigger city in Leyte, called Tacloban, I was born. And a short while later, God met them through a faithful servant who shared the gospel.

That encounter and that small act of faith would lead to Harani 28 years later.

my invitation 🥹🌸

love this so much because i was so intentional with choosing even the flowers despite the motion blur.

Purple Asters are the flower for September. They are associated to mean wisdom and remembrance while orange tulips mean enthusiasm and new beginnings.

And to me the nearness of God represents new beginnings. His mercies are new every morning and His word is a lamp unto our feet—The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever! (Psalm 110:10)

Why it’s called “Harani” 💌
Blessed to have been raised by parents who love the Lord.

Harani means near.

God was near my parents in obscure city provinces not many people venture to and He is near to me in every season. What a gift it is to have a story orchestrated by the One who holds the universe in His hand.

The set list came to me through my life verses (you’ll see them smattered around the next few photos).

Praise, Peace, Proclamation, and Presence — the essence of not only Harani, but my whole life.

in photo: my mom arranged this herself. she and my dad knocked on my door at midnight to gift this to me and it became the centerpiece of the “stage” 🥹

Psalm 8:3-5 became my “first” life verse the minute I read it. As someone who always felt overlooked, God spoke to me through this verse back when I was 17. I am loved and chosen by the God of angel armies.

This Psalm became the anthem of my mid-twenties.
My favorite line in the hymn “Be Thou My Vision” is this:
“Thou my best thought by day or by night”
I am not sure why some days my sadness comes like a wave you cannot surface from, but there was a time my head was more underwater that it was out of it. God, who is always on time, showed me this verse one night

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