Backtrack 2019

This year has been an exciting journey full of laughter and sorrow, failures and lessons, and rejection and affirmation. Each turn brought new encounters that stretched my limits and new adventures that filled my lips with praises and adoration to my Creator.

As instructed in Deuteronomy 8:18 to "remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth,..." followed by David in I Chronicles 16 (Psalm 105:5a) when he sang "Remember his marvelous works that he hath done," this photo collection of 2019 retraces the path that led me to the wonders of God's awesome power, infinite beauty, and unchanging love.

January

Buguias, Benguet
In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth.
(Genesis 1:1)

February

Hungduan, Ifugao
Casting all your care upon him;
for he careth for you. 
(I Peter 5:7)

Hungduan, Ifugao

The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: 

and he delighteth in his way. 

Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: 

for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand. 

(Psalm 37:23-24)

Banaue Rice Terraces

My grace is sufficient for thee:

 for my strength is made perfect in weakness. 

(II Corinthians 12:9a)

Mt. Puraw, La Union
If ye then be risen with Christ, 
seek those things which are above, 
where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 
Set your affection on things above, 
not on things on the earth. 
(Colossians 3:1-2)

March

Wat Arun Ratchawararam
But the high places were not taken away:
the people still sacrificed
and burnt incense in the high places.
(II Kings 12:3)

Wat Arun, Bangkok
For, behold, the LORD cometh forth
out of his place, and will come down,
and tread upon the high places of the earth.
(Micah 1:3)

Bangkok, Thailand
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
(Isaiah 55:9)

Then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, 
to meet the Lord in the air:
and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another
with these words.
(I Thessalonians 4:17-18)

April

Cabangan, Zambales
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,
and on the labour that I had laboured to do:
and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit,
and there was no profit under the sun.
(Ecclesiastes 2:11)

May

Bontoc, Mountain Province

O taste and see that the Lord is good:
blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
(Psalm 34:8)

July

Maligcong, Mountain Province

The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever:
the LORD shall rejoice in his works.
(Psalm 104:31)

Samoki, Mountain Province
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
teaching and admonishing one another
in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
(Colossians 3:16)

August

Kampong Phluk, Siem Reap

For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish,
but have everlasting life.
(John 3:16)

Kampong Phluk, Siem Reap

Whereby the world that then was,
being overflowed with water, perished:
But the heavens and the earth, which are now,
by the same word are kept in store,
reserved unto fire against the day of judgment
and perdition of ungodly men.
(II Peter 3:6-7)

Bayon Temple, Cambodia

For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,
because our days upon earth are a shadow.
(Job 8:9)

Phnom Kulen Temple, Siem Reap
Through the tender mercy of our God;
whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
To give light to them that sit in darkness
and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.
(Luke 1:78-79)

Phnom Kulen, Siem Reap

My doctrine shall drop as the rain,
my speech shall distil as the dew,
as the small rain upon the tender herb,
and as the showers upon the grass:
because I will publish the name of the LORD:
ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
(Deuteronomy 32:2-3)

September

Saigon River, Vietnam
My heart is fixed, O God,
my heart is fixed:
I will sing and give praise.
(Psalm 57:7)

October

Sasmuan, Pampanga
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time
are not worthy to be compared with the glory
which shall be revealed in us.
(Romans 8:18)

December

Infanta, Quezon
For of him and through him,
and to him are all things:
to whom be glory for ever. 
Amen.
(Romans 11:36)