Celebrating New Year's eve on the island of Bali, Indonesia with my friends Paz, Jamie, and Kuya Voltaire. 

Another sunset, another year over, another dawn, another beginning. 

The future may be unknown but one thing is certain - the ever faithful God - 

the Lord Jesus is the same yesterday and today, and forever! 

Happy new year, everyone!

Natures calmness free
Mother delivers beauty
So ultimately
(Cecil Hickman, True Beauty)

Click here to find out how to go to Isla Reta.

Cantilan, Surigao del Sur

Posted on Instagram on August 14, 2013 and was featured the same day on Nature Obsessions (1st photo on the collage below)

also featured on Coastal Collection

"We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth,

as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains."

- Ursula K. LeGuin

Taal Volcano, located in Talisay, Batangas is one of the active volcanoes in the country and part of the Pacific ring of fire. The entire volcano island has been declared a high-risk area and a permanent danger zone. Nevertheless, the area has a growing population. 

"Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made."
John 1:3 (NIV)

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. 

Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls." 

- Khalil Gibran

- Island of Casarica

Cantilan, Surigao del Sur

The water is wide I can not get o'er

And neither have I wings to fly

Give me a boat that will carry two

And both shall row my love and I

...A ship there is and she sails the sea

She's loaded deep as deep can be

But not so deep as the love I'm in

I know not if I sink or swim

-From the English/Scottish folk song "The Water is Wide"

The sea hath no king but God alone. 

~Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship

- Northeastern coast of Mindanao facing the Pacific Ocean

Tago, Surigao del Sur

Kabitoonan, Consuelo

Cantilan, Surigao del Sur

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." 

~Henry David Thoreau

- Cantilan, Surigao del Sur

"The strenuousness of life and the increasing distractions of the world, demand a zone of silence and the Quiet Hour." - L. B. Cowman 

Though inland far we be, 

Our souls have sight of that immortal sea 

Which brought us hither, 

Can in a moment travel thither, 

And see the children sport upon the shore, 

And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.

~William Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality

"We go together or we stay together."

- Rina, from the movie Sea of Dreams

...you're the only light this empty room has ever had,

life without you is gonna be bluer than blue

sadder than sad..."

- Michael Johnson

"What though the way be lonely, and dark the shadows fall,

I know wher’er it leadeth, my Father planned it all...

I sing through the shade and the sunshine, I’ll trust Him whatever befall;

I sing for I cannot be silent, my Father planned it all."

H. H. Pierson & Alfred B. Smith

Pearl Farm

"The Lord stands upon the shore in the morning

and reveals Himself to the weary, disillusioned men 

who had toiled all night and taken nothing. 

He ever stands upon life's most dreary and time-worn shores,

and as we gaze upon Him the shadows flee 

and it is morning."

-author unknown

Cantilan, Surigao del Sur

Praise the LORD, my soul. LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty. The LORD wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters. He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind. 

Psalm 104:1-3 NIV

- Pearl Farm Davao
Mindanao