Photography Counseling

When it comes to the work of Photography, im still a rookie at it and i have so much to learn about it. As i continue taking a lot of pictures, i not only capture a moment, but i also capture a memory of a lifetime, whether good or bad. some of those precious moments are not as significant at the second i press the shutter button on my camera, but few years later, the picture will be worth of talking about.

Some of the good things that these taking of the pictures shows or revealing to me are the growth of my skills and knowledge of photography. it shows improvements when i compare my recent pictures to the past. it helps me know that i am improving in what i put most of my passion into.

But for the most important, I take the work of photography seriously because it does help me in so many ways and it impact my life. I use it as a counseling session. And mainly, i focus on nature photography. And most of the time, i consider myself as a butterfly chaser. I take pictures of nature because they dont lie to me. they just present itself as it is. Even better, when i take a shot, i learn so much creativities and artistics God pours onto His creation just to please us. the bottom pictures are just some of the shots that i took and I hope you enjoy them. they are not the best but hopefully it reveals to you some things you did not know.

 

 

This is a macro shot of Hybiscus flower.

 

 

 

This is a beautiful butterfly sucking the nectar of the hybiscus.

 

 

 

I call this Lobster fly. Its tail is just like lobster that when it flies around, it spread wide and on its side, there's some kind of controler like lobster.

 

These pix are just some examples of my work. The more focus i spent my time on them, the less focus i spent on my daily burdens/problems. it not only takes my focus away from them, but at the same time, it helps me think slowly and patiently. it helps me process things in my mind better. It helps me resolve things better.

 

Even though i use this as a therapy, I also expose some details of these creatures that we barely see everyday. I guess people have different ways of lightening their burdens, but this is my way. I don't hurt these creatures, and at the same time, they don't mislead me to other troubles. I call this a Counseling Through God's Nature.

 

ALL IN ALL, I JUST HOPE YOU'VE SEEN SOMETHING NEW AND LEARNED SOMETHING THROUGH THESE PICTURES. FOR ME, I DID LEARN SOMETHING.

 

I MAY BE AN ARTIST, BUT IN THE END, I'M STILL A MASTERPIECE. THERE IS SOMEONE WHO IS HIGHER THAN ME, THE ONE WHO CREATED ME, THE TRUE ARTIST, THE ALMIGHTY GOD.

Ministry Report

Two weeks ago, Karyn Sorenson came to Palau with Daisy Murdock to do some Student recruit and Counseling workshop. Last week, Daisy returned to Guam and Karyn went to Yap for more workshops. 

This week on Monday, (March 25th) Jo Romaniello and Lisa Collins came to continue the workshop of counseling, and what Jo and Lisa brought to share with us was "Story Telling and Journaling"

 

 

 Jo is a Professional Counselor for Marriage and Family and I've known her for two years. She was teaching students in PIU this semester and we were blessed to have her and Lisa to come and help us with some ways of doing ministries with Families, Workers, and the Community.

 

 

 Lisa is the Librarian for PIU and we were also blessed by her when she showed us the benefit of using journals in our Spiritual Walk with God.

 At night, they do workshops with random church members.

 Day time, they spend time with employees of Kinder Garten

 Bethania High School

 and Emmaus High School staff to help them in some of strategies to help them in their works.

On a down time, I take them to do some errand and fun time. on the top picture, I took them to the waterfall in Ngardmau and they enjoyed a refreshing swimming.

Majority of the audience that attended the seminars were women.

Jo had a chance to meet Dr Lala and made connections that hopefully in the future, they will work together to uplift the spiritual health in Palau. At this meeting, i learned that Jo planned to come to Palau over 20 years ago. It's a blessing for me to meet these wonderful people that have sacrificed their time show some blindspots of our ministries.