Good day, beautiful people! Everything happens for a reason. In good times, we should praise God. In bad times, we should praise God more.

I just wanted to introduce myself so that we can meet and greet each other in this platform. By the way, I am Katrine Carla S. Tura. I am thirty years of age. I am the middle child of three and I have an older sister from my father in a different mother. I am an optimistic person. I can turn a negative situation into a lighter one from my perspective so that I cannot feel any heavy burden in my heart. For me, having a heavy heart means you have no power to control yourself and mostly it will lead you to sadness and depression at worst if not properly handled.

I love eating however I do not how to cook and my weight is 58.7kg only. In connection to cooking, since I do not know how to cook, I do not have also the right to criticize other people for their cooking.

My Interest

I love playing mind games such as chess, Word Factory, and Scrabble so that I can sure that my mind is working. I played volleyball. I played badminton too. I love dancing but my body and the music would not be well coordinated with each other. I feel that I am a singer in my bathroom and without a microphone but when I am given a microphone while singing, I feel that I am best at oral reading since I am reading the lyrics of the song instead of singing the tune right and hitting the notes. Therefore, I just love to sing and not a singer. I was responsible for washing our clothes after my mother got stroked. I volunteered myself so that my mother could enjoy and relax her body. I'm glad and grateful to the Lord that He restored my mother's health. Now, she was able to clean the dishes and prepare our food. Sometimes, I will help my mother in washing the dishes when I am at home, and I can see the dishes are not cleaned.

Not Work-related Activity

I have another diversion of my time after work. I am attending a household in Singles for Christ Ministry. The vision of this ministry, Singles for Christ is to let other single man and woman all over the world experience Christ. Aside from attending household, we have also extension service of SFC which is the CORNERSTONE. I love this program because you are extending your heart and service to the young kids who have struggled in reading. It is a great program since aside from teaching them the basic skills of reading, they will learn also some character development through values formation. They have free snacks also. I found the program effective since the performance of the pupil improved a lot according to the pupil's adviser.

Newly Found Interest

This picture is from my colleague.

I love also immersing myself in nature such as trekking, and swimming in different bodies of water like springs, falls, and seawater I find it interesting that when you allow yourself to breathe in nature, nature will absorb your negative energy from your body. There was a time when I was too stressed out and I accepted the invitation of my friend at the same my co-worker to go "Katkat" meaning climbing a mountain. It seemed that my heavy emotion was gone like magic. I realized from that experience that in life we need to give ourselves a break and if possible, we should go somewhere we had never been before at least once a year to relax and refresh our tired bodies and thirsty souls.

Who introduced me to Hive?

I was introduced to this by @fixyetbroken, a very close friend of mine to try Hive, and @callmesmile the one who oriented me about the things needed about Hive. @Fixyetbrroken was so persistent in doing this because she realized that her time was consumed by scrolling on Facebook. At first, I was hesitant because it was too tiring but at the end of the day, I realized it was a great avenue to try new things and maybe discover one's writing power. Who knows? By writing every day and practicing my writing ability I can discover that I can write and hopefully I can publish my book of inspiration or inspirational books that will help readers to cope up with their emotional feelings of negativities. Hopefully, through this, I can learn the basic techniques of writing, increase my vocabulary words, and inspire me to write more. Aside from this purpose, @fixyetbroken motivates and inspires me to do blogging instead of wasting my time scrolling on Facebook. She has a point on that. I am looking forward to doing blogging in the future. I will take it as a challenge to improve myself in writing so that I can discover a time with a purpose and at the same time I can earn money slowly.

What must you look forward to in my post?

I mentioned earlier that I love immersing myself in nature so that nature will give its positive energy to humans. I am excited about that because next year, I will be traveling with my co-SFC to Bukidnon for the International Conference of Single for Christ. At this conference, there will be thousands of SFC members to gather in the venue to praise and worship the Lord. I am so blessed to be part of this community because God is so amazing! He gave me this community to love life in general. It is His way that I can accept myself wholeheartedly. In SFC you can travel anywhere because each conference has different venues. My first international conference was attended in Bataan last February 2023. I went to Mt. Pinatubo as our side trip on that specific conference with my sister sis Irene. I was glad because for the first time, we travelled together and that was our first ever conference together. Next year, it will happen in Bukidnon and for sure it would be a great experience because it is my first time attending the Pre-ICON Conference. There will be lot of activities and I am looking forward for every activity it will give nourishment to my soul. I am looking forward to the community services and many others that inspire my soul to be a good individual and to be God's vessel of love towards other people. In the meantime, I do not have all the monetary resources for that conference like registration for the Pre-Icon and Icon, accommodation, food, and other expenses outside the conference. In my nine years in the community, I have affirmed that God is a good provider of all our needs. He is a Generous God who provides all our needs in the most unexpected way most especially when we don't know and where to go to. Aside from being a provider, our God redeems! He saved me from all self pity and from all tiny accidents in life. He is our Savior! So, life is short. We should live life the way it pleases God.

I hope I can make friends on this platform. See you.