more years

to the song of my heart, nikka, who is celebrating her 18th birthday today... i love you, sis!

this date last year, nikka was admitted to the hospital due to a very serious and complicated case of thyphoid fever. she was sallow, unfocused and hallucinating. she was seventeen. she had five transfusions, had more than six shots a day, had taken more pills and medicines than i could have imagined, underwent medication and recuperated for half a year. she missed her final exams at UST. through it all, she made it.

she is strong and brave and her heart is true. God had always been faithful to His promises and though we may never have visited a church during that time, it was when we prayed the hardest. there was no room for fear or doubts. i, even for a second, did not doubt that nikka would make it. to this day, i've always wondered how we could be so strong and i realized that God talks to us not in words, not in a way that is obvious. He assures us of things that we can only grasp through faith: we have to BELIEVE.

nikka, our very own drama princess, you are strong, brave and beautiful. you are intelligent and capable of so many wonderful things. you are all those and more, and you have to believe it.

we love you... until this world ends and beyond, you will always be special. be happy, sis. God bless...xox