NBSB No More.

No-boyfriend-since-birth.

Narinig mo na ba yun? Sigurado ako, Oo. Di ba? Mabenta yan sa mga kabataan. Hindi ko alam sa paanong paraan mo titignan ang isang tao kapag nalaman mo na NBSB sya. Kung makamundo ka at hindi mo pa tinatanggap si Kristo bilang Panginoon at tagapagligtas, iisipin mo, 2012 na! Hindi na uso si Maria Clara! Pero kung Kristyano ka, tinanggap mo si Kristo, you have renewed your mind, uhmm, you know what I mean..NBSB means WOYL, Waiting-on-you-Lord. :)

NBSB? I was once.

I was 21-year-old when I actually had my first relationship. But before we end up together, we were first friends, churchmates and schoolmates. When he asked me if he can court me, I did not just gave my answer just because I felt that it was about time to enter such thing. I did pray, I asked God for confirmation and I believed by faith that God wanted me to have this man in my life to learn things, and to grow with him in Him. As we went through our journey as boyfriend/girlfriend, we learned a lot of things, things that I won't be learning if I wasn't in a relationship. I have learned to give love without asking to be loved in return. I have learned to wait on the Lord, always. I have learned to open up with my parents regarding relationship. I have learned to value people without judging them. I have learned to trust God that His plans are perfect and will do ho harm to me and to my future. I have learned to put limitations physically and allow God's grace to sustain me and resist every temptations that we have. I have learned to proclaim God's goodness in our relationship without compromising it. I have learned to be a good example of a follower of Jesus to my siblings for them to look up to when the time is actually right for them to have one. I have learned to respect my parents and earned their trust without breaking it. I have learned to walk my talk. And above all, when I enter my first relationship, I have learned to put God first in the middle of us to guide us and to keep us on track. These are few of the many things that I have learned when I had my first relationship.

I am no longer a NBSB, because I already had one. Though I dreamed of having a boyfriend to be my first and last, I am not giving up of hoping and faithfully waiting on God for His plans in our lives. Having him for a year is one of the best thing happened in my life. Losing him this time won't determine my future, because God is the one who's holding mine. Next to trusting God is believing that His love will always be enough.

Kaya kung NBSB ka, be proud! :) Wait til you blossom to a wonderful person God wants you to be before you enter a relationship. Let God be your first love. Devote yourself on how to give honor and glory to God. Focus on serving Him. There's no greater feeling than being a child of God. Having Him as a Father, a friend, and a lover is the best thing, ever. :))

-LEN<3