I am inspired by the massive turnout and the great spirit that pervaded the anti-PDAF rally that happened yesterday in the Philippines. I can see the spirit of EDSA I alive and resurrected. Kay sarap maging Filipino.
I hope our leaders read the signs of the times and do the right thing this time. I am totally appalled and deeply disgusted how our own leaders can so shamelessly raid the national coffers with such impunity that you would think public funds were for their personal use.
I hope and pray that the President heeds the voice of the people and do justice by them. The presidency was literally handed to him on a silver platter at the wave of sympathy and outpouring of support when his mother died. He should keep in mind that the real source of his power is the support of the people and not the backroom wheeling and dealing of corrupt tradpols. Now, that he has heard from the Filipino people, he should junk his supporters among these politicians and heed the voice of those whom he himself acknowledges to be his really bosses – the Filipino people.
This morning, I bow my head in prayer in thanksgiving to God, sending once more His Spirit to blow over our land. I bow my head in praise for God has again visited His people. I bow my head in prayers of supplications that God enlighten us as a people so that we all do our share in building our nation. I pray for the corrupt and the selfish among our leaders that they either resign or mend their ways. I pray to the upright and the just among our leaders that they have the strength and the courage to make things right and do justice by our people.
‘But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in, you stop them. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cross sea and land to make a single convert, and you make the new convert twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.’
Matthew 23:13-19