Category Archives: Family
The Business of Christmas
Christmas is good for business. The malls are filled with shoppers, loaded with their purchases. UPS will deliver 120 million packages this week alone. Fedex expects to deliver 317 million packages for the entire holiday season from Thanksgiving to New Year. … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessings, Choice, Doing good, Hope, joy
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Shedding Off the Last Leaf
Year 2015 started out as an ordinary one. But it ended up rather inauspiciously for me. It was chugging along just fine to a routine, ordinary ending when a minor calamity struck. i hd a bypass surgery. Looking back now, the procedure … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessings, Grace
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Communions of Love
My faith teaches me that it is for love that there is the world. And one of the greatest expressions of this love is when “a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two … Continue reading
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Bless The Children
To be a child is to live in a world of possibilities and enchanting reality. Dragons, fairies, wizards, and talking animals are as real and as commonplace as dragonflies, dolls, toys and endless games. To be a child is to … Continue reading
I Remember Tatang
Sometimes, it seems, that the people who are closest to us are the same people we know the least. People would often first trust a complete stranger who impresses rather than a neighbor who has been helping them out over … Continue reading
What Is a Family?
I grew up in a culture and milieu where family had precedence over most other things. Many of my fondest memories are the times I spent with my family, which was an ever-expanding and dynamic entity. And now in my … Continue reading
Thank God For Another Wonderful Day!
It’s another wonderful day. The sun is out and the sky is clear and blue. Another day to truly appreciate life and to to be thankful to be alive. It could be a rainy and wet day like it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Goodness, Truth
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Birthdays
Every birth is an occasion for wonder and amazement, just like the birth of John the Baptist or of Jesus the Christ. It is like the heavens open up for one moment and one of the angels escapes to earth … Continue reading
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It’s A Birthday Moment!
Today is my birthday – a day that represents a whole year that was. And what a year it was: full of love, joys and blessings. For these, I am grateful and humbled. It is also a day that promises … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Birthdays, Blessings, Doing good
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My Treasures
When my life is finally over, I shall be a rich man for I have saved myself some treasure. It is not gold nor money; so no thief will ever be interested in stealing it. It is not physical things nor material … Continue reading