Category Archives: Nature
Use It or Lose It
Morning has broken and the sun rises over the Sierra Madre mountains, once more to give its light, warmth and energy to the planet below. The trees and the plants are astir to give shade, food and fresh air, nourishing … Continue reading
Posted in Discipleship, Nature, Principles, Spirituality
Tagged Wisdom
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The Cross
The cross has always been the primary symbol of Christianity. From the earliest times, Christians were identified by the cross. The cross was the most cruel and most ignominious penalty in the Roman empire. It was so humiliating Roman citizens … Continue reading
Posted in Discipleship, Faith, Life, Nature, Spirituality
Tagged Blessings, Grace
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An Abiding Sense of Awe and Wonder
There is a saying that no knight is a hero to his valet. Often, the routine of daily living dulls one’s sense of magic and mystery. People love children because it takes so little to stoke in them a deep … Continue reading
Posted in Encounter, Mystery, Nature
Tagged Gratitude, Signs and Wonders
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Every Sunrise Celebrates a New Creation
I first encountered, and liked for the first time, inihaw na panga at buntot ng tuna in Davao. The story, probably true but also possibly apocryphal, is that these parts of the fish (the head and the tail) used to … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Gratitude
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What My Faith Tells Me
The scientists at CERN constructed and used the $50billion LHC to prove the existence of the so-called God particle. I use my Php 500 bible to come to essentially the same conclusion. My faith tells me that there is more … Continue reading
The Heartbeat of the Universe
I love each new day that breaks out with the light of dawn, another chance for life to fully blossom out for me. But I also look forward to the quiet and stillness that night has to offer to roost … Continue reading
Praying With Physics
Newton’s First Law of Motion: An object in motion tends to stay in motion and an object at rest tends to stay at rest, unless the object is acted upon. When we are at rest, we want to stay at … Continue reading
A Child of the Universe That Matters
It is a scientific fact that matter is indestructible. It is never destroyed but merely changed into another form or transformed into another state. The atoms, their number and configuration always remain the same. In death, life is not ended … Continue reading
It Only Takes a Spark
Several years back, there was all this excitement over the discovery of the Higgs boson. Scientists have never seen it but have believed it existed ever since it was postulated. This one tiny almost invisible particle holds the key to … Continue reading
How Can One Not Believe?
It takes the light of the sun eight minutes to reach us on earth. We are looking at some galaxies and stars whose light left some 15 billions years ago and we are seeing them only now. Imagine the magnitude … Continue reading