Tag Archives: Blessings
Traditions and Spontaneity
I love traditions and deep down, I suspect I am really a traditionalist, for all my pretensions to being a liberal. I love the traditions I learned from my mother and father: how to behave with elders, what to do … Continue reading
God Would Have Made a Very Bad HRM Manager
I used to do Human Resources Management, where I researched, recruited and retained excellent people for the companies I worked for. I looked for people who had top caliber talents, demonstrable skills and credentialed experience. Mediocre, unskilled and inexperienced people … Continue reading
Faith That Moves
Faith is building a relationship with a Presence who has had a profound effect in my life, directing everything that happens to me. Many times I have wished that my faith would be able to move mountains or could calm … Continue reading
We are still in the midst of winter: cold weather, sometimes rain, snow in the mountains, leafless and seemingly lifeless trees. It is a cold drab landscape compared to the flowers of spring and the warmth of summer or even … Continue reading
February 3, 2013
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I’m Coming Home to My Mother, My Brothers and My Sisters.
“Receive what you are and become what you have received.” I picked up these words from the homily of Fr. George last Sunday. What and who I am is a gift I constantly wonder at. I did nothing to deserve … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Presence, Spirituality
Tagged Blessings, Fidelity, Grace, Gratitude, Uniqueness
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I Am Here Because Somebody Cares
There are moments I feel I am but a speck of dust in the general scheme of things in the universe that just one swipe of the cleaning rug and I am gone away forever, with the universe none the … Continue reading
There Will Never Be Another Me Or You
No one can read a person as one reads a book. I have three sons and I once thought that after Martin; Mickey and Macky would be just simple copies of Martin. Nothing was farther from the reality. Sure, it … Continue reading
Living in Hope
My daily routine these days is pretty much ordinary: I wake up early to spend my first waking moments in prayer and then face the day with optimism, expecting things will become better and that the best is yet to … Continue reading
The Best Is Yet To Come
In the face of his feebleness, man often is driven by that desire, often intense, to be in control. But the longer I live, the more I realize I am not in control. I can only try to make the … Continue reading
American Legacies to the Philippines
I have now been living in the US for five years now. I am continually amazed at the great diversity in the society. It is amazing how people of so many diverse cultures, languages, religion and race can live together … Continue reading
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Tagged Beginnings, Blessings
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