Tag Archives: Suffering
It is Ash Wednesday.
Today is the start of Lent and we celebrate it with a public acknowledgment of our mortality through the imposition of ashes on our foreheads. Lent is a journey with God. We start with the fragility of our existence and … Continue reading
Healing is Making Whole
I have worked many years working in the health industry. And I have noticed a difference in the art and science of medicine between Western medicine and Oriental medicine. Western medicine has focused on the science part, on symptoms and … Continue reading
Making Room For Grace
When I am full of myself, I have no room for others in my life. If I am too busy with my concerns, I cannot be concerned about others. Oh, sometimes I make a little room for others to come … Continue reading
The Way Of Grace
The evil that I pray to be delivered from does not always come from the devils that lurk around me. There are times that the devil is within me already. Like, I harbor the bitterness and regrets from my broken … Continue reading
Good News!
Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country. He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone. When he came to Nazareth, … Continue reading
The Spirit Within Me
Life is difficult and also very fragile. Life is precious not because it is unchangeable but because it is so vulnerable. I am one of a million possibilities and yet I am the one who made it. I could have … Continue reading
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Tagged Faith, Generosity, Hope, Love, Suffering
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Filipinos love the underdog. It could be our natural temperament as a people or our deeply rooted Christian upbringing. We just have a soft spot in our hearts for the poor, those who are in need or in pain, those … Continue reading
December 28, 2012
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God Writes Straigth With Crooked Lines
There was once an engaged couple. He was much older than the girl, she being only in her early teens. Later, it was found out that she was pregnant even before they could get married. And he was not even … Continue reading
With evil staring at us stark in the face, what should we do? When evil strikes, sometimes with such gut-wrenching and heart-rending intensity as what happened in Newtown, we fold down over in utter helplessness. This is the mystery of … Continue reading
December 16, 2012
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Evil Is Real
The massacre of innocents in Newtown Conn. has snuffed out young lives, broken the hearts of those they have left behind and shocked a whole nation into anguished cries of “Why? How could such things be happening with such unnerving … Continue reading