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True Love Waits Waits Waits…

May 27, 2008 at 2:31 pm · Filed under an attempt, introspection

Lunch time, I was browsing through the slides presented by Fr. Stephen Cuyos, MSC during the FaithCasting seminar he gave in the JP2 Catechetics and Youth Ministry Conference in DBTI Makati two weeks ago. Got stuck with one of the slides presenting the True Love Waits portal. I didn’t hesitate to pay a visit and realized how worthwhile it is. With a few minutes of stay I gained much insight and inspiration which moved me to write this post. Hay…

Love, I believe, is one of the most used and abused word. Much definitions are attributed to it. Thus, we are left with a crowded vista of love. We are as if looking through the woods, uncertain of what is before our eyes. Instead of seeing the big picture, stunning dazzle of light, we see glimpses, blinding flashes and streaks of that which is bright. What is love? How do we define love? Where do we find real love?

All I know is Deus caritas est - God is LOVE. Looking for love? See God. But one doesn’t need to look far for EMMANUEL - He is with US. He is in the midst of our relationships, He lives within our hearts. He is just there, waiting, patiently, faithfully, unconditionally - waiting… Waiting to be heard, to be seen, to be recognized.

I am a witness to HIS unfailing love. I appreciate much the Eucharist, I love being in the confessional. My God offers his life for me, shuns away all my short comings no matter how grave they may be. I often deviate from Him, deny Him, forget Him, leave Him, doubt His WORD, His call, His presence. Yet He is still there, waiting… just there, smiling, waiting for me to come and embrace Him and be enveloped once more by His exceeding grace.

God who created all of us is LOVE. We sprung out of love. We search for love in places away from ourselves; thus, we find the love that this world know rather than the love that is within us - the true love that would never stop waiting waiting waiting…

Looking for true love? Look within, see the light, clarify your path, listen to your heart whenever you are ready to do so… LOVE’s just there… waiting.

FINALLY! My mama is emailing…

May 26, 2008 at 3:41 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

Posted by mobile phone:

I have been wanting to teach my mama how to use the computer and the internet. Finally after a 30-minute crash-course she’s sending her first email to her best friend in Maryland. Later we’ll use YM.

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FINALLY! My mama is emailing…

HUMAN RIGHTS.

May 15, 2008 at 6:44 am · Filed under Uncategorized, christmas, deviation

It’s not left nor wrong but rights! I have not been made aware of the etymology of this word but I am sure that this post is a right move. I didn’t mean to confuse but I just want to share a speck of insight re: HUMAN RIGHTS.

EVERY HUMAN RIGHT SHOULD NEVER BE DENIED BY ANYONE AT ANY CIRCUMSTANCE. I know for a fact that there exists a universal declaration of human rights but not all of this rights are accessible to peoples under certain countries and destitute situations.

But what is the basic and unalienable right? DIGNITY. I learned this not through my own effort but through the awareness and a bit of lecture that I gained through joining the World Youth Alliance. We do not live anymore in the time of Viktor Frankl that has been characterized by much hatred and violence. Were people were forced to live a life worst than that of the animals. Freedom neglected, dignity smugged, tattered and soiled! But there still exist violence. Dignity is still undermined in some places.

In the Philippines, dignity is less in the slums - squatters we call them. Houses that are shanties on vacant lots or tents under the bridge. Vagrants - taong grasa (human grease) - that walk aimlessly at the main thoroughfares of the country begging for many isn’t a once-in-a-blue-moon scene. Street kids who are forced to labor for them and their families to live. It would take a mile to enumerate all things related to the modern-day Hitler of our time - poverty.

Poverty deprives man of his dignity. We may not be aware of it or simply got used to it. But allow me to lead you to the first step, come and see; then, be compelled to act. Look at them, then look at yourself. Poverty is no fairy tale nor a construct of reality - it’s reality itself, it’s the Philippines itself. Come and see - be aware! Preserve DIGNITY!

(You might be interested to join WYA. It’s easy, sign the charter and uphold it! God bless!)

LIVE moBlog: JP2 Conference [1]

May 14, 2008 at 11:58 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Posted by mobile phone:

I’m now watching Fr. Marty Macasaet’s talk. Very interesting. An indepth image of the Filipino youth of today. Sad, though, for I wasn’t able to be right on venue but on a remote classroom, a few meters away tvia live telecast. Cool! Here is a pic.