why do we need to put god as the center of our lives?
It has been some months (almost a year, in fact), since I wrote the Blog Article “God is an Embarrassment in Our Lives”. The main premise is easy enough to understand: we’ve treated God...
Category: commitment
A Silent Call to the EDSA Generation
History books and heroes carried an EDSA that was about setting things right in the Philippines, and maybe some of them had the right idea, but mostly, the context of that demonstration was misunderstood....
For Better or For Worse: Cuba, Pakistan, Kosovo
Everywhere there seems to be a feeling of fatigue for one failed system after another, and movements (like Obama’s, which seems to be sweeping the United States) have begun to spring up, maybe not...
Gloria Arroyo and the Hitler Complex
We are forever frustrated by the continued existence of Gloria Arroyo as President. But would you have stood up to Hitler’s Germany? And can you really stand up to Arroyo’s Philippines?
A Celebration of Love
Have you ever looked in the eyes of a mother, after giving birth to her child? If you stood close to her when she was in labor—the one without anesthetics, the natural labor—you would...
Happily Ever After
We live in a cynical world. In our search for Love and Happiness, we found only pain and suffering. In our labors to find the goodness of the human heart, we have found only...
Suffer Love
We look for signs of love in flowers, red roses, and sweet words. But the real sign of Love can be found in her tears, and her callused hands, and her tired sighs…
The Labors of Love
Love is like a garden. All of us are called to till its soil, some in the area of roses and others in the orchids. But all of us are equally called to work...
Love in Ground Zero *mild spoilers*
Part Godzilla, part Blair Witch, and part Bug War (for Alien—or better yet, Starcraft fans—you’ll get what I mean), it’s an extraordinary love story set against the backdrop of chaos, and mayhem. I was...
The Mexican Proverb
“If people truly love each other, when do you say enough is enough?” The girl starts blabbering about commitments, time, and a myriad of things. She sees his stupefied look, and she knows she’s...
