Curse or a Blessing!

The typhon Ondoy that hit many parts of Metro Manila, Phillipines brought many reflections, realizations and learning to us Filipinos. Ondoy devastated many things much more ended lives of many.
Was a CURSE? A BLESSING? One may say it does both. Yes it destroyed many things and lives, but also made Filipinos more generous. That even poor Filipinos were touched and opted to give and share their time, money and goods to the victims. For those whom could not give money and material things, they still give in forms of good wishes and prayers to victims.

Spirit of generosity was not only evoke by Filipinos but also other people in other countries.
Businessmen, artists, showbiz personalities and people of good will share to us.

We living at the southern part of the country is moved and at this moment we keep on mobilizing and educating children and young people to share and give what they can give.

Leadership is Gift

"Blessed is the Leader Who Knows How to Lead others without being dictatorial or Bossy".

Leadership is a gift. Not everyone is born to be a leader. To leader someone is not asking one to follow but to walk besides the other. Walking side by side leadership encourages subordinates to work what the leader is doing or working.
There are types of leadership that seemingly not dictatorial or bossy , but that leader is imposing himself believing that he is the leader and what he wants will surface out. It's not directly dictating but in real sense he or she is in manner of manipulation. this is mis-use and abuse of power.
One dictates because he believes that he has much power but the reality one use power because he /she cannot lead. True leadership empowers. Good leader animates people and move them into action. He has the power within, and that power is a gift.

In A New Campus

Just last June 1, 2009 I am place in a new School Campus assignment. A beautiful and lively campus wherein my clientele are preschoolers and graders. I just myself to these place . I find all people here are nice and wonderful. They are children who are open to all possibilities to grow as children. I am here to serve them as their campus minister. Being with them I feel refresh and revitalize with their young and youthful energy.

Aside from the children, I am also ministering some adults. they are the administrators , teachers and parents . With these new environment , my mission is expanding with another group of people to be with and to pray.

Sharing The Mission of Jesus of Giving Time with the Poor

An elderly poor woman living alone in a village. With the generosity of another widow who extended help as to accompany the old woman. But it so happen that the widow's daughter got sick and she has to nurse her in her own place, so she has to leave the old woman. Perhaps because of Holy Spirit's movement that I have a deep urgency to visit the woman, and I arrived the place I found out that the woman during Holy Wednesday was alone. I am touched to accompany her from Wednesday up o Black Saturday. My usual activities during Holy Week is to attend church services, but I forgo it, for the sake of the old women whom I see the presence of the lonely Jesus in her. That very experience was sharing of the mission of Jesus to be with the poor, abandon, outcast. I celebrated Holy week with the passion, agony of the old women and feel the loving presence of Jesus in our midst.

Love is the core of the missiion.

Twenty years ago I was contemplating of giving a service to the poor and elderly. And it was gradually realized. It started with my mother who was ill for 3 years and finally passed away. Then, twelve years after, I accompany my aged father who died at almost 90 years old. And now I am making another apostolate to an elderly, who happens to be my step-mother.



Yesterday, I visited my step-mother. It is a regular visit that I am doing almost every weekend Because my step-mother was alone at that day, I have to stay with her overnight. As went to bed I pause a moment of reflection looking of where I am now and the reason of all my activities, from home to work, to church involvement and visiting and looking to what is happening to my step-mother. I came to reflect that this courage, strength is not only of myself but comes from God. Though I was tired on that very night, but I vividly feel and understand the unconditional love of God to me. I see this undertakings as my mission and the core of this mission is Love It is love that motivates me give and serve to this poor elderly woman .

Call of the Time

When I was a child my world was limited and same too with my responsibility.
Being a youngest the family life was not so demanding. Life was about play. Even when I was

a teen age girl life was so relax, as if I was walking at the middle of the road. But, when I started in college missionary calling to do something meaningful for me and others started to crap up

into my mind and heart. Family demand was visible for me. Much more when I started working missionary activity within and out side the church was so clear to me, in the school, in

the community, and in the family.

In the 1983, my mother got sick, she was bedridden for 3 months and gradually recovered.

She suffered by a lingering illness for 3 years. I stop working and nurse my mother in full time.

It was a privilege moment for me because not all children could take care their own parents.

In 1985 my mother died. I was left with my father who was i his aging years too. Five years after my father got married again to a widow, and in 2002 my father died at almost 90 years

of age. Today I have another missionary activity in the family which us to take care of my aged

step-mother. Life is call. A call to care. A call to love. It is continuous calling which also continues experiencing the blessing of God.

Symbol of Beauty

A Symbol of Beauty

On my way to my work I passed by Water District Office to pay my monthly water bills.
As went out from the said office and waiting for a Jeep going to my work as gazed the long winding road the beauty of the rainbow fascinated me so much. It is clearly seen by my naked eyes. As I stare in it, my heart rejoices. rainbow gives positive spirit in me this morning. The rainbow that I keep on gazing brings me recall God's covenant with Noah. The rainbow that I 've seen brings me to assurance of God's promises, His faithfulness and love to His people. It's beauty with different colors symbolizes the colorful and beauty of life. That life is beautiful and colorful. The different colors signifies the different emotions of a person.