Compassionate Considerations

A couple of days ago, a friend posted on his multiply site that he received a copy of that Christian novel The Shack. The rest of the article has been moved to this link.  Please click on the link to read the full article. http://www.compassionateconsiderations.com/?p=194 Thank you.

In one of our Execom Meetings for the upcoming 25th anniversary of our high school graduation, Noel came up to me and started telling me things that he remembers about me in high school. ” I remember seeing you cry in highschool” he started. “Really?” was my astonished response. My crying during my highschool years [...]

The skies are clear. Things are going back to normal. Deep inside i didn’t want things to go back to normal. Normalcy has a way of forgetting the unresolved issues in life, and can easily lull people into thinking that things are going well. The skies are clear. But there are still hundreds missing from [...]

We were about to end the Men’s Conference last Saturday when a colleague showed me an sms on his phone. One of our elder pastors in Southern Luzon died from a cardiac arrest early that morning. Ptr. David Oloya has passed on. I was on the phone giving instructions to my wife who was at [...]

Yesterday the Men’s Conference ended in Tagaytay. It was a very wonderful conference! My mind had initially listed the insights I wanted to share in the blogworld. The Chief Justice Reynato Puno was a sterling example of humility that I will not forget. There are other things I would like to write about but all [...]

Be still, my soul, the Lord is on thy side. With patience bear thy cross of grief or pain. Leave to thy God to order and provide, In every change He faithful will remain. Be still, my soul, thy best, thy heavenly Friend Thru thorny ways leads to a joyful end. Be still, my soul, [...]

Last saturday I attended a funeral for a member who died recently. It was a simple funeral conducted by Ptr Andrew Teng. No fanfares – just the families, relatives and church members who shared in the grief experienced by a mother of a young daughter. The sadness of the whole thing affected me. Funerals have [...]

Yesterday was a movie treat courtesy of Don who turned 15 yesterday. His whole family, along with my wife and LM trooped to Festival mall to watch Chronicles of Narnia : Prince Caspian. I was already getting sleepy and my body was demanding those hours of sleep it had been deprived of lately. After eating [...]

Yesterday on our way to Paranaque, I got an sms from one of the youth workers at the recently concluded SEP2008. He informed me that his mother may need to be taken back to the hospital.  She has some heart problems and the doctors have talked about the possibility of a liver cancer as well. [...]

I got my license back today from the Makati’s Traffic Enforcement office in Mayapis St. It was quite tricky to find since I am not used to driving through the streets of Makati. It was really good that LM was about to quit his “work” (in quote because the arrangement barely qualified for him to [...]