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	<description>I am just like you. Trying to find my way. Helping others find theirs...</description>
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		<title>There was no need for rudeness&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last saturday, my wife and I availed of the gift given to us recently.  Two-tickets for a day-trip to the historical island of Corregidor.  This was going to be my wife&#8217;s first trip to the island and I briefed her what to expect, the walking tours, the buffet, sceneries and some interesting anecdotes shared by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.compassionateconsiderations.com/2010/03/there-was-no-need-for-rudeness/</link>
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		<title>Are you becoming too self-absorbed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You meet a person you have not seen for a long time.  It felt great seeing this friend and being able to reconnect and share stories.  You asked some questions that seemed to go well&#8230; so well as a matter of fact that, 25 minutes into the conversation, it begins to dawn on you that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.compassionateconsiderations.com/2010/02/are-you-becoming-too-self-absorbed/</link>
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		<title>She made me feel like I gave her a million pesos&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[She gingerly laid out the old P20 bill on the counter and started counting her coins from her hands.  I turned to see an old woman probably in her early 60s, struggling to count the coins for her prescription.
She gently pushed them in front of the sales staff of the Mercury Drugstore (Paseo, Sta Rosa) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.compassionateconsiderations.com/2010/02/she-made-me-feel-like-i-gave-her-a-million-pesos/</link>
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		<title>Participating in God&#8217;s Life and Mission</title>
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		<link>http://www.compassionateconsiderations.com/2010/02/participating-in-gods-life-and-mission/</link>
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		<title>On Palliative care:  How do you tell a person that he is dying?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It had been a very busy week.  Yet despite the busy-ness of preparing for the Leadership Conference, one thing was foremost in my mind the past couple of days.
Last Tuesday, I visited someone in the Intensive Care Unit of the National Kidney Institute.  Due to the many things demanding for my attention, it slipped thru [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.compassionateconsiderations.com/2010/02/on-palliative-care-how-do-you-tell-a-person-that-he-is-dying/</link>
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		<title>Thank you A-Cross Ministries!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, A-Cross ministries in partnership with Grace Communion International-Philippines conducted a medical mission for the residents of Lawang Pare, San Jose Del Monte Bulacan.
660 patients were served at this one-day medical mission.  A-Cross did a wonderful job in organizing the medical, dental and optical clinics by using the classrooms of Lawang Pare Elementary School.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.compassionateconsiderations.com/2010/01/thank-you-a-cross-ministries/</link>
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		<title>When you wish you could do more&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent days, I was privileged to participate in two back-to -back medical missions in the country.  The first one was in Tagbilaran, Bohol where 80 medical doctors from Medical Surgical Mission Team from Texas and Kaiser Permanente, LA conducted a 4-day mission.
They came prepared.  The medicines were sent to the Philippines ahead of time. My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.compassionateconsiderations.com/2010/01/wishing-you-could-do-more/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Ma, please don&#8217;t let me die&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was the plea of that 11-year old Haitian girl who died today.  Trapped in the rubble and her legs pinned down.  She was discovered two days after the quake that changed the landscape of Haiti.
She was eventually freed by the rescuers who labored hard to get her out.  But it was too late. She [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.compassionateconsiderations.com/2010/01/ma-please-dont-let-me-die/</link>
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		<title>God please rescue Haiti&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haiti is 13 hours behind our time here in Manila.  We are about to call it a night but in Haiti &#8211; life has been made much more difficult for the 9 million residents of Haiti.
Considered to be one of the poorest countries in the world, it will be really difficult for this small country [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.compassionateconsiderations.com/2010/01/god-please-rescue-haiti/</link>
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		<title>The disappointment that was Cebu Pacific&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was driving to Tagaytay when I heard on the radio about the incidents last December 23rd in Hongkong.  Two Filipino mothers on their way home to the Philippines were being asked by the crew of CEBU PACIFIC to transfer planes because of their special children.
Apparently, the said airline has a policy where no two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.compassionateconsiderations.com/2010/01/the-disappointment-that-was-cebu-pacific/</link>
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