Compassionate Considerations

Never met him. But I heard so much about him. Andrew is a 9-year old boy who was confined at the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center because of dengue. Last friday, his uncle and aunt attended the retreat that I was facilitating. They were obviously in some pain but did not express them right away. [...]

Psalm 23 remains to be the most popular chapter in the Bible.  The psalmist’s way of declaring himself as one who is in need of a shepherd echoes universal pathos of dependence and at times helplessness. We are like sheep in many ways.  We need to be taken to a safe place so we can [...]

Someone from Pakistan sent this to me.  I am posting this here because I support the merit of this article. And though I am not Jewish, like Ben Stein, I am also asking those same questions: Isaiah 55: 5 – 7 SEEK THE LORD, WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND.  CALL UPON HIM WHILE HE IS [...]

Yesterday, my wife and I attended Crossway Church. It is one of the congregations we go to when we are not doing circuit visits. The worship leader was Aron. I knew his style, selection of songs and overall approach. When he started leading the worship, I knew that it was going to be difficult for [...]

Have you ever experienced this?  Have you ever considered that when you are just about to really throw in the towel and give up, that is when something happens to lift you up? I have read this somewhere, when I was a lot younger, that the night is at its darkest when dawn is about [...]

Driving home late one evening, about 2 weeks before Christmas 2008, I felt a stirring within me.  I was having a quiet driving conversation with the Lord and I was telling the Lord how Christmas has become a season for self-centeredness and consumerism. How it was easy to lose the real reason of the season [...]

This is my first post for 2009.  The Christmas break is ending soon and it seemed like it just came and went.  Now the Christmas lantern needs to be taken down and other christmas decors need to be put away.  I had barely enjoyed the lights and now it is back to the usual grind. [...]

Today is our 10th Wedding Anniversary. I could not even begin thanking the Lord our God for what He has allowed us to experience all these years.  My life has been so meaningfully enriched since we first knelt as a couple and was prayed over as husband and wife. I remember all the challenges we [...]

We are just beginning to see the aftermath of “Ike” – and even before we could fully assess the damage and the dramatic stories of the people who survived, financial hurricanes were blowing Wall Street. Reverberations of these financial meltdowns will have its effect in markets overseas. Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and then the AIG [...]

I must have been suffering from a blogger’s block.  After writing the 100th post last week, it just sat there waiting to be followed by another blog this week.  Somehow I could not bring myself to write anything until a couple of minutes ago. I noticed that the blog on YOU ARE MY HEALER has [...]