Compassionate Considerations

Dear Everyone,
Metro Manila and nearby areas like Bulacan are still struggling to cope with the massive flooding that took place last Saturday.
Typhoon Ondoy’s wrath was more powerful than Katrina that hit New Orleans a couple of years ago. In 12 hours, Ondoy poured out water that was usually measured to be one [...]

The fires are still blazing and 141 people have died.  Many of them still trapped in their cars as they were trying to escape.
Very horrendous and suspicions have been raised as to the real cause of these fires.  Firefighters were really stunned to discover that some of the fires already put out weeks ago were [...]

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 when [...]

A couple of days ago, a friend posted on his multiply site that he received a copy of that Christian novel The Shack.
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Thank you.

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 [...]

4 young scouts died when the twister rampaged through the Little Sioux Boys Scout Camp in Iowa. Hours before when it was being flashed on CNN – they did not have the full report of the damage.
Now complete with interviews, aerial shots and other pictures of the devastation, I felt a huge lump in [...]

I was amazed at the growing interest at the article I wrote http://compassionateconsiderations.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/deliver-us-from-evil/.
The slain RCBC personnel have all been given a poignant funerals in the last couple of days. Stories were coming out about the lives of these people. It is truly heartbreaking because there are more than 10 families grieving right now.
One of [...]