Love Smarts

IX. Love Smarts

Love is pain.

The pain of a broken heart. Hurts deeply. So deeply it seems, it eludes the mind. And so we struggle to find ways to cope. To mend a heart. A heart that once was whole. That now lay in pieces.

Salt itself has lost its taste! And life its flavor... 

So the broken heart labors. Weeping. Shedding salty tears. Until every drop has been shed. Flowing out. Into rivers, sea, and sky. Until the hurt relents.

And the rain renews. Once again...

Bitter were those days... Seasonless were those skies...
---<--@

Love Captains

VIII. Love Captains

Home is where the heart is. So you come home to your love... and your love comes home to you.

When you fall in love with a person. It just happens.

You suddenly realize, "Wow, I'm in love!" 

This is not to say love is a happenstance thing. One actually enters into love like an unknowing dream.

You have all these ideas in your head about a perfect person... and wham! Love takes you in and like a trap that shuts, one in love is in. So suddenly and wonderfully taken in.

You fall in love. You fall. Indeed, you fall in. But that's not true love, one must eventually accept. You'll have to clamber out of love and together experience each other apart. The true lover's art!

Physical attraction is important, one can not dismiss. Yet beauty is deeper than this. If physical attraction is not followed up by deeper connections, when time comes... love may not fulfill its intentions.

So when you fall in love, waste no time in discovering each other deeply. Make use of this safe harbor. That you and your beloved may build a strong vessel together.

So make it a fast ship with proud sails! 

That when tempests rise to break your love apart, you may together withstand it. Even in the midst of thy many adventures, great and small. So remember...

When you can stand apart from each other like pillars to a strong house, thy will in love abide. To revel in thy togetherness. For time itself will have proven the lovers worthy.

Thine is a ship that has mastered the sea. For Love has come alive between thee.
---<--@

Don't count the miles, count the I love you's.

Love Quickens

VII. Love Quickens

The measure of love is to love without measure.

I do not know where I happened upon this saying, my loveliest love, but isn't it so true?

When I was younger, I looked at love differently. I took it from itself.

I made love mine and mine alone.

I wanted my girlfriend for myself and myself alone. And she wanted the same of me.

But love has a way of turning the tables on strangers like us.

In its own mysterious time, unknown to the uninitiated, to make itself known, love suddenly reveals itself.

With a sword, love pierces the heart. It draws blood to quicken the lovers to itself.

Then with strong arms, it subdues the self until it makes us all its own.

And suddenly, the stranger is a stranger no more.

We are one.

Unfortunately, my darlingest dear, that relationship did not survive the quickening of love.

For our hearts were not able to bear the doubt.

Nor our egos able to withstand the hurt.

Neither of us were strong enough to bear for each other, our love; the failing of our youth.

I was hurt. She was hurt.

Love was also hurt.

But it was the hurting that heals and it was the bearing that teaches.

And so for many years I grieved. Not really knowing that love also wept with me.

I do not know how many years it took for love to bear me away from my grieving, my loveliest love. But when I was able to smile again, it was with you.

It is all that I can remember now...

- selah -

True love begins with a doubt.

When love asks of itself, "do you love me?"

If one loves the beloved without measure, there is a sense of wholeness that embraces the lovers both ways and the heart that knows it doubts itself not saying,

I do.

There is a bittersweet pain to loving.

Lovers long for each other like love longing for itself alone.

It is the experience of being in love.

'Tis pain and joy.

For the quickening of love hurts.

Truly, it must.

Love reassures us wonderfully however, and gives us every chance to prove ourselves.

For at the same time loves takes us unto itself, love sets us free.

- selah -

Now that I have been hurt, I can love again.

(personal anecdote 20090824)
---<--@

“Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”

from The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

Love is blind?

If love were blind,
why ponder the mind?
That's so unkind.

If love were blind,
why seek the heart?
Where to start?

If love were blind,
why must lovers begin...
where from within?
---<--@

Some say faith is a blindness that allows you to see. This is true, you know.

Hope is born of those little glimpses faith accords the eye of the heart...

And love, love is the sight that allows us to trust in faith.


We used to have those little autograph books in the sixth grade. In it there is always a blank that asks you for a favorite motto. I know a lot of us peek at answers others have given, I did too. One of the most famous answers was, "love is blind".

Hmmm... In retrospect. I must've thought this response mysterious enough to be universally considered a cool and appropriate sixth-grader response. Yup, I used to put it down a lot.

Intermission...

Love is not really blind though. It can be stupid to the eyes of the world. But what is wise to the unwise?

What love really does at times really, only love may really understand. And unless the love itself admits the heart into its inner council of love, one shall never see what is beautiful from the eye of its beholder.

You see, it is this world outside of ourselves that is blind after all. Not love.

Come to think of it, I should write, "love is kind", as one of my favorite mottos next time around...

It's more true for me nowadays.
---<--@

      You're the star that shines in me...

Happily Single

I'm not actually lonely...

I just like listening to lonely songs.

The best one for me at the moment is "Old Songs" by David Pomeranz.

Maybe I was lonely at one point in my life...

Maybe at one time in my past, "Lonely Won't Leave Me Alone" by Glen Medieros.

However, I don't feel myself trapped in the past anymore.

I used to cry with lonely songs. Now, I just sing with them. I sing with them and I feel no hurt. In fact, lonely songs these days relax me.

I know what they're expressing. I also know what I'm expressing. And everything else comes together in harmony. It's a sweet deal.

I have found there are many true loves in this world. 

All of them possess the potential to perfect an already complete person. The love of God and of all of God's creatures, the love of Country and of one's common humanity, I have come to realize such loves as distinct in themselves. Distinct from conjugal love nurtured from within the safety and surety of the marriage covenant.

There are different vows. Different rules. Different codes. Different indiviuals. Different communities. But
only a complete person can fall in love with any of them completely.

Only two complete individuals can fall in love perfectly. It would be nice to have a woman by my side. But I and I alone complete myself.

Love completes. Lovers perfect.

As I sing with my lonely songs I feel as if I'm almost there... on a journey that seem never ending.
---<--@

Infinity

Infinity
is quite small -
so very, very small indeed. 

So small,
in fact, and so fine
that it is
to our coarseness,
immense.

It is a profound fineness
that escapes our every apprehension
of measure and shape and form,
in and among and beyond everything
we know - and shall ever know, immense -
infinite!

To search for it,
one needs not look far into the temporal heavens
for what is infinite - it is nearer - to each of us
than even our own thoughts. 

Let us seek it in the smallness,
and in the stillness - pause to wonder -
how near to us timeless moments really are.

Let us therefore,
draw nearer to those infinite moments
of loving, sharing, laughing, and caring
knowing the further away from the infinite - we are,
the less these precious things that truly last
may endure with us - forever.
---<--@

Love is - here. Love has been here - forever.
The real question is - where have we been?

Do not despair for moments, drifting away.
Be sad for their memories, passing away.
Forget thee not therefore, you must say.
And hold on to them tightly, everyday.

Love Decides

VI. Love Decides

There is no perfect person, only perfect choices.

I used to believe
that love and lovers
come by chance...

Soulmate? Happenstance.

But nowadays, 

'tis different for me...

Nowadays, I am convinced
one has to be more romantic...
and also, more free.

- selah -

Love stories,
it is usually assumed, is all about hellos.

One meets a person,
they fall in love, they fall out of love,
then they rise and fall in a lost sea...
until one day... their own love finds them...
Or not.

It really depends...

Because the greatest love stories,
if one may allow, are all about good byes.

It takes a leap. Or many leaps to arrive at it.
But before that, many a fond, tearful farewell...
to the old. 

That the weeping may all be wept...

Sometimes,
the heart has to trust - in the love itself.
The love that you and your beloved
chose to choose.

Which also chose you,
but - together
as one.

And there will be those times,
difficult times, when the heart decides
and then realizes...

Maybe after saying
all those painful good byes,
the heart in seeking for solace
may find - hello,
there is such a thing
as a soulmate
after all!

But perhaps,
not before.

Soulmates...
do not happen at random,
I don't think so.

You decide.
---<--@

Pinky Promise?

Merry Easter 2014

I kept a running journal of my Lenten 2014 experience. Let me tell you, it had its ups and downs. There was a low like a valley, sunk in the shadow. 

And there was a point in that valley where I had to actively deny feelings of creeping despair an entrance into my soul. For I was a despair-er once in my life, my beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus.

My soul drank of the foul bilge water of that sunken kind of unbelief; that secret sense of doubt, in the glorious Redeeming power of Almighty God truly - present and active and alive - in all living souls.

But like the Apostle Paul and Silas in prison, the Spirit of God made a way out for me. 

In no uncertain terms can I be that way again. Yea, a sinner I shall always be but some sins whose taint the Father through the Son have deigned to remove from me, I can not somehow bear to allow my Jesus to bear again for me. They are my Quo Vadis, Domine! (At the forefront of these is my Recovery - which will not only profit me but many others like me).

Truly, our God is a mighty and amazing God! A God of Mercy and Justice and Love is He - the LORD, our Peace. In the pits and in the heights, the song I shall sing for Him is - Alleluia to God in the highest, Thou art mine, and I am Yours! 

So you see, I had to slog through some slow, uncertain days. Some days, I had to tell my impassioned spirit - be calm, and to sit still. Everything led me up - led us all up - to this Easter mountain high.

The Lord is Risen! He is truly Risen! 

If I am to summarize my experience of Lent 2014, I would encapsulate it in this way -

Good Friday - I am sorry, my Lord Jesus;
Holy Saturday - I love You, my Lord Jesus;
and Easter Sunday - Thank You, my Lord Jesus.

The 3 days correspond also to the 3 stages of the spiritual life - the Purgative, Illuminative, and Unitive.

One is redeemed by the Blood on the Cross of Christ, then justified by grace through faith in the Love of the Father in the Son, then through the Spirit of Truth united in Joy to the Joy of Christ and our Father. This Joy unites us to Jesus. So Christians must profess in Faith, witness in Love and justify it all - in Joy. No Lent can ever be without an Easter!

The Wounds our Savior retained in His Glorified Body - calls, leads, and then completes the Way of the Church. How awesome a God is our God!

sweet

Our Easter Vigil Mass at our Parish and Shrine was utterly magnificent. I hope yours was too.

God love our priests! God bless His faithful priests. God bless His faithful priests in our Parish. O what a blessing it is to be in the presence of His good and humble priests!

His good and humble deacons, priests, and bishops from all the Earth who along with Laity from every Nation - keep us truly Catholic.


Merry Easter greetings of Peace and the Goodwill of God to all Mankind!
---<--@

Salutation #182

None of the Seraphs have joined with Satan in his War
and the LORD has, prior to the time of the Children
(which are these latter-day times, beloved of God),
utterly destroyed all evil and fallen Principalities
in the Great Deluge for our good behalf.

So we are
in our every belonging preserved
by Love and Remembrance...

(Love and Remembrance)

Love and Remembrance
when each their truths are realized -
breaks upon thy heart, darlingest Starshine,
clear as the dawn and draw thy spirit decisively
in great ascending motions - leading thee steadfastly
forth and away from the midnight darkness...

For
Love and Remembrance
once realized by thy seeking soul - as truth in the heart
have no parallel midnight - the advent of each of their realities
once it has risen in the horizon of thy mind - separate themselves cleanly
as light is from darkness and leave no trace of shadow nor confusion
to the being and thought of any Man as to which Twilight path
leads to the Morning.

Glory to God therefore, all ye Nations,
sing to the LORD a song of love and thanksgiving;
a hymn of adoration from thy hearts, O Children of Mankind
for the wonder our God has done for us!
---<--@

Lucifer with all his wit,
was not able to convince and commit,
a single Seraph to his fight
for who could make love itself choose
to burn for anything else
but the one Beloved.

Thus, save for his lies,
none can love the Devil true...

But
when God utters
a Word of the Truth,
all hearts upon all the earth
and across all of heaven above
come aflame with Love.
---<--@


To not be afraid, love. 
To not be ashamed, remember.

Love Recognizes

V. Love Recognizes -



Do not lay all your cards on the table.
Keep nothing hidden in your sleeves too.
Be honest but be careful about the truth.
Be open to what you accept - in thy heart -
but be vigilant about what you receive as well.

Above all, love.

Love that you might know the truth.
Love that you may be open to the truth
and in return, receive more love.

Love that you may always
have something to lay on the table
and love that you may always
have strength enough to love
without holding love back.

Remember, my darling,
the door of thy heart opens
from the inside not from the outside
that you may know to open yourself
- to love and to be loved -.
often... and freely... and deeply.

So love then and in return be loved,
that you may begin to know the truth
even when love to you is yet unknown.

Did not God do the same for us?

Love recognizes, let it begin...
---<--@

Valentine's Day 2013

Today we observe the power of overcoming love;
the love of God in Jesus Christ that leads every heart to love all in All.

It might not always mean - in the temporal sense -
the triumph of two lovers, but always the eternal victory of Love.

May we therefore, be blessed this day!

May God cause all our hearts to always, always be in love.

May our hearts and our spirits be glad
as we bear into mind today - the great wonder of triumphant love;
that love with the power to bear for all, to endure for all, and to hope in all.

And may the God Who is Love prevail in our souls forever!
---<--@



Proclaim the message of the Gospel in the Peace of Jesus Christ!

Love Surprises

V - Love Surprises -

YOU ARE my waking dream,

everything that makes my everything complete.

You are my ordinary miracle,

everywhere I am, you were there, always with me.

Yet I was asleep to the wonder of you...

And then -

I wake up to the realization:

You are nothing like my illusion!

I love you for no reason.

I have loved you for a million seasons!

I love you, I just do.

- selah -

In my youth, I dreamt of you -

the shape of your face,

the look of your eyes,

the flow of your hair,

the curve of your smile,

the feel of your skin,

the fragrance of your smell,

the grace of your laughter,

the beauty of your mind,

the music of your voice,

the comfort of your warmth,

the peace of your company...

Alas!

The law of the heart is this -

my darling, beloved of my heart,

when you came into my life

in God's own time, by and by...

I understood -

Love writes the rules, not I.

Love surprises,

the most beautiful of reprises!

Relationships not random but made;

moments that far into forever fade.

Such sweetness... joy and gladness!

Brightness, kindness, beauty...

timeless.

---<--@

(A composite of my life's experiences with the mystery of loving...)


May you always be in love.

=^.^=

Love Gives

IV - Love Gives -

The giving is the gift.

Inasmuch as the heart understand thankfulness

so too shall the soul value the importance of gift.

Therefore,

let generosity rule thy heart

for the art of giving is difficult

and the way of receiving

even more so -

- selah -

Every joyful giver knows how it is to be thankful

for every true giver is always a true receiver first.

---<--@

Love Shines

III - Love Shines -

The Love of God is as bright as Day

and the heart of Man pines for its fullness.

The heart of Man awaits the coming of the LORD

like the Darkness awaits the dawning of the Light.

For we are the image of God

in each of ourselves,

the likeness of our Creator -

God fills us with His Love

and our hearts come to life in Him.

God comes to us

and He becomes God to us

by the Love we choose

to receive from Him.

For all of love is a giving;

a freedom that begins with God

and ends again with God.

It clothes us with the dignity to be

and empowers us with the grace to become -

the love of the LORD in each ourselves;

a limitless and omnipotent grace.

For the Lord Christ is the Light

and to Him belong the fullness of the Day.

- selah -

We are the love we give away;

what light we shine unto others -

For all of love is a giving.

It is a freedom.

We become all things by the love we freely give -

a reflection of the self that is shed as a light unto others.

The more we give

the more we become

the image of our true selves.

The less light that we shine

the less brightly we stand out

in the midst of the darkness.

A friend becomes a friend

by the reflection of the friendship

he or she offers to others souls

not unlike him or herself.

A father clothes himself

with the dignity of a father

by the light of the love

he gives away -

A husband clothes himself

with the dignity of a husband

by the light of the love

he gives away -

In the same way,

wife becomes a mother

and a mother, a sister,

and a sister, a friend.

---<--@

Love Happens

II - Love Happens -

If I myself can not accept you

- for who you really are -

then, who am I?

If I myself can not accept you

for what you have done or have failed to do

- whether good or bad -

then, what is good and what is bad?

Am I not only a reflection of the love I offer?

If I feign love, I am unsure.

But if I am true,

I will see you - for all that you are.

And I will say, "yes indeed!"

Beauty is when love is in the heart.

---<--@

Love Dares

I - Love Dares -

Can you hide it when you are in love?

Would you be a fool and feign affection when there is none?

For love is like a song that must be heard!

When love sings, there is harmony and it knits every word.

When there is no love, there are only words and no rhyme.

When a fool sings, it is without meaning.

For only a lover can sing to the heart.

Love is wise that makes itself vulnerable.

So when you are in love, make sure to let thy beloved know.

In the midst of the din and the haste

of thy everyday living, let thy beloved know -

with words but especially without, sing her a song.

Let thy beloved know of thy love -

let the whole world hear of thy sweet, sweet melody

and everything will soon fall quiet as your hearts begin to sing...

---<--@

20111110

The National Peace

Hi there!

You know as well as I do that I am (as well as you are) fully committed to the peace of our Philippines.

Now then, my brothers and sisters of the Promise, restoring the native peace of our beloved Country is not just about fighting and negotiations.

Though we hear so much about it in the news, the peace that we speak about here - when we talk about peace - is much, much more than that...

You'd be surprised.

The peace we desire does not require every one of us to possess a soldier's heart and acquire a warrior's skill.

Winning the peace for our Philippines does not require every one of us to become involved in politics or any of those high-level, hush-hush things that seem beyond the power and scope of the everyday, ordinary Filipino on the ground.

99% of us are not directly involved in the peace process. We are the other 99. This is so since, the political peace is distinct from the national peace.

So let me be clear on this - peace is essentially all about relationships.

To impress upon the nation, our conviction of the right things, as ordinary citizens, we must each understand in the broadest sense that our civic peace is all about loving and caring - all things and all persons both great and small - as well as each those places in time and their associated memories - families, friends, compatriots - least to great - which is everything that connects us together across our generations in one timeless, seamless remembrance.

Remember when I told you that a Filipino is a kind of love and this love binds us together into one nation? Well, its true. Its not just a romantic myth, its a basic fact of our national life.

Truly, we are to love our our own and others like our own...

So from today, we're also going to talk about love... (And I might even begin a new series of open salutations just about love - love in all its wondrous forms - from the romantic to the practical, from the sweet to the bitter but necessary kind - especially that love which must be between Man and Woman.)

I - Love Dares -

Can you hide it when you are in love?

Would you be a fool and feign affection when there is none?

For love is like a song that must be heard!

When love sings, there is harmony and it knits every word.

When there is no love, there are only words and no rhyme.

When a fool sings, it is without meaning.

For only a lover can sing to the heart.

Love is wise that makes itself vulnerable.

So when you are in love, make sure to let thy beloved know.

In the midst of the din and the haste

of thy everyday living, let thy beloved know -

with words but especially without, sing her a song.

Let thy beloved know of thy love -

let the whole world hear of thy sweet, sweet melody

and everything will soon fall quiet as your hearts begin to sing...

---<--@

II - Love Happens -

If I myself can not accept you

- for who you really are -

then, who am I?

If I myself can not accept you

for what you have done or have failed to do

- whether good or bad -

then, what is good and what is bad?

Am I not only a reflection of the love I offer?

If I feign love, I am unsure.

But if I am true,

I will see you - for all that you are.

And I will say, "yes indeed!"

Beauty is when love is in the heart.

---<--@

Often when all that we care to remember is how huge the darkness and how frail and tiny the light, we weep bitterly unto despair and completely forget which one is pure substance and which one is pure illusion.

---<--@

Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! God bless us all.

Yes to NO Political Graffiti!

Salutation #65

In a previous post on All to my All, I have attempted to write about the purgatorial state. I have returned to that post and have found it to be confusing. I apologize.

Today, I shall again attempt to describe it for us.

(The Pain of Purgatory)

You are invited to a banquet with the King.

And so you became consumed with anxiety as to what to do, where to begin...

You know you could not afford a gift fit for a Monarch.

For you are dirt poor and had no real money.

All you had were the rags on your back and a desire to respond to the invite.

How could a person like you respond to such an invitation?

You knew nothing of the ways of Royalty.

So the King sent to you His only-begotten Son

to teach you the Way and introduce you to the Person of the King.

And through His Crown Prince, the King sent you all the money you need.

For this Prince redeemed the earth and all its wealth for you

by inflicting upon the enemy prince a devastating blow!

All thy Holy Redeemer asked is for you to continue with your desire

and to come at the appointed hour in the Name of the King.

All that God asked is that you always for always remember.

That hour has come for the souls in Purgatory.

They have completed their own personal gifts for the King on earth

and have yet to complete their exquisite wedding clothes;

royal robes tailored from the necessary cloth of virtue

and sown with golden threads of charity and joy.

These Holy Souls are held in a state of indescribable expectation

as they send for our timely help to complete their final hopes on earth.

For they have kept their desire complete in the Name of the King

and have clung to the promise of His Crown Prince.

All we have to do - here on earth -

is to send to them the rest of their clothes

through acts of love made by us - for them - from earth.

And we are to send these up to them on the wings of prayer.

After all,

they are the souls of our loved ones

who loved us till the end on earth

and shall continue to love us

with no end in heaven.

Such is the pain of Purgatory a pain of certainty.

It is a sure and steady state between love and its longing for Love.

At the end of time as we know it, all the Holy Souls shall be victorious

and this necessitate Suffering Church shall be for us - no more -

but not because of our prayers on earth or their longing for God in heaven

but because the victory wrought for us by the Prince is one that is complete.

At the end of time as we know it,

we all shall be united once more - body and soul.

All that God asked is that we always for always remember.

For the Justice of God the Father is perfected

by the Love that He sent to us in Christ Jesus the Lord.

The ever living waters of the Spirit shall rise

to fill all things on earth and in heaven.

But the hopes of the damned in hell shall dry up

- into dust and ashes.

---<--@

Everybody have a safe and meaningful All Souls' Day 2011!

Glory to God the Father!

Adoration to Jesus Christ!

Alleluia, peace be unto our nation

and peace be unto all our nations;

good will to all men and women of Peace.

As Christians we do not celebrate death.

We celebrate the LORD's victory over death.

20111023 PM

Sunday Evenings

Good evening, the Philippines - mabuhay!

This evening, I just want to share with this with you -

The Stranger at the Tabernacle

On 20110908, the feast of the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, I went to pray the rosary in front of the Tabernacle located on the right wing of our parish church to honor Mama Mary on her birthday.

During my prayer, three visitors came to Jesus.

The first one was a young mother and her young daughter; the second was a devout woman; and the third was a strange man, seemingly crude and unrefined, who ignoring all the norms of piety came with his footwear on and dirty clothes, snapping his fingers at the Tabernacle, mumbling strange words to God.

I was becoming concerned at the spirit of the latter for it seemed alien to the quiet of the place and then my Jesus made realize: the first visitor was led to Him by her love for her daughter; the second by her love for God, and the third by the grace of God.

All are children of the Father. But of all of them, I was more like the last one.

When I pray to the Father and feel helplessly inadequate as I oftentimes do, it is the welcome of Christ that constantly reassures me that I belong. It is the Spirit of Christ that prepares me to receive the invite of the Father to attend the wedding feast of His beloved Son, my most loving Jesus.

How can I go wrong by listening to Him Who came to save me? And we listen to Jesus when we pay attention to the Gospel.

- selah -

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 22:34-40 -

When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them (a scholar of the law) tested him by asking, "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?"

He said to him, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.

This is the greatest and the first commandment.

The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

---<--@

Let us pause and reflect on the timelessness of this Wisdom, alleluia.

For it is this love that binds us together as one nation.

Whatever challenges the new week shall bring, if we face it together, if we persevere in our unity, if we keep in mind all that unites us more than what divides us, not only shall we overcome, my people, but in God we shall prevail.

So may the Holy Spirit of God sustain each of us, especially in our continuing quest for peace and righteousness in our Country, as we enter as one nation together into another working week.

My salutation is peace to you all.

---<--@

The DOST Juan Time Campaign -

Juan time starts tomorrow!

No more advancing the time to make up for Filipino time. Let us all set our watches to Juan time and be on time all the time.

Filipino time is a myth.

The truth is we move to the beat of just Juan time.

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Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! God bless us all.

Filipino

Who is a Filipino?

But the heart that lives

to love the Filipino

and the one Republic

of the Filipino people.

How is the Filipino?

But through faith that seeks

to find itself alive

in the eternal remembrance

of God and our people.

Where is the Filipino?

But in the will that accepts

the trust that embrace

our lives and our fortunes

together as one nation.

Why is the Filipino?

But with every dream that begins

ever like a single breath

to become our breathing together

of the many into one hope.

When is the Filipino?

But at every present rising

from the deep of Eternity

in the every moment that breaks

upon the awakening reality

of the dawn of a new Philippines.

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The Truth

A Friend Like You

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Diyos ay Katotohanan, Bayan Ko

Ang Diyos ay Katotohanan! Lahat ay pawang panaginip lamang kung ang mga ito ay hindi malayang bumubukal sa Katotohanang ang Diyos ay Diyos at wala nang iba pang Katotohanan maliban sa Kanya.

Kung ang isip at malay ng tao ay pawang gising at malaya, ito ay dahil ang Diyos ay gising sa ating katotohanan sa Kanya.

Kung tayo ay malaya ito ay dahil tayo ay gising din sa katotohanang ang Diyos ay Diyos at wala Siyang katulad sa langit o sa lupa, maging sa lahat ng mga bagay na nakikita o hindi nakikita.

Iisa lamang po ang Diyos nang lahat nang mga ito; ang Poong May gawa nang lahat ng bagay sa lupa man o sa langit.

Sadyang napakabuti po ng Diyos sa tao. Alalahanin natin ang Diyos, Bayan ko. Siya po ang ating mahal na Diyos at Siya lamang.

Ang Diyos po ay ang Katotohanang nagbibigay tanglaw sa tao at laya sa mga bansang iniluklok Niya sa lupa para na rin sa buong sangkatauhan; mga bansang patuloy pa ring naglalakbay patungo sa katuparan ng Kanyang ipinangakong kaligtasan sa atin.

Ang Diyos ay malapit sa tao. Ang Diyos ay Espiritu at ang lahat nang ating mga saloobin ay Kanyang nalalaman. Ang ating mga isip-isipin at mga inspirasyon ay tanglaw ng katotohanang ang Diyos ay Espiritu. Kung ang Diyos po ang lalayo sa atin, tayo pong lahat ay maglalaho sa dilim. Kung magulo ang lagay ng mundo sa ngayon ito ay dahil sa tao na malimit ay nagpupumilit na lumayo sa Kanya.

Nakasisilaw po kasing tumingin sa araw. Pero tayo po ay nabubuhay dahil ang araw ay palaging nakasubahbay sa ating mundo. Hindi naman kailangang itapat ang ating mga mata sa araw para po natin malamang may Liwanag. Dahil po ang Liwanag ay nakikita at nararamdaman po natin sa paligid natin at higit sa lahat sa pusong marunong magtiwala sa Diyos na Siyang tunay na araw na nakasubaybay sa puso ng lahat ng tao.

Sa mga kapwa ko Kristyano, ang Liwanag ng Diyos ay si Kristo Hesus.

Iisa lamang po ang Diyos. Alamin mo ang Diyos, Pilipino. Hanapin mo Siya ng buong puso, buong lakas at nang may kababaang loob.

Hanapin mo Siya sa iyong puso at sa iyong kapwa Pilipino.

Hanapin mo Siya sa mga taong nauuhaw at nagugutom, hanapin mo Siya sa mga taong hubad sa karapatang pangtao, sa mga api at inaalipusta ng lipunang bulag sa kakulangan ng Liwanag at tamad sa mga gawaing nagbibigay buhay sa tao at dangal sa mga bansa ng tao.

Sa bansa nating Pilipinas, Pilipino, magi kang tunay na matapat, maka-Diyos, at makatao. Ikaw ay matutong magsilbi ng mahusay at maligaya.

Walang taong nabubuhay para sa sarili lamang. Walang taong naliligtas dahil sa sarili lamang.

Gawin mo ito ng buong tapang at nang may pananalig sa Katotohanang ang Diyos ay Diyos - wala Siyang katulad at wala nang iba pang diyos maliban sa Kanya.

Hindi relihiyon ang problema, hindi dahil sa tayo ay marami at may iba't ibang kulay, boses, pangarap at pag-iisip ay wala na tayong saysay bilang bansang Pilipinas.

Ang bansa po natin ay itinatag po hindi ng tao kundi ng Diyos para sa tao. Lahat po ng mga ito ay ginawa ng Diyos para sa atin na rin.

Ang ating kasaysayan ay binigyang hugis ng Diyos - lahat ng mga sakit, lumbay, paghihirap, at mga tagumpay nito - upang tayo ay Kanyang akaying unti-unti patungo sa panahong atin na nagayong inaangkin at dapat pangalagaan.

Dahil ito po ay panahon na natin para magising sa mga katotohanang ito.

Ang puso ng Pilipinas ay iisa lamang, Pilipino.

Kung ito ay ating tatanggapin, pangangalagaan at pauunlarin, sa Ngalan na rin ng PANGINOON na Diyos nating lahat, mga kapatid ko, ay walang dahilan para hindi tayo umunlad at umani ng tagumpay.

Masdan mong maiigi ang puso ng ating mga bayani, Pilipino.

Masdan mong maigi ang kagandan, kagitingan, galing at pagmamahal sa kapwa na nabubuhay sa mga puso nila Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, GomBurZa, Gregorio del Pilar, Apolinario Mabini, Emilio Jacinto, Ramon Magsaysay, Ninoy Aquino, atbp. masdan mo ito, mga kapwa ko kapatid sa pangako sapagka't ang pusong ito ay puso mo rin.

Ipinagdasadal ko, kapatid kong Pilipino, na iyong pagninilaynilayan ang tawag ng ating panahon.

Hanapin mo ang Diyos at nawa'y makita at malaman mong muli kung sino ka talaga, Pilipino. Hindi po ito madali. Pero wala na pong makagagawa nito para sa bayang Pilipinas kundi tayo lamang, Pilipino - ikaw at ako.

Ang bayan natin ay lupain ng pangako. Marahil po ay hindi na rin natin makikita at masisilayan ang katuparan ng marami sa mga pangakong ito. Pero kung hindi natin sisimulan ito - naghahari ba talaga ang Diyos sa puso natin? Kilala ba natin talaga ang Pilipinas na ating bansang nagmamahal at naghihirap ngayon.

Mahal mo ba talaga ang Pilipinas - totoo ba siya sa iyo?

Maglalaho po nawa lahat ng balakid, O Diyos, para sa ating mga Pilipino.

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Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! Mabuhay ang Pilipino.

Mapalad ang Bayan na ang Diyos ay ang PANGINOON.