THIS IS A belated benediction that, thanks to the retreat-book (one of three) “Consoling the Heart of Jesus” Ate Myla lent me, has opened wide my eyes, heart, mind, body and soul... Read more
LIFE GETS BETTER when one takes nothing for granted. Last Sunday, I was almost totally frustrated by a lost yahoo account caused by slippery fingers and other untechie factors (for which, th... Read more
THERE WERE FOUR fireflies last Sunday night. The first two were flying independently of the others while the second pair seemed like a couple, blinking in unison and in parallel flight until... Read more
MYRNA’S CONCERN FOR our Kasambahay Cita’s sick son, Renzo, melted me. Clearly a mother-to-mother stimulus, the driven two didn’t stop until they went to his sweatshop in Li... Read more
BECAUSE ARMED WITH the Bible, my solitary, spiritual sojourn is always accompanied by our Father. Where before I’d post my daily scriptural with a hidden, vain, hypocritical purpose of... Read more
THE THREE-DAY PREPARATION for Pray40Days (tremendous thanks to Ate Myla), delivered what it promised (and what she hinted at). From the overview to the five Ps of prayer (Place, Posture, Pre... Read more
SPEAKING OF HEALING, it is not a source of shame to admit the areas of your life where you walked wounded. There were ample portions of my past that, unable to reconcile with people who pers... Read more
WHO WOULD HAVE thought I could go cold turkey for three months? When, not too long ago, my libation outings were unabated weekly, give or take a sudden, “justified” occasion that... Read more
AS FAR AS crime is concerned, I can never hold a candle to Fr. Donald Calloway’s record. The Episcopalian convert is quite open about his checkered past and the attribute endeared him... Read more
