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Maaaring ngayon ko lang napansin, kanina ay isang umaga na nakakapanibago.

Ang Mamang suki kong tindero ng taho sa kanto ay wala sa kanyang puesto kanina kaya di ko natikman ang tinda niyang mainit na taho. Kanina lang ba siya lumiban? Noong nakararaan kasi hindi ko naman napapansin kung liban nga siya.

Ibig bang sabihin nito kaya ko siya napansing nawawala, parte na siya ng buhay ko? Pinagdugtong ng tinda niyang taho ang buhay naming dalawa?

Sa kanyang pagkawala, ilang magagandang posibilidad ang pumasok sa aking isipan na maaaring kadahilanan ng kanyang hindi pagkakaroon ng pagkakataong magtinda ng taho sa araw na ito.

Maaaring sumugod siya sa ……..

1. Comelec upang alamin kung sino na nga ang “official winners” sa eleksyon na ginanap isa’t kalahating buwan na ang nakararaan.

2. Comelec para malaman kung bakit itinigil ang napakabilis ng desisyon na isuspend ang bilangan ng boto sa Binan, at napakahirap namang desisyunan na isupend ang bilangan sa Maguindanao.

3. Maguindanao para kunin ang celphone number ni Lintang Bedol at ipaalam ito sa taga Comelec.

4. Maguindanao para malaman kung magkahawig nga ang pagmumukha ni Garci at ni Bedol.

5. Bahay ni kuya para bumili ng “plastic” at ibenta na ang mga ito sa junk shop kung saan sila ay nararapat.

Baka sakali, bukas may tindang taho na sa kanto.

This blog’s title was inspired by Jackson Browne’s song.
One of his songs I particularly liked was titled My Personal Revenge.
Originally written by Tomas Borge, a Sandinista who was blindfolded and tortured for 18 months in Somoza’s jails and whose wife was gang-raped and murdered by soldiers in his presence.

Yet, in Christianity and Revolution, Borge stated…….
“After having been brutal tortured as a prisoner,
after having a hood placed over my head for nine months,
after having been handcuffed for seven months,
I remember that when we captured these torturers I told them:
‘The hour of my revenge has come: we will not do you even the slightest harm. You did not believe us beforehand; now you will believe us.’ That is our philosophy, our way of being.”

The song as translated in English by Jose Calderon:

My personal revenge will be the right
Of our children in the schools and in the gardens
My personal revenge will be to give you
This song which has flourished without panic
My personal revenge will be to show you
The kindness in the eyes of my people
Who have always fought relentlessly in battle
And been generous and firm in victory

My personal revenge will be to tell you good morning
On a street without beggars or homeless
When instead of jailing you I suggest
You shake away the sadness there that blinds you
And when you who have applied your hands in torture
Are unable to look up at what surrounds you
My personal revenge will be to give you
These hands that once you so mistreated
But have failed to take away their tenderness

It was the people who hated you the most
When rage became the language of their song
And underneath the skin of this town today
Its heart has been scarred forevermore

It was the people who hated you the most
When rage became the language of their song
And underneath the skin of this town today
Its heart has been scarred forevermore
And underneath the skin of this town today
Red and black, its hearts been scarred
Forevermore.

To this I say, Revenge is just.

Truly, wisdom is without measure.

This Is What Friends Are For

Jun 19th, 2007 by Bro. Eli

http://esoriano.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/this-is-what-friends-are-for/

From: Ana

Email: megumi3007@yahoo.com

How can we maintain a friendship according to the bible?

Dear Ana,

In this world, the only thing permanent is change (thus, the saying goes).

Maintaining friendship with anybody entails a lot of guts, patience, and understanding. It is almost impossible to have a permanent friend in human society today. But what is impossible under human standards is possible with God.

When I was in elementary school, I have learned a proverb that says: “Make new friends, but don’t forget the old; for new ones are silver, and the old ones are gold”. Biblically speaking, friends can be part of the inheritance from fathers.

(Proverbs 27:10) “Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.”

But how can we preserve friendship? We must know whom to befriend and the factors that will destroy the friendship! The God of the Bible defines for us a true friend.

(Proverbs 18:24) “There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” RSV

The closeness of a true friend is enduring.

(Proverbs 17:17) “A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”

A true friend’s criticism may hurt, but it is a sign of a true friend.

(Proverbs 27:6) “Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.”

I have been following these examples set by the Bible regarding friendship, but those who do not understand, when I speak with frankness and truthfulness, with the intention to correct a beloved friend, sometimes turn to be a bitter enemy. If only people can see the heart, I should have made more friends than enemies. It happened to the apostles of Christ.

(Galatians 4:16-17) “Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good. What they want is to alienate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.” NIV

There is a Spanish proverb that says, “El enemigo peor es él que era una vez un amigo” (The worst enemy is he who was once a friend). Beware! Do not make enemies out of friends, but make friends out of enemies.

(1 Corinthians 9:20-23) “And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.”

Beware, also, of the words of a talebearer!

(Proverbs 16:28) “A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.”

If you want to maintain friendship, apply to yourself the virtues and values of a true friend. Do not expect it from your friend alone, it must be symbiotic. Jesus taught His disciples the greatest friendship attainable among human beings.

(John 15:13-15) “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.”

The Disciples of Christ applied this friendship among brethren.

(3 John 1:4) “But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name.”

Enduring friendship is attainable in the Church of God. Jesus and His disciples are the best of friends anybody can have.

God Bless,

EFS

In Friendster’s term, today i was born. Me along with 4 co- employees got to plant 16 trees today. A way of contributing to our environment. But a bigger  feeling of reaching out is in me for some time now. Been searching for a place to share. Today, Friendster it is!