[This is my Valentines post for this year. We are always looking out for love from our partner and from other people. We oftentimes forget a basic truth about love: that it starts with loving yourself, or it doesn't work. - editor] While many of us look for love from a partner and mate, we … Continue reading Falling In Love With Yourself
The Child That Holds Us Back
It took me a long time to figure out why I, and so many others, have difficulties changing habits and making lasting changes in our lives. It all comes down to a little child. And that child lives within each of us. I had a hard time quitting smoking in 2005, because I really didn’t … Continue reading The Child That Holds Us Back
Adultery
In our zeal, we drag a woman caught in adultery and show her shame for all the world to see. We are incensed by what she has done, indignant at the disgrace she has brought upon herself and us. We ask the Lord to pronounce the sentence she deserves. And pronounce we must our stand … Continue reading Adultery
Be a Better Buyer–And A Much Better Person–This New Year!
We live in a world that has become a world of purchase, and acquisition, and one-man upship. Who has the biggest, the many-est, the cutest, the most expensive, has become a symbol of status that confuses us into thinking that how people perceive us is who we are. We can sometimes believe our own hype, … Continue reading Be a Better Buyer–And A Much Better Person–This New Year!
The Yardstick of Success
At the beginning of every year, people often look back…some with a cheer and some with a sigh. If you have been sighing because you feel you have not advanced in life as much as you would have wanted to, then maybe this piece is for you. I believe that the measure of success varies … Continue reading The Yardstick of Success
Jealousy and Suffering
Most of us deal with jealousy in some form, and when it comes up, it’s never pretty. It might be jealousy when your girlfriend seems interested in someone else, or when one of your best friends becomes close with someone else, or when your parents give a lot of attention to your sibling, or when … Continue reading Jealousy and Suffering
Home
I grew up in a home where my mother had a devotion to the Sto. Niño. This meant that there was a statue (or two or three) of him in every bedroom, a calendar that highlighted the days of his novena on all our walls, and a small white relic of sorts in all our … Continue reading Home
Amaze Him with Your Faith!
There are only a few moments in the Bible when people amazed God with their faith. There was the Samaritan woman who compared herself to a “dog” and was willing to “eat the crumbs from the master’s table”. There were the friends of the paralytic who displayed relentless faith by boring a hole through the … Continue reading Amaze Him with Your Faith!
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