"Unless you become like little children, you can not enter the Kingdom of Heaven." [Mat 18:3] I’ve heard this many times in the past, and I’ve been asking myself why becoming like children is the “key” to entering Heaven. What does that even mean? Theologians can say many things but this is my personal take, … Continue reading Children
Joyfear
The moment my first daughter Chloe was born, I was filled with an overpowering joy — she was a living miracle! I was also filled with soul-trembling fear — here was a fragile new life, entrusted into my incompetent hands. It was overwhelming, this mixture of two powerful emotions. I call it Joyfear. Copyright pending. … Continue reading Joyfear
The Perfect Fit
God will complete you… He is the spoon to your fork; the bow to your arrow; the right to your left shoe; the racket to your ball; the shield to your sword; the lyrics to your melody. Go ahead. Don’t take my word for it. Experiment. Spend your whole life searching for that one thing … Continue reading The Perfect Fit
The Time to Shut Down
In our lives immersed in technology, we rarely shut everything off. We turn on when we wake up, and are on our devices until we go to sleep. And every hour in between. I’m not immune to this. Very few people these days are. And yet, there’s value in shutting everything down, so that we … Continue reading The Time to Shut Down
Lost
For crying out loud, it was just one sheep, one sheep that was lost. And the shepherd leaves the ninety-nine and goes all out in search of that one sheep? The Lord says, “What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and … Continue reading Lost
Doctor, Doctor
At one brief moment in my life I wanted to be a doctor. Then I found out how long doctors actually stayed in school. And how much work they actually put in. And how they got to work with cadavers in med school and deal with the sight of blood every day. And that was … Continue reading Doctor, Doctor
What is That You Carry?
What is that you carry? A luggage of worries? Filled to the brim. Of what could be or what might. Of what isn’t yet and what could never be. Worry. It makes you blind of your present blessings as you worry about the yet unseen curse which may never take place at all. Or is … Continue reading What is That You Carry?
Metamorphosis
I wrote the original (Filipino) version many years ago, for my philo professor, Fr. Roque Ferriols. The english version I wrote recently in a fit of inspiration during the storm Maring that devastated the whole of Metro Manila, the Philippines. I had written it in a fit of inspiration while watching a moth fly near … Continue reading Metamorphosis
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