This blog condoles the Japanese government and the Japanese people for the devastation and lose of lives and properties they suffer from the effects of a massive earthquake and tsunami.
While monitoring the global community and our archipelago when tsunami warning was in effect, the world stood still and I am sure many prayed.
I must be honest and I do apologize.
While spending time before the internet and television, I laughed sarcastically not because of the devastation and human suffering of our Japanese neighbor but the deep lethargy of man who is only awaken when God “speaks”.
It is Lent, a time to reflect the Paschal mysteries in which our Lord proved that he truly love us by dying on the cross unconditionally and willingly with open arms. If the Lord is really a loving God, why the 8.9 destructive quake and tsunami?
I am not a Theologian and I don’t assume to be one but our finite mind cannot comprehend the infinite will of God. The Lord surely has a message. And the message reminds us how powerful He is that no one can stop Him. At the same time He invites us to go back to Him.
Our country, still fresh from Ondoy and Pepeng nightmares know what flood is. Together in the last 12 hours or so, as a people and as a nation chaining together through Prayer Power, once more, we were one. We deep gratitude, the Philippines is spared.
Prayer works and is so powerful.
Going back to my sarcastic laugh which I again apologize, it is foolish to only know God when danger is at the tip of the nose. In good times in bad., we take refuge in Him. Christ alone can listen and act to our needs (forget the government and government officials) with mercy and compassion.
How would one, accused of stealing millions of pesos and properties, murder and other grievous sins again man feel when a seven-foot tsunami is just several meters away from his mansion that he stole and has nowhere to go? Would he think first how to safeguard his stolen wealth or ask God’s forgiveness? In that hypothetical scene, in a matter of minutes if not seconds, everything that he worked for hardly through graft and corruption; his life and of his family are to be called history.
The moral is that one should be always ready to face an incorruptible Justice and material wealth cannot save anyone.
This is the first Friday of Lent. As a brotherly reminder to our corrupt officials and those living as if there is no more God, please do an examination of conscience and search your soul (if you believe in soul) that life is short compared with an infinite glory or damnation.
As we walk on our Lenten Journey, we Filipinos must be contented that Christ knows the meaning of suffering. He was homeless; he was rejected, falsely accused and murdered. His closest friends were the poor --- simple fishermen --- one of them ask Him, “Where do we go? You have the words of eternal life?”
“Despite our lukewarm attitude and sinfulness, thank you very much for sparing our country and please continue to do so from the hands of our fellow Filipinos.”
To Japan and our Japanese friends, all we can share is our prayers. We are a third world country.
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