Sunday, May 24, 2009

Why Were We Given Fathers?


Why would a Father love his children so willingly and so unconditionally? Why would He go out of his way to conquer everything just to show his children that He cares so much for them?
There are no words to best describe His love just as there are no words that can define the origin of the universe. It is simply beyond human comprehension, a matter of faith for every man, woman and child. Arrogance is the word for people who would even dare to define it!
Nevertheless, the most we could do to describe His love is to witness its results in our lives.
From the first day we born, our Father defied the world to provide us food on the table, and sometimes even went to the extent of giving his share of bread to us during rough times. When we were young, He taught us how to walk, and more importantly He taught us how to play. Time and again, He would help us solve our homework and help prepare breakfast for us even if He was busy. He would walk us to school and help us carry our school bags everyday until we grew strong enough to walk to school alone and carry our school bags ourselves. He would give us sound advice in almost everything we encountered, especially in our darkest hours. Sometimes, He would march out to protect us from our enemies and often bail us out from the mess we would inflict upon others and ourselves. Ultimately, He helped us achieve the impossible.

Where then would we be without His love? Nowhere. What would we be without His love? Nothing.
No one else but our Father guided us in our life's journey. Even a bicycle can bring you to places, especially when our Father rides beside us. The journey, after all, is more important than the destination.
Here and there, we often ignore the result of His love in our lives. The fact that we breathe is proof enough of how much He loves us. Because of this love, we were given the chance to make a difference in our dying world.
Shouldn't we share this unconditional love with our children, so that they, too, can make a difference in their life's journey?
Think about it.

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My wife and I decided to bring our four year old child, Rochelle Marie, to Baguio last Saturday, and as expected, she enjoyed the city, the climate, the horses, and most especially the people. We hope to teach her much about Filipino culture, especially the Ifugao and Igorot cultures, before their customs and traditions fade away into history and are replaced by television, video games, and rock and roll. These senior citizens charged us Php 130 pesos (10 pesos each) for the photo because they really needed money, as they have no other sources of income. Their ancestral lands were either sold or taken away from them many years ago and I doubt if our government is doing anything to help them out today. They really need our help. So, go to Baguio whenever you can and visit them. - Baguio City, May 2, 2009

Snippets: Sports and Children

Any sport teaches kids the values of discipline, perseverance, courage, humility, obedience, patience, and most of all, cooperation and love, values that take a longer time to develop within the four walls of a university classroom.

This is why schools and universities all over the world have already recognized Olympic Sports as more effective ways to develop a child's Bodily-Kinesthetic, Spatial, Interpersonal and Intrapersonal intelligences. (There are seven multiple intelligences known to man.)

Perhaps, this is the reason why many child athletes tend to be great leaders when they grow up. Primary Examples: 1.U.S. President Obama plays basketball; 2. Russian President Vladimir Putin plays Judo. He holds an advanced blackbelt degree in this martial art and sport; 3. England's Margaret Thatcher played hockey and swimming earlier in her life; 4. Governor Arnold Swarzenneger is a competitive bodybuilder; 5. And Saint John Paul II, the late Pope and Holy Father of the Holy Catholic Church, played skiing, swimming, cayaking, boxing and mountaineering.

So, introduce your kids to sports. It is worth it.
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