There once was a lady who was afraid to read messages her hubby sent her. She was weary of reading criticisms and ‘reprimands’, she would erase these messages without reading them so the argument would
On May 1, 1984, I started my first day at work (right after college) and met a girl in Bustillos St, Legarda, where we both (took the company service van to) go to work. What
Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it. –Proverbs 22:6 There is a Chinese saying: 饮水思源。The literal translation is: 饮(drink)水(water)思(think)源 (source), or
. . . and Joshua said to them, “Cross again to the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his shoulder,
The Christian life is to be lived in the realities of daily life and in the public arena. In our family, the work-a-day world, and in the other spheres of life, we seek to be
The One Thing… necessary and good… which shall not be taken away… what is it? Luke 10:38-42Now as they were traveling along, He entered a village; and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her
When my dad passed away, a friend said to me at the wake: Lubusan ka ng naulila. (Now you are truly orphaned.) Yes, indeed, I became a middle-aged orphan. Let me share my thoughts as
(written 12.18.2020 at the height of Covid, months after my m.i.l. passed away. There was no wake, no memorial service, no eulogy, just cremation the morning after.) If you were to ask me for my
A-bi, di yah bo ui-h ah o? (A-bi, you’re so busy)Our house guest said this to me many times for the past 3 days. Yes, it was hectic – buying and giving, eating and meeting…
大家早安. Good morning, everyone. Magandang umaga! Buenos dias! Bonjour! Ho tsa khi.. that’s Hokkien.. but we don’t really do that.. greet people in Hokkien with good morning – except for occasions when we, the Tsinoy