Many events, sad to say, more sad than happy ones, all teaching moments but can our heads and hearts cope?
Let us begin with calamities that seem to have no end in coming and leaving every victim, haggardly devastated:
In Mindanao, Typhoon Sendong is noteworthy.Volunteers somehow keep the fire of hope burning but as Mindanaoan has attested, they are becoming fewer everyday and with different agenda they alone can tell. Teacher'steacher was witness to the genuine service given by a small group of friends who pitched eleven to fifteen tents with love. We met the the foreigners who compose All Hands Volunteers who go around the world to empower disaster victims to move on. Being a senior citizen who blogs under Malaybalayan.blogspot.com we were spared the physical strain so what we did was to pray for the safety of all those who spent the whole day pitching tents for others.While this scenario was before me, the teaching moment becomes the learning moment.
While Cagayan de Oro City and Iligan City are still not yet fully healed from their losses come 6.9 earthquake in the Visayas especially in Negros Oriental last Monday, February 6, 2012. Our hearts are lost again with words how to mourn with the victims. We could only pray. God alone is their strength because the agencies of government say they are doing their best but we know better . . . a teaching moment indeed and a learning realization of the lack of genuine care from fellows as against God's promise of things of heaven not of earth.
One only has to "google" to find out what is happening all over the world and you will agree that unless we consciously make it happen, there are just more things to cry over, worry over than to rejoice and celebrate.
So do we agree that with all the many things, the many events there are also many teaching moments . . . while the learning moment depends on you!
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