Teacher's teacher

Today has a different meaning depending on where you are situated in the globe: others are a day ahead while others are a day late and this alone leaves you to do the research why? 

This is the word for this blog: WHY? These are some of the whys that will make or unmake you, help or destroy a person's life:

One: Why are some people very rich they have a hard time thinking how to spend it? Why are others facing the whole country, like the Ligot couple of the Philippines, answer or not answer whether they owned houses in Los Angeles or Canada etcetera; whether they have millions of dollars or pesos out of their sweat or out of their escapades legal or illegal - still in court to be settled -. Why Mr. and Mrs. Ligot can  sit there in the Senate hearings for weeks now and look at people and smile or laugh along the way with every other Filipino gnawing or biting their tongues how to control themselves not to throw anything directed to the tv hoping it will hit you?

Two: Why are many people very poor they have to become "drug mules" or rob or scavenge or stare at the sky hoping for manna from heaven or become crazy or killers or commit suicide? Why are Sally Ordinario, Ramon Credoand Elizabeth Batain today, March 30,  awaiting their execution in a foreign country,  Beijing, China, when there some proofs according to some sources, that they are victims of drug syndicates? "3 Filipino Drug mules" they are called.An additional information has just  surfaced that in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, there are about 70 Filipinos who are also facing execution, why? why? why? Back to the 3 Filipino mules awaiting execution: the promulgation of the verdict  will happen at 9:45 A.M. Beijing, China and the time now is 8:16 A.M. Our heart goes out to  the children, the parents and relatives and every Filipino who are praying ardently, hoping for a miracle that only the hand of God can bestow. We have only God to rely on for the Chinese government has already said its piece, that the Chinese government is hard on Drug peddlers. Only God knows why Ordinario, Credo and Batain are embroiled in such a dangerous situation it has come to this consequence: death by lethal injection.

Three: Why is there death penalty in China and other countries when by now it is common knowledge that even heinous crimes are not eradicated by death penalty. Criminals, after all, are human beings whose lives are given by God and no country - superpower or not - can take away a person's life which is not its property in the first place. There are many schools of thought about death penalty but there is no question about who has given life to man: the Creator or God, the Author of Life!

These are just some of the whys that Teacher's teacher would like to reflect upon. Many more whys will be dealt with in the succeeding blogs. 

In the meantime, let us take a moment or so to observe silence, bow our heads and offer prayers for our co-filipinos whose lives are in the hands of the Chinese "justice" system. May God be with you more than ever . . .