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Just a Spoonful Think a minute…In 1919, just after World War I, the cholera disease broke out all over Europe killing many thousands of people. The British government sent doctors all over the world to find a cure for cholera. These doctors later came back and said that the Chinese did not get cholera because they boiled their water before they used it. Soon all the radios and newspapers in England were telling everyone to boil their water before they drink it. They even sent this message to the Pacific Islands since they had British soldiers there. Yet later, they heard that the cholera disease had still broken out in the islands killing many thousands of Islanders. The British leaders questioned the people in the island villages and asked them if they were boiling their water? The Islanders answered yes, they definitely were boiling their water to drink. But this is how they did it. They boiled just a small amount of water and put it in a bottle. Then only once or twice a day, they would get the bottle and drink a small teaspoon of the boiled water, like taking medicine. Then they would put the bottle away again and the rest of the day they drank unboiled, dirty water. No wonder people still
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Jhan Tiafau Hurst got cholera and died! Yet many of us do that with Jesus Christ. We don’t want to live Jesus’ way every day, so we go to church one day a week to feel better about ourselves. Then we go back to living our own way the other 6 days of the week. Or, if we’re not religious church people, we think that if we’re a good, kind person, then God will accept us into heaven after we die. But just like 1 teaspoon of clean water a day will not keep you healthy, only 1 day a week of living for Jesus Christ, or just trying to be a good person, is not even close to our Maker’s standard of pure goodness. The only kind of goodness God can live together with is perfect, pure goodness of all our thoughts, motives, words, and actions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Think a Minute…
Life’s Quintessence Almost 16 years ago, a good friend of mine gave me a book written by the Establisher and founder of the Scottish Free Church, Thomas Chalmers, who lived from 1780-1847. During this time, I resided already in the Philippines for go o d and d i d s ome marketing work in the former Bishop Thibault Media Center near the San Pablo Church in Juna Subdivision in Davao City, while writing a column for the Catholic Herald and hosting radio shows for the former DXGN 89.9 FM “Good News Radio”. Chalmers treated life’s quintessence with plenty flowering words. Yes, don’t be afraid and do live for something... ! Human beings live, move and have to pass away - free from worries, but unknown and unnoticed. They live such an irreproachable
life - reputable, but so i n c o mp r e h e n s i b l e a n d inscrutable. Chalmers was very right... . Why do people live like that even knowing they have to leave the platform of life one day? Why are people sometimes afraid to live and allow something or someone to block themselves? Still in my mind is one statement of Brother Francis Castro from the Little Brothers of Jesus. I quoted it several times already and it really became my life’s motto: “I feel the burning flame inside me that makes me jump out of the bed ... and hurry to work!” Life’s quintessence can be also this: Kindness, by helping the blind man crossing a street; hospitality, by practicing generous re c e pt i on of st r ange rs and guests (my very first impression, when I step on
Philippine soil in June 1976!); helpfulness, by taking care of somebody, who is weak and dependent... . Believe me: your moment of virtue will never be destroyed by time’s storm. Henri Nouwen, a devotional writer and speaker, whom I also admire very much, spent two hours daily bathing, shav ing , dressing , and feeding a man, who was so profoundly could not speak or walk. Very clear, in that daily act of loving, Nouwen exemplified the compassion and sacrifice of Christ. Love and mercifully actions shared with people, who cross our path - and nobody will forget us. In our daily life, we do have plenty of situations, where we could show our real calling. Good deeds are shining like stars from heaven. Deeds of love and service may not seem to be an efficient use of time
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and energy, but they are never wasted. Our lifef doesn’t run clock-counter-wise. The clock’s hands are the time dictators of everyone. So: do live for something! +++ Email: dor ingklau s@ gmail.com, or follow me in Facebook or Twitter or visit www.germanexpatinthephilippines.blogspot.com or www. klausdoringsclassicalmusic. blogspot.com.
PNoy gets zero satisfaction rating LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “For lack of guidance a nation falls… My people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path…” (Proverbs 11:14, Isaiah 3: 12, the Holy Bible). -ooo METRO MANILANS GIVE PNOY ZERO SATISFACTION RATING: D i d you s e e t he l ate st sur ve y resu lts rele as e d by t h e S o c i a l We at h e r Station (SWS) on President Aquino’s satisfaction rating culled from a nationwide poll conducted between March 30 to April 02, 2016? The resu lts are simply phenomenal because they showed that Aquino got “zero” satisfaction rating in Metro Manila, from a high of +32 for the same period last year. N o w, w h a t d o e s t h is me an ? T he “z e ro” satisfaction rating of Aquino in the National Capital Region reflects total rejection by Metro Manilans of anything that Aquino has said, has done, or is supporting, particularly in the presidential and vicepresidential elections on May 09 (please see http:// www.bomboradyo.com/… /147166-p-noy-satisfactionratin…). As far as I can recall, this “zero” satisfaction rating given by citizens of the National Capital Region to Aquino is the worst rating
ever given to any president of the Philippines. No other Philippine president has ever received such a “zero” rating in Metro Manila, including former President Arroyo who was even hounded by very serious graft and corruption accusations by her detractors. -ooo REASONS WHY PNOY GOT ZERO SATISFACTION RATING: Why did Metro Mani lans g ive a “zero” satisfaction rating to Aquino? The answer is not difficult to decipher, actually. First of all, almost all of them already know that Aquino is truly a nonp e r f o r m i n g p r e s i d e nt , who cannot boast of any accomplishment during his six-year presidency. What is worse is that, calamities and tragedies relentlessly struck our country during the whole time that Aquino was our leader. Second, crime and criminality soared to their highest levels from 2010 to 2016. In 2010, there were 324,083 crime incidents that were reported in the c ou nt r y. In 2 0 1 3 , t h i s figured nearly quadrupuled to more than a million crime incidents reported to the police, even if tampering of blotters to hide crime reports was unearthed in 2012. Then, pork barrel spending, as authorized
by the Aquino government, reached an all-time high of P20 billion a year since 2011, whereas pork barrel under the Arroyo government was only at P9 billion a year. Many believe that the big chunk of this P20 billion pork actually went to lawmakers who followed Aquino’s orders to oust then Chief Justice Renato Corona. -ooo SO ON, PNOY WILL A L S O Z E R O R AT I N G FROM WHOLE RP: But that was not all. Rampant smuggling flourished during all of Aquino’s term and according to the records of the International Monetary Fund, the value of smuggled go o ds in 2014 re ache d US$26.6 billion, or roughly P1.5 trillion, from only US$ 7.9 billion under Arroyo’s term. Smuggling killed all locally-grown or locally produced goods and crops, thereby making life more difficult for the farmers and the fisherfolk among u s . Ju e t e n g a n d o t h e r illegal numbers game which fleeced Filipinos of their hard-earned incomes proliferated, largely because t he f ig ht against t hes e illegal games was given to a buddy of Aquino and taken away from a known jueteng fighter, the late Jesse Robredo. There’s more, of course.
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Atty. Batas Mauricio But the point in all these is that, Metro Manilans are now very much aware of the true state of the nation under Aquino, what with their constant exposure now to social networking sites that freely publish accurate information of what is happening. I am sure it is not going to be long before Aquino gets a similar “zero” satisfaction rating from the whole country, not just from Metro Manila. -ooo PLEASE LISTEN: “Ang Tanging Daan” (The Sole Way): a Bible study and prayer session online could now be heard, 24 H O U R S a d ay, i n t h e Philippines and the world at w w w. f a c e b o o k . c om / angtangingdaan or www. facebook.com/ANDKNK (and look for “Ang Tanging Daan” broadcasts). Phone: 0922 833 43 96, 0918 574 0193, 0977 805 9058. Email: batasmauricio@yahoo.com.
One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it’s making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it’s the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you’re dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you. -- reid hoffman ,
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