A Quote for the Day

God's generosity and glory are most profound in the sight of people who have developed their natural gifts and talents to the utmost. Only a beautiful God can create such beautiful people with beautiful gifts, distinct yet awesome even in that distinctness.

In misfortune opportunity still abounds, at times even more than anyone is prepared to take on. This thought came to me while watching the PSEi dropped today as AGI became the most active stock and giving investors enough return on investments to rival even that of usurious microlenders. Ironically, it went back up before the market closed. Opportunity taken?

Love does not wait to be asked to give. When it sees the need, it simply gives anytime, anywhere. This thought came to me today while driving on South Reclamation Project towards Minglanilla around past 2 pm. The kids were asleep, exhausted from their morning periodical exams. And the sun was punishingly scorching. Then a thin cloud appeared to cover the sun, giving all of us driving that very minute for a long enough stretch throughout the reclamation area. This gave us a sunny sky but with subdued light enriched with strong gusts of wind from the sea. Isn't God such a greatly loving Father to us that moment?

You will know people who truly love you when you see them with you in the worst times of your life. (photo: Christopher Erney Sculpture Studio )

We understand others well only when we understand ourselves better.

A bird is not a bird because it has wings. It has wings because it is a bird. So even if a bird loses its wings, it will still remain a bird though without wings. In the same way... A man is not a man because he got scrotum and penis. He got scrotum and penis because he is a man. So even if man removes his scrotum and penis, he is still a man. In the same way, a woman is a woman not because she got a womb and a vagina. She got a womb and a vagina because she is a woman. So even if she had her womb and vagina removed, she is still a woman.

The best leaders we ever find among us have all these three--intelligence, energy and integrity. But remove integrity, and you find the worst crook there will ever be.