Friday, December 10, 2004

The Signs of Time


The guy in a red suit with a print on its back- "EARTHQUAKE!" and a ROD like Moses warns me that the end of time is coming! The thought of it really makes me think of what ifs? It alarms me with the possibility of everything-- the questions of where we are now in the journey from the past. Do you get me? Can you imagine a man like that whom I am seeing almost three times a week passing by the road going to my work? He is a warning per se. Where does he gets his guts to do that, different from the ways of the missionaries who preaches and helps the people? It's just his message, that the end might be coming, that counts...frequently... What does he mean? Any hidden message? outburst?

I just knew,God is merciful...the final message of Our Lady of Fatima...God's messages to Sr. Faustina...and many more.

Natural calamities like typhoons (the Philippines was just hit by several typhoons and cyclones, which killed many, left people homeless, struck by illnesses and destroyed their source of living.) are coming almost frequently..How does people like them see the color of life after those experiences? In the other part of the world, what can you feel about them? What can you see in the scenario where the survivors of the typhoons had survived from drinking there own urine after several days of being trapped inside the ruins? Aren't you affected by these?


I have a story to tell you, which really made my heart broken...like in Africa, malnourished children had managed to drink cow's urine or its manure, leaking directly from the cow's ass while the shit! is coming out in order for there tiny stomach to receive something to digest. In Metro Manila, a grandma is waiting every night for the "basurero" to arrive to buy the leftovers of fried chicken from Jolibee and McDonalds that they packed. She washes and boils them at night and then in the morning, adding a vinegar to remove the smell she fries them, and then distributes them to her six waiting grandchildren...

Can you spoil food now from your table having known that our brothers, especially little children in many parts of the world are now living like this? Some people are lucky even if they have a low fat diet, low salt, low sugars, vegetarian, after 6, or a South Beach diet..How could we manage to complain when in fact there are many of us who are living as if they are the lowest form of animals-- Well, some animals really are receiving foods better than these children... I know someone who feed his dog with a corned beef or especially prepared food for them.

This is just an issue on poverty..How about on war and peace, prostitution, etc. Can we think of something to just ease the pain of our brothers, the little children or at least to contribute cleaning the world. Well, we can't do it overnight though, but it's better to start now, if these pinched your heart. Can you figure out where problems like these came from? Or can you consider that these are the results of the cruelty of our society...hardheadedness of man...MAN MADE...and the natural calamities are punishment? Aren't these signs of time?

We ask, what is God's promise to us?



1 comment:

Tinggay said...

naks! no need to edit ba.. convincing!