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Dear darlingest Miyang Marie,

Hi love! People might wonder why I call you "love" and I am sure that from many of them, we'll get somewhat different reactions.

The thing is in our present world today, my darlingest, carnal love and spiritual love have become so indistinct that when a guy like me and a girl like you, who are not related by blood, come to relate to each other on intimate terms, the world immediately thinks of carnal love and carnal love alone. You know what's in my heart for you, my Miyang and God knows what we have with each other - and it's immensely more than carnal love.

Which brings us to the topic at hand tomorrow. Tomorrow is Valentine's day and it is a day about love, my love. Tomorrow, we shall try and share our insights about love and other matters of the human heart, eh, my Miyang Marie.

Now on to other things. As you know, I've started working again this week and I am so grateful to God and to my company for granting me an opportunity to be useful in the material economy of our nations, my nation most especially - the Philippines. I know I am just a small cog in the machine but in our present age, unlike in the last age, it is more important to put significance on the cogs, big as well as small, of the machine rather than the machine itself because that way, you will know what the whole machine is for.

Because of my work, I haven't been able to write as much as I would like to about things that are wide-ranging but then again, we should all be able to rest in each our own sufficiency and rely on the good of other people as well as in our Almighty God for the rest. No one here is a one man band, right?

Anyway, here are some of the topics that I was pondering on and off during the last five days, my love: A Call to Religious Vocations, Children of War, On Provincial Pride, An Address to the Graduates of 2009, Military Culture in the Information Age, and of course, Israel and Palestine, Jerusalem and the Peace Process: Four distinct positions that must be significantly understood and in the scale of the wholes, given a planetary importance.

The nation-state of modern Israel, my love is different from our elder Israel in that modern Israel comprise the current population of the present nation-state of Israel as well as all of their minority constituents within the protectorate sphere of their endeavor of Country, but our elder Israel is the Jewish nation of old as a whole in their present day form. Both manifestations of Israel are native to the one Jewish lineage of hope - to see our elder Israel safely through to the shores of forever - however, only elder Israel belongs to the one Abrahamic promise for she is an integral part of the one vanguard (along with all Christian Churches and the one honorable Ummah of Islam) of that present hope for peace of the one family of the nations of mankind of which modern Israel belongs. This distinction must be clearly understood, my love, at least among those peoples of the Abrahamic promise in general and those within those peoples who are called to awaken to the same promise of old on behalf of suffering humanity.

Every nation in this present day all descend from that one lineage of hope contained in our elder Israel: to be our brother's keeper or to see each other through to the shores of forever which also means, to see our nations persevere unto eternity; to see all of the generations of our shared humanity - the generations of life begun by our turning away from war and death - sheltered by the strong and faithful wings of each our own endeavors of Country till the Last Day. Lest we forget - it is the beast of war which is the real enemy of all our nations. Time is like our gratitude, never broken into segments, it must be like the substance of all our hopes, a continuum of praise to our God. If we forget our history as a one family of the nations of mankind, if we become worshipers of our own triumphs to the utter neglect of the one common good of the whole, if we become willing to become conscious enough of our own beauty like the star Lucifer, we shall soon turn into Wormwood, a poison to all living and everliving worlds.

Each nation truly has a unique contribution to give to our poor world and let this giving be not one of vanity but of substance and truth - for the sake of all mankind.

Christianity as well as Islam also has important and unique strengths to provide to our elder Israel as well as to all the nations of the one family of the nations of mankind to make the one promise of old given by God to our Father Abraham complete that the suffering communities of mankind may be blessed by the ascendancy of our Lord's one Peace - it only has to be understood and embraced by hearts willing to turn away from blindness in order to see again in that same Light that have illuminated all in All forever.

In the same token, all the honorable religions of the world along with our Abrahamic faiths also have their blessings to give - Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Shinto, Confucianism, etc. if only we can - as individual hearts and individual nations - turn the tide of this midnight of war to be able to look again with common hope towards the morning of peace as a one planetary whole.

This is why I shall and I must remain particularly focused on the Middle East Peace process, my love - because the greater good of many things in our poor world in the long term depend on this process being given all it needs to be able to succeed.

I love you, my darlingest Miyang Marie.

Always to always,

Pusing