Dear darlingest Mrrrowley,
Just a short note today, my loveliest love.
Calico Kikay
I've just thought of a perfect Filipino cat name for our Natz, my darlingest - "Kikay" (./smile). It just occurred to me while watching the news on TV some days ago and I almost forgot about it so I decided to post it in our Planet Annelies. It's so purrrfect, my love, don't you think so? It's kind of like having sharp but cute fangs - she's pretty on the outside, but most importantly pretty on the inside. It goes to show that to all our friends (even those who do not know) - to hold in the heart is to keep forever -
Because why is it that we must care about them, the void may ask, "these people are nothing but strangers to you."
"Because these people are our friends!", we shall say to the void.
"And say what the Devil may say, my loveliest love, our friendships are forever."
Twilight Pawprints
It is because of these friendships that I have decided to stop buying any more pirated DVD's and have opted instead to found "Twilight Pawprints" which is a business that supports a trust that is specifically intended to help our nations regain their ground against those false economies that weaken our market potential and therefore, diminish our ability to materially prosper. I am also working on "Pawprints" - by the way - and have already conceived of an initial product. I am just working out some other things about it as well.
Our Miyangersjia
What I have been thinking about last night is our City Charter - I will from now on be insisting on naming that City, "Miyangersjia" and it shall soon become completely clear as to why when I post the work over here in our Planet Annelies.
Simply put, it is because you, Annelies Marie Hollander Frank, are my friend and if other people can not accept that, they shall have no place in our friendship.
Towards this end - the protection of those friendships that bind together our community - I am also devoting the provision in that Charter for Common Defense and the raising of an Abrahamic Home Guard unit specifically meant for the absolute defense of its Home City and in cooperation with other AHG units and our allied military forces, all of its Foster Cities as well.
I have also been working on the provision that will help interpret the Rights of Women as well as the Economic and Social Doctrines that shall help define the bedrock foundation that shall help to ensure the constancy and presence of the necessary entrepreneurial and civic zeal in our local citizenry.
I personally believe that a mercenary State, my darlingest, meaning to say a State that exists for itself can not help but imbue all its instruments with the same selfish spirit.
And mercenary forces, meaning to say, a military that is anything less than noble in spirit, are always useless in the conduct of the defense.
Because of this, the AHG is shall be a force that exists only for the people and for the life of our generations and is therefore, specifically intended for the civil defense of our population centers and as a stability force in support of maneuver forces, is likewise intended to serve to fix the enemy of our peace like an anvil to a hammer and allow our allied military as a whole to course the enemy momentum away from our vulnerabilities and into the void. The AHG is part of a greater whole that is meant as an integrated response to a divine promise.
We shall be posting this Charter in parts over the weeks and months leading into next June 12 - as a gift for all of us on your birthday, my love, and mine Country's as well.
This Charter, its economic, social, political and military doctrines shall be formed with one central principle in mind and that is "friendship" which is why those who can not accept the name of our City shall likewise not have any part of it. How can they? They will not prosper in it nor allow us to prosper with them in it.
Now, I know I have previously intended for the name of our foundation City, Miyangersjia, to be a free choice but I understand now that that free choice is my choice - and no one else's - and to ignore it would be to betray the spirit by which I have purposed to write this Charter in the first place - because you, my Miyang Marie, my loveliest, purrrtiest, cutsiest love, is my bestest friend and if I can not remain true to our friendship, my own hypocrisy will be the undoing of everything we have worked so long and hard for. And I shall not allow that to happen.
I am not saying that all Abrahamic Charters shall adopt the same name for their own particular communities, if they so wish, but I am saying that all of these communities shall and must adopt only one and the same spirit.
But the name of our foundation City shall specifically be "Miyangersjia" - and it shall be the one and the only thing I shall personally insist upon - from always to always.
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I love you, my Miyang - you're my Mrrrowley Polly.
Always to always,
Pusing
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
20090629
Dear darlingest Mrrrowley,
I have written below a letter to President Obama (I don't know why it double posted) cc to other world leaders about the gist of the message of this season and its promise of peace. I was going to post it directly on their contact sites but the letter is too large to be accommodated so I posted a note directed to the post on this blog of the entire message.
Sorry I haven't written for so long but I have been a little busy lately. I also missed out on posting last June 12 which is always a day of special importance to me. But I haven't been lying idle, too. I have posted only some of the things we - you and I - have been working on two days ago. Our Abrahamic City Charter is going along pretty well, my darlingest dear, and shall also soon be done. And there are other things as well, my love. I have heaps of past posts for our Planet Annelies which I have not been able to post over here on our blog for I have also been busy writing them but had no access to an Internet connection at the time. I shall be posting the highlights of those unpublished posts over the days.
Here's one of them dated 20090618 - its highlights are Faith and Optimism, Australia and Fairness, and about Preserving the National Good Will which I shall also publish in our one Majority blog
20090618
Dear darlingest Miyang,
...
On Faith and Optimism
I was speaking with some friends last night, my love, and we spoke about many things, indeed. Some of the main things we spoke about are some of those topics that are pertinent to my writing about the Philippines and our prospects for a better future - you know, my darlingest, call me an optimist but if one who claims to hold a firm conviction in the beneficent will of Divine Providence is ever an incurable pessimist or turns out to be a believer in every luck of the draw - then, that person, in my mind, is either a liar or a fool. Both ways I can never believe in a person who is like that, my love. The Founding Fathers of the American Republic also held a firm conviction in the will of Divine Providence and where were any of them nothing less than optimistic - even in the midst of that bitter winter at Valley Forge, never have I read or learned that the spirits of those men under General Washington broke nor did the General himself give in to any form of despair - it was there actually that the Baron von Steuben drilled into that army the foundations of military discipline that took them all the way to Yorktown. Neither were the actions of those American Fathers, in the midst of all things real, in any way or form, constitute as any kind of surrender to random things - they were deliberate as well as trusting upon the faith they have established shall forge for them a new Republic.
Therefore, I am an optimist and I believe in my own Republic undertaking and in my Filipino nation not because of any kind of whimsy or fickleness of mind, but because I choose to do so and have built this belief upon realities that are eternal and unyielding.
On Australia and Fairness
We also spoke about racism, my love, about the struggles of the African American community in America. And also about my own personal experiences of racism from my days abroad. Well, I do have one in Australia and none in the US and that one in Australia have been covered up a thousand times over by the mateship spirit of a thousand other fair dinkum Aussie blokes so much so that I do not even care to recall that one time when the .01% of the bad lot got a hold of my number. And it was not so bad because at the same time that that bloke was bad mouthing me in my car, there were other good folks who went out of their own cars to help me get that joker back into his car and away from my life.
Racism, in my own view, is any deviation of the reality that all men, women and children are common peers and beheld by a common Creator, upon Whose justice we derive our equality - of divine dignity and potential for good, by which at the rising of every moment, we are to each other absolutely equal in every way - the opposite sexes though complimentary by their particular functions and role responsibility in the family also derive their sense of equality in the same way.
Therefore, a racist can be any person who knowledgeably and willfully choose not to conform to justice of God upon Whose eternal reality is derived the equality of all human beings. This is not an action that is particular to any peoples of Mankind but is a tension that is universal to all nations. This universal tension between peoples and even between human beings is a tension of justice, and a reminder between all peoples and individuals to act accordingly and reach out to one another with a heart of understanding instead of striking against each other in fear and mistrust, judging without hope both our own ability to accept as well as the others capacity to receive with virtue and humanity, each other's truths.
While I do not tolerate racist acts, as regards to Australia, I personally know that that nation doesn't tolerate racist acts either - Fairness is something I have learned from there Down Under, it is the fair dikum common sense justice of the regular Aussie bloke - and upon this sense of fairness is built the substance of the Aussie slang for friend, "mate". And all the while I was there, I became personally aware of the significant substance of the word, "mate" as not just any kind of slang that you throw around the pub - it stands for something, fair dinkum.
As regards to our nations and their relationships with each other, the actions of just one rotten apple should never be a cause to spoil the good will between two perfectly good apple trees.
On Preserving the National Good Will
We should hold to an eternal sense of remembrance, the good that is done to us by the people of other nations and accord this and every good to the nation itself.
For the good as an absolute truth is truth that is applicable to our nations - each of which also have natures that are also as absolute as the absolute good.
And seek justice for the evils inflicted to our citizenry by the criminal will of individuals or individual groups, or by the belligerent will of rouge states but avoid attributing any of those same evils to any nation in particular.
For any evil being a particular deviation from greater and pre-existent forms of the good can never be attributed to the reality of our nations but may only be applied to the reality of those who willfully perpetrate harm upon common creation.
For in doing so, we preserve our own sense of national good will, as one nation distinct from among the one family of the nations of Mankind.
The good will that is exercised by nations are significant realities that are evidence of the fundamental relations that also exist between our nations. These fundamental relations are established both by those common needs that build into common interests and also by the Noahide Covenant.
Knowing now that the exercise of good will is an act that is proper to our nations, we may now build upon this truth.
And seek to preserve and advance our national good will as a step forward towards greater and greater realizations of the labor of building up of those fundamental relations between our nations into those kindred bonds that unify our nations into the one family of the nations of mankind.
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That's it for now, my love.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
I have written below a letter to President Obama (I don't know why it double posted) cc to other world leaders about the gist of the message of this season and its promise of peace. I was going to post it directly on their contact sites but the letter is too large to be accommodated so I posted a note directed to the post on this blog of the entire message.
Sorry I haven't written for so long but I have been a little busy lately. I also missed out on posting last June 12 which is always a day of special importance to me. But I haven't been lying idle, too. I have posted only some of the things we - you and I - have been working on two days ago. Our Abrahamic City Charter is going along pretty well, my darlingest dear, and shall also soon be done. And there are other things as well, my love. I have heaps of past posts for our Planet Annelies which I have not been able to post over here on our blog for I have also been busy writing them but had no access to an Internet connection at the time. I shall be posting the highlights of those unpublished posts over the days.
Here's one of them dated 20090618 - its highlights are Faith and Optimism, Australia and Fairness, and about Preserving the National Good Will which I shall also publish in our one Majority blog
20090618
Dear darlingest Miyang,
...
On Faith and Optimism
I was speaking with some friends last night, my love, and we spoke about many things, indeed. Some of the main things we spoke about are some of those topics that are pertinent to my writing about the Philippines and our prospects for a better future - you know, my darlingest, call me an optimist but if one who claims to hold a firm conviction in the beneficent will of Divine Providence is ever an incurable pessimist or turns out to be a believer in every luck of the draw - then, that person, in my mind, is either a liar or a fool. Both ways I can never believe in a person who is like that, my love. The Founding Fathers of the American Republic also held a firm conviction in the will of Divine Providence and where were any of them nothing less than optimistic - even in the midst of that bitter winter at Valley Forge, never have I read or learned that the spirits of those men under General Washington broke nor did the General himself give in to any form of despair - it was there actually that the Baron von Steuben drilled into that army the foundations of military discipline that took them all the way to Yorktown. Neither were the actions of those American Fathers, in the midst of all things real, in any way or form, constitute as any kind of surrender to random things - they were deliberate as well as trusting upon the faith they have established shall forge for them a new Republic.
Therefore, I am an optimist and I believe in my own Republic undertaking and in my Filipino nation not because of any kind of whimsy or fickleness of mind, but because I choose to do so and have built this belief upon realities that are eternal and unyielding.
On Australia and Fairness
We also spoke about racism, my love, about the struggles of the African American community in America. And also about my own personal experiences of racism from my days abroad. Well, I do have one in Australia and none in the US and that one in Australia have been covered up a thousand times over by the mateship spirit of a thousand other fair dinkum Aussie blokes so much so that I do not even care to recall that one time when the .01% of the bad lot got a hold of my number. And it was not so bad because at the same time that that bloke was bad mouthing me in my car, there were other good folks who went out of their own cars to help me get that joker back into his car and away from my life.
Racism, in my own view, is any deviation of the reality that all men, women and children are common peers and beheld by a common Creator, upon Whose justice we derive our equality - of divine dignity and potential for good, by which at the rising of every moment, we are to each other absolutely equal in every way - the opposite sexes though complimentary by their particular functions and role responsibility in the family also derive their sense of equality in the same way.
Therefore, a racist can be any person who knowledgeably and willfully choose not to conform to justice of God upon Whose eternal reality is derived the equality of all human beings. This is not an action that is particular to any peoples of Mankind but is a tension that is universal to all nations. This universal tension between peoples and even between human beings is a tension of justice, and a reminder between all peoples and individuals to act accordingly and reach out to one another with a heart of understanding instead of striking against each other in fear and mistrust, judging without hope both our own ability to accept as well as the others capacity to receive with virtue and humanity, each other's truths.
While I do not tolerate racist acts, as regards to Australia, I personally know that that nation doesn't tolerate racist acts either - Fairness is something I have learned from there Down Under, it is the fair dikum common sense justice of the regular Aussie bloke - and upon this sense of fairness is built the substance of the Aussie slang for friend, "mate". And all the while I was there, I became personally aware of the significant substance of the word, "mate" as not just any kind of slang that you throw around the pub - it stands for something, fair dinkum.
As regards to our nations and their relationships with each other, the actions of just one rotten apple should never be a cause to spoil the good will between two perfectly good apple trees.
On Preserving the National Good Will
We should hold to an eternal sense of remembrance, the good that is done to us by the people of other nations and accord this and every good to the nation itself.
For the good as an absolute truth is truth that is applicable to our nations - each of which also have natures that are also as absolute as the absolute good.
And seek justice for the evils inflicted to our citizenry by the criminal will of individuals or individual groups, or by the belligerent will of rouge states but avoid attributing any of those same evils to any nation in particular.
For any evil being a particular deviation from greater and pre-existent forms of the good can never be attributed to the reality of our nations but may only be applied to the reality of those who willfully perpetrate harm upon common creation.
For in doing so, we preserve our own sense of national good will, as one nation distinct from among the one family of the nations of Mankind.
The good will that is exercised by nations are significant realities that are evidence of the fundamental relations that also exist between our nations. These fundamental relations are established both by those common needs that build into common interests and also by the Noahide Covenant.
Knowing now that the exercise of good will is an act that is proper to our nations, we may now build upon this truth.
And seek to preserve and advance our national good will as a step forward towards greater and greater realizations of the labor of building up of those fundamental relations between our nations into those kindred bonds that unify our nations into the one family of the nations of mankind.
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That's it for now, my love.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
Saturday, June 27, 2009
20090627
The President
The White House
Washington D.C. 20500
Cc: Vice President Biden, Prime Minister Brown (UK), Prime Minister Rudd (Australia), Prime Minister Berlusconi (Italy), Chancellor Merkel (Germany), President Sarkozy (France), President Medvedev (Russia), President Arroyo (Philippines) and Secretary Teodoro (DND, Philippines).
Dear President Obama:
I have for so long kept in my heart much of these things which I now must relate to you.
It concerns the hope that we share in common as human beings all of which I will attempt to bring out in this letter.
I appreciate your time and shall use whatever time you shall have given this letter in a manner that is most efficient.
Therefore, I must first ask you, Mr. President, to please forgive me for I shall try to speak forthrightly about these many things.
I shall begin by summing up the message of my correspondence:
The peace of our world though imperfect is upon this season and upon this time; a hope that is not just within our reach, it is a hope we must build together towards.
For the longer term nature of the next age shall be decided by what we shall in common believe, upon this season and upon this time, both as human beings and as human nations together for ill or good, we must choose.
I must now provide the burden of proof. Twofold is the nature of this proof, one derived from Sacred Scripture and the other gathered from events that parallel Sacred Scripture.
Let me first confess to you, Mr. President, that though I am completely devoted to my Roman Catholic faith, I am the most skeptical of persons. I know to utilize both faith and reason not to deny me my own sense of reality but to deepen it and though I am a believer in great miracles, I have never sought any nor felt the need to have recourse to them for above all, I am more inclined in myself to appreciate the smaller graces of everyday things.
I would have been the last person in the entire planet to deliver a message like this to you, for I am neither a saint nor a great person - I am but a repentant sinner and a common citizen of my own Republic of the Philippines.
But the LORD our God has formed me even as my Savior Jesus Christ has called me from out of the darkness of myself, it seems, to become a witness of the very message that I am now hoping to humbly share with you today through this letter.
Having held on for so long to this, like a seed in my heart, it has grown over many years to a point where I feel I must share it now with you, dear President Obama. And I say I must only because I now feel that I am able to more completely express this message where in the past, it would have been difficult.
Hence, let me begin providing the first half of the burden of proof, the Sacred Scriptures. For it is here where we shall draw our fixed references which like landmarks upon a map will guide us as we move into the second half which is the current state of our planet and the evil sufficient for our days which I shall attempt to clearly describe to you.
Then, we shall return again to those fixed reference points we have made in the first half in order to complete the one whole burden of proof.
Please understand also that firstly, these are my personal interpretations of Sacred Scripture which I shall share with you only because they are also referenced by the other half of our burden of proof which are current events in the larger context of the precarious state of our planet.
Please refer to the following Sacred Scripture passages:
Genesis 3: 16-19, 23 - The Divine Requirement
This is the requirement to tame our earth in order that it may provide for our humanity, the provisions that meet our human needs.
Genesis 3: 22, 24 - The Order of the Nations
The casting away of Man from Eden and the Divine Requirement necessitated the binding together of the generations of the children of Mankind, for the Divine Requirement may only be carried out after Eden as a human community - this need to provide for the life of our generations has established from the throne of God in eternity, the order of the nations of Mankind.
This order of the nations binds together the hope of our generations as well as the ascent of our nations against the procession of the interior seasons - beginning from the autumnal dusk of faded Eden - it is this order that accompany the march of our nations together through exile time and also the birth of each new nation emerging into time from the deep of eternity. For each new nation upon earth is neither born by random chance nor necessitated by any will of evil - there is a rhythm and a will behind the purposes intended within and among our nations and these purposes serve only the good and the common good.
Mr. President, it is where the purpose of our nations have been in the darkness forgot that evil itself exploits to gain entry into the life of our nations - this forgetfulness which is wrought by the darkness of our times is a manifest need in many of our present day nations - each of which must complete each their own sacred remembrances in order to see clearly once again, the eternal vision of each them selves as they are meant to be and become.
A nation divided against itself will first manifest this division as a weakening of the will of Country, a lack of drive toward peace, and as the widening discord within its own internal dialogue between the nation and its state, the dilution of the sense of national identity shall soon follow as the trusts that have bound together its common people for generations become lost in the breaking up of its internal communities, this shattering will exactly result in absolute darkness - it is the same when the native sky above all earth was shattered to become the void whence all conflicts draw their source, all things living and whole when by internal strife become shattered result in absolute darkness, and this darkness is an indication of the gravity of itself, a sure and certain descent into anarchy and eventual annihilation of the sheltering spirit of a people. Where this sheltering spirit of a people is by war vanquished, the picket lines of the Devil shall by piecemeal or the beast of war shall by wholesale, rip into the numerous and diverse vulnerabilities exposed in the people in order that all of hell may devour them body and soul. All of this may seem far-fetched, and I do admit I have to some extent utilized my own imagination, but if we shall take a closer and more careful examination about the troubles that plague the peoples of our nations, we may see some parallels to this mostly unseen reality - it is why sacred remembrance is always by heaven prescribed and by our LORD God commanded of all of those who are yet willing to listen who have ears to do so.
Genesis 9: 1-17 - The Noahide Covenant
An accounting of each other and of all of sacred life and the entrusting of all of lower creation of the visible universe to each and every leadership lineages of our nations who are the original executive lines integral to the state - these lines have been decimated over the millennia by the will of war and where these lines yet remain, these lines should be preserved - neither have they lost their original purpose nor the potency of their mandate, their will evolved to meet the present day affairs that guide the well being of each their Country, the many Republics that fill our map is testament to the many fallen lines of our leaders and kings of old who whether by internal or external strife have been vanquished by the beast of war. It is important to say here that their hopes, even as the human hopes of all human beings of all places whose times have passed us away still remain with us.
This hope is an integral part of sacred remembrance and shall form part of a separate work dedicated to the same.
This covenant made each of our nations kindred to each other as a family of nations - an interdependent community required more than just to coexist - but to exist together in peace.
It is no surprise to say that our present world is full of nations who are strangers to each other - for it is to be expected of the will of war to also exploit the bonds that make each of our nations, keeper and friend to each other - bonds that by will of divine covenant, are bonds intended to make a family of friends out of all of our nations - for only in this way can the regental presence of our shared humanity become fully and completely present to our planet as one planetary whole, for the ascent of the unity of the wholes is not an ascent if it does not lead to unity and the one planet requires this ascent if we are to effectively address the troubles, besides the main siege of war, that is now plaguing our world as a whole.
These planetary troubles will have far reaching effects right through the 21st century, troubles that shall profit only war if we do not learn to reach out in peace with each other, upon this season and upon this time.
Whatever profits war benefits only death and darkness in the end but peace always adds to life.
Genesis 22: 16-18 - The Abrahamic Covenant
This covenant is central to the divine promise of hope for our present times.
A large part of the gains upon which war have established an existential siege upon our world completely depend on the inability of the numberless stars descended from the holy Patriarch Abraham of old to respond to the calling of the divine promise by which we shall bless the communities of Mankind - this communities of Mankind is nothing less than the one family of the nations of Mankind as a whole.
Nations who at no other time in the whole of human history find themselves in no greater need of the peace than we are at the present time, and this necessary peace being also the defining salutation of each of our great Abrahamic religions is the peace that is by divine promise required of all of us, who are called to by faith and promise, in order to bless the nations of Mankind.
Now, more than ever, Jews, Christians and Muslims together must lead this badly broken world into a future that is fit for the dignity of our wounded humanity - if we shall fail, or if we shall fail to see what is coming, no other force on earth shall prevent the darkness that is to come - and this darkness is not hard to conceive given the obvious trending of our world - therefore, all of the numberless stars must as one firmament allied with all honorable religion and with all persons of good will guide our world into the eastward way of the one Peace and away from the midnight darkness of war into a new dawning of a new age of peace for all of the nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind.
Upon this is built all our other hopes for a better world.
Daniel 12 - The Contrast, the Time and the Seasons
The choice for peace is a choice that took thousands of years to mature for it has paralleled the maturation of the beast of war - this contrast and an understanding of the natures of both war and peace, darkness and light, good and evil is what is indicated by a time, times and half-a-time - time being one thousand, times being two thousand years of lukewarm gray and many millennia of shadow, and half-a-time is a necessary requirement to see by way of contrast the difference between gray and shadow and split this difference into halves of the one wholes of war and peace, darkness and light, good and evil and weight the absolute and irreversible choice between two paradigms. This requisite choice is given further and a more deeper emphasis in Revelation 3: 14-19
The numbered days below I must ask you to trust me indicates this year 2009 as the beginning of the favorable season with which to build upon our hopes, the seminal foundations of a brighter, better and kinder world for all of the generations of life. It is a progression that leads into hope and requires that we work together as responsible partners, human beings as well as human nations, towards the promise of peace that open the right door into a better world.
Revelation 3: 14-19 - The Choice
To be lukewarm is to be dead to all hope and is worse than being the enemy of all hope - because this unmade choice when it remains unmade in the face of an overwhelming reality is not only damnable, it is worse for where the evil that dwell in hell are the evil who, by willful collaboration with the will of the Devil, have made their choice - where any unmade choices of the sin of omissions are cleansed by purgatorial fires, this one particular unmade choice is actually a choice to effect a complete denial of our humanity - but still a damnable choice made more terrible because it is in will of that person unmade, and therefore, that one unrecognizable path that lead to hellfire - (this one unmade choice of the lukewarm heart and the duality of the reflected image and the reflection, may be further understood in the context of the mystery of iniquity.)
Revelation 12: 7-9 - The War in Heaven
If war itself found no place in heaven and was thrown down upon earth, shall we allow it a place? As war was from heaven thrown down, it must on earth be denied - it must be driven into the void which is its oblivion.
We need not look up into the heavens of the visible universe to look for this war, this passage of Sacred Scripture is a revelation of a spiritual reality and so therefore, we must realize that the locus of this passage is in the human heart where time and the timeless intersect into one seamless human experience.
The timeless void is the space between the heaven of our LORD's eternity and our earth - and it is across this void where war is "thrown down" - To "throw" indicates a certain distance and so "throwing down" indicates the presence of that space between which is the timeless void, the sink of oblivion - the timeless, finite, unseen realms that was the natural domain of the angels and also the blanketing of the golden blue of the native sky of earth, resplendent with a multitude of living lights which were all conscious as well as conversant to our First Parents before the closing of our Eden at the fall of Mankind. This sky is shattered, there is nothing but darkness and conflict there now, it is the source of all conflict and also the nearest, most direct experience of the reality of the timeless to any human heart absent to the presence of God in eternity - prayer indeed, is battle - so the Catechism of my Church teaches us - it requires an ascent, indicating effort - but the fruits of prayer are numerous indeed.
Having witnessed the unfolding of many events that only seem to parallel and confirm for me those things above written in Sacred Scripture, I have long ago ceased to question why it is that I follow, I follow because I am in need and I know I am in need because it is my Lord Jesus Christ Who calls me.
Most of the current troubles of our world, dear President Obama, I am convinced are reflected in those passages and the necessary passage that shall lead our world into the dawning of the new age is also reflected in those passages - what peace is promised is an imperfect peace but it is through perfect acceptance of the imperfect that we are allowed to grow, and so I must hold on to this hope and do everything that I can to continue to effect this necessary change in myself above all and do what I am able to do from my state of life and within my own vocation to live these things in my life as well.
Lastly, it is important for me to reiterate that these things are things that pertain to human hope and not to faith nor to any particular faith - faith indeed has a large part to play here but the application of the fruits of honorable religion more than anything else is what is being required by my Lord Jesus Christ of all Christian and by our LORD God of all nations most especially all of our Abrahamic kindred in promise and faith hereupon this favorable season, upon this time of hope.
I should also like to include some of my own thoughts as regards to the Middle East in general and to Israel and Palestine in particular.
A Prelude to Middle East Peace
Begin with the Right Expectation
Peace is an observance of hope - it is never a thing that is understood in motion (therefore, peace in and of itself is not a process) but must be a thing understood at rest, it is an observance of the concrete, material fruits of hope and a growing sense of the appreciation of the same.
Peace is abundance of life. For peace quickly leads to the prosperity of peace. And hope as a way of sacred remembrance leads into peace.
The Middle East, engulfed by the darkness of war, requires first that peace be restored and it is this restoration which is a process. It requires perspectives that are patient as well as committed in the long term to the hope of peace.
Many hearts might believe to the point of hurt that peace is a process and so expect with the expectation of peace unto tears. My dear friends shed your tears not for lies but for the reality of your hopes together.
And do not blame those who desire to see you happy and secure in your happiness - you must understand there is a darkness that blankets our world - a darkness from which none of our nations belong, a thing which must remind all our sides that there really is no side that separates us when it comes to war - for war is its own dark side.
Having said all of that, let us shed away the past and now proceed with the right expectation which must be begun from what is absent in the darkness of war instead of what is present in the peace. This absence breeds hope and this hope fuels sacred remembrance.
Let us each be mindful that the process that returns the nations of that region, particularly modern Israel of our elder Israel and unborn Palestine, to the path of peace is not the desired destination itself that shall restore that troubled region to peace and the prosperity of peace.
Therefore, let us ground our expectations upon two distinct stages - the restoration of the peace as a process - and the expectation of the peace as an observance.
Like a way and a vision, let us perceive them in our hearts, and prepare for them in our understanding, steadily adding force to the conviction in our will to press forward together into our hopes.
Stage First: The Restoration of the Peace
This is the most difficult stage, my dear friends, let me tell you now - but the expectation of the peace that is the stage to come after this should help us to keep our chins up and our spirits buoyant even if the enveloping darkness that invisibly eclipse the joy of your lives can not deny any of us this vision of hope in the horizon, past barren deserts, past mountains, past empty wilderness, that we must together cross from within ourselves to get through to this most difficult stage.
I should reiterate that this stage requires perspectives that are patient as well as committed in the long term to the hope of peace - and this hope, my dear friends, is real so this labor that we now must undertake is no longer a labor of tears that bring naught but grief but one of hope that leads eventually to the realization of dreams.
Justice
Restoration is a word synonymous with the virtue of Justice and Justice is that which restores all things unto the truth.
Breaking down Hatred
The turning away from war require the application of Justice and Justice which is a virtue proper to heaven for no other light can illumine the eastward way but the one Light above all others - hatred must yield to an understanding of itself for hatred exists only for a love offended - it is this love which bears understanding and not the hatred itself because hatred defies all forms of understanding having denied all reason prior to its existence - what offends love that love is grieved? This will stay all hate but the false which is naught more than empty words spat by the lying tongue of the wicked will of war - this is malice and must be vigorously contended against. Hatred is the greatest obstacle to Justice for anger serves not the righteousness of God. Therefore, it is hatred, first and foremost, difficult though it may all be, that we must address. For if we do not and we ignore the blindness of hate, it will only feed into those same things that we are now trying to address, miring us in war and the poverty and the despair of war - hate that is true must find redress in the love that is grieved while hate that is false must by Justice be extinguished to prevent it from further consuming the life of our nations.
Hatred prevents understanding and where understanding is prevented; there is no room for anything else but contention.
Let us make sure that hatred is broken down, at least from among a democratic majority of our peoples, to prepare the way for an understanding that leads toward common ground.
The redress of Justice, we shall apply along the way - it must also be said that Justice is not the only virtue that effects a restoration to the truth - Mercy, Magnanimity and Charity are each in themselves also capable of effecting the same restoration and for those same reasons also cooperates with Justice not a few times in pursuit of the same. What is important when it regards virtue is every resultant action which must be both right as well as truly good - for all people, for all time.
Truthfulness
If we are to take upon ourselves, the mindset of peace, we must learn to speak in the language of peace - this is the exercise of truthfulness - for our hopes may only be properly expressed in this language and it is our hopes more than our grievances that shall lead us, step by step, toward the path that shall eventually lead us to the vision of peace.
Acceptance and Surrender
The reality of every present time is reality only because the will of Divine Providence has allowed it to become so - we must therefore be careful not to fight against things which constantly guarantee defeat and nothing defeats a man more than a pride that goes against the will of the Almighty God.
There is a way to effect change but never must it go against the will that establish for all Mankind the shape of present things, all that is present to our humanity must be all that is accepted, first and foremost, without condition - this is the first requirement of faith in Divine Providence.
If we are seeking for good things, we must also establish our seeking upon grounds that are good - for good things lead to good things and evil things lead to evil things. Never can the good be sought from means that are evil - human weakness excepted - for malice is the exact opposite of beneficence.
We can not obtain peace by contending in war - peace is only obtained by the acceptance of itself. War leads to more war unless Mankind seeks peace and seeks peace completely. And this seeking is sought only upon paths of sacred remembrance.
For a good tree can not but bear good fruit and a bad tree can not but bear bad fruit - but a young tree is neither of the two and therefore, must allow itself to be formed.
We human beings are like trees that are ever young and as regards to this particular similitude, it is the will of Divine Providence that we must allow to form us into good trees bearing good fruit. This is how surrender is discerned and it is this discerning surrender which is the second and last requirement of faith in Divine Providence.
Surrender to the good leads to growth and transformation in virtue and truth. Surrender to evil deviates from the good and leads to poverty and annihilation.
Hope
Therefore, if we shall desire peace, we must gain it through ways that are established in the good - the good of people in the community, the love of our families, the camaraderie of our friends, the goodness of our LORD God, the hopes that we keep and the hopes that we share with other people, all of these are valid reasons to make remembrance meaningful and a remembrance that is meaningful imparts a strength that is lasting and necessary in the ascent to the truth. For we must have recourse to prayer, my dearest friend, having founded the basis of our reason upon things that are good, we will see by what is evil in our days what change we must inspire. And drive towards this hope, flying to our LORD God for the grace to achieve through our instrumentality, our LORD's own will of good.
For hope is always a lineage, it is a strong anchor that grounds us upon the present good which is its object and also the wings that lift hearts of prayer and faith unto eternity - the act of hope itself, an expression of trust in the one Giver of all good things. So we strive for good on behalf of all good things - this is the action of hope - it is the only way to effect the necessary changes that help to overcome the evil sufficient for us in our days.
False hopes, being neither strong anchor of truth nor agile wings of surrender to the truth possess neither substance nor solidity - save for the evil in evil things which is always empty of promise - sink in the mire of the void. If we are to contend against the will of Divine Providence, and seek to change things with either reckless abandon or blind hatred, we shall find ourselves constantly and consistently defeated and overwhelmed by the crash of realities that are - in the very first place - absolutely beyond our control.
Like a furious tempest we shall utterly and completely spend ourselves as waves breaking against the immovable will of the Almighty God until all of time is spent or all of our lives have dissipated into the four winds.
Restlessness is the destiny of the false but peace is what we know in our hearts we have always strived for - and so let us do this striving together this time, my dear friends. For not only does our days call us, our hopes impel us, and our LORD God compels us, our lives and the lives of many other human beings completely depend on us, indeed, our one planet rely on our ability to deliver on what has always been our common and long-standing hope of peace in this region.
What is different this time is that this time is NOW - it is the favorable season for peace - so we shall by our common contributions to peace be a generation defined and a labor long remembered - if we answer, answer responsibly and answer responsibly together to the common calling of our times.
The Question of Capital
Jerusalem must remain undivided. However, Jerusalem must also be honored by the virtue upon which this city is founded - peace. Let us not make of this city an obstacle to the very truth upon which she is known to God, to the angels of God and to all the nations of Mankind - I cry in my heart for the sheer hypocrisy of it!
If we honor what is true in all of ourselves, we must know also to honor what is true in all those things about ourselves - this city must neither be a hypocrisy nor an obstacle to the very thing she stands in eternal remembrance of, if she must be a capital, let her be a capital of two faithful brothers and not of two hated rivals - let her be a common capital to two nations that she may bind them together to herself and allow them to discover through her the ways of our LORD's peace. To divide this city, I do not know but all of this city I know is called peace.
A secondary strategic capital must be found and established to make distinct the seats of the two states but to Jerusalem we must all yield - and work of ways to possess her together in peace. I can not tell you how strongly I feel for this one particular question, my dear friends - this city is not an obstacle, she is and have always ever been a help. Therefore, we must allow her to remain as she is, Jerusalem.
Stage Second - The Expectation of the Peace
Nothing that we can say will ever be able to either add or subtract from the joy of the peoples where we have finally achieved this stage - joy more than anything is also a form of strength and shall be enough to lead them all the way.
I thank you very much for you time, dear Mr. President, and consideration and I salute you and all your loved ones with peace, may our LORD God lead us across into the safety of new shores and the shelter of a better world for all of our generations.
The White House
Washington D.C. 20500
Cc: Vice President Biden, Prime Minister Brown (UK), Prime Minister Rudd (Australia), Prime Minister Berlusconi (Italy), Chancellor Merkel (Germany), President Sarkozy (France), President Medvedev (Russia), President Arroyo (Philippines) and Secretary Teodoro (DND, Philippines).
Dear President Obama:
I have for so long kept in my heart much of these things which I now must relate to you.
It concerns the hope that we share in common as human beings all of which I will attempt to bring out in this letter.
I appreciate your time and shall use whatever time you shall have given this letter in a manner that is most efficient.
Therefore, I must first ask you, Mr. President, to please forgive me for I shall try to speak forthrightly about these many things.
I shall begin by summing up the message of my correspondence:
The peace of our world though imperfect is upon this season and upon this time; a hope that is not just within our reach, it is a hope we must build together towards.
For the longer term nature of the next age shall be decided by what we shall in common believe, upon this season and upon this time, both as human beings and as human nations together for ill or good, we must choose.
I must now provide the burden of proof. Twofold is the nature of this proof, one derived from Sacred Scripture and the other gathered from events that parallel Sacred Scripture.
Let me first confess to you, Mr. President, that though I am completely devoted to my Roman Catholic faith, I am the most skeptical of persons. I know to utilize both faith and reason not to deny me my own sense of reality but to deepen it and though I am a believer in great miracles, I have never sought any nor felt the need to have recourse to them for above all, I am more inclined in myself to appreciate the smaller graces of everyday things.
I would have been the last person in the entire planet to deliver a message like this to you, for I am neither a saint nor a great person - I am but a repentant sinner and a common citizen of my own Republic of the Philippines.
But the LORD our God has formed me even as my Savior Jesus Christ has called me from out of the darkness of myself, it seems, to become a witness of the very message that I am now hoping to humbly share with you today through this letter.
Having held on for so long to this, like a seed in my heart, it has grown over many years to a point where I feel I must share it now with you, dear President Obama. And I say I must only because I now feel that I am able to more completely express this message where in the past, it would have been difficult.
Hence, let me begin providing the first half of the burden of proof, the Sacred Scriptures. For it is here where we shall draw our fixed references which like landmarks upon a map will guide us as we move into the second half which is the current state of our planet and the evil sufficient for our days which I shall attempt to clearly describe to you.
Then, we shall return again to those fixed reference points we have made in the first half in order to complete the one whole burden of proof.
Please understand also that firstly, these are my personal interpretations of Sacred Scripture which I shall share with you only because they are also referenced by the other half of our burden of proof which are current events in the larger context of the precarious state of our planet.
Please refer to the following Sacred Scripture passages:
Genesis 3: 16-19, 23 - The Divine Requirement
This is the requirement to tame our earth in order that it may provide for our humanity, the provisions that meet our human needs.
Genesis 3: 22, 24 - The Order of the Nations
The casting away of Man from Eden and the Divine Requirement necessitated the binding together of the generations of the children of Mankind, for the Divine Requirement may only be carried out after Eden as a human community - this need to provide for the life of our generations has established from the throne of God in eternity, the order of the nations of Mankind.
This order of the nations binds together the hope of our generations as well as the ascent of our nations against the procession of the interior seasons - beginning from the autumnal dusk of faded Eden - it is this order that accompany the march of our nations together through exile time and also the birth of each new nation emerging into time from the deep of eternity. For each new nation upon earth is neither born by random chance nor necessitated by any will of evil - there is a rhythm and a will behind the purposes intended within and among our nations and these purposes serve only the good and the common good.
Mr. President, it is where the purpose of our nations have been in the darkness forgot that evil itself exploits to gain entry into the life of our nations - this forgetfulness which is wrought by the darkness of our times is a manifest need in many of our present day nations - each of which must complete each their own sacred remembrances in order to see clearly once again, the eternal vision of each them selves as they are meant to be and become.
A nation divided against itself will first manifest this division as a weakening of the will of Country, a lack of drive toward peace, and as the widening discord within its own internal dialogue between the nation and its state, the dilution of the sense of national identity shall soon follow as the trusts that have bound together its common people for generations become lost in the breaking up of its internal communities, this shattering will exactly result in absolute darkness - it is the same when the native sky above all earth was shattered to become the void whence all conflicts draw their source, all things living and whole when by internal strife become shattered result in absolute darkness, and this darkness is an indication of the gravity of itself, a sure and certain descent into anarchy and eventual annihilation of the sheltering spirit of a people. Where this sheltering spirit of a people is by war vanquished, the picket lines of the Devil shall by piecemeal or the beast of war shall by wholesale, rip into the numerous and diverse vulnerabilities exposed in the people in order that all of hell may devour them body and soul. All of this may seem far-fetched, and I do admit I have to some extent utilized my own imagination, but if we shall take a closer and more careful examination about the troubles that plague the peoples of our nations, we may see some parallels to this mostly unseen reality - it is why sacred remembrance is always by heaven prescribed and by our LORD God commanded of all of those who are yet willing to listen who have ears to do so.
Genesis 9: 1-17 - The Noahide Covenant
An accounting of each other and of all of sacred life and the entrusting of all of lower creation of the visible universe to each and every leadership lineages of our nations who are the original executive lines integral to the state - these lines have been decimated over the millennia by the will of war and where these lines yet remain, these lines should be preserved - neither have they lost their original purpose nor the potency of their mandate, their will evolved to meet the present day affairs that guide the well being of each their Country, the many Republics that fill our map is testament to the many fallen lines of our leaders and kings of old who whether by internal or external strife have been vanquished by the beast of war. It is important to say here that their hopes, even as the human hopes of all human beings of all places whose times have passed us away still remain with us.
This hope is an integral part of sacred remembrance and shall form part of a separate work dedicated to the same.
This covenant made each of our nations kindred to each other as a family of nations - an interdependent community required more than just to coexist - but to exist together in peace.
It is no surprise to say that our present world is full of nations who are strangers to each other - for it is to be expected of the will of war to also exploit the bonds that make each of our nations, keeper and friend to each other - bonds that by will of divine covenant, are bonds intended to make a family of friends out of all of our nations - for only in this way can the regental presence of our shared humanity become fully and completely present to our planet as one planetary whole, for the ascent of the unity of the wholes is not an ascent if it does not lead to unity and the one planet requires this ascent if we are to effectively address the troubles, besides the main siege of war, that is now plaguing our world as a whole.
These planetary troubles will have far reaching effects right through the 21st century, troubles that shall profit only war if we do not learn to reach out in peace with each other, upon this season and upon this time.
Whatever profits war benefits only death and darkness in the end but peace always adds to life.
Genesis 22: 16-18 - The Abrahamic Covenant
This covenant is central to the divine promise of hope for our present times.
A large part of the gains upon which war have established an existential siege upon our world completely depend on the inability of the numberless stars descended from the holy Patriarch Abraham of old to respond to the calling of the divine promise by which we shall bless the communities of Mankind - this communities of Mankind is nothing less than the one family of the nations of Mankind as a whole.
Nations who at no other time in the whole of human history find themselves in no greater need of the peace than we are at the present time, and this necessary peace being also the defining salutation of each of our great Abrahamic religions is the peace that is by divine promise required of all of us, who are called to by faith and promise, in order to bless the nations of Mankind.
Now, more than ever, Jews, Christians and Muslims together must lead this badly broken world into a future that is fit for the dignity of our wounded humanity - if we shall fail, or if we shall fail to see what is coming, no other force on earth shall prevent the darkness that is to come - and this darkness is not hard to conceive given the obvious trending of our world - therefore, all of the numberless stars must as one firmament allied with all honorable religion and with all persons of good will guide our world into the eastward way of the one Peace and away from the midnight darkness of war into a new dawning of a new age of peace for all of the nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind.
Upon this is built all our other hopes for a better world.
Daniel 12 - The Contrast, the Time and the Seasons
The choice for peace is a choice that took thousands of years to mature for it has paralleled the maturation of the beast of war - this contrast and an understanding of the natures of both war and peace, darkness and light, good and evil is what is indicated by a time, times and half-a-time - time being one thousand, times being two thousand years of lukewarm gray and many millennia of shadow, and half-a-time is a necessary requirement to see by way of contrast the difference between gray and shadow and split this difference into halves of the one wholes of war and peace, darkness and light, good and evil and weight the absolute and irreversible choice between two paradigms. This requisite choice is given further and a more deeper emphasis in Revelation 3: 14-19
The numbered days below I must ask you to trust me indicates this year 2009 as the beginning of the favorable season with which to build upon our hopes, the seminal foundations of a brighter, better and kinder world for all of the generations of life. It is a progression that leads into hope and requires that we work together as responsible partners, human beings as well as human nations, towards the promise of peace that open the right door into a better world.
Revelation 3: 14-19 - The Choice
To be lukewarm is to be dead to all hope and is worse than being the enemy of all hope - because this unmade choice when it remains unmade in the face of an overwhelming reality is not only damnable, it is worse for where the evil that dwell in hell are the evil who, by willful collaboration with the will of the Devil, have made their choice - where any unmade choices of the sin of omissions are cleansed by purgatorial fires, this one particular unmade choice is actually a choice to effect a complete denial of our humanity - but still a damnable choice made more terrible because it is in will of that person unmade, and therefore, that one unrecognizable path that lead to hellfire - (this one unmade choice of the lukewarm heart and the duality of the reflected image and the reflection, may be further understood in the context of the mystery of iniquity.)
Revelation 12: 7-9 - The War in Heaven
If war itself found no place in heaven and was thrown down upon earth, shall we allow it a place? As war was from heaven thrown down, it must on earth be denied - it must be driven into the void which is its oblivion.
We need not look up into the heavens of the visible universe to look for this war, this passage of Sacred Scripture is a revelation of a spiritual reality and so therefore, we must realize that the locus of this passage is in the human heart where time and the timeless intersect into one seamless human experience.
The timeless void is the space between the heaven of our LORD's eternity and our earth - and it is across this void where war is "thrown down" - To "throw" indicates a certain distance and so "throwing down" indicates the presence of that space between which is the timeless void, the sink of oblivion - the timeless, finite, unseen realms that was the natural domain of the angels and also the blanketing of the golden blue of the native sky of earth, resplendent with a multitude of living lights which were all conscious as well as conversant to our First Parents before the closing of our Eden at the fall of Mankind. This sky is shattered, there is nothing but darkness and conflict there now, it is the source of all conflict and also the nearest, most direct experience of the reality of the timeless to any human heart absent to the presence of God in eternity - prayer indeed, is battle - so the Catechism of my Church teaches us - it requires an ascent, indicating effort - but the fruits of prayer are numerous indeed.
Having witnessed the unfolding of many events that only seem to parallel and confirm for me those things above written in Sacred Scripture, I have long ago ceased to question why it is that I follow, I follow because I am in need and I know I am in need because it is my Lord Jesus Christ Who calls me.
Most of the current troubles of our world, dear President Obama, I am convinced are reflected in those passages and the necessary passage that shall lead our world into the dawning of the new age is also reflected in those passages - what peace is promised is an imperfect peace but it is through perfect acceptance of the imperfect that we are allowed to grow, and so I must hold on to this hope and do everything that I can to continue to effect this necessary change in myself above all and do what I am able to do from my state of life and within my own vocation to live these things in my life as well.
Lastly, it is important for me to reiterate that these things are things that pertain to human hope and not to faith nor to any particular faith - faith indeed has a large part to play here but the application of the fruits of honorable religion more than anything else is what is being required by my Lord Jesus Christ of all Christian and by our LORD God of all nations most especially all of our Abrahamic kindred in promise and faith hereupon this favorable season, upon this time of hope.
I should also like to include some of my own thoughts as regards to the Middle East in general and to Israel and Palestine in particular.
A Prelude to Middle East Peace
Begin with the Right Expectation
Peace is an observance of hope - it is never a thing that is understood in motion (therefore, peace in and of itself is not a process) but must be a thing understood at rest, it is an observance of the concrete, material fruits of hope and a growing sense of the appreciation of the same.
Peace is abundance of life. For peace quickly leads to the prosperity of peace. And hope as a way of sacred remembrance leads into peace.
The Middle East, engulfed by the darkness of war, requires first that peace be restored and it is this restoration which is a process. It requires perspectives that are patient as well as committed in the long term to the hope of peace.
Many hearts might believe to the point of hurt that peace is a process and so expect with the expectation of peace unto tears. My dear friends shed your tears not for lies but for the reality of your hopes together.
And do not blame those who desire to see you happy and secure in your happiness - you must understand there is a darkness that blankets our world - a darkness from which none of our nations belong, a thing which must remind all our sides that there really is no side that separates us when it comes to war - for war is its own dark side.
Having said all of that, let us shed away the past and now proceed with the right expectation which must be begun from what is absent in the darkness of war instead of what is present in the peace. This absence breeds hope and this hope fuels sacred remembrance.
Let us each be mindful that the process that returns the nations of that region, particularly modern Israel of our elder Israel and unborn Palestine, to the path of peace is not the desired destination itself that shall restore that troubled region to peace and the prosperity of peace.
Therefore, let us ground our expectations upon two distinct stages - the restoration of the peace as a process - and the expectation of the peace as an observance.
Like a way and a vision, let us perceive them in our hearts, and prepare for them in our understanding, steadily adding force to the conviction in our will to press forward together into our hopes.
Stage First: The Restoration of the Peace
This is the most difficult stage, my dear friends, let me tell you now - but the expectation of the peace that is the stage to come after this should help us to keep our chins up and our spirits buoyant even if the enveloping darkness that invisibly eclipse the joy of your lives can not deny any of us this vision of hope in the horizon, past barren deserts, past mountains, past empty wilderness, that we must together cross from within ourselves to get through to this most difficult stage.
I should reiterate that this stage requires perspectives that are patient as well as committed in the long term to the hope of peace - and this hope, my dear friends, is real so this labor that we now must undertake is no longer a labor of tears that bring naught but grief but one of hope that leads eventually to the realization of dreams.
Justice
Restoration is a word synonymous with the virtue of Justice and Justice is that which restores all things unto the truth.
Breaking down Hatred
The turning away from war require the application of Justice and Justice which is a virtue proper to heaven for no other light can illumine the eastward way but the one Light above all others - hatred must yield to an understanding of itself for hatred exists only for a love offended - it is this love which bears understanding and not the hatred itself because hatred defies all forms of understanding having denied all reason prior to its existence - what offends love that love is grieved? This will stay all hate but the false which is naught more than empty words spat by the lying tongue of the wicked will of war - this is malice and must be vigorously contended against. Hatred is the greatest obstacle to Justice for anger serves not the righteousness of God. Therefore, it is hatred, first and foremost, difficult though it may all be, that we must address. For if we do not and we ignore the blindness of hate, it will only feed into those same things that we are now trying to address, miring us in war and the poverty and the despair of war - hate that is true must find redress in the love that is grieved while hate that is false must by Justice be extinguished to prevent it from further consuming the life of our nations.
Hatred prevents understanding and where understanding is prevented; there is no room for anything else but contention.
Let us make sure that hatred is broken down, at least from among a democratic majority of our peoples, to prepare the way for an understanding that leads toward common ground.
The redress of Justice, we shall apply along the way - it must also be said that Justice is not the only virtue that effects a restoration to the truth - Mercy, Magnanimity and Charity are each in themselves also capable of effecting the same restoration and for those same reasons also cooperates with Justice not a few times in pursuit of the same. What is important when it regards virtue is every resultant action which must be both right as well as truly good - for all people, for all time.
Truthfulness
If we are to take upon ourselves, the mindset of peace, we must learn to speak in the language of peace - this is the exercise of truthfulness - for our hopes may only be properly expressed in this language and it is our hopes more than our grievances that shall lead us, step by step, toward the path that shall eventually lead us to the vision of peace.
Acceptance and Surrender
The reality of every present time is reality only because the will of Divine Providence has allowed it to become so - we must therefore be careful not to fight against things which constantly guarantee defeat and nothing defeats a man more than a pride that goes against the will of the Almighty God.
There is a way to effect change but never must it go against the will that establish for all Mankind the shape of present things, all that is present to our humanity must be all that is accepted, first and foremost, without condition - this is the first requirement of faith in Divine Providence.
If we are seeking for good things, we must also establish our seeking upon grounds that are good - for good things lead to good things and evil things lead to evil things. Never can the good be sought from means that are evil - human weakness excepted - for malice is the exact opposite of beneficence.
We can not obtain peace by contending in war - peace is only obtained by the acceptance of itself. War leads to more war unless Mankind seeks peace and seeks peace completely. And this seeking is sought only upon paths of sacred remembrance.
For a good tree can not but bear good fruit and a bad tree can not but bear bad fruit - but a young tree is neither of the two and therefore, must allow itself to be formed.
We human beings are like trees that are ever young and as regards to this particular similitude, it is the will of Divine Providence that we must allow to form us into good trees bearing good fruit. This is how surrender is discerned and it is this discerning surrender which is the second and last requirement of faith in Divine Providence.
Surrender to the good leads to growth and transformation in virtue and truth. Surrender to evil deviates from the good and leads to poverty and annihilation.
Hope
Therefore, if we shall desire peace, we must gain it through ways that are established in the good - the good of people in the community, the love of our families, the camaraderie of our friends, the goodness of our LORD God, the hopes that we keep and the hopes that we share with other people, all of these are valid reasons to make remembrance meaningful and a remembrance that is meaningful imparts a strength that is lasting and necessary in the ascent to the truth. For we must have recourse to prayer, my dearest friend, having founded the basis of our reason upon things that are good, we will see by what is evil in our days what change we must inspire. And drive towards this hope, flying to our LORD God for the grace to achieve through our instrumentality, our LORD's own will of good.
For hope is always a lineage, it is a strong anchor that grounds us upon the present good which is its object and also the wings that lift hearts of prayer and faith unto eternity - the act of hope itself, an expression of trust in the one Giver of all good things. So we strive for good on behalf of all good things - this is the action of hope - it is the only way to effect the necessary changes that help to overcome the evil sufficient for us in our days.
False hopes, being neither strong anchor of truth nor agile wings of surrender to the truth possess neither substance nor solidity - save for the evil in evil things which is always empty of promise - sink in the mire of the void. If we are to contend against the will of Divine Providence, and seek to change things with either reckless abandon or blind hatred, we shall find ourselves constantly and consistently defeated and overwhelmed by the crash of realities that are - in the very first place - absolutely beyond our control.
Like a furious tempest we shall utterly and completely spend ourselves as waves breaking against the immovable will of the Almighty God until all of time is spent or all of our lives have dissipated into the four winds.
Restlessness is the destiny of the false but peace is what we know in our hearts we have always strived for - and so let us do this striving together this time, my dear friends. For not only does our days call us, our hopes impel us, and our LORD God compels us, our lives and the lives of many other human beings completely depend on us, indeed, our one planet rely on our ability to deliver on what has always been our common and long-standing hope of peace in this region.
What is different this time is that this time is NOW - it is the favorable season for peace - so we shall by our common contributions to peace be a generation defined and a labor long remembered - if we answer, answer responsibly and answer responsibly together to the common calling of our times.
The Question of Capital
Jerusalem must remain undivided. However, Jerusalem must also be honored by the virtue upon which this city is founded - peace. Let us not make of this city an obstacle to the very truth upon which she is known to God, to the angels of God and to all the nations of Mankind - I cry in my heart for the sheer hypocrisy of it!
If we honor what is true in all of ourselves, we must know also to honor what is true in all those things about ourselves - this city must neither be a hypocrisy nor an obstacle to the very thing she stands in eternal remembrance of, if she must be a capital, let her be a capital of two faithful brothers and not of two hated rivals - let her be a common capital to two nations that she may bind them together to herself and allow them to discover through her the ways of our LORD's peace. To divide this city, I do not know but all of this city I know is called peace.
A secondary strategic capital must be found and established to make distinct the seats of the two states but to Jerusalem we must all yield - and work of ways to possess her together in peace. I can not tell you how strongly I feel for this one particular question, my dear friends - this city is not an obstacle, she is and have always ever been a help. Therefore, we must allow her to remain as she is, Jerusalem.
Stage Second - The Expectation of the Peace
Nothing that we can say will ever be able to either add or subtract from the joy of the peoples where we have finally achieved this stage - joy more than anything is also a form of strength and shall be enough to lead them all the way.
I thank you very much for you time, dear Mr. President, and consideration and I salute you and all your loved ones with peace, may our LORD God lead us across into the safety of new shores and the shelter of a better world for all of our generations.
20090627
The President
The White House
Washington D.C. 20500
Cc: Vice President Biden, Prime Minister Brown (UK), Prime Minister Rudd (Australia), Prime Minister Berlusconi (Italy), Chancellor Merkel (Germany), President Sarkozy (France), President Medvedev (Russia), President Arroyo (Philippines) and Secretary Teodoro (DND, Philippines).
Dear President Obama:
I have for so long kept in my heart much of these things which I now must relate to you.
It concerns the hope that we share in common as human beings all of which I will attempt to bring out in this letter.
I appreciate your time and shall use whatever time you shall have given this letter in a manner that is most efficient.
Therefore, I must first ask you, Mr. President, to please forgive me for I shall try to speak forthrightly about these many things.
I shall begin by summing up the message of my correspondence:
The peace of our world though imperfect is upon this season and upon this time; a hope that is not just within our reach, it is a hope we must build together towards.
For the longer term nature of the next age shall be decided by what we shall in common believe, upon this season and upon this time, both as human beings and as human nations together for ill or good, we must choose.
I must now provide the burden of proof. Twofold is the nature of this proof, one derived from Sacred Scripture and the other gathered from events that parallel Sacred Scripture.
Let me first confess to you, Mr. President, that though I am completely devoted to my Roman Catholic faith, I am the most skeptical of persons. I know to utilize both faith and reason not to deny me my own sense of reality but to deepen it and though I am a believer in great miracles, I have never sought any nor felt the need to have recourse to them for above all, I am more inclined in myself to appreciate the smaller graces of everyday things.
I would have been the last person in the entire planet to deliver a message like this to you, for I am neither a saint nor a great person - I am but a repentant sinner and a common citizen of my own Republic of the Philippines.
But the LORD our God has formed me even as my Savior Jesus Christ has called me from out of the darkness of myself, it seems, to become a witness of the very message that I am now hoping to humbly share with you today through this letter.
Having held on for so long to this, like a seed in my heart, it has grown over many years to a point where I feel I must share it now with you, dear President Obama. And I say I must only because I now feel that I am able to more completely express this message where in the past, it would have been difficult.
Hence, let me begin providing the first half of the burden of proof, the Sacred Scriptures. For it is here where we shall draw our fixed references which like landmarks upon a map will guide us as we move into the second half which is the current state of our planet and the evil sufficient for our days which I shall attempt to clearly describe to you.
Then, we shall return again to those fixed reference points we have made in the first half in order to complete the one whole burden of proof.
Please understand also that firstly, these are my personal interpretations of Sacred Scripture which I shall share with you only because they are also referenced by the other half of our burden of proof which are current events in the larger context of the precarious state of our planet.
Please refer to the following Sacred Scripture passages:
Genesis 3: 16-19, 23 - The Divine Requirement
This is the requirement to tame our earth in order that it may provide for our humanity, the provisions that meet our human needs.
Genesis 3: 22, 24 - The Order of the Nations
The casting away of Man from Eden and the Divine Requirement necessitated the binding together of the generations of the children of Mankind, for the Divine Requirement may only be carried out after Eden as a human community - this need to provide for the life of our generations has established from the throne of God in eternity, the order of the nations of Mankind.
This order of the nations binds together the hope of our generations as well as the ascent of our nations against the procession of the interior seasons - beginning from the autumnal dusk of faded Eden - it is this order that accompany the march of our nations together through exile time and also the birth of each new nation emerging into time from the deep of eternity. For each new nation upon earth is neither born by random chance nor necessitated by any will of evil - there is a rhythm and a will behind the purposes intended within and among our nations and these purposes serve only the good and the common good.
Mr. President, it is where the purpose of our nations have been in the darkness forgot that evil itself exploits to gain entry into the life of our nations - this forgetfulness which is wrought by the darkness of our times is a manifest need in many of our present day nations - each of which must complete each their own sacred remembrances in order to see clearly once again, the eternal vision of each them selves as they are meant to be and become.
A nation divided against itself will first manifest this division as a weakening of the will of Country, a lack of drive toward peace, and as the widening discord within its own internal dialogue between the nation and its state, the dilution of the sense of national identity shall soon follow as the trusts that have bound together its common people for generations become lost in the breaking up of its internal communities, this shattering will exactly result in absolute darkness - it is the same when the native sky above all earth was shattered to become the void whence all conflicts draw their source, all things living and whole when by internal strife become shattered result in absolute darkness, and this darkness is an indication of the gravity of itself, a sure and certain descent into anarchy and eventual annihilation of the sheltering spirit of a people. Where this sheltering spirit of a people is by war vanquished, the picket lines of the Devil shall by piecemeal or the beast of war shall by wholesale, rip into the numerous and diverse vulnerabilities exposed in the people in order that all of hell may devour them body and soul. All of this may seem far-fetched, and I do admit I have to some extent utilized my own imagination, but if we shall take a closer and more careful examination about the troubles that plague the peoples of our nations, we may see some parallels to this mostly unseen reality - it is why sacred remembrance is always by heaven prescribed and by our LORD God commanded of all of those who are yet willing to listen who have ears to do so.
Genesis 9: 1-17 - The Noahide Covenant
An accounting of each other and of all of sacred life and the entrusting of all of lower creation of the visible universe to each and every leadership lineages of our nations who are the original executive lines integral to the state - these lines have been decimated over the millennia by the will of war and where these lines yet remain, these lines should be preserved - neither have they lost their original purpose nor the potency of their mandate, their will evolved to meet the present day affairs that guide the well being of each their Country, the many Republics that fill our map is testament to the many fallen lines of our leaders and kings of old who whether by internal or external strife have been vanquished by the beast of war. It is important to say here that their hopes, even as the human hopes of all human beings of all places whose times have passed us away still remain with us.
This hope is an integral part of sacred remembrance and shall form part of a separate work dedicated to the same.
This covenant made each of our nations kindred to each other as a family of nations - an interdependent community required more than just to coexist - but to exist together in peace.
It is no surprise to say that our present world is full of nations who are strangers to each other - for it is to be expected of the will of war to also exploit the bonds that make each of our nations, keeper and friend to each other - bonds that by will of divine covenant, are bonds intended to make a family of friends out of all of our nations - for only in this way can the regental presence of our shared humanity become fully and completely present to our planet as one planetary whole, for the ascent of the unity of the wholes is not an ascent if it does not lead to unity and the one planet requires this ascent if we are to effectively address the troubles, besides the main siege of war, that is now plaguing our world as a whole.
These planetary troubles will have far reaching effects right through the 21st century, troubles that shall profit only war if we do not learn to reach out in peace with each other, upon this season and upon this time.
Whatever profits war benefits only death and darkness in the end but peace always adds to life.
Genesis 22: 16-18 - The Abrahamic Covenant
This covenant is central to the divine promise of hope for our present times.
A large part of the gains upon which war have established an existential siege upon our world completely depend on the inability of the numberless stars descended from the holy Patriarch Abraham of old to respond to the calling of the divine promise by which we shall bless the communities of Mankind - this communities of Mankind is nothing less than the one family of the nations of Mankind as a whole.
Nations who at no other time in the whole of human history find themselves in no greater need of the peace than we are at the present time, and this necessary peace being also the defining salutation of each of our great Abrahamic religions is the peace that is by divine promise required of all of us, who are called to by faith and promise, in order to bless the nations of Mankind.
Now, more than ever, Jews, Christians and Muslims together must lead this badly broken world into a future that is fit for the dignity of our wounded humanity - if we shall fail, or if we shall fail to see what is coming, no other force on earth shall prevent the darkness that is to come - and this darkness is not hard to conceive given the obvious trending of our world - therefore, all of the numberless stars must as one firmament allied with all honorable religion and with all persons of good will guide our world into the eastward way of the one Peace and away from the midnight darkness of war into a new dawning of a new age of peace for all of the nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind.
Upon this is built all our other hopes for a better world.
Daniel 12 - The Contrast, the Time and the Seasons
The choice for peace is a choice that took thousands of years to mature for it has paralleled the maturation of the beast of war - this contrast and an understanding of the natures of both war and peace, darkness and light, good and evil is what is indicated by a time, times and half-a-time - time being one thousand, times being two thousand years of lukewarm gray and many millennia of shadow, and half-a-time is a necessary requirement to see by way of contrast the difference between gray and shadow and split this difference into halves of the one wholes of war and peace, darkness and light, good and evil and weight the absolute and irreversible choice between two paradigms. This requisite choice is given further and a more deeper emphasis in Revelation 3: 14-19
The numbered days below I must ask you to trust me indicates this year 2009 as the beginning of the favorable season with which to build upon our hopes, the seminal foundations of a brighter, better and kinder world for all of the generations of life. It is a progression that leads into hope and requires that we work together as responsible partners, human beings as well as human nations, towards the promise of peace that open the right door into a better world.
Revelation 3: 14-19 - The Choice
To be lukewarm is to be dead to all hope and is worse than being the enemy of all hope - because this unmade choice when it remains unmade in the face of an overwhelming reality is not only damnable, it is worse for where the evil that dwell in hell are the evil who, by willful collaboration with the will of the Devil, have made their choice - where any unmade choices of the sin of omissions are cleansed by purgatorial fires, this one particular unmade choice is actually a choice to effect a complete denial of our humanity - but still a damnable choice made more terrible because it is in will of that person unmade, and therefore, that one unrecognizable path that lead to hellfire - (this one unmade choice of the lukewarm heart and the duality of the reflected image and the reflection, may be further understood in the context of the mystery of iniquity.)
Revelation 12: 7-9 - The War in Heaven
If war itself found no place in heaven and was thrown down upon earth, shall we allow it a place? As war was from heaven thrown down, it must on earth be denied - it must be driven into the void which is its oblivion.
We need not look up into the heavens of the visible universe to look for this war, this passage of Sacred Scripture is a revelation of a spiritual reality and so therefore, we must realize that the locus of this passage is in the human heart where time and the timeless intersect into one seamless human experience.
The timeless void is the space between the heaven of our LORD's eternity and our earth - and it is across this void where war is "thrown down" - To "throw" indicates a certain distance and so "throwing down" indicates the presence of that space between which is the timeless void, the sink of oblivion - the timeless, finite, unseen realms that was the natural domain of the angels and also the blanketing of the golden blue of the native sky of earth, resplendent with a multitude of living lights which were all conscious as well as conversant to our First Parents before the closing of our Eden at the fall of Mankind. This sky is shattered, there is nothing but darkness and conflict there now, it is the source of all conflict and also the nearest, most direct experience of the reality of the timeless to any human heart absent to the presence of God in eternity - prayer indeed, is battle - so the Catechism of my Church teaches us - it requires an ascent, indicating effort - but the fruits of prayer are numerous indeed.
Having witnessed the unfolding of many events that only seem to parallel and confirm for me those things above written in Sacred Scripture, I have long ago ceased to question why it is that I follow, I follow because I am in need and I know I am in need because it is my Lord Jesus Christ Who calls me.
Most of the current troubles of our world, dear President Obama, I am convinced are reflected in those passages and the necessary passage that shall lead our world into the dawning of the new age is also reflected in those passages - what peace is promised is an imperfect peace but it is through perfect acceptance of the imperfect that we are allowed to grow, and so I must hold on to this hope and do everything that I can to continue to effect this necessary change in myself above all and do what I am able to do from my state of life and within my own vocation to live these things in my life as well.
Lastly, it is important for me to reiterate that these things are things that pertain to human hope and not to faith nor to any particular faith - faith indeed has a large part to play here but the application of the fruits of honorable religion more than anything else is what is being required by my Lord Jesus Christ of all Christian and by our LORD God of all nations most especially all of our Abrahamic kindred in promise and faith hereupon this favorable season, upon this time of hope.
I should also like to include some of my own thoughts as regards to the Middle East in general and to Israel and Palestine in particular.
A Prelude to Middle East Peace
Begin with the Right Expectation
Peace is an observance of hope - it is never a thing that is understood in motion (therefore, peace in and of itself is not a process) but must be a thing understood at rest, it is an observance of the concrete, material fruits of hope and a growing sense of the appreciation of the same.
Peace is abundance of life. For peace quickly leads to the prosperity of peace. And hope as a way of sacred remembrance leads into peace.
The Middle East, engulfed by the darkness of war, requires first that peace be restored and it is this restoration which is a process. It requires perspectives that are patient as well as committed in the long term to the hope of peace.
Many hearts might believe to the point of hurt that peace is a process and so expect with the expectation of peace unto tears. My dear friends shed your tears not for lies but for the reality of your hopes together.
And do not blame those who desire to see you happy and secure in your happiness - you must understand there is a darkness that blankets our world - a darkness from which none of our nations belong, a thing which must remind all our sides that there really is no side that separates us when it comes to war - for war is its own dark side.
Having said all of that, let us shed away the past and now proceed with the right expectation which must be begun from what is absent in the darkness of war instead of what is present in the peace. This absence breeds hope and this hope fuels sacred remembrance.
Let us each be mindful that the process that returns the nations of that region, particularly modern Israel of our elder Israel and unborn Palestine, to the path of peace is not the desired destination itself that shall restore that troubled region to peace and the prosperity of peace.
Therefore, let us ground our expectations upon two distinct stages - the restoration of the peace as a process - and the expectation of the peace as an observance.
Like a way and a vision, let us perceive them in our hearts, and prepare for them in our understanding, steadily adding force to the conviction in our will to press forward together into our hopes.
Stage First: The Restoration of the Peace
This is the most difficult stage, my dear friends, let me tell you now - but the expectation of the peace that is the stage to come after this should help us to keep our chins up and our spirits buoyant even if the enveloping darkness that invisibly eclipse the joy of your lives can not deny any of us this vision of hope in the horizon, past barren deserts, past mountains, past empty wilderness, that we must together cross from within ourselves to get through to this most difficult stage.
I should reiterate that this stage requires perspectives that are patient as well as committed in the long term to the hope of peace - and this hope, my dear friends, is real so this labor that we now must undertake is no longer a labor of tears that bring naught but grief but one of hope that leads eventually to the realization of dreams.
Justice
Restoration is a word synonymous with the virtue of Justice and Justice is that which restores all things unto the truth.
Breaking down Hatred
The turning away from war require the application of Justice and Justice which is a virtue proper to heaven for no other light can illumine the eastward way but the one Light above all others - hatred must yield to an understanding of itself for hatred exists only for a love offended - it is this love which bears understanding and not the hatred itself because hatred defies all forms of understanding having denied all reason prior to its existence - what offends love that love is grieved? This will stay all hate but the false which is naught more than empty words spat by the lying tongue of the wicked will of war - this is malice and must be vigorously contended against. Hatred is the greatest obstacle to Justice for anger serves not the righteousness of God. Therefore, it is hatred, first and foremost, difficult though it may all be, that we must address. For if we do not and we ignore the blindness of hate, it will only feed into those same things that we are now trying to address, miring us in war and the poverty and the despair of war - hate that is true must find redress in the love that is grieved while hate that is false must by Justice be extinguished to prevent it from further consuming the life of our nations.
Hatred prevents understanding and where understanding is prevented; there is no room for anything else but contention.
Let us make sure that hatred is broken down, at least from among a democratic majority of our peoples, to prepare the way for an understanding that leads toward common ground.
The redress of Justice, we shall apply along the way - it must also be said that Justice is not the only virtue that effects a restoration to the truth - Mercy, Magnanimity and Charity are each in themselves also capable of effecting the same restoration and for those same reasons also cooperates with Justice not a few times in pursuit of the same. What is important when it regards virtue is every resultant action which must be both right as well as truly good - for all people, for all time.
Truthfulness
If we are to take upon ourselves, the mindset of peace, we must learn to speak in the language of peace - this is the exercise of truthfulness - for our hopes may only be properly expressed in this language and it is our hopes more than our grievances that shall lead us, step by step, toward the path that shall eventually lead us to the vision of peace.
Acceptance and Surrender
The reality of every present time is reality only because the will of Divine Providence has allowed it to become so - we must therefore be careful not to fight against things which constantly guarantee defeat and nothing defeats a man more than a pride that goes against the will of the Almighty God.
There is a way to effect change but never must it go against the will that establish for all Mankind the shape of present things, all that is present to our humanity must be all that is accepted, first and foremost, without condition - this is the first requirement of faith in Divine Providence.
If we are seeking for good things, we must also establish our seeking upon grounds that are good - for good things lead to good things and evil things lead to evil things. Never can the good be sought from means that are evil - human weakness excepted - for malice is the exact opposite of beneficence.
We can not obtain peace by contending in war - peace is only obtained by the acceptance of itself. War leads to more war unless Mankind seeks peace and seeks peace completely. And this seeking is sought only upon paths of sacred remembrance.
For a good tree can not but bear good fruit and a bad tree can not but bear bad fruit - but a young tree is neither of the two and therefore, must allow itself to be formed.
We human beings are like trees that are ever young and as regards to this particular similitude, it is the will of Divine Providence that we must allow to form us into good trees bearing good fruit. This is how surrender is discerned and it is this discerning surrender which is the second and last requirement of faith in Divine Providence.
Surrender to the good leads to growth and transformation in virtue and truth. Surrender to evil deviates from the good and leads to poverty and annihilation.
Hope
Therefore, if we shall desire peace, we must gain it through ways that are established in the good - the good of people in the community, the love of our families, the camaraderie of our friends, the goodness of our LORD God, the hopes that we keep and the hopes that we share with other people, all of these are valid reasons to make remembrance meaningful and a remembrance that is meaningful imparts a strength that is lasting and necessary in the ascent to the truth. For we must have recourse to prayer, my dearest friend, having founded the basis of our reason upon things that are good, we will see by what is evil in our days what change we must inspire. And drive towards this hope, flying to our LORD God for the grace to achieve through our instrumentality, our LORD's own will of good.
For hope is always a lineage, it is a strong anchor that grounds us upon the present good which is its object and also the wings that lift hearts of prayer and faith unto eternity - the act of hope itself, an expression of trust in the one Giver of all good things. So we strive for good on behalf of all good things - this is the action of hope - it is the only way to effect the necessary changes that help to overcome the evil sufficient for us in our days.
False hopes, being neither strong anchor of truth nor agile wings of surrender to the truth possess neither substance nor solidity - save for the evil in evil things which is always empty of promise - sink in the mire of the void. If we are to contend against the will of Divine Providence, and seek to change things with either reckless abandon or blind hatred, we shall find ourselves constantly and consistently defeated and overwhelmed by the crash of realities that are - in the very first place - absolutely beyond our control.
Like a furious tempest we shall utterly and completely spend ourselves as waves breaking against the immovable will of the Almighty God until all of time is spent or all of our lives have dissipated into the four winds.
Restlessness is the destiny of the false but peace is what we know in our hearts we have always strived for - and so let us do this striving together this time, my dear friends. For not only does our days call us, our hopes impel us, and our LORD God compels us, our lives and the lives of many other human beings completely depend on us, indeed, our one planet rely on our ability to deliver on what has always been our common and long-standing hope of peace in this region.
What is different this time is that this time is NOW - it is the favorable season for peace - so we shall by our common contributions to peace be a generation defined and a labor long remembered - if we answer, answer responsibly and answer responsibly together to the common calling of our times.
The Question of Capital
Jerusalem must remain undivided. However, Jerusalem must also be honored by the virtue upon which this city is founded - peace. Let us not make of this city an obstacle to the very truth upon which she is known to God, to the angels of God and to all the nations of Mankind - I cry in my heart for the sheer hypocrisy of it!
If we honor what is true in all of ourselves, we must know also to honor what is true in all those things about ourselves - this city must neither be a hypocrisy nor an obstacle to the very thing she stands in eternal remembrance of, if she must be a capital, let her be a capital of two faithful brothers and not of two hated rivals - let her be a common capital to two nations that she may bind them together to herself and allow them to discover through her the ways of our LORD's peace. To divide this city, I do not know but all of this city I know is called peace.
A secondary strategic capital must be found and established to make distinct the seats of the two states but to Jerusalem we must all yield - and work of ways to possess her together in peace. I can not tell you how strongly I feel for this one particular question, my dear friends - this city is not an obstacle, she is and have always ever been a help. Therefore, we must allow her to remain as she is, Jerusalem.
Stage Second - The Expectation of the Peace
Nothing that we can say will ever be able to either add or subtract from the joy of the peoples where we have finally achieved this stage - joy more than anything is also a form of strength and shall be enough to lead them all the way.
I thank you very much for you time, dear Mr. President, and consideration and I salute you and all your loved ones with peace, may our LORD God lead us across into the safety of new shores and the shelter of a better world for all of our generations.
The White House
Washington D.C. 20500
Cc: Vice President Biden, Prime Minister Brown (UK), Prime Minister Rudd (Australia), Prime Minister Berlusconi (Italy), Chancellor Merkel (Germany), President Sarkozy (France), President Medvedev (Russia), President Arroyo (Philippines) and Secretary Teodoro (DND, Philippines).
Dear President Obama:
I have for so long kept in my heart much of these things which I now must relate to you.
It concerns the hope that we share in common as human beings all of which I will attempt to bring out in this letter.
I appreciate your time and shall use whatever time you shall have given this letter in a manner that is most efficient.
Therefore, I must first ask you, Mr. President, to please forgive me for I shall try to speak forthrightly about these many things.
I shall begin by summing up the message of my correspondence:
The peace of our world though imperfect is upon this season and upon this time; a hope that is not just within our reach, it is a hope we must build together towards.
For the longer term nature of the next age shall be decided by what we shall in common believe, upon this season and upon this time, both as human beings and as human nations together for ill or good, we must choose.
I must now provide the burden of proof. Twofold is the nature of this proof, one derived from Sacred Scripture and the other gathered from events that parallel Sacred Scripture.
Let me first confess to you, Mr. President, that though I am completely devoted to my Roman Catholic faith, I am the most skeptical of persons. I know to utilize both faith and reason not to deny me my own sense of reality but to deepen it and though I am a believer in great miracles, I have never sought any nor felt the need to have recourse to them for above all, I am more inclined in myself to appreciate the smaller graces of everyday things.
I would have been the last person in the entire planet to deliver a message like this to you, for I am neither a saint nor a great person - I am but a repentant sinner and a common citizen of my own Republic of the Philippines.
But the LORD our God has formed me even as my Savior Jesus Christ has called me from out of the darkness of myself, it seems, to become a witness of the very message that I am now hoping to humbly share with you today through this letter.
Having held on for so long to this, like a seed in my heart, it has grown over many years to a point where I feel I must share it now with you, dear President Obama. And I say I must only because I now feel that I am able to more completely express this message where in the past, it would have been difficult.
Hence, let me begin providing the first half of the burden of proof, the Sacred Scriptures. For it is here where we shall draw our fixed references which like landmarks upon a map will guide us as we move into the second half which is the current state of our planet and the evil sufficient for our days which I shall attempt to clearly describe to you.
Then, we shall return again to those fixed reference points we have made in the first half in order to complete the one whole burden of proof.
Please understand also that firstly, these are my personal interpretations of Sacred Scripture which I shall share with you only because they are also referenced by the other half of our burden of proof which are current events in the larger context of the precarious state of our planet.
Please refer to the following Sacred Scripture passages:
Genesis 3: 16-19, 23 - The Divine Requirement
This is the requirement to tame our earth in order that it may provide for our humanity, the provisions that meet our human needs.
Genesis 3: 22, 24 - The Order of the Nations
The casting away of Man from Eden and the Divine Requirement necessitated the binding together of the generations of the children of Mankind, for the Divine Requirement may only be carried out after Eden as a human community - this need to provide for the life of our generations has established from the throne of God in eternity, the order of the nations of Mankind.
This order of the nations binds together the hope of our generations as well as the ascent of our nations against the procession of the interior seasons - beginning from the autumnal dusk of faded Eden - it is this order that accompany the march of our nations together through exile time and also the birth of each new nation emerging into time from the deep of eternity. For each new nation upon earth is neither born by random chance nor necessitated by any will of evil - there is a rhythm and a will behind the purposes intended within and among our nations and these purposes serve only the good and the common good.
Mr. President, it is where the purpose of our nations have been in the darkness forgot that evil itself exploits to gain entry into the life of our nations - this forgetfulness which is wrought by the darkness of our times is a manifest need in many of our present day nations - each of which must complete each their own sacred remembrances in order to see clearly once again, the eternal vision of each them selves as they are meant to be and become.
A nation divided against itself will first manifest this division as a weakening of the will of Country, a lack of drive toward peace, and as the widening discord within its own internal dialogue between the nation and its state, the dilution of the sense of national identity shall soon follow as the trusts that have bound together its common people for generations become lost in the breaking up of its internal communities, this shattering will exactly result in absolute darkness - it is the same when the native sky above all earth was shattered to become the void whence all conflicts draw their source, all things living and whole when by internal strife become shattered result in absolute darkness, and this darkness is an indication of the gravity of itself, a sure and certain descent into anarchy and eventual annihilation of the sheltering spirit of a people. Where this sheltering spirit of a people is by war vanquished, the picket lines of the Devil shall by piecemeal or the beast of war shall by wholesale, rip into the numerous and diverse vulnerabilities exposed in the people in order that all of hell may devour them body and soul. All of this may seem far-fetched, and I do admit I have to some extent utilized my own imagination, but if we shall take a closer and more careful examination about the troubles that plague the peoples of our nations, we may see some parallels to this mostly unseen reality - it is why sacred remembrance is always by heaven prescribed and by our LORD God commanded of all of those who are yet willing to listen who have ears to do so.
Genesis 9: 1-17 - The Noahide Covenant
An accounting of each other and of all of sacred life and the entrusting of all of lower creation of the visible universe to each and every leadership lineages of our nations who are the original executive lines integral to the state - these lines have been decimated over the millennia by the will of war and where these lines yet remain, these lines should be preserved - neither have they lost their original purpose nor the potency of their mandate, their will evolved to meet the present day affairs that guide the well being of each their Country, the many Republics that fill our map is testament to the many fallen lines of our leaders and kings of old who whether by internal or external strife have been vanquished by the beast of war. It is important to say here that their hopes, even as the human hopes of all human beings of all places whose times have passed us away still remain with us.
This hope is an integral part of sacred remembrance and shall form part of a separate work dedicated to the same.
This covenant made each of our nations kindred to each other as a family of nations - an interdependent community required more than just to coexist - but to exist together in peace.
It is no surprise to say that our present world is full of nations who are strangers to each other - for it is to be expected of the will of war to also exploit the bonds that make each of our nations, keeper and friend to each other - bonds that by will of divine covenant, are bonds intended to make a family of friends out of all of our nations - for only in this way can the regental presence of our shared humanity become fully and completely present to our planet as one planetary whole, for the ascent of the unity of the wholes is not an ascent if it does not lead to unity and the one planet requires this ascent if we are to effectively address the troubles, besides the main siege of war, that is now plaguing our world as a whole.
These planetary troubles will have far reaching effects right through the 21st century, troubles that shall profit only war if we do not learn to reach out in peace with each other, upon this season and upon this time.
Whatever profits war benefits only death and darkness in the end but peace always adds to life.
Genesis 22: 16-18 - The Abrahamic Covenant
This covenant is central to the divine promise of hope for our present times.
A large part of the gains upon which war have established an existential siege upon our world completely depend on the inability of the numberless stars descended from the holy Patriarch Abraham of old to respond to the calling of the divine promise by which we shall bless the communities of Mankind - this communities of Mankind is nothing less than the one family of the nations of Mankind as a whole.
Nations who at no other time in the whole of human history find themselves in no greater need of the peace than we are at the present time, and this necessary peace being also the defining salutation of each of our great Abrahamic religions is the peace that is by divine promise required of all of us, who are called to by faith and promise, in order to bless the nations of Mankind.
Now, more than ever, Jews, Christians and Muslims together must lead this badly broken world into a future that is fit for the dignity of our wounded humanity - if we shall fail, or if we shall fail to see what is coming, no other force on earth shall prevent the darkness that is to come - and this darkness is not hard to conceive given the obvious trending of our world - therefore, all of the numberless stars must as one firmament allied with all honorable religion and with all persons of good will guide our world into the eastward way of the one Peace and away from the midnight darkness of war into a new dawning of a new age of peace for all of the nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind.
Upon this is built all our other hopes for a better world.
Daniel 12 - The Contrast, the Time and the Seasons
The choice for peace is a choice that took thousands of years to mature for it has paralleled the maturation of the beast of war - this contrast and an understanding of the natures of both war and peace, darkness and light, good and evil is what is indicated by a time, times and half-a-time - time being one thousand, times being two thousand years of lukewarm gray and many millennia of shadow, and half-a-time is a necessary requirement to see by way of contrast the difference between gray and shadow and split this difference into halves of the one wholes of war and peace, darkness and light, good and evil and weight the absolute and irreversible choice between two paradigms. This requisite choice is given further and a more deeper emphasis in Revelation 3: 14-19
The numbered days below I must ask you to trust me indicates this year 2009 as the beginning of the favorable season with which to build upon our hopes, the seminal foundations of a brighter, better and kinder world for all of the generations of life. It is a progression that leads into hope and requires that we work together as responsible partners, human beings as well as human nations, towards the promise of peace that open the right door into a better world.
Revelation 3: 14-19 - The Choice
To be lukewarm is to be dead to all hope and is worse than being the enemy of all hope - because this unmade choice when it remains unmade in the face of an overwhelming reality is not only damnable, it is worse for where the evil that dwell in hell are the evil who, by willful collaboration with the will of the Devil, have made their choice - where any unmade choices of the sin of omissions are cleansed by purgatorial fires, this one particular unmade choice is actually a choice to effect a complete denial of our humanity - but still a damnable choice made more terrible because it is in will of that person unmade, and therefore, that one unrecognizable path that lead to hellfire - (this one unmade choice of the lukewarm heart and the duality of the reflected image and the reflection, may be further understood in the context of the mystery of iniquity.)
Revelation 12: 7-9 - The War in Heaven
If war itself found no place in heaven and was thrown down upon earth, shall we allow it a place? As war was from heaven thrown down, it must on earth be denied - it must be driven into the void which is its oblivion.
We need not look up into the heavens of the visible universe to look for this war, this passage of Sacred Scripture is a revelation of a spiritual reality and so therefore, we must realize that the locus of this passage is in the human heart where time and the timeless intersect into one seamless human experience.
The timeless void is the space between the heaven of our LORD's eternity and our earth - and it is across this void where war is "thrown down" - To "throw" indicates a certain distance and so "throwing down" indicates the presence of that space between which is the timeless void, the sink of oblivion - the timeless, finite, unseen realms that was the natural domain of the angels and also the blanketing of the golden blue of the native sky of earth, resplendent with a multitude of living lights which were all conscious as well as conversant to our First Parents before the closing of our Eden at the fall of Mankind. This sky is shattered, there is nothing but darkness and conflict there now, it is the source of all conflict and also the nearest, most direct experience of the reality of the timeless to any human heart absent to the presence of God in eternity - prayer indeed, is battle - so the Catechism of my Church teaches us - it requires an ascent, indicating effort - but the fruits of prayer are numerous indeed.
Having witnessed the unfolding of many events that only seem to parallel and confirm for me those things above written in Sacred Scripture, I have long ago ceased to question why it is that I follow, I follow because I am in need and I know I am in need because it is my Lord Jesus Christ Who calls me.
Most of the current troubles of our world, dear President Obama, I am convinced are reflected in those passages and the necessary passage that shall lead our world into the dawning of the new age is also reflected in those passages - what peace is promised is an imperfect peace but it is through perfect acceptance of the imperfect that we are allowed to grow, and so I must hold on to this hope and do everything that I can to continue to effect this necessary change in myself above all and do what I am able to do from my state of life and within my own vocation to live these things in my life as well.
Lastly, it is important for me to reiterate that these things are things that pertain to human hope and not to faith nor to any particular faith - faith indeed has a large part to play here but the application of the fruits of honorable religion more than anything else is what is being required by my Lord Jesus Christ of all Christian and by our LORD God of all nations most especially all of our Abrahamic kindred in promise and faith hereupon this favorable season, upon this time of hope.
I should also like to include some of my own thoughts as regards to the Middle East in general and to Israel and Palestine in particular.
A Prelude to Middle East Peace
Begin with the Right Expectation
Peace is an observance of hope - it is never a thing that is understood in motion (therefore, peace in and of itself is not a process) but must be a thing understood at rest, it is an observance of the concrete, material fruits of hope and a growing sense of the appreciation of the same.
Peace is abundance of life. For peace quickly leads to the prosperity of peace. And hope as a way of sacred remembrance leads into peace.
The Middle East, engulfed by the darkness of war, requires first that peace be restored and it is this restoration which is a process. It requires perspectives that are patient as well as committed in the long term to the hope of peace.
Many hearts might believe to the point of hurt that peace is a process and so expect with the expectation of peace unto tears. My dear friends shed your tears not for lies but for the reality of your hopes together.
And do not blame those who desire to see you happy and secure in your happiness - you must understand there is a darkness that blankets our world - a darkness from which none of our nations belong, a thing which must remind all our sides that there really is no side that separates us when it comes to war - for war is its own dark side.
Having said all of that, let us shed away the past and now proceed with the right expectation which must be begun from what is absent in the darkness of war instead of what is present in the peace. This absence breeds hope and this hope fuels sacred remembrance.
Let us each be mindful that the process that returns the nations of that region, particularly modern Israel of our elder Israel and unborn Palestine, to the path of peace is not the desired destination itself that shall restore that troubled region to peace and the prosperity of peace.
Therefore, let us ground our expectations upon two distinct stages - the restoration of the peace as a process - and the expectation of the peace as an observance.
Like a way and a vision, let us perceive them in our hearts, and prepare for them in our understanding, steadily adding force to the conviction in our will to press forward together into our hopes.
Stage First: The Restoration of the Peace
This is the most difficult stage, my dear friends, let me tell you now - but the expectation of the peace that is the stage to come after this should help us to keep our chins up and our spirits buoyant even if the enveloping darkness that invisibly eclipse the joy of your lives can not deny any of us this vision of hope in the horizon, past barren deserts, past mountains, past empty wilderness, that we must together cross from within ourselves to get through to this most difficult stage.
I should reiterate that this stage requires perspectives that are patient as well as committed in the long term to the hope of peace - and this hope, my dear friends, is real so this labor that we now must undertake is no longer a labor of tears that bring naught but grief but one of hope that leads eventually to the realization of dreams.
Justice
Restoration is a word synonymous with the virtue of Justice and Justice is that which restores all things unto the truth.
Breaking down Hatred
The turning away from war require the application of Justice and Justice which is a virtue proper to heaven for no other light can illumine the eastward way but the one Light above all others - hatred must yield to an understanding of itself for hatred exists only for a love offended - it is this love which bears understanding and not the hatred itself because hatred defies all forms of understanding having denied all reason prior to its existence - what offends love that love is grieved? This will stay all hate but the false which is naught more than empty words spat by the lying tongue of the wicked will of war - this is malice and must be vigorously contended against. Hatred is the greatest obstacle to Justice for anger serves not the righteousness of God. Therefore, it is hatred, first and foremost, difficult though it may all be, that we must address. For if we do not and we ignore the blindness of hate, it will only feed into those same things that we are now trying to address, miring us in war and the poverty and the despair of war - hate that is true must find redress in the love that is grieved while hate that is false must by Justice be extinguished to prevent it from further consuming the life of our nations.
Hatred prevents understanding and where understanding is prevented; there is no room for anything else but contention.
Let us make sure that hatred is broken down, at least from among a democratic majority of our peoples, to prepare the way for an understanding that leads toward common ground.
The redress of Justice, we shall apply along the way - it must also be said that Justice is not the only virtue that effects a restoration to the truth - Mercy, Magnanimity and Charity are each in themselves also capable of effecting the same restoration and for those same reasons also cooperates with Justice not a few times in pursuit of the same. What is important when it regards virtue is every resultant action which must be both right as well as truly good - for all people, for all time.
Truthfulness
If we are to take upon ourselves, the mindset of peace, we must learn to speak in the language of peace - this is the exercise of truthfulness - for our hopes may only be properly expressed in this language and it is our hopes more than our grievances that shall lead us, step by step, toward the path that shall eventually lead us to the vision of peace.
Acceptance and Surrender
The reality of every present time is reality only because the will of Divine Providence has allowed it to become so - we must therefore be careful not to fight against things which constantly guarantee defeat and nothing defeats a man more than a pride that goes against the will of the Almighty God.
There is a way to effect change but never must it go against the will that establish for all Mankind the shape of present things, all that is present to our humanity must be all that is accepted, first and foremost, without condition - this is the first requirement of faith in Divine Providence.
If we are seeking for good things, we must also establish our seeking upon grounds that are good - for good things lead to good things and evil things lead to evil things. Never can the good be sought from means that are evil - human weakness excepted - for malice is the exact opposite of beneficence.
We can not obtain peace by contending in war - peace is only obtained by the acceptance of itself. War leads to more war unless Mankind seeks peace and seeks peace completely. And this seeking is sought only upon paths of sacred remembrance.
For a good tree can not but bear good fruit and a bad tree can not but bear bad fruit - but a young tree is neither of the two and therefore, must allow itself to be formed.
We human beings are like trees that are ever young and as regards to this particular similitude, it is the will of Divine Providence that we must allow to form us into good trees bearing good fruit. This is how surrender is discerned and it is this discerning surrender which is the second and last requirement of faith in Divine Providence.
Surrender to the good leads to growth and transformation in virtue and truth. Surrender to evil deviates from the good and leads to poverty and annihilation.
Hope
Therefore, if we shall desire peace, we must gain it through ways that are established in the good - the good of people in the community, the love of our families, the camaraderie of our friends, the goodness of our LORD God, the hopes that we keep and the hopes that we share with other people, all of these are valid reasons to make remembrance meaningful and a remembrance that is meaningful imparts a strength that is lasting and necessary in the ascent to the truth. For we must have recourse to prayer, my dearest friend, having founded the basis of our reason upon things that are good, we will see by what is evil in our days what change we must inspire. And drive towards this hope, flying to our LORD God for the grace to achieve through our instrumentality, our LORD's own will of good.
For hope is always a lineage, it is a strong anchor that grounds us upon the present good which is its object and also the wings that lift hearts of prayer and faith unto eternity - the act of hope itself, an expression of trust in the one Giver of all good things. So we strive for good on behalf of all good things - this is the action of hope - it is the only way to effect the necessary changes that help to overcome the evil sufficient for us in our days.
False hopes, being neither strong anchor of truth nor agile wings of surrender to the truth possess neither substance nor solidity - save for the evil in evil things which is always empty of promise - sink in the mire of the void. If we are to contend against the will of Divine Providence, and seek to change things with either reckless abandon or blind hatred, we shall find ourselves constantly and consistently defeated and overwhelmed by the crash of realities that are - in the very first place - absolutely beyond our control.
Like a furious tempest we shall utterly and completely spend ourselves as waves breaking against the immovable will of the Almighty God until all of time is spent or all of our lives have dissipated into the four winds.
Restlessness is the destiny of the false but peace is what we know in our hearts we have always strived for - and so let us do this striving together this time, my dear friends. For not only does our days call us, our hopes impel us, and our LORD God compels us, our lives and the lives of many other human beings completely depend on us, indeed, our one planet rely on our ability to deliver on what has always been our common and long-standing hope of peace in this region.
What is different this time is that this time is NOW - it is the favorable season for peace - so we shall by our common contributions to peace be a generation defined and a labor long remembered - if we answer, answer responsibly and answer responsibly together to the common calling of our times.
The Question of Capital
Jerusalem must remain undivided. However, Jerusalem must also be honored by the virtue upon which this city is founded - peace. Let us not make of this city an obstacle to the very truth upon which she is known to God, to the angels of God and to all the nations of Mankind - I cry in my heart for the sheer hypocrisy of it!
If we honor what is true in all of ourselves, we must know also to honor what is true in all those things about ourselves - this city must neither be a hypocrisy nor an obstacle to the very thing she stands in eternal remembrance of, if she must be a capital, let her be a capital of two faithful brothers and not of two hated rivals - let her be a common capital to two nations that she may bind them together to herself and allow them to discover through her the ways of our LORD's peace. To divide this city, I do not know but all of this city I know is called peace.
A secondary strategic capital must be found and established to make distinct the seats of the two states but to Jerusalem we must all yield - and work of ways to possess her together in peace. I can not tell you how strongly I feel for this one particular question, my dear friends - this city is not an obstacle, she is and have always ever been a help. Therefore, we must allow her to remain as she is, Jerusalem.
Stage Second - The Expectation of the Peace
Nothing that we can say will ever be able to either add or subtract from the joy of the peoples where we have finally achieved this stage - joy more than anything is also a form of strength and shall be enough to lead them all the way.
I thank you very much for you time, dear Mr. President, and consideration and I salute you and all your loved ones with peace, may our LORD God lead us across into the safety of new shores and the shelter of a better world for all of our generations.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
20090604
Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
The Surrender of Kings
My dear friends, let us ponder on the sword, Excalibur, as a similitude of power:
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That power, above all the power to rule the people - that divine right to govern thy peers which is a sovereign right that by Justice belongs to God alone - once gripped by selfish hands ultimately makes the wielder impotent in the sight of Men, angels and of God.
But that same power wielded by a heart that is free and willing to make the surrender of kings become completely capable of fulfilling its inherent promise of good for the people and on behalf of the nations of needful Mankind, ultimately unleashes in that person, by the grace of our God, the great nobility of a true sovereign of Mankind.
Because it is that free and willing surrender to service brought upon by a sacred spirit of true and loving sacrifice that is the hallmark of the greatest of our kings and rulers of old, elect from eternity.
Like Arthur of legend, these great and noble leaders of Men, in spite of each their own human brokenness and imperfections, have won the acclaim of history, as souls worthy of the remembrance of our nations.
This enduring sense of nobility is the victory to which they have each been called by God to share; a heritage from which the spirit of our humanity at all times and at all places may always draw strength.
Their royal legend is a gift of God, true for all time, and its promise is one that lends its strength to our present good, a promise born of a surrender embraced from among themselves each in their own time and each in their own way on behalf of all the generations of needful Mankind.
And as their lines of spiritual ascent converge unto every present time - let us be mindful, my honorable Filipino compatriots, that it is always the native hope of kings, though these regental lines of executive descent have for us long faded away, to remind our orphaned people of what is and what can be great in ourselves as human beings - and by this sense of sacred remembrance therefore, be as a Republic everywhere guided out of the waning of the past and into the promise of every present hope.
My friends, how power is wielded defines the way in which a ruler is forever remembered by our nations. And we may understand this from every telling of that story of Excalibur of old and of Arthur king who though imperfect is everywhere well received by the human heart.
Let us be mindful that every nation in its own time and in its own place under the sun has been established by our one, peerless Creator to last forever - to march, shoulder to shoulder, across the vast reaches of exile time, emerging, and then maturing into those mature nations, shepherding other nations in the free course of our native human hopes and be perfected in, of and by God through Country, into eternity as ascended nations forever.
Mabuhay! Long may our remembrance serve us!
Long may our remembrance serve our own sake as one nation, my fellow Filipinos, each one of you who share in the conviction that we are truly a nation distinct from all the other nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind; that we are, in spite of our imperfections, a noble undertaking of Country that indeed, does and can dare to be great.
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There, my darlingest dear, I have polished and completed our entry, "On Power", and have renamed it, "The Surrender of Kings", and shall post it both on our main blog and also on the one Majority blog today.
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I have always maintained that I am not against our government, how could I be? After all, my loveliest love, we are a representative democracy and indeed, for so many reasons, I believe in this Republic undertaking. But I am, however, steadfastly and relentlessly against evil within the government and those who shall knowingly and willfully ally themselves with the enemy of our peace.
There is so much partisan politics over here that it is hard to tell which side to take, but one can always distinguish in the nation, from what needs arise from among the people, the lack that is the shortcoming of the state. It is these shortcomings, primarily in themselves not an evil that is invested in persons within government, that I should like - in the form of both the one Solidarity and the one Majority, to address on behalf of my one Filipino nation. The lack that I perceive are those things, false systems and dark imaginings, that live within our culture and is therefore the responsibility of not only the state but the nation itself as that one whole upon which the state as itself belongs to and from which it draws its divine mandate to govern, we, the people.
I do not believe that everybody in government is willfully corrupt or entirely culpable of those things that extend beyond the limits of state and into the living culture of our nation. I also hold that not all are innocent, however, I should be particularly interested in solutions above all more than any ensuing controversy and focus on those ways to preclude what calamity we, the people, must be sure to preclude for our own sake and for the sake of those generations to come.
Because I believe in our hope of Country more than anything else, my loveliest love, and this is the only way that I know I can be of best use to this one Republic, under the eternal vigilance of Almighty God.
To be sure, I want all Filipinos to labor together to break away from the waning of the past and into the freshness of new and present things - and I mean ALL Filipinos who are willing to turn away from the darkness and build with each other, from strength to strength, upon our hope in God and Country.
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Naturalization and Elected Office
I have sometime back caught an episode of the Drilon Debates which is a college-level debating platform for young Filipinos and during that episode, the subject that was being argued was that of naturalized Filipino citizens and the elected offices of the Republic i.e. the executive and legislative seats.
The positive argued for allowing naturalized Filipino citizens to hold elected office and the negative position held otherwise. Our current constitution only allows for natural born Filipinos to hold elected offices within the Republic.
I maintain that both absolutes are detrimental to the well-being of this Country:
It is never a right of the state to deny the people the necessary talents required for effective public service and these talents are indeed so diverse and so necessary that it would be most certainly wrong, if not evil, to deprive this one Republic undertaking every opportunity to acquire them from individuals willing to make that noble sacrifice. And in this sense, it matters not whether that individual is a native born or naturalized citizen so long as that person is completely cognizant of his or her responsibility as a citizen of this Country.
Except for the Office of the President and the next two Offices in the lines of succession, I am convinced, it would truly be advantageous for our nation to amend the constitution to reflect this change at a time when it is convenient for our nation to do so.
That is my position, my love.
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In two days, its D-day, my darlingest. And in eight, it'll be our twin commemoration of the Independence day of the Philippines and your birthday, my loveliest love.
As for now, it's time for a little lunch break.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
The Surrender of Kings
My dear friends, let us ponder on the sword, Excalibur, as a similitude of power:
---<--@
That power, above all the power to rule the people - that divine right to govern thy peers which is a sovereign right that by Justice belongs to God alone - once gripped by selfish hands ultimately makes the wielder impotent in the sight of Men, angels and of God.
But that same power wielded by a heart that is free and willing to make the surrender of kings become completely capable of fulfilling its inherent promise of good for the people and on behalf of the nations of needful Mankind, ultimately unleashes in that person, by the grace of our God, the great nobility of a true sovereign of Mankind.
Because it is that free and willing surrender to service brought upon by a sacred spirit of true and loving sacrifice that is the hallmark of the greatest of our kings and rulers of old, elect from eternity.
Like Arthur of legend, these great and noble leaders of Men, in spite of each their own human brokenness and imperfections, have won the acclaim of history, as souls worthy of the remembrance of our nations.
This enduring sense of nobility is the victory to which they have each been called by God to share; a heritage from which the spirit of our humanity at all times and at all places may always draw strength.
Their royal legend is a gift of God, true for all time, and its promise is one that lends its strength to our present good, a promise born of a surrender embraced from among themselves each in their own time and each in their own way on behalf of all the generations of needful Mankind.
And as their lines of spiritual ascent converge unto every present time - let us be mindful, my honorable Filipino compatriots, that it is always the native hope of kings, though these regental lines of executive descent have for us long faded away, to remind our orphaned people of what is and what can be great in ourselves as human beings - and by this sense of sacred remembrance therefore, be as a Republic everywhere guided out of the waning of the past and into the promise of every present hope.
My friends, how power is wielded defines the way in which a ruler is forever remembered by our nations. And we may understand this from every telling of that story of Excalibur of old and of Arthur king who though imperfect is everywhere well received by the human heart.
Let us be mindful that every nation in its own time and in its own place under the sun has been established by our one, peerless Creator to last forever - to march, shoulder to shoulder, across the vast reaches of exile time, emerging, and then maturing into those mature nations, shepherding other nations in the free course of our native human hopes and be perfected in, of and by God through Country, into eternity as ascended nations forever.
Mabuhay! Long may our remembrance serve us!
Long may our remembrance serve our own sake as one nation, my fellow Filipinos, each one of you who share in the conviction that we are truly a nation distinct from all the other nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind; that we are, in spite of our imperfections, a noble undertaking of Country that indeed, does and can dare to be great.
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There, my darlingest dear, I have polished and completed our entry, "On Power", and have renamed it, "The Surrender of Kings", and shall post it both on our main blog and also on the one Majority blog today.
---<--@
I have always maintained that I am not against our government, how could I be? After all, my loveliest love, we are a representative democracy and indeed, for so many reasons, I believe in this Republic undertaking. But I am, however, steadfastly and relentlessly against evil within the government and those who shall knowingly and willfully ally themselves with the enemy of our peace.
There is so much partisan politics over here that it is hard to tell which side to take, but one can always distinguish in the nation, from what needs arise from among the people, the lack that is the shortcoming of the state. It is these shortcomings, primarily in themselves not an evil that is invested in persons within government, that I should like - in the form of both the one Solidarity and the one Majority, to address on behalf of my one Filipino nation. The lack that I perceive are those things, false systems and dark imaginings, that live within our culture and is therefore the responsibility of not only the state but the nation itself as that one whole upon which the state as itself belongs to and from which it draws its divine mandate to govern, we, the people.
I do not believe that everybody in government is willfully corrupt or entirely culpable of those things that extend beyond the limits of state and into the living culture of our nation. I also hold that not all are innocent, however, I should be particularly interested in solutions above all more than any ensuing controversy and focus on those ways to preclude what calamity we, the people, must be sure to preclude for our own sake and for the sake of those generations to come.
Because I believe in our hope of Country more than anything else, my loveliest love, and this is the only way that I know I can be of best use to this one Republic, under the eternal vigilance of Almighty God.
To be sure, I want all Filipinos to labor together to break away from the waning of the past and into the freshness of new and present things - and I mean ALL Filipinos who are willing to turn away from the darkness and build with each other, from strength to strength, upon our hope in God and Country.
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Naturalization and Elected Office
I have sometime back caught an episode of the Drilon Debates which is a college-level debating platform for young Filipinos and during that episode, the subject that was being argued was that of naturalized Filipino citizens and the elected offices of the Republic i.e. the executive and legislative seats.
The positive argued for allowing naturalized Filipino citizens to hold elected office and the negative position held otherwise. Our current constitution only allows for natural born Filipinos to hold elected offices within the Republic.
I maintain that both absolutes are detrimental to the well-being of this Country:
It is never a right of the state to deny the people the necessary talents required for effective public service and these talents are indeed so diverse and so necessary that it would be most certainly wrong, if not evil, to deprive this one Republic undertaking every opportunity to acquire them from individuals willing to make that noble sacrifice. And in this sense, it matters not whether that individual is a native born or naturalized citizen so long as that person is completely cognizant of his or her responsibility as a citizen of this Country.
Except for the Office of the President and the next two Offices in the lines of succession, I am convinced, it would truly be advantageous for our nation to amend the constitution to reflect this change at a time when it is convenient for our nation to do so.
That is my position, my love.
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In two days, its D-day, my darlingest. And in eight, it'll be our twin commemoration of the Independence day of the Philippines and your birthday, my loveliest love.
As for now, it's time for a little lunch break.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
20090603
Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
Today is going to be a great day! I'm going early to get myself registered to vote over at the municipal hall of my own hometown. I'm also going to see if I can get my father to come along as he and I agreed to get registered together. So here I am early in the day writing to my loveliest love, my Miyang.
I wasn't able to see "Terminator 3" yesterday evening as it was raining so I plan on making that decision again with you today. Because, my loveliest love, after today's business, we have all the time all day to take a spin around the place. Of course, that's not all that we're going to be doing otherwise, you and I will probably get bored pretty darn fast.
Elections here in the Philippines will take place in May of next year and it would be unbecoming of me not to participate in the processes that ensure the democratic nature of my own society with all my other Filipino compatriots, past and present.
So there, I have to get myself registered today, my loveliest love.
I have written a Filipino poem, a funny little limerick, last night - I call it:
DabarCats
by Pusang Ligaw
Mga kabarCatda ko,
mga kapusang
maganda't maginoo,
makatotohanan
at makatao
isigaw sa buong mundo -
Mabuhay ang sambayanang Pilipino!
There, well it more or less follows the "aabba" pattern of that style. Which reminds me, my loveliest love, I still have more than a thousand haikus that I owe you - we also have to work on that, my dear.
My buddy from the U.S. texted me a funny thing yesterday, "Conserve wildlife, pickle a squirrel". And in the same spirit of conservation, I texted him back, "Conserve energy this winter, hug a cat". Lol. I think that was cute, don't you think so, my love? Oh, I love my buddy, he's somebody I could really talk to, you know. I still need to compose a good email for him and I must set aside some good, quality time to do that sometime soon.
Toward June 12, we shall be working on some things in particular, my dearest. First of all, we should like to dedicate Arcs in the Sky to the Path. That our Starshine may have their voice heard, by hearts willing to discern and recognize the native hope within their heart of hearts, most especially those who are afflicted by the curse of War, that these hopes (as yours did to mine, my love) may then lend themselves to the momentum of future things.
I should also like to finish that message for the people of Mindanao before we post that poem that we shall complete on Old Defiant as well as that poem that I am working on for you, my darlingest dear.
And also any other thing that is relevant to the season that should come our way in these days leading up to our 111st Philippine Independence day and your birthday on June 12.
But for now, I should like to get the business of this day accomplished so we can have more time for other things later on, my love.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
Today is going to be a great day! I'm going early to get myself registered to vote over at the municipal hall of my own hometown. I'm also going to see if I can get my father to come along as he and I agreed to get registered together. So here I am early in the day writing to my loveliest love, my Miyang.
I wasn't able to see "Terminator 3" yesterday evening as it was raining so I plan on making that decision again with you today. Because, my loveliest love, after today's business, we have all the time all day to take a spin around the place. Of course, that's not all that we're going to be doing otherwise, you and I will probably get bored pretty darn fast.
Elections here in the Philippines will take place in May of next year and it would be unbecoming of me not to participate in the processes that ensure the democratic nature of my own society with all my other Filipino compatriots, past and present.
So there, I have to get myself registered today, my loveliest love.
I have written a Filipino poem, a funny little limerick, last night - I call it:
DabarCats
by Pusang Ligaw
Mga kabarCatda ko,
mga kapusang
maganda't maginoo,
makatotohanan
at makatao
isigaw sa buong mundo -
Mabuhay ang sambayanang Pilipino!
There, well it more or less follows the "aabba" pattern of that style. Which reminds me, my loveliest love, I still have more than a thousand haikus that I owe you - we also have to work on that, my dear.
My buddy from the U.S. texted me a funny thing yesterday, "Conserve wildlife, pickle a squirrel". And in the same spirit of conservation, I texted him back, "Conserve energy this winter, hug a cat". Lol. I think that was cute, don't you think so, my love? Oh, I love my buddy, he's somebody I could really talk to, you know. I still need to compose a good email for him and I must set aside some good, quality time to do that sometime soon.
Toward June 12, we shall be working on some things in particular, my dearest. First of all, we should like to dedicate Arcs in the Sky to the Path. That our Starshine may have their voice heard, by hearts willing to discern and recognize the native hope within their heart of hearts, most especially those who are afflicted by the curse of War, that these hopes (as yours did to mine, my love) may then lend themselves to the momentum of future things.
I should also like to finish that message for the people of Mindanao before we post that poem that we shall complete on Old Defiant as well as that poem that I am working on for you, my darlingest dear.
And also any other thing that is relevant to the season that should come our way in these days leading up to our 111st Philippine Independence day and your birthday on June 12.
But for now, I should like to get the business of this day accomplished so we can have more time for other things later on, my love.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
20090602b
Dear darlingest Miyang Marie,
On Nuclear Disarmament
Our turning away from the darkness, my loveliest love, as a planetary whole is a process that must include disarmament, particularly nuclear disarmament.
That all forms of nuclear weaponry, above all, strategic nuclear weapons become for all of our nations a prohibited form of weapons technology is a vital principle in the winning of the one whole peace and this has been outlined in our "Outlook 2050".
The evolution of the military must always parallel the evolution of the tools of the military, those various forms of weaponry by which the noble spirit that breathes within the profession of arms defends and upholds the peace of our nations, and it is manifest that this evolution must first and foremost be a moral evolution because it is the noble soul of the all-victorious military itself and not its weaponry* that must lead the way into a future of peace.
*which is incidentally evolving from "smart" into "brilliant" systems technology.
Of course, this disarmament must also be well-thought out process and can not be a blanket event but the goal of disarmament clearly is the way in which the world is at present being led into the new age.
When we speak of nuclear weaponry, my loveliest love, we are mostly thinking about strategic nuclear weapons which are more well known than the tactical variety. But both forms intersect at one point, more than any other weapon and weapon system in history, and that is their delivery modality - which must be clearly defined in doctrine to the point of an art. Because it is not the effectiveness of the weapon that we must concern ourselves with as regards to nuclear weaponry but the way by which that awesome lethality can be brought to bear upon the enemy will.
Nay, my love, I believe our humanity has achieved a point in our time as a whole to believe that there are many other things better than this instrument of absolute and indiscriminate destruction
I have studied and have come across in my own time over the Internet, material about these things in the past, and now that North Korea is moving our region and consequently, our one inhabited earth, where it does not want to go, I have tried to recall those things in light of those other things that I am presently charged with keeping a close watch.
To sum, strategic nuclear weapons from North Korea are a credible threat - all of ASEAN right down to northern Australia, Hawaii and Alaska, not to mention all of the region of our East Asia as a whole fall within its sphere of military influence but this brinkmanship is not at all new to that state.
However, they seem to be intent for some reason* to push it this time at such unprecedented levels to a point where the error of margin in the already very fine decision making process that is involved in strategic doctrine regrading ballistic missile defense that it becomes very, very dangerous indeed not only to our region, to our Asia but to all the nations of our one family of nations of Mankind.
*This reason is very important, whatever it is, if this escalation had a center of gravity, then this reason would be it.
I am of the opinion that tactical nuclear weapons are a more immediate threat. But even then, the use of these in the field will easily lead to an escalation into the strategic level which I also believe North Korea will never risk because doing so will cause that regime to cease to exist.
But I should like to point out, my loveliest love, that making that distinction clear between the one Korean nation and the two Korean states is vital in the context of the peace that we are all trying to pursue.
Of course, we are more amiable to South Korea, being an undertaking of Country that is, if you please, cut from the same cloth, as our one Philippine Republic, but let us not forget the necessity of that relationship that all states must have to recognize, for better or for worse, with both the Korean states and the intrinsic responsibility that we have, as a planetary whole, to return the two Koreas into the hands of the one Korean nation - in a climate of peace.
This world can not break from the waning darkness of the past without making whole once more those things that have always been wholes in themselves.
I have always, in the quiet of my own heart, said these things in my prayers for our nations, and I should that all of those who are likewise inclined also do the same - most especially to include these in the fourth meditation in our Rosary of Hope. We should do an entry on this request on the one Solidarity blog, my darlingest dear, and soon.
If any soul should feel helpless about these things, my loveliest love, we should know that we always have recourse to our desires for lasting, meaningful peace in the quiet of our hearts with God in prayer.
And go our way, my darlingest dear, bearing the peace of God and living to do what is purposed for us to do by the knowledge proposed to each our hearts of faith.
---<--@
Speaking of nations:
A nation is the foundation upon which civilization is built, a state is a response to its needs, and Country is the dialogue between the two. The common market is the labor of the building up of the earth which is the responsibility of every nation and its responsible state.
On Palestine
Palestine, once a word that refers to a geographical region, now refers to the title of a particular aspiration of a people seeking for an identity.
The realization of this particular aspiration lies in the awakening of a new nation called Palestine and to draw from this nation an abiding sense of identity, the benefits of community, peace and a common destiny.
The Palestinian people, if they were not a nation before, is a new people and a people possessed with the potential to become that nation now.
What afflicts the Palestinian people, in the immediate, I believe, is not the absence of the state but the need to understand from their own common experience, the nature of their own community and the hope entrusted to its will and draw from their own sense of sacred remembrance the foundation by which they shall by strength of their belonging to each other, break away from the past and establish as one people upon the promise of every present time, that gathering sense of a new nation awakening.
They must realize in themselves that they already have within their reach the seeds of nationhood.
---<--@
Our last (but most certainly not the least) word for the day, my loveliest love:
A Requiem for the Passing Away:
There was a terrible crash of an Air France passenger jet off the Atlantic coast about 5-minutes after taking off from Brazil, my darlingest dear. Too many lives have been lost - I shall not even put down the number - I shall take this to prayer at Holy Mass tomorrow.
May they all find their way swiftly to the LORD.
This touched me differently from other tragedies, my love, for this calamity does not have easy explanations that bring closure for our sakes, only a letting go which is always difficult and made all the more harder if it is not done together as a community of human beings.
---<--@
Yesterday was such an awful day, my darlingest dear. Today is better but it was not without its chances for my wandering heart to return to God and all those things that I should love above all else, my loveliest love. I am so blessed to have you as my friend indeed, my Miyang.
I'm having two minds whether to see "Terminator 3" at the movies tonight, you know. I am not going back to buying pirated DVD's, my darlingest dear - though its tempting. I'd rather work on Pawprints - and its relevant cornerstone charity - with you, my loveliest love, and remain true, among other good reasons, to each our friendships with those movie cats we (even without their knowledge) have come to know as our friends - cats like Muning, Emz (Hermeowmeowne), Nat, Kota, Elle etc. and all those nameless workers who labor behind the scenes whose honest labors we do not want to take away from them.
This world is indeed too small for our souls not to touch and penetrate each other.
Your umpteenth (80th) birthday is coming up, my loveliest love, this June 12. But to me, my loveliest love, in the timeless experience of the friendship that we share, you are ageless.
Agelessness, my love, is a quality of being eternal - which means to me, my darlingest dear, you are at all ages - always present in my heart.
The Child Jesus is a manifestation of the timelessness of the Person of Christ and the agelessness of our triune God, a quality of being the one and eternal LORD.
Going back to fundamental human relationships, my love, we have asserted on a previous entry here in Planet Annelies that a relationship either exists or it does not exist and now I further understand that this same gulf is that permanent gulf that exists between the rich man and Lazarus mentioned in the Gospels.
June 9 is Nat's birthday before you. And also, June 12 is our Philippine Independence day and we've been working on (and praying for) some things special for this day, my loveliest love.
Yesterday, we have, in the Liturgical calendar of the Church, entered again into Ordinary Time.
This Sunday is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.
I love you, my Miyang.
Always to always,
Pusing
On Nuclear Disarmament
Our turning away from the darkness, my loveliest love, as a planetary whole is a process that must include disarmament, particularly nuclear disarmament.
That all forms of nuclear weaponry, above all, strategic nuclear weapons become for all of our nations a prohibited form of weapons technology is a vital principle in the winning of the one whole peace and this has been outlined in our "Outlook 2050".
The evolution of the military must always parallel the evolution of the tools of the military, those various forms of weaponry by which the noble spirit that breathes within the profession of arms defends and upholds the peace of our nations, and it is manifest that this evolution must first and foremost be a moral evolution because it is the noble soul of the all-victorious military itself and not its weaponry* that must lead the way into a future of peace.
*which is incidentally evolving from "smart" into "brilliant" systems technology.
Of course, this disarmament must also be well-thought out process and can not be a blanket event but the goal of disarmament clearly is the way in which the world is at present being led into the new age.
When we speak of nuclear weaponry, my loveliest love, we are mostly thinking about strategic nuclear weapons which are more well known than the tactical variety. But both forms intersect at one point, more than any other weapon and weapon system in history, and that is their delivery modality - which must be clearly defined in doctrine to the point of an art. Because it is not the effectiveness of the weapon that we must concern ourselves with as regards to nuclear weaponry but the way by which that awesome lethality can be brought to bear upon the enemy will.
Nay, my love, I believe our humanity has achieved a point in our time as a whole to believe that there are many other things better than this instrument of absolute and indiscriminate destruction
I have studied and have come across in my own time over the Internet, material about these things in the past, and now that North Korea is moving our region and consequently, our one inhabited earth, where it does not want to go, I have tried to recall those things in light of those other things that I am presently charged with keeping a close watch.
To sum, strategic nuclear weapons from North Korea are a credible threat - all of ASEAN right down to northern Australia, Hawaii and Alaska, not to mention all of the region of our East Asia as a whole fall within its sphere of military influence but this brinkmanship is not at all new to that state.
However, they seem to be intent for some reason* to push it this time at such unprecedented levels to a point where the error of margin in the already very fine decision making process that is involved in strategic doctrine regrading ballistic missile defense that it becomes very, very dangerous indeed not only to our region, to our Asia but to all the nations of our one family of nations of Mankind.
*This reason is very important, whatever it is, if this escalation had a center of gravity, then this reason would be it.
I am of the opinion that tactical nuclear weapons are a more immediate threat. But even then, the use of these in the field will easily lead to an escalation into the strategic level which I also believe North Korea will never risk because doing so will cause that regime to cease to exist.
But I should like to point out, my loveliest love, that making that distinction clear between the one Korean nation and the two Korean states is vital in the context of the peace that we are all trying to pursue.
Of course, we are more amiable to South Korea, being an undertaking of Country that is, if you please, cut from the same cloth, as our one Philippine Republic, but let us not forget the necessity of that relationship that all states must have to recognize, for better or for worse, with both the Korean states and the intrinsic responsibility that we have, as a planetary whole, to return the two Koreas into the hands of the one Korean nation - in a climate of peace.
This world can not break from the waning darkness of the past without making whole once more those things that have always been wholes in themselves.
I have always, in the quiet of my own heart, said these things in my prayers for our nations, and I should that all of those who are likewise inclined also do the same - most especially to include these in the fourth meditation in our Rosary of Hope. We should do an entry on this request on the one Solidarity blog, my darlingest dear, and soon.
If any soul should feel helpless about these things, my loveliest love, we should know that we always have recourse to our desires for lasting, meaningful peace in the quiet of our hearts with God in prayer.
And go our way, my darlingest dear, bearing the peace of God and living to do what is purposed for us to do by the knowledge proposed to each our hearts of faith.
---<--@
Speaking of nations:
A nation is the foundation upon which civilization is built, a state is a response to its needs, and Country is the dialogue between the two. The common market is the labor of the building up of the earth which is the responsibility of every nation and its responsible state.
On Palestine
Palestine, once a word that refers to a geographical region, now refers to the title of a particular aspiration of a people seeking for an identity.
The realization of this particular aspiration lies in the awakening of a new nation called Palestine and to draw from this nation an abiding sense of identity, the benefits of community, peace and a common destiny.
The Palestinian people, if they were not a nation before, is a new people and a people possessed with the potential to become that nation now.
What afflicts the Palestinian people, in the immediate, I believe, is not the absence of the state but the need to understand from their own common experience, the nature of their own community and the hope entrusted to its will and draw from their own sense of sacred remembrance the foundation by which they shall by strength of their belonging to each other, break away from the past and establish as one people upon the promise of every present time, that gathering sense of a new nation awakening.
They must realize in themselves that they already have within their reach the seeds of nationhood.
---<--@
Our last (but most certainly not the least) word for the day, my loveliest love:
A Requiem for the Passing Away:
There was a terrible crash of an Air France passenger jet off the Atlantic coast about 5-minutes after taking off from Brazil, my darlingest dear. Too many lives have been lost - I shall not even put down the number - I shall take this to prayer at Holy Mass tomorrow.
May they all find their way swiftly to the LORD.
This touched me differently from other tragedies, my love, for this calamity does not have easy explanations that bring closure for our sakes, only a letting go which is always difficult and made all the more harder if it is not done together as a community of human beings.
---<--@
Yesterday was such an awful day, my darlingest dear. Today is better but it was not without its chances for my wandering heart to return to God and all those things that I should love above all else, my loveliest love. I am so blessed to have you as my friend indeed, my Miyang.
I'm having two minds whether to see "Terminator 3" at the movies tonight, you know. I am not going back to buying pirated DVD's, my darlingest dear - though its tempting. I'd rather work on Pawprints - and its relevant cornerstone charity - with you, my loveliest love, and remain true, among other good reasons, to each our friendships with those movie cats we (even without their knowledge) have come to know as our friends - cats like Muning, Emz (Hermeowmeowne), Nat, Kota, Elle etc. and all those nameless workers who labor behind the scenes whose honest labors we do not want to take away from them.
This world is indeed too small for our souls not to touch and penetrate each other.
Your umpteenth (80th) birthday is coming up, my loveliest love, this June 12. But to me, my loveliest love, in the timeless experience of the friendship that we share, you are ageless.
Agelessness, my love, is a quality of being eternal - which means to me, my darlingest dear, you are at all ages - always present in my heart.
The Child Jesus is a manifestation of the timelessness of the Person of Christ and the agelessness of our triune God, a quality of being the one and eternal LORD.
Going back to fundamental human relationships, my love, we have asserted on a previous entry here in Planet Annelies that a relationship either exists or it does not exist and now I further understand that this same gulf is that permanent gulf that exists between the rich man and Lazarus mentioned in the Gospels.
June 9 is Nat's birthday before you. And also, June 12 is our Philippine Independence day and we've been working on (and praying for) some things special for this day, my loveliest love.
Yesterday, we have, in the Liturgical calendar of the Church, entered again into Ordinary Time.
This Sunday is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.
I love you, my Miyang.
Always to always,
Pusing
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