20100804

Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,

Good morningest, my darlingest purrrincess!

Our Time

The best way to do justice to the past is to make peace with the present.

Now is the time to stop living on our problems and begin working together toward solutions. To be able to do this, we must be able to build on agreements.

So let us make the way of our hearts clear. Let us cast off the spirit of division and break the rule of war from within ourselves. For peace has to start somewhere. Let us make that choice while it is still a choice. (Refer to Salutation #4)

These are indeed, exciting times. The new horizons of hope that is being presented to the eyes of our hearts are real. And each of us can feel it in our being and perceive it in our souls. For we are of those generations called to peace. This is our time.

These times are unprecedented, my darling. And this is something worth being aware about: We must not fail in our vigilance. Because the gravity of the last 2000 years will try to pull us back into itself. We must not falter in our remembrance. Lest war again overtake us. To the regret of all.

There is no time when the stars in the sky become all the more clearer than the night. But let us not fail to also remember that we are not the light. We are the darkness called to the light. We must work together the works of peace. That the light may become our portion. So let us work together the works of peace. That God may bring our generations forth into the new morning; ever as those kindred nations walking in humility before the LORD.

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I love you.

Always to always,

=^.^=

20100719

Dear darling Annelies Marie,

A lot of people say, "I support Israel."
A lot of people say, "I support Palestine."
Not a lot of people say, "I support the Middle East peace process."
Well, I do.
Why? Because, my darling Anne, I love both those nations.

It will not avail any of us to love just one when we are all in reality but one family of nations. For we are all but one undivided work of creation, seen and unseen, under but one Creator, peerless and eternal.

However, we must as individual human beings begin from each our own nations and live to be able to serve each other as citizens with fidelity within each our own present endeavors of Country - therefore, I am committed to the peace of the Philippines, my love - my Philippines. For in all truth I can not as a common citizen of all creation love any other nation without first learning to love my own.

And so I do, my love. Not for war but for peace; the peace that prospers.

The road to peace is not as much a linear path as it is like the numberless stars in the night sky, a shining out - together. It shall take one whole sky to lead us all out of this long night and into the promises of the new age; into that new dawning that await our generations.

By our turning into the light we turn away from the darkness. By our working the works of peace set before us we shall leave the persistent shadows of things past behind us forever.

So I bid us all Mabuhay, my love! God bless us all.

Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

I love my Miyang. PERIOD.

Always to always,

=^.^=

20100713

Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,

Nothing much comes to mind at the moment, my Miyang. I just want to check in with you.

I've this cough for a couple of days now so I'm going to get myself a decongestant or a mucolytic or something over at the local drug store later on today. Then I'm going to take the rest of the day to relax. Tomorrow, my darling, I'm heading back to the DDB-EU TRC. I am on aftercare now so my schedule at the center is more or less fixed. And that's a good thing, my Anne.

I am encouraged by the results of the elections in this Country, my love. Each of our individual commitments to democracy has decisively and peacefully produced for our people the workable beginnings of a truly responsible state. I am also encouraged by the hope I feel in the people and the willingness and strength I have glimpsed at our leadership to embrace it as a sacred trust.

If we do not fail to continue to awaken to the truth of who we are as a nation, my love, then we may also trust that it can only get better from here. We will be who we have always been.

I am committed to the peace of the Philippines, my love. Not the false peace offered by war but the peace that prospers. This peace is something that we must as a people together gain from the one LORD of all heaven and earth; something completely apart from the waning paradigm of the last age. It is something we must work for as one nation. It shall be difficult, I promise you. But it shall no longer be a labor of tears.

For we shall do this together this time; one lineage of hope 7,107 islands strong.

Sometimes I am nearly overcome by the odds. But it is also during those times that I am roused by the truth in my awareness that there is really no such thing as luck for all things happen for a purpose. There is only grace and the will of God. And the will of the LORD is His peace upon all our nations and good will to all men and women of peace.

Hence, just like the rest of us I've work to do, my love. But I do not yet know how to begin...

So I shall leave it be for now and try to enjoy the rest of this day.

Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! God Bless us all.

Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

I love you and I love my Philippines. PERIOD.

From always to always,

=^.^=

20100604

Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,

Nation, Commission, Mission

"Who is to blame for the presence of war in the Middle East? No one. Who is to blame for the absence of peace in the Middle East? Everyone."

I am saddened by the blockade in Gaza, my love. But more than that, I am saddened by the sheer depth of the division that keeps the peace from the peoples of the Middle East. But it is not impossible to bridge this divide, my darling. We just need to know where we've been, where we are and where we're going. Because we can not at this time stay here in the darkness and let that choice for peace in our hearts remain unmade.

The season of these times shall call upon each of us in our hearts to make that necessary choice to sunder these persistent lukewarm gray skies of complacency and ignorance that have for so long prevented us from shining together in the darkness to bless the communities of our Mankind as the numberless stars of our Father Abraham.

And we shall each make this choice on behalf of each ourselves and the generations of life after us that the LORD, our God, may prosper His peace upon the life of each our nations for all our nations. For this darkness can only deepen and darkness that is deep is madness.

This is our longest night.
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I love my Miyang. PERIOD.

From always to always,

=^.^=

"Hang on to the things in your life that doesn't change. Hang on to them till it hurts. For if life is all about change then the secret to living well must be this - stand still."