This One Is Really My Own.........

At Chrurch of Incarnation in Glendale today for the Christmas Eve Celebration.  And while the mass was about to start,  so many scenes way back were coming to my mind.  My mom was the only person I knew inside the church...And in my mind came the thought of shutting off everyone as the culture of insecurity was on its regular routine.  But this time who I was in college came dawning again....Four years of freedom to be me....to just be wantonly me.  Four years of pursuing my own thoughts.  I was the success drive and success oriented.  I was then excellence seeker and a proud achiever.  Academically I was doing good but I was in my little social corner, created a giant of myself courtesy of my thoughts for excellence.  In that little nook, I witnessed so many miracles happened through sheer singular desire to suceed.  In my own way, I know I was a big factor that had inspired others to be leaders and fired their desires to achieve their own successes in their own fields.  That was an incrudulous year.  That was our year whre the leaders of the school the following year came from the same group where I thought I put my own heart and soul.  BEDSCA then was the venue where I was me.....

But I was grudgingly cowed to return to Asingan, my hometown.   There my spirit did not ceased but found a new way to express its essence.  The Choir.  The St. Louis Bertrand Choir was then fired up with kids coming from Rizal Academy with the generous help of Julie Rillera who became a friend.  In the same manner of trying to achieve excellence, we did dare to create a relationship farther and wider than just a choir.  The choir was a means to fire up the spirits of the kids to achieve their own greatness.  It was good until it lasts.

Then the bigger venue came in with the Lions Club.  The organization rose from obscurity to one of the most active clubs entire the Philippines with the Leo Club as my vehicle to share and achieve again my social dreams.

Together with this fire and passion to succeed is the eqaul challenge of ignonimy.  My own quest for personal achievement of expressing who I am was overshadowed and tempered by crippling challenges that made me let go.  I have accepted defeat and avoided severe consequences and left for the US.

The start of life in California was like a child birth.  Finding my own way.  Believing that i can create a new world.  America is a land of opportunities so with whatever resources I have, I accepted the challenge to rise up from the ruins.  I will take anything that comes my way.  Make everyday an opportunity to earn back whatever I thought lost.  I lived an obsure life of anonymity throwing away who I thought I was and accepted the challenges day in and day out.  I was a janitor until I gave up on my abusive employer.  It's almost impossible then to swallow being a former employer to a now lowliest employee and subjected to abuse.  Treated just like those ignoramuses when I have more education than my boss.  I went to work in a restaurant where I tried to be on a very low profile.  I became a cashier and counter cleaner and everything of which I have no idea how far is my responsibility.  I was expected to be creative in work, spotless and full of initiative to almost like the owner.  Few setbacks but again my spirit was being fired up to achieve excellence and be the best in the field.

I became a waiter and gave my best yet for some reason I can not beat the odds.  Was it because of my age?  Nevertheless, I made good and felt great.  I am getting my groove but still sheltering from the reality.  Still I was hiding a wide swath of my life and the fight with depression did become clinical and for a while but i was able to lick it off.

Again I can sayI excelled.  I wanted to be give my best in every field i tried to get into.  There were setbacks but were non negoyiable.  I can't take defeat

ANd rthe story went the same with the floral designing business.  Now I am a business owner coming full circle.

So what is that energy thata lingered and made me struggle all the time....The culture of fear. The culture of doubt.  I was fulk of pride, I was hurting, defensive reactive and resenting....The culture of poverty, the culture of sin and in other words it's total ignorance.  I got no system and I don't know the basis of my philosophy.  I was grappling in the dark and I have no idea of what is a relationship with God is.  I was like a dead wood floating around and finding a somewhere to anchor on.  I was so wrong and was so arrogant and so ignorant.

Until slowly, the memories start coming back why I was in the US in the first place.  I was rebuilding myself.  I am seeking the Lord.  I am seeking fro answers.  It was at least the only thing left to me.  It is hope.  The hope kept the faith.  The faith kept the trust.  The trust allowed me to seek, knock and ask.  Until I came to undertsand that I don't really know what I am looking for.  I am looking for the Lord then.  I was not understanding my faith.  My religion is not helping me much.  Until Eileen had started to poke my mind to open new doors in finding God.  MY brother had always been prodding me and then came my sister Edna and then those conversations with my mom.  The books of Donald Neale Walsch (Conversations with God  123) Rhonda Bynes (The Secret), Napoleon Hill (Think Big and Grow Rich), Eckart Tolle(A New Earth), Rick Warren, TBN, Joel Osteen, Creflo Dollar, Joseph Prince and finally the Bible.  Barnes and Noble is a monumnetal factor that had allowed me to go paradigm shifts a couple of times because of the availability of resources for free.

Now i realized I had been putting myself aside and let my twin do the thinking under the influence of the culture of fear, culture of sin, the culture of doubt.....................NO!! I am taking back my life..  The Edgardo that always aspires and achieves excellence because that is me.   ever since I can remember I have always been achieving.  My pursuit for personal glory is always ccoupled with debilitating defeats.  But now NOI....I am taking all my achievements, fortune and fame...I am taking back my great name given to me by my parents and annointed by heavens.  For they are mine and this time I share it in the name of Jesus to give the greatest honor and glory to the Father whose spirit will catapult me to greatest heights of excellence, achievements of dreams and life of plenty and abundance.  I am taking my birthright and I am claiming it fast tracked in Jesus name.  It's mine now and mine to honor the Fther!!!!

FiftyTwo

1025PM NOV 262012
To be one with God, one must be truly and honestly believe and know 100 percent  that your faith is the truth..
You can not doubt, worry, stress nor be jealous.  You can no longer be angry, you can not hate.  You can not have pride but humility. You must understand, know and embody the unconditional loving kindness which is God himself. Because love is the state of God. Love is the absence of hate, pride, anger, worry, doubt and envy.  This is what God can not do.  It is not the character of God.

Everything is God.  There is nothing that is not God.  All the energy is God.  So God is with us and never been apart.

Everything that happens belongs to God's plan.  Nothing we can do can change the plan.  Destiny.  Everything is already made even before we were born, long before the foundation of the world was made.

There are no mistakes.  Everything has a reason.  Every conceived mistake is a fortunate opportunity to have another shot to achieve perfection.  We have the power to change what is happening that will be in accordance to His will or change our mind and pursue other endeavors or open new doors to explore.  Life is a discovery upon discovery and should be fun.  It's the judgement that we make that   creates different  impressions...In times of doubt..seek the guidance and enlightenment of the Holy Spirit for clarity.

Trials are likened to an energy dance.  We sway, we jump, we bend  we twist to synchronize to the forces that we encounter.  It is like going with the river flow, going against it will be exasperating.  Enjoy the rollercoaster ride, the ride of a  lifetime and  enjoy the surprises of the journey.  DO not have permanent perceptions nor heavy judgements.  Expectations can be different from what is happening.  Do not take things so personal as everything is changing.

It is foolish to pray for something not according to God's plans.  We pray to the Holy Spirit for guidance and enlightenment to know and do His will and never to impose our will to the Almighty.
Sucess is a blessing...going the way of the Lord is walking in His grace.  We prosper because we work according to His will.  We are blessed because we fulfill the will.  We achieve abundance not because of our works but by His grace.

No judgement.  Everyone has a purpose.  Everyone has their own journey to make.  We can not make judgements as to the rightness or wrongness of a situation for there are none.  We judge badly because we don't see the whole picture..  Our wisdom doesn't allow us to know farther yhan that of our experiences and education. We have no comprehension of the complexity of a human mind nor any idea of a person's worth. Only God does.  In the eyes of God, everyone and everything is wonderful.  He created them all.

The Kingdom of God is the state of God and the state of God is the unconditional loving kindness.  This state transcends all.  Knowing and embodying this is a paradigm shift.  It totally allows us to see the world in a different perspective.  A tiny tiny peek into the magnificense of God.  We should endeavor to achieve and perfect this in our lives.  And all the goodness shall be added unto us.

Every hurting or resentment or reactions are signals of our repressed emotions or bad energy we stored.  Sickness are long forgotten or nurtured conflicts hidden within.  Every resentment is an opportunity to know oneself, know the feeling, know where the pain is coming from and come to terms and let go.

Ego is a self made protector in the subconscious.  It is the first to react when the self is being threatened of its existence.  Knowing the ego is allowing yourself to deal with the perceived pain coming or felt which can be transformed in a better way....Like a little child in us, it needs reassurance from the protected that everything is ok and there is a better way of dealing the threat other than resentment.  Assurance of the ego allows peace to set in.

Getting mad is a common reaction but nurturing anger is another.  This is a nosedive because it detaches you from ur real nature as belonging to God.  This is ur exit key to the Kingdom.

Learning to forgive allows us to remove the pains that we keep.  It wipes away the heavy burden or pain of our self imposed diffrences.  It allows the continuum of the dance of the energy in our lives.  It is liberating.  It somehow allow us to free our minds from being a victim in life.

The lower our self esteem or self worth, the mightier our egos are.  Unchecked, it can unconsciously be destructive.  The more self assured we are, the more faith, confidence, trust and love in the self leaves the ego with so little to protect.  We have to accept, believe, know and trust that we are God's great creations with all of God's intended purposes.  This will open the door of oneness with everything and everyone and with God.

Everything is like a flower or an orchard.  Everything has a season and a reason.  A flower has to bloom in its own beatiful time so is a fruit to ripen.  So is a person.

There is nothing to do or search for.  Everything is already with us.  We only must know how to see it. Everything is illussion.  Man has created so many lies we have believed in.  All we have to do is focus and enjoy the very moment we have...the pre-sent the gift...DO not look for what is not here because this is all that there is. Or what we can do is to remove the layers upon layers of illusions we have attached to everything we see.  Just to be.

You can not serve two masters at the same time nor u can be in two places at the same time.  You can not love and be indifferent.  Endeavor to know yourself more that you can find  God in ur heart.  Never compare urself with others but find your own gifts for they are more than enough to keep u happy in grace.

We are one in spirit with our Maker.  These bodies are temples of the Holy spirit that signifies the uniqueness of our gifts as we journey into life.  Like a fabric we criss crossed, multicolored and together we create strength and beauty.

I give thanks to the Lord.  On my 52nd B day He had allowed me to get better and enlightened.  Thank you Lord for allowing me to love u more, serve u more and know u more.  Thank you for blessing me more and allowing me to live in ur grace.  May everything I do will be according to Your will and give YOU greatest honor and glory.  Thank you Lord for making my life a testimony of ur greatness.  Thank you for letting my life abundant, prosperous wealthy and healthy that i can share this greatness.  May everyone know why I love and thank you more like I do.  Thank you and I love u Lord. In Jesus name with the Holy Spirit One God, may this all be for Your greatest hononor and glory. Forever and ever Amen....

The Majesty of God's Works

To Seattle

Visiting Washington is an awesome experience. It was made possible with my niece getting married to Ryan Bean. The challenge before going was enormous but nonetheless a must go. Putting all faith to God, my mom Julie and niece Darlene fresh from Afghanistan embarked on a journey purely on my own faith's perspectives. Everything turned out to be a pleasant surprise. Definitely Washington is a beautiful state. It's like a huge nature reserve. From 30 thousand feet above, Mt. Rainier is enormously humongous topped still with snow and it is summer. The landscape was more conspicuous as the visible view resembles like a painting of circles in different hues of greens and browns. There were enornous spans of rivers and lakes having no ocean front on its own. The vastness was enormous and the mountains were topped with beautiful pine trees and the streets were beautifully sprayed with multi colored blooms of the season. The sun was brilliant but the breeze was cool making the road trip exciting... We got a rental car. It was almost impossible but again by faith we made it and surprisingly removed any hitch or blocks. One story book in itself. We were ready to go to Seattle. The five hour drive was gruelling despite the delightful view both sides of the road. I really have to stop for a ten minute nap as my mind keeps telling my eyes to close. It was scary that I reaslly have to stop and submit to the pleadings of my mind and found a parking by the lake a have a quick nap. A few hours after, the fields was replaced with those majestic pinetrees filling every space along the mountain route. You can smell the freshness of the air enhanced by all those beautiful pine trees. As we near Washington, more lakes, more trees and soon more cars and buildings until we are at the Space Needle by Seattle Center, the Icon of Washington.

Beside the Needle, Chihuly Glass Garden Plaza where dreamworks of blown glass sculpture were on display. The art works were manificient in size and concept. It's mind boggling to even think how they came up with the design and the assembly, display and presentation, the colors and lightings was awesome. The genius of Chihuly is unprecedented. I could just stand in awe in front of such magnificense. The debacle came in as it crept into my mind that there isn't simply enough time to marvel at all those marvelous sights and inspirations made available to us in just a day. It's purely an abundance of beauty everywhere.

Lavenders of Sequimm

We spend a night of restful sleep at Backie's beautiful home, sister of a very good friend Jo Atienza at Lynwood. After a sumptous Filipino breakfast of tocino, longanisa and OE eggs, we proceeded to the City of Edmonds where we boarded a RORO , a ferry boat that will bring us to Sequim and experience a pre Lavender Festival. Sequim(S-quimm) is an island town that looked peaceful and beautiful. It has a laidback feel. Going to the lavender farms was a treat in itself. We went to Graymarsh Berry Farms as was suggested by a lady we chanced upon at one of our stops. The lavender farm was set of a sloping terrain while the berry farms on the other side gave us a chance to pick berries. They have blueberry, strawbery, raspberry, logan berry and black berry farms but we chose blueberries and bought some freshly harvested raspberries. Delightfully, it was fun to harvest blueberries. We chanced upon some strawberries and to my surprise it tasted like sugar water. It tasted so good. There's not much of it to be compared to since there was no tinge of sourness at all. I cut a bunch of lavender stems and enjoyed its refreshing smell. We went to a few farms and the richness of the lavender colors are so enthralling. Lavender is a flower that symbolizes cleansing and true to its name lavar which is to wash. Tired from the whole day of travelling and exploring Sequimm, we are ready to go and eat. This time both Mom and Darlene were craving for rice. There is an Asian restaurant in town and there is also a Filipina staff in this island town. She told us there are at least 5o Filipino families in the area. Well, nice to know, we are in every part of this beautiful world. They suggested us to go Blainbridge going back to Seattle as it is the shortest ferry ride. We are going to meet Ferdie and family. It will be a first meeting of the cousins. Looking at the city of Seattle by the ferry is awesome. It kind of remind me of New York coming from the Statue of Liberty.

We went to a seafood restaurant by the seaside and got ourselves pails and pails of seafood delights. I thought we ordered so much but in the end it was just a little more than enough. Stuffed to the neck. The cousins had a little time getting to know each other as they try to bridge some decades and demographic separation and differences. Then we head back to Spokane as it is getting late and its a 5 hour drive. Smooth drive.

We were billeted at the Red Lion Riverside Hotel courtesy of my sister Edna. Yeah second floor and no elevator and we have to carry the flowers upstairs and be on the water for travelling more than ten hours. The flowers turned out to be still great and straight on to the tub and some shower. The drive was long yet so enjoyable for everywhere you see God's majesty. You see wonderful works only God made possible with the passage of time. Created upon generations of different needs and circumstances yet its beauty was masterfully protected. The infrastracture was so complimenting to the land and seascapes that everywhere offered postcard beauties.

Four days can never be enough but enough to make an impression of how charming the place is.

Getting to the Parallel Universe

After almost two and a half years of incredible challenges as it is now 06/21/2012, comes another reckoning from the past. It is a whirlwind of events aptly described as the roller coaster ride of a lifetime. The wisdom gained prior this period was well used and came in handy during the most trying times of severe losses and gains. Still a period of evolution where every moment is an opportunity to grow and experience the deeper truth of what is. Each moment is a conscious undertaking to go deeper to the recesses of my human nature of expugning my resentments and pains I so unecessarily felt and stored. The voraciousness to acquire wisdom to achieve worthiness of self and valuing my own gift of existence.
At this tip of my own highest point for now, acceptance looms large in my own mental horizon. Gratefulness comes next and finally faith. The kind of thought that you just know that it is. Destiny is God's as He had made everything even before the foundations of the earth was made. The Producer, writer, director of fate has made it all done and all we have to do is act on it. Our choice is to accept or resist. Complain and remain. That is definitely our will. But in acceptance, we leave behind the sting of disappointmenting memories. It actually leads to an opeing, to a new avenue of greater and bigger things. Somehow it is a cleansing process that gets us nearer to a state where we can commune with the spirit.

We evolve. As we evolve we enter to a new dimesion of our existence. It is a continuum where the past, present and the future converge. Everyone has been uniquely placed and have their own universe where we work our way to become more pure. Eventually to achieve this grace allows us to finally enter the Kingdom. This is a time and space of abundance where everybody dreams as it is visible and may be seen or seemed accessible or possible. Yet it tends to be as elusive like a glass wall that separates you from who u dream of urself to be.

Evidently, nothing comes possible without grace. Eph. 2:8...not by might , not by power but thru the grace. As everything is available thru grace, it is by faith that we can access it.
The parallel universe of the haves and have nots, those who have more shall be given more and those who have least all of what they have shall even be taken away distinction. The evolution comes with faith being the currency of the spiritual world. In physical means we both see this parallelism yet no unevolve can Be and enjoy or access or enter that time and space. I tried and saw and know yet I bounced back. Acceptance is the key, gratefulness opens the door and faith allows you in. Just have faith. Just know stubbornly and absolutely and the rest will be God's own way.
It's worthless to compare self to anyone as everyone might be moving on a different time and space. Others can be inspiring and a testimony to the promise yet irrelevant as they are of no effect to our own time and space. What we have is whatever there is in the moment that we can do. Whatever we do is our choice but it is necessary not to get caught copying other people's templates. We have our own gifts. We just need to appreciate and be grateful to enhance it more.

As One

Martin Nievera and Gary Valenciano treated Angelenos with one time historical sold concerts that will be long remembered for its timing, relevance and excellence. The songs were incredibly well chosen enough to really put the audience screaming with so much joy and excitement. Martin was at his best not only with the gift of glib but his outstanding vocals that has made him a by word in entertainment in every Filipino household. He was accorded an standing ovation with his Broadway medley that truly mesmerized the audience with that powerful, whole and beautiful mastery only Martin can give. Martin just sang from The Phantom of the Opera and All I ask of You, the immortal Memory from Cats, and that all time favorite Somewhere of the West Side Storyand with a short pause and ovation he finished the number with This is the Moment. Hands down, Martin won the crowd was electrified with such a sterling performance.
Gary V, Mr. Pure Energy Himself lived up to this title and at 45, he can sway those hips and airbound like he is thirty years younger. He never fails to amaze the crowd with his playful voice. Gary is a serious performer who seemed intent on giving a great show. He sang his Sana Maulit Muli and their exchange of songs with the Teleserye themes of TFC really brought the house down. It is not sure which made the Telenovela, is it their songs of the story. Their grip on the audience was awesome as Marin sang Ikaw ang Aking Pangarap of Lobo, Gary sang the all time rating buster Tayong Dalawa to a deafing scream of approval.
The surprises kept coming after the other and hits after hits of which these two gentlemen had awesome collections of it delivered a show that will long remebered. The encored with Earth , Wind and Fire hits that has made the audience dancing and shouting for more. The show ended with everybody smiling and satified Martin and Gary came in As One.

The title and timing of the show was fortuitous with Typhoon Ondoy and Pepeng just battered Luzon with untold miseries and loss. The two guys never lost time enjoining everyone to do their share to help which fortunately the entire LA FilAmcommunity is busy doing just that. Every church, every artist, every organization every household had probably did their share in cash or in kind and enjoining even non Filipino friends to do the same. As the title of the concert say, As 1, so is the entire Filipino community are one with their countrymen in keeping the spirit alive amidst the ravages of mother nature.

So I heard, Martin even sold kisses to raise more funds.

Seven Keys to the Kingdom

The Seven Keys to the Kingdom by David Owen Ritz is an eye opener or soul searchers' answer of the many and hows of this mysterious life that got complicated. It should be read by everyone looking for a way to put everything together our soul, dreams, mind and synchronize our life to be in the flow where God exists. Learning how we get out of the way meaning learning how to tame our thoughts or intelligence and should not get in the way of our lives. We must remeber that our thoughts or intelligence is a mere product of our experiences and education which by far very limited to as it is compared to the immensity of the universe where we socialize and to the majesty of the Almighty who had created all that is.

It speaks volumes how our education, experiences and everything we know has misled us to the greater truth we are searching for. The ego actually represents our sum total knowledge. The ego is the proud self of the know it all in us yet as it is is limited to its own exposure.
The seven keys is not something we haven't heard in our life but something we were not able to put together or we never thought that it is actually it is.
The first key speaks of the Commitment to accept that all good things come from God. Willingness to embody a consciousness to abundance. To focus our energy to the achievement of our goals unconditionally. Attain this awaremess that nothing can get in the way. It is the presence of God in our system that should matter here. No doubt no fear and no worries can change our awareness to the state of abundance.
The second key is vision...Holding your highest conscious vision of your highest personality possibility .You can not rise higher than the highest thought that you can think of yourself. You must feel deserving of the person you were meant to be. Listen to your inner guidance to manifest your inner vision. Your vision will direct your steps to achieve your highest possibility.
Truth, the third key is the awareness of the truths and facts of life. And the greatest truth is God is the one and only source acting on every channel. The One that acts on anything and everything in the Universe. Our ignorance of the truth keep us from achieving our fullest possibility. Seek yeah first the kingdom of God and all His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. Here you find the purse that never go empty and the treasure that will never rot. The universe is achieving all our good.
Circulation is the fourth key. Live in the flow as a giver in life. Add to life because Life is given though us not to us. Whatever you give will be given back. The Law of Circulation will create a vacuum in our physical lives when we give and thru this the Universe will replenish and fill it up back. Make room for the good that you like by releasing stuff you don't need anymore to serve others.
Forgiveness.. The fifth key is the releasing the past reaching the interior level of our life . TReleasing the inner things that kept us from receiving our greatest possibility. These are the pain that we keep from the past. Totally forgiving everthing and everyone and let go.Forgive the self too of all resentments and guilt. Let all baggage go and have an attitude to love urself and others unconditionally Value being free from the past .
The sixth key is Gratitude. An active and emotional way of being grateful. Putting an energy with it. Celebrate through sharing abundance. Everything that comes in our lives are blessing even the negative ones are good teachers that will help us achieve good in our lives. Take time to focus on all the good and praise it.
The seventh key is Being. When we live in the flow, we become part of God's great abundance.
We are made in the image and likeness of God...It is love, joy, abundance, power and everything that is good. Whatever God is , we are. We are here to grow, to evolve and achieve our greatest possibility.

Imelda, Ahead of Her Time

Everything has a reason and a time and purpose under the heavens. We have heard and read much unsavory remarks about the former first lady. But had we really looked harder on how she looked at the world. Ever wondered why she did what she did minus our own judgements?

Everyone loves to be right and it is much sweeter to be holier than thou. But it seems like Imelda was ahead of her time. She had always been espousing beauty, love and abhors ugliness. Well it is her opinion and came from her own resources thru experiences and education. She wanted to show Filipino(s) beauty, arts, culture and everything on the positive side at least in her own terms. But a lot among us just can't see where she's coming from because of the poverty we are in or with the crimes she was wrapped with in our minds. We see the ugly and lack, we notice all kinds of corruption and everything bad and that was somebody's fault.

But a lot of studies coming out now tells us that the state of (y)our mind is the state of (y)our environment. I am sure it is not Imelda who nurtured the culture of filth as what we see it in Manila Bay which to say the least is symptomatic of the Filipino minds or discipline. So many of us are guilty as we throw all kinds of trash in our environment. It speaks much of the kind of mind we nurture. Corruption is not a monopoly prescribed by the Marcoses alone (Perception) as many would have prosecuted them and judged to be. So many of us are demigods that would like to rule among the lowly subjects. So many of us would like to be queens and kings. So many would like to get things done according to their own calls. This is a Philippine reality and actually global but we are one of the worst offenders. And yes this is the state of our minds.

I have thought Imelda was ahead of her time because she tries to instill beauty and love and she had put up a lot beautiful buildings, gave a home to our culture with the Cultural Center of the Philippines as her pet project and during her time, she was the fashion industry's patron saint. The Filipino artistry with the performing arts bloomed during her time. She institutionalized recognizing national artist. The furniture industry (Handicrafts) had a heyday having its biggest break during her time when Philippine products found their way to five star hotels here and abroad. Just as when some people in the world thought of Filipinos still cohabiting with monkeys on the trees in their G strings.

They got very good concepts like the Green Revolution that had it been institutionalized, appreciated and implemented by each one of us, hunger would have not been much of a problem TODAY. But lo and behold, we prefer a culture of buyers than producers and how we like imported goods really. This speaks much of the kind of thinking we have.
The Marcoses are long gone but they are the best escape goats we can have because it is not in our culture to acknowledge our own weaknesses and mistakes so we never moved on.

We are still in the same boat complaining of the same signature poverty we Filipinos love to create and own. Millions of Filipinos had gone OFWs but we still see and hear lack all over. We are never thankful of anything but we are the biggest cell phone users in the world. That's why PLDT loves the Philippines and will continue to gobble up all industries in the country because they have learned how to play on the idiosyncracies of the Pinoys of having different priorities. This country have so much spending money but how much percentage goes to the ailing Philippine industries as we continue to import even the most trivial needs in our homes. Well just how much people are really paying their taxes correctly. Just how much goes to the national coffers and private pockets.

In truth we have a very rich nation with great talents and natural resources but the mind set should be changed. There must be a shift of consciousness. The whole nation should be taught how to see its own blessings because there are so much to be thanked for. Being a Catholic nation has not helped. Remember God had promised abundance. Maybe the church hierarchy should changed its mind set too and help the religious understand their faith better. More on Belief. It should make the faithful understand their faith and relationship with God better because their pardigm is not working. There is just so much fear, doubt, anger and worries in the hearts of men that all they see is poverty and lack. There is so much baggage that we just can't get over with. We just can't seem to forgive and forget as Jesus has been teaching us more 2000 years now.

Why the rich are getting richer and richer and the poor gets poorer? Remember the parable of the Talents....He who have more , more will be given and he who have less will have even only his possessions be taken away. It's a Faith problem that translates to the thought that became words that created actions that produced the state of where we are now.
Imelda is now 80 years old and still talking about beauty and love. She wallows in great wealth and beauty. She refused to look at the ugliness of it all. Lets us not be the judge of what she did we thought were wrong because that will be her own to resolve with her Creator but the wisdom she's telling us all...LOVE. Let's all go back there and restructure our mindsets that we may finally attract the same.

What we all thought was right is very relative. There are more than six billion opinions of right in this globe alone. If we really love ourselves, we should have the humility to acknowledge our weaknesses, accept and appreciate the differences we have and go from there to improve our lives for God had promised His eternal lavish abundance for everyone.
And Imelda is still awesome and fabulously wealthy despite all the negative thoughts, court cases, and sinks thrown at her. This is not an ordinary story. It is one for the fairy tale books. There must be something good we are not seeing here or she must have done something right to be still on top of her game.