see you at the finish line

For the love of driving, those who just like joy rides or are born with a healthy (or even slightly unhealthy) sense of competition, here’s one for you:
the Northern Adventure Race is a Point to Point Race with Checkpoints. (Manila – Baguio – San Fernando, La Union – Dagupan – Subic)
The goal is to reach [...]

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Trapped?

(on Ro’s message at Station One last week)
I’m sure, at some point in all our lives, we have felt, one way or another, trapped. By that itchy dress that we never wanted to wear in the first place, but mom thought lace and frills look so cute; while in between buses during rush hour traffic; [...]

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taking my shoes off

Earth’s crammed with heaven
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sits around it and plucks blackberries.
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
When this year began, I prayed to God that I would know Him, be more intimate with Him, and to make me pursue and experience Him more than I’ve [...]

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Getting Over It

(from: “God is Bigger Than the Bogeyman” by yours truly, Station One May 27, 2008. it wsa my first time to “preach” (because it was really just sharing, on my part) there and needless to say, i was so nervous! this isn’t the exact message… all jokes and random blurt outs have been omitted– you [...]

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Hi, how are you?

I find it funny when I ask people, “How are you?” I don’t usually expect a longer answer than, “I’m good!” or a variation of that, and vice versa. Because who has time to spare to listen to somebody recount everything that has happened since you last saw each other? Whenever I get asked the [...]

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TRUTH THURSDAYS: a proposal

“We are all carrying so many things in our life, and inside ourselves… Where do you place the questions you carry? The sadness and the epiphanies? The quiet worries? Where can you put down the truth, as messy and new and raw as it sometimes feel?” (Sabrina Ward Harrison)
so, i was thinking. i want to [...]

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Grace over karma: the Gospel as shared by Bono

this is Bono. and he is a rockstar.
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Bono: Grace over Karma book excerpt posted 08/08/05
The following exchange between Bono and Assayas took place just days after the Madrid train bombings in March 2004, an act of terrorism that left 191 dead and more than 1,800 wounded. The two men were discussing how terrorism is often [...]

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i am alive!

ok. so i may not look like this anymore… (lost a little weight! yey!)– one of the great things of being stuck in the hospital. har har. but this is not to impugn on cardinal santos’ hospital food– the meals were surprisingly good, too bad mom can’t say the same about their canteen. but well, [...]

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divine interventions

marti got dengue. and was in the hospital for seven days. we had to cart in people to donate blood for him (and out of a dozen, only three made it to the cut). but thank you so much for the people who came and almost came to donate! he is now home, lost weight [...]

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A Visit

Gone are the days
when you could walk on water.
When you could walk.
The days are gone.
Only one day remains,
the one you’re in.
The memory is no friend.
It can only tell you
what you no longer have:
a left hand you can use,
two feet that walk.
All the brain’s gadgets.
Hello, hello.
The one hand that still works
grips, won’t let go.
That is [...]

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