Think about it
Merry Christmas!
By Jun Velasco
AT the strike of 12 midnight tonight, all Christendom pauses to reflect on that epic story about God’s boundless love for mankind.
It’s been told since man’s creation that even amidst his errant ways, God took yet another act, this time probably even greater than the first.
He sent Jesus Christ, His own Son, to us to show and to teach people how to live in such a way as to allow him to enjoy health, happiness, prosperity and all the blessings He has made available for everyone.
The Bible put it more emphatically, thus: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish; but have everlasting life.”
The filosofos, by force of habit will dispute any talk on acquiring with ease happiness, prosperity, God’s blessings as being within their easy reach. They are affected by the bleak business news bombardment from the media daily and most everyone’s penchant for accentuating the negative.
They fail to see a most thrilling story right in their midst.
Like the filosofo, we need only to be honest and fair .God already made the first step anyway, and the second, and the third and the 1 millionth step.
The awfully sad fact is that many of us have lost the ability to see the nicest things we already have. We say, we don’t get the things we want because we simply don’t have money to buy them.
God has said good luck, the seemingly elusive happiness and His blessings are not that hard to find, stressing “it’s right there by your side”.
Missed it? We, too, have, as we were looking in the other direction.
Jesus would have willed you saw it because it’s right there and here and, if you please, live it.
It really only depends on you.
Merry Christmas!
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Speaker Joe de Venecia was in town last week. Manny Roy, a new kid on the column-writing block, phoned us to report that JDV did not look at all defeated in the much publicized Constituent Assembly’s debacle.
“He was his usual Sunshine Joe self,” says Manny who frowns on the line that the Constituent Assembly archiving signaled JDV’s political waterloo.
“Kuya Joe is unbeatable in his expert areas,” according to the new political analyst whose column, “Puto Cotchinta,” in the Northern Mirror is fast outflanking Gonzalo Duque’s “Playing With Fire” column.
Manny is correct. It does not mean that the charter change setback dealt a fatal blow to JDV, a known survivor of big political debacles.
Over a cup of coffee, former Chief Justice Larry Davide, Alfie Bince’s classmate in the UP College of Law, would talk about the speaker’s political savvy, which, he says, is extraordinary. “Magaling yan si Joe,” he said.
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Our neighbor-columnist Gonzalo Duque called up to take a vacation from his fiery column for at least two weeks in deference to a death in the family, business executive Edgar Hammershaimb, 57, husband of his sister, Dr. Luz Duque-Hammershaimb, who are living in Philadelphia, USA.
He (Gonz) says he couldn’t have the mood to go ballistic in this, his low mood, even citing the miseries in Bicol, while fellow Dagupenos go their merry making spree.
We condole with Luz, their children and the whole Duque family for Edgar’s passing.
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Alumni of the Dagupan City National High School are honing their dancing skills in anticipation of their annual grand reunion on December 28 at the city plaza.
Last week, we saw an item in the Punch’s on-line page by Councilor Joey Netu Tamayo, alumni association prexy, calling on fellow alumni to join the evening ball which Mayor Benjie Lim grudgingly admits is usually bigger than the city fiesta coronation night.
At presstime, we received a tip that a city high alumna, the former Delia C. Villamil (now Mrs. Morada), salutatorian of Class ’67, is being groomed for a higher position at the Bureau of Customs, where she is a technical assistant to Commissioner Napoleon Morales.
Sometimes dubbed as a jewel at the BOC, Delia is “the think and tongue” of Boy S. Morales. The daughter of our late friend, Atchi Mary, Delia is a licensed chemical engineer from Mapua, master’s degree holder of science on chemistry at the CEU with another master’s degree at Trinity University and vast training experience abroad.
Press onward, city high!
(For past columns, click http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/category/opinion/think-about-it/)
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