Stellar year of incredible adventures and milestones
As I write this column, I look back at the stellar year that was 2014, marked with wonderful milestones and incredible adventures.
December 28, 2014
As I write this column, I look back at the stellar year that was 2014, marked with wonderful milestones and incredible adventures.
My banker son, Arcus, said that, in his experience, pretending that there is a Santa Claus who gives your Christmas gifts is cruelty to children. After believing in it completely for years, you eventually learn that those guys don’t exist. Your parents have been deceiving you all along. And are amused and laughing at their extended practical joke at your expense.
Josephine Darang, who wrote glowingly of miracles interceded for by the Blessed Mother and the saints in her well-read religion column in the Sunday Lifestyle Inquirer “Pure,” died on Saturday at the Philippine General Hospital. She was 68.
There is only one God, one Life, one Mind, and you live and move and have your being in this one Power. You are one with this Power and this God is one with you. This one Power resides within you. It is in that kingdom of heaven within. When you truly realize this, you will understand that you create and mold and fashion your own destiny. Through the use of your imaging power, you create your destiny.
There seems less and less of the Baguio I’ve known each time I revisit. Gone are the sights and scents, chiefly of pine, that announced to all the senses you were finally there—after a six- or seven-hour drive in recent years, if you’re lucky.
In 2014, the iPhone got bigger. It’s also the year when both the biggest nightclub in Asia and the biggest indoor arena in the world opened in the Philippines.
Filipino international broadcast journalist Rico Hizon of BBC World News took home the Highly Commended award in the Best News Anchor/Presenter category in the recently concluded 2014 Asian Television Awards at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.
Last weekend, I posted on Instagram the picture of the Infant Jesus peacefully sleeping, lying on a cross and holding one of his three nails. A friend asked what he was holding. A nail, I said. She messaged back: “It was all about mission from the start.”
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines is against the return of the death penalty.
As a young girl in elementary school at Maryknoll (now Miriam College), we were given little “blue books” which portrayed Ecclesiastes 3, the passage “A time for everything,” in photographs. “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens,” the passage began.
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