A Journey of Faith Inside Out
JANUARY'S PICKS
As we begin a new year, we are invited to recognize how God’s grace quietly unfolds in our lives. This month’s reflections remind us that hope is restored, miracles arrive in God’s perfect time, and gratitude finds its truest expression when lived and shared. Together, these stories encourage us to move forward with thankful hearts, trusting that God continues to weave His purpose through every season.
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DISCOVER
Art & Elvie Zuniga’s Reflections on the Circle of Life is White Butterfly’s DISCOVER entry for January 2026. In this moving reflection, the couple shares their profound joy as their daughter and son-in-law are blessed with twin sons—an unexpected grace following an earlier cancer diagnosis that seemed to close the door on having children. With deep gratitude, they recognize this gift as part of God’s larger design, intertwined with their own privilege of having served children through Kids for Christ for 37 years.
🎁 GIFTS & GRACES
“Three Miracles” by Peps de Leon opens White Butterfly’s GIFTS & GRACES section for 2026. In this moving testimony, Peps and Flor de Leon share how they waited in faith—first welcoming an adopted son in 1987, then a daughter five years later, and finally, at the age of 44, being blessed with a child of their own. Trusting in God’s perfect and beautiful time, the couple witnessed three miracles unfold—each one a profound gift of life, grace, and enduring love.
❤️ PANANAGUTAN
Joma Campher’s “My Christmas Heart” is White Butterfly’s PANANAGUTAN entry for January 2026. For 48 years, Joma has faithfully devoted time and love to transforming her home into a Christmas village—one that reflects the season’s enduring gifts of Joy, Peace, and Hope. Through this yearly offering, she shares her deepest intention: “I wish to express gratitude in my soul for my Savior.” Her reflection gently challenges us to allow our gratitude to become so overwhelming that it is transformed into a living prayer of joy.
DECEMBER'S PICKS
December invites us once more into the quiet light of Christmas—where mercy is renewed, hope is rekindled, and goodness finds its way into ordinary lives. In this special issue of White Butterfly, we enter three pathways where God moves gently among His people: through forgiveness, through family, and through the courage to choose what is good.
🌻🌻🌻 DISCOVER
'In the Memory of Mercy' is our DISCOVER pick for White Butterfly's December issue. Here author, New Bilibid Prison chaplain, Fr. Junji Bargayo, SJ discovers how Confession and Communion both bring us, His prodigal children, the God waiting to bring us mercy, healing and wholeness once we decide to trek the road back to seek forgiveness. While he is priest, two inmates impart to Fr. Junji, this deep realization.
🎁 GIFTS & GRACES
In GIFTS & GRACES, White Butterfly's December pick is Ernie Maipid, Jr.'s 'The Father Moves Among Us'. In the article the author shares on the Christmas theme of Family, as God's precious daily gift of His Presence, alive in our exchanging God's Goodness and Gladness in our dealings and exchanges. It was on Christmas, when the God Christ, was born to a human family. He is meant to be Born everyday of our lives. Eight grandchildren spark up Ernie's legacy of Hope to the future, bearing the Christmas message through generations.
❤️ PANANAGUTAN
Finally in PANANAGUTAN, lawyer ALex Lacson’s ’Make the Good Win’ shares his realization for us to intentionally champion goodness in our society for change to flourish. His article begins with the stark reality of good and evil. He then leads us to a conscious choice of good to our becoming light-bearers, building a society shaped by truth, compassion, justice and hope.
🌻🌻🌻Together, these offerings form a tapestry of December grace—mercy that lifts us, family that forms us, and goodness that calls us forward.
As we close this December issue of White Butterfly, may the voices of Fr. Junji, Ernie, and Alex remain with us like three steady lights for the journey ahead. Mercy invites us to begin again. Family teaches us where love is learned. And the choice for goodness—renewed each day—shapes the world we leave to those who follow.
This Christmas, may Christ be born once more in our hearts, in our homes, and in the hidden corners of our communities. May His gentleness guide us, His courage strengthen us, and His hope anchor us as we step into a new year.
White Butterfly
"When God's power is manifested in the world, in his creation or in his people, God is glorified. When we pray that our lives may glorify him, we are asking that the self may be put down."
(Elisabeth Eliot)
God loves us and will use many ways and instruments to keep us in His company. He will draw us to Him through people, events, and circumstances. Sometimes He will send us unexpected messengers.
There it was one day, the surprise of an insignificant, tiny white butterfly, which seemed to carry an invitation for me to God's banquet. My answer, through His grace, led to a simple blog, which now evolved into this website.
White butterfly is a gathering place where God invites all to HONOR and GLORIFY Him, each in one’s unique way.
Please join us by sending us contributions for any of the website categories: ROAD TO EMMAUS, A RELEVANT CHURCH, DISCOVER, GIFTS & GRACES, and PANANAGUTAN.
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A quiet space where faith takes flight.
Born from a whisper of the Spirit, White Butterfly is a sanctuary for stories, reflections, and moments of grace — small lights that together form a gentle glow of faith.
Here, every path leads back to the same Source of love:
- Whispers of Light — the gentle glow of God’s mercy in everyday life.
- Road to Emmaus — walking with the One who never stops walking with us.
- A Relevant Church — listening from the heart of Christ to the hearts of His people.
- Discover — finding the quiet seeds of grace taking root within us.
- Gifts & Graces — where God’s beauty shines through talent, through struggle, through grace.
- Pananagutan — living God’s love in action, our shared responsibility of faith.
Together, these voices form one quiet testimony — that the Spirit still moves, still heals, and still speaks through us all.