Message from a Grateful Son
CECILIA "BOCHIE" & RICO TAPALES SANTIAGO
My son, Rico's message on my 80th birthday deeply moved me, and I can't stop thanking God for his presence in all the years we have struggled to keep...
A Rainbow After the Rain (Part 1)*
CONCHITA G. BIGORNIA
"Sometimes things don't make sense until the end of the story."
I came across this post from one of Malee's nieces while I was looking for comfort from my grief over the loss...
Embracing Personal Clarity Moment to Moment
PIA NAZARENO-ACEVEDO
I used to say tomorrow isn't promised, but today, I say… later is not promised. We are invited to be present and live from moment to moment…
This year, I turn 50, celebrating my...
Heavenly Salvation From Fire*
CATHY CHENG BONDOC
A decade ago, one mother managed to stay tranquil amid a literal firestorm, realizing family and faith matter most in times of peril.
Ten years ago, my family was invited to join the...
God’s Caring Presence
ERNIE MAIPID, JR.
For two decades now, Gawad Kalinga (GK) has sought to help the underprivileged in their struggle with poverty by building caring and sharing communities. Initially, it constructed homes, believing that homelessness and...
Let the Children Come…as We Hear their Silent Cries
ARTURO L. ZUÑIGA
In 2011, the Ateneo Center for Educational Development (ACED) created a tutorial program called CORNERSTONE that reached out to the children in the peripheries of our public education system in Grades 2...
Living Each Day as if it Were the Last
BERNIE CUEVAS
Living each day as if it were the last
This phrase is certainly not an original line. Many have written reflections on this topic and one notable quote came from Steve Jobs in a...
The Late Bloomer’s World of Make-Believe and Reality Collide
DOLLY DE LEON
As the youngest of 4 children in a middle-class Catholic family, where a doting and loving father was working mostly and a severely strict mother was hardly home from bowling and mahjong,...
Loving the Poor Out of Poverty (‘Walang Imposible, kung Walang Iwanan’)
ERNIE E. MAIPID, JR
It has been close to 27 years, and Gawad Kalinga (GK), a community-based development program for the underprivileged, is still faithfully and actively at it. By God's grace and unfolding, its...