For preachers, teachers, speakers, and listeners alike. From Divine Word Seminary, Tagaytay City, Philippines
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
The Law of the Garbage Truck
"One day, I hopped into a taxi and took off for the airport . We were driving in the right lane when suddenly, a black car, jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed the brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. I mean, was really friendly. So I asked, "Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!" This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck'
He explained, "Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. NEVER take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on with the routine life." Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home or on the streets.
The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so...... 'Love the people who treat you right.. Pray for the ones who don't.'
A very rightly said quote: Life is 10% what you make and 90% how you take !!!"
He explained, "Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. NEVER take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on with the routine life." Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home or on the streets.
The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so...... 'Love the people who treat you right.. Pray for the ones who don't.'
A very rightly said quote: Life is 10% what you make and 90% how you take !!!"
Friday, May 4, 2012
Ubuntu: I am because we are
An anthropologist proposed a game to African tribe kids. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told them that whoever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run they all took each others hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying their treats. When he asked them why they had run like that as one could have had all the fruits for himself they said: UBUNTU, how can one of us be happy if all the other ones are sad?
UBUNTU in the Xhosa culture means: "I am because we are".
UBUNTU in the Xhosa culture means: "I am because we are".
Monday, March 12, 2012
The Dream
A certain rich businessman had a beautiful daughter, who fell in love
with a guy who was a cleaner. When the girl's father came to know about
their love, he did not like it at all, and so began to protest about
it.
Now it happened that the two lovers decided to leave their homes for a
happy future. The girl's father started searching for the two lovers
but could not find them.
At last, he accepted their love and asked them to come back home in a
local newspaper. Her father said "If you both come back I will allow
you to marry the guy you love, I accept that you loved each other
truly."
So in this way, their love won and they returned home. The couple went
to town to shop for the wedding dress. He was dressed in white shirt
that day. While he was crossing the road to the other side to get some
drinks for his wife, a car came and hit him and he died on the spot.
The girl lost her senses. It was only after sometimes that she recovered
from her shock. The funeral and cremation was the very next day because
he had died horribly.
Two nights later, the girl's mother had a dream in which she saw an old
lady. The old lady asked her mother to wash the blood stains of the guy
from her daughter's dress as soon as possible. But her mother ignored
the dream. The next night her father had the same dream, he also ignored
it.
Then when the girl had the same dream the next night, she woke up in
fear and told her mother about the dream. Her mother asked her to wash
the clothes which have blood stains immediately.
She washed the stains but some remained.. Next night she
again had the same dream she again washed the stains but some still
remained. Next night she again had the same dream and this time the old
lady gave her a last warning to wash the blood stain, or else something
terrible will happen.
This time the girl tried her best to wash the stains, and the clothes
nearly tore, but some stains still remained.
She was very tired. In the late evening the same day while she was
alone at home, someone knocked the door. When she opened the door she
saw the same old lady of her dream standing at her door. She got very
scared and fainted.
The old lady woke her up... and gave her a white object, which shocked
the girl. She asked "What is this...?" The old lady replied...
"Gumamit ka ng TIDE. P6.50 na lang, mas pinalaki pa!"
with a guy who was a cleaner. When the girl's father came to know about
their love, he did not like it at all, and so began to protest about
it.
Now it happened that the two lovers decided to leave their homes for a
happy future. The girl's father started searching for the two lovers
but could not find them.
At last, he accepted their love and asked them to come back home in a
local newspaper. Her father said "If you both come back I will allow
you to marry the guy you love, I accept that you loved each other
truly."
So in this way, their love won and they returned home. The couple went
to town to shop for the wedding dress. He was dressed in white shirt
that day. While he was crossing the road to the other side to get some
drinks for his wife, a car came and hit him and he died on the spot.
The girl lost her senses. It was only after sometimes that she recovered
from her shock. The funeral and cremation was the very next day because
he had died horribly.
Two nights later, the girl's mother had a dream in which she saw an old
lady. The old lady asked her mother to wash the blood stains of the guy
from her daughter's dress as soon as possible. But her mother ignored
the dream. The next night her father had the same dream, he also ignored
it.
Then when the girl had the same dream the next night, she woke up in
fear and told her mother about the dream. Her mother asked her to wash
the clothes which have blood stains immediately.
She washed the stains but some remained.. Next night she
again had the same dream she again washed the stains but some still
remained. Next night she again had the same dream and this time the old
lady gave her a last warning to wash the blood stain, or else something
terrible will happen.
This time the girl tried her best to wash the stains, and the clothes
nearly tore, but some stains still remained.
She was very tired. In the late evening the same day while she was
alone at home, someone knocked the door. When she opened the door she
saw the same old lady of her dream standing at her door. She got very
scared and fainted.
The old lady woke her up... and gave her a white object, which shocked
the girl. She asked "What is this...?" The old lady replied...
"Gumamit ka ng TIDE. P6.50 na lang, mas pinalaki pa!"
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
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Friday, February 3, 2012
multiplication of loaves: jeepney story
I just wanna share my experience awhile ago. It happened in a jeepney routing from Santolan to Sta. Lucia East Mall. I always look for a jeepney with few people inside because I'm shy if I'm alone. This time I'm going home alone ( which happens once every 1000 years ) and my first instinct is to find the jeepney with the fewest boarder. Outside the Santolan Lrt Station waits a lot of jeepney, and so Am I looking for the loneliest one. A couple of steps and Voila I found it, a poor little empty jeepney ( HAHAHA ). I sit beside the driver so that I can play psp (Patapon 3 XD) easily. Minutes pass, the jeep is half full, I also noticed that the driver is always rubbing his tummy ( the same thing we do when we are hungry), but I don't mind that, what happened next makes me care. The jeep is full and ready to go, and this is the time when we will give our fares, every person that gives him their fare he always says "Thank You" twice or trice per person, AS IN PER PERSON, I am beside him so I noticed it and I think I am the only one who noticed it. We got stuck in a traffic jam in Ligaya, that time I'm not giving my fare yet because I'm playing psp. Curiosity strikes and I ask him a question
and besides he looks like a good guy.
"Boss, bakit ka thank you ng thank you kanina pag may nagbabayad?"
he answered
"kasi itong mga baryang to ang bubuhay sa anak ko"
I don't understand that easily and so we make some more conversation
Me:"May sakit boss?"
Driver:"Oo anak meron, leukemia"
I stay silent after I heard that, I turn off the psp and look somewhere else because in other words e nakaka awa pero mas naawa ako lalo ng makita ko ang tatlong picture na naka clip sa left side mirror right side mirror at yung mirror sa taas ng ulo ko. I know how to drive so that I know that you will always look in that mirrors every second while you are driving, ALWAYS. And now I know why he always rub his tummy. It makes my eye teary but I'm a man so I fight it ( ^_^ ). I get my fare, 100 pesos na buo and give it to him.
"Boss Sta.Lucia lang, isa"
as soon as I gave the money he count some coins for my change and that same time I said
"Hindi na boss ok lang kunin mo na po yan" sabay ngiti. And there again I hear the thousand thank you from him.
Not aware of the other passengers, may mga hindi pa pala nagbabayad. And after what I did they also gave their fares, 100 pesos 200 pesos 50 pesos and I also saw 500 pesos na mga buo, and they all give that to him. I just smiled to them, turn on my psp and start playing again...
That completes my day...teary eyes here..
(source: http://www.facebook.com/MMKMMP)
and besides he looks like a good guy.
"Boss, bakit ka thank you ng thank you kanina pag may nagbabayad?"
he answered
"kasi itong mga baryang to ang bubuhay sa anak ko"
I don't understand that easily and so we make some more conversation
Me:"May sakit boss?"
Driver:"Oo anak meron, leukemia"
I stay silent after I heard that, I turn off the psp and look somewhere else because in other words e nakaka awa pero mas naawa ako lalo ng makita ko ang tatlong picture na naka clip sa left side mirror right side mirror at yung mirror sa taas ng ulo ko. I know how to drive so that I know that you will always look in that mirrors every second while you are driving, ALWAYS. And now I know why he always rub his tummy. It makes my eye teary but I'm a man so I fight it ( ^_^ ). I get my fare, 100 pesos na buo and give it to him.
"Boss Sta.Lucia lang, isa"
as soon as I gave the money he count some coins for my change and that same time I said
"Hindi na boss ok lang kunin mo na po yan" sabay ngiti. And there again I hear the thousand thank you from him.
Not aware of the other passengers, may mga hindi pa pala nagbabayad. And after what I did they also gave their fares, 100 pesos 200 pesos 50 pesos and I also saw 500 pesos na mga buo, and they all give that to him. I just smiled to them, turn on my psp and start playing again...
That completes my day...teary eyes here..
(source: http://www.facebook.com/MMKMMP)
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