By: Gilbert M. Forbes
DepEd Quezon
Region IV-A CALABARZON
Our country has been proclaimed as a God loving and believing nation in the far east. We are also tagged as the only Christian country. Apart from Christianity are other religions also proclaiming belief in God.
A the center of this are people we could see who are all religious and faithful to their respective beliefs. But isn't all these religion teaches extra ordinary things such as love, discipline, honesty, excellence, patience and industry? But what are we doing in return?
What could be seen are people divided working for their respective families upkeep forgetting the larger community. God is set aside for this matter so there are massive dishonesty and corruption, anyway, God is loving and forgiving that's why it is alright to be theft next door. It is alright to throw garbage right here and there and violate basic traffic rules.
Excellence is not the common name in the work place, comfort and at times pride is. Industry is weak and so their is massive poverty. To be poor is acceptable and could be noble for those who really don't have all the necessary means but to those who are living within large tracts of arable lands where all sorts of vegies, root crops and fruit trees could be grown is unacceptable.
Traditional politicians are happy maintaining and tolerating the later type of poverty for they capitalize on this and yet, they themselves are also God-loving and God-fearing. In tandem with the politicians are the rich employers and businessmen who don't give what is due to their workers in terms of salaries and other benefits including tax. They are the worst people on earth because they capitalize both on human weakness and lapses in government. They too are God-loving and God-fearing.
Sociologists and historians attribute all these frailties to everybody, not to the established organized religion. They have this to say that ours is 'folk Christianity' together with other religions, sad to say, adjusted or twisted in our favor and needs. Everybody can see the result and the proof by just walking in the streets or driving along.
We have lots of religious festivals, prayer rallies, but did it make any better for the greater good? For the third time in most of our life time, a leader of the universal church in the Philippines is coming, how is it getting to impact the faithful?
Those who have witnessed the first and second visit of St. John Paul II, how were they touched and worked in return in doing the 'will of the Lord.' What was the ripple effect that could have at least transformed the country? The first visit could have helped ousting the dictator. What about the World Youth Day twenty years ago?
Where are those youth now? Have they already been eaten by the system or are still cautiously and patiently working towards a better society. Almost 20 years, the challenge is still loud and clear.
"Let us tell the world of His love. The greatest love the world has known. Search the word for those who have walked astray and give them hope. Fill the worlds darkest corner. With His Light from up above. Walk every step, every mile, every road, and tell the world, tell the world of his Love."
We pray, that after another twenty years, this country of ours is the best country that we can be proud of. It may not be a progressive one but it is a country where God could be seen in each one of us. From the simplest thing that we do in the work place and for others.
This should be what a God Loving and believing country is. What a dream. Hope not a utopia.
DepEd Quezon
Region IV-A CALABARZON
Our country has been proclaimed as a God loving and believing nation in the far east. We are also tagged as the only Christian country. Apart from Christianity are other religions also proclaiming belief in God.
A the center of this are people we could see who are all religious and faithful to their respective beliefs. But isn't all these religion teaches extra ordinary things such as love, discipline, honesty, excellence, patience and industry? But what are we doing in return?
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| POVERTY AND LAZINESS: Where is God in this midst? (Photo: seanakizuki.blogspot.com) |
What could be seen are people divided working for their respective families upkeep forgetting the larger community. God is set aside for this matter so there are massive dishonesty and corruption, anyway, God is loving and forgiving that's why it is alright to be theft next door. It is alright to throw garbage right here and there and violate basic traffic rules.
Excellence is not the common name in the work place, comfort and at times pride is. Industry is weak and so their is massive poverty. To be poor is acceptable and could be noble for those who really don't have all the necessary means but to those who are living within large tracts of arable lands where all sorts of vegies, root crops and fruit trees could be grown is unacceptable.
Traditional politicians are happy maintaining and tolerating the later type of poverty for they capitalize on this and yet, they themselves are also God-loving and God-fearing. In tandem with the politicians are the rich employers and businessmen who don't give what is due to their workers in terms of salaries and other benefits including tax. They are the worst people on earth because they capitalize both on human weakness and lapses in government. They too are God-loving and God-fearing.
Sociologists and historians attribute all these frailties to everybody, not to the established organized religion. They have this to say that ours is 'folk Christianity' together with other religions, sad to say, adjusted or twisted in our favor and needs. Everybody can see the result and the proof by just walking in the streets or driving along.
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| One of the biggest religious festivals in the country. (Source: Google) |
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| World Youth Day 1995 with St. (Pope) John Pual II. (Source: Google) |
Those who have witnessed the first and second visit of St. John Paul II, how were they touched and worked in return in doing the 'will of the Lord.' What was the ripple effect that could have at least transformed the country? The first visit could have helped ousting the dictator. What about the World Youth Day twenty years ago?
Where are those youth now? Have they already been eaten by the system or are still cautiously and patiently working towards a better society. Almost 20 years, the challenge is still loud and clear.
"Let us tell the world of His love. The greatest love the world has known. Search the word for those who have walked astray and give them hope. Fill the worlds darkest corner. With His Light from up above. Walk every step, every mile, every road, and tell the world, tell the world of his Love."
We pray, that after another twenty years, this country of ours is the best country that we can be proud of. It may not be a progressive one but it is a country where God could be seen in each one of us. From the simplest thing that we do in the work place and for others.
This should be what a God Loving and believing country is. What a dream. Hope not a utopia.
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