The Preacher Steward: In The Philippines Children Die Every Day Because Of No Money For Medicines Or Hospitals ~ Yet In The last Few Years The Government Has Spent $925 MILLION Upgrading The Military ~ Now they want Submarines!
The Philippines wants to buy three subs to help fight the Chinese Navy
This is simply not good stewardship
‘Amid ongoing disputes with China over overlapping claims in the South China Sea, the Philippines has spent PHP41 billion ($925 million) on modernizing its military platforms since President Benigno Aquino took office in 2010. Still one of the weakest military powers in the region, last month President Aquino pledged to devote an additional PHP91 billion ($2.01 billion) to modernizing the country’s defense by 2017.’
The Preacher/Steward: Peace On Earth Demands A Life Lived In Preparation ~ Celebration ~ Compassion
To borrow a line from Sam the Wise… ‘Handsome is as handsome does.’ Which means that we can have all the appearance of good but unless we ‘do good’ sooner or later our mask will be stripped away and the true ugly that is within will come become apparent to one and all. This is why the alternative reading of Luke 2:14 never goes away.
“On earth Peace, to people of good will.’
It is our will that is created by our desires that allows God’s flowers to blossom within us. If you have watered the seeds of wisdom, love, compassion, understanding, tenderness, patience, and most of all Peace then on earth you will have wisdom, love, compassion, understanding, tenderness, patience, and most of all Peace. But if you water other seeds other plants from another source will grow in your garden
In the Philippines we are fast approaching the time when most of the people celebrate ‘All Souls Day.’
Originally this was a church celebration that covered three nights and days. Day one was a vigil to prepare the person for the sacred duties they would perform. Day two was spent remembering the righteous who had followed the path well enough to enter heaven upon their death. Day three was spent in prayer for those who after death had not entered Heaven but had found themselves in Purgatory or worse, Hell. Such was the original intent.
Sadly, now it is rarely the reality. Today’s reality is that this sacred season has become a time of drunkenness, lewdness, disrespect, fights, and all night parties. This is such an ugly time in the Philippines that nationwide the police are on high alert.
“Senior Superintendent Wilben Mayor, PNP spokesperson, told reporters on Monday that the high alert will be raised to full alert two days before the day of actual observance. Mayor said the full alert will be extended until November 3. The Metro Manila police also activated on Monday Task Force Undas.
Police Director Carmelo Valmoria, National Capital Region Police Office chief, said thousands of policemen will be deployed to 92 cemeteries and more than 100 bus terminals in the metropolis.”
Sam the Wise was right.
It takes more than the ability to camouflage your ugliness to be truly handsome.
If you want Peace on Earth you have to Live Peace on Earth!
The Steward: For Those Who Claim “We Need The Jobs LNG Provides Because We Are So Poor ~ NEWSFLASH ~ If You Don’t Have To Eat Pagpag You Aren’t Poor
Pagpag? What is pagpag? Pagpag is what the poorest of the poor eat. The poor you will find in any city on any continent of our world. Fourteen miles from where we live people exist on pagpag. I know of no Reserve in Canada that the pagpag system is up and running.
Salvaged chicken is washed and resold by pagpag merchants
In a nutshell: Someone with enough money to pay the right person will buy the right to scrounge through a restaurants garbage. They will collect every scrap of food that has been thrown out. From vegetable peelings to half eaten chickens and burghers. They will take it home, clean it up, re-cook it and sell it to the poorest of the poor. Now you know what pagpag is. And now you know what poverty is. Not just being poor compared to someone else but real hard, cold, hungry, never ending poverty.
This is not no beer tonight poor, or not being as rich as those people over there poor. This is being one very small step away from starvation and death for all of your hungry life.
Since I have started blogging against the LNG pipeline, terminals and transport ships planned for northern B.C. I keep reading the same argument.
We are poor. Our people need the jobs LNG provide. We have no choice we must sign the deals so our people can have the money to buy the things they want.
Sorry folks I’m not buying that argument. This is not to say that there are no poor Reserves in Canada. Of course there are. But I know of no First Nation along the proposed pipeline routes that has the pagpag system in place. Do you? I know of no Reserve along the pipeline routes where people die early from malnutrition. Do you?
I believe that the following quote more accurately expresses the reality of why some First Nations have signed LNG deals.
“Before white contact, we were the owners. We were the decision-makers. We made all our wealth off the territory,” Mr. Ross says. He adds: “My dream, really, and my vision, is for my people to take back their rightful place in this territory.”
Seems to me that the LNG deals are all about power and wealth. I don’t know how you feel about it but I plan to fight the Greed Vision of any one that is willing to destroy our world so that he or she can take back the position they think is rightfully theirs. Being the Boss of Bosses.
We Are Called To Be Stewards ~ Of This World ~ Of Ourselves 