KAKAMPI MO ANG BATAS.PERIODICO MINDANAO. 19 JULY 2011

KAKAMPI MO ANG BATAS.PERIODICO MINDANAO. 19 JULY 2011

Pinoys need better lives, not political rows

LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “…I will praise you with an upright heart as I learn your righteous laws…” (Psalm 119:7, the Holy Bible).
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POC FUNDING PROBLEMS HURTING PINOY ATHLETES: My heart was bleeding for the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) as I read a news report saying that to enable our athletes to participate in the forthcoming Southeast Asian Games on November 11-22, 2011 in Indonesia, POC would have to literally beg once again from the private sector for funds.

No wonder the Philippines does not produce athletes of international caliber, as a matter of course. There is simply no money for sports development. Of course, many may ask why this should be so, when government agencies like the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) and the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) are oozing with billions and billions of money?

Why can’t the PAGCOR and the PCSO find a way to give something substantial for our athletes’ training and participation in competitions here and abroad? I know that the POC is supposed to be an organization independent from any government intervention, but surely, a compromise could be hammered out so that there is a steady source of money for our athletes?

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PINOYS STILL NEED MORE MONEY AND FOOD: If I am to believe lawyer and senatorial aspirant Raul Lambino, it would seem that the Aquino government is now spending a great deal of its time and resources firming up its cases against former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo.

While I concede that prosecuting Arroyo, her family, and her officials for supposed grave crimes during her term is a matter of utmost urgency to fulfill a campaign promise of President Benigno Aquino III, it would be the height of treason on the other hand to be focusing solely on this direction, leaving out the more important work of economic advancement for the Filipino people.

As it is, Filipinos continue to be poor and the trumpeted improving conditions for many of them is still largely unfelt and perceived to be mere propaganda of government. Something has to be done urgently to enable more Filipinos to have better lives, more money and more food, and they couldn’t really care less later if politicians kill one another, figuratively that is.

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WOMAN’S REAL BEAUTY: Here is the real gauge of a woman’s beauty, according to 1 Peter 3:1-6 of the Bible: “Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.

“Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.

“For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear…”

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