Everything Happens For a Reason

Everything Happens For a Reason

 Sometimes people come into your life

and you know right away that they were meant to be there,

 they serve some sort of purpose,

 teach you a lesson

or help figure out who you are

or who you want to become.

You never know who these people may be;

your roommate, your neighbor, professor,

 long lost friend, lover or even a complete stranger who,

when you lock eyes with… them,

you know that very moment

that they will affect your life in some profound way.

 And sometimes things happen to you

and at the time they seem horrible, painful and unfair

but in reflection you realize

 that without overcoming those obstacles

you would never have realized your potential,

strength, will power of heart.

 Everything happens for a reason.

 Nothing happens by chance or

 by means of good or bad luck.

 Illness, injury, love, lost moments or

true greatness and sheer stupidity

all occur to test the limits of the soul.

Without these small tests,

if they be events, illnesses or relationships,

 life would be like a smooth paved,

straight, flat road to nowhere.

Safe and comfortable but dull and utterly pointless.

The people you meet who affect your life and successes

and downfalls you experience,

 they are the ones who create who you are.

 Even the bad experience can be learned from…

 Those lessons are the hardest

 and probably the most important ones.

If someone hurts you, betrays you,

or breaks your heart… forgive them,

for they have helped you learn about trust

and the importance of being cautious to

 whom you open your heart.

If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally,

not only because they love you,

 but because they are teaching you to love

and opening your heart

and eyes to things you would have never seen

or felt without them. Make every day count.

Appreciate every moment and

 take from it everything that you possibly can,

for you may never be able to experience it again.

 Talk to people you have never talked to before,

and actually listen,

 let yourself fall in love,

 break free and

set your sights high.

You can make of your life anything you wish.

Create your own life and then go out and live it.

 I wish you all the best in your endeavors as well

 as struggles in life.

Have a fighting spirit

 and never hesitate to get back in the struggle!

 ~ Author Unknown

Life is God's Gift to Us

Statement of CBCP president Archbishop Jose S. Palma D.D. on RH Bill 

"Every birth is a gift from God; every new life, a blessing; every birth a cause for rejoicing and praising God who creates new life only out of love.

"Our country’s positive birth rate and a population composed of mostly young people are the main players that fuel the economy. A fact that even the government itself acknowledges as it is determined to feed, educate and keep the young people healthy.

"And rightly so, for even our Constitution acknowledges that human resource is a primary social and economic force.

"Earlier this year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas reported that the hard earned salaries of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) that were sent to their families for the first 11 months last year amounted to $18.3 billion, which is a 7.3 percent increase in the same period in 2010.

"Filipino men and women who endure the travails of working on foreign soil play a significant role in propping up our economy.

"The country’s robust population is a big boost to our economy, according to former US President Bill Clinton, local and international financial institutions and the public sector.

"It is therefore quite disturbing when the country is told that having too many school children is a burden to the national budget.

"Can we have enough of schooled, skilled, diligent and highly driven young people who are a driving force of economic progress?

"The draconian population control policy of the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill would only curtail our economic growth. The problem of countries with former robust economies is the lack of young workers for their industries and inadequate support for their aging population.

"The issue on maternal deaths is a serious concern. The solution does not lie in suppressing births as provided in the RH Bill.

"Providing proper and adequate maternal care could be done without passing the RH bill, but by strengthening and improving access to existing medical services.

"There is an ill portent for the nation when government does not look at its own population as a source of grace and blessing.

"There is a grave reason to worry when government would rather suppress population through an RH bill instead of confronting the real causes of poverty."

+ (sgd.) JOSE S. PALMA, DD
Archbishop of Cebu
President, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines
30 July 2012 


Sources: CBCPforLife.com