ARE YOU HUNGRY? IM SURE YOUR NOT

I am updating my blog. As part of my update to rewrite all my previous Post. So here are they.

While I am typing this, I felt like crying. I felt like I am very selfish.

I made a promise to myself that before Christmas of 2008 I would save 2,000 pesos and buy food for the street children in Cebu City, Philippines. I made it as challenged so that I can prove something to myself in the midst of my own financial crisis.

It was December of 2008 already and have not save any but I am still confident to fulfill my promise since my salary bonus will be release before Christmas. But that was 2 years ago.

I am not proud to tell you that til now I have not fulfilled my promise. And it bothers me sometimes.

I am in the office and I am going home now and if ever I can see street children while going home I will surely buy them food.

PAST TWO WEEKS

Past two weeks already since i promised the street children to be back after the day we met.

It was just a normal day. Me and my wife met at Country Mall(Cebu, Philippines) after work. I suggested to her that we will have our dinner at a carenderia where we met Jean(street kid).

While walking to the jeep stop a street kid(he is about 12 years old) asked me for food, so i gave him 5 pesos and told him to buy food. When were on the on the overpass we saw the him sitting on the floor with a friend whose about 8 years old. When were near to them I realized he bought a biscuit out of the 5 pesos i gave. While he is opening the biscuit i told them to get up because we will be buying them food.

Me and my wife bought them 2 hamburgers, 2 drumstick fried chickens, and 10 puso (rice in a bamboo leaf) and a 12 oz. softdrink.

I was so happy when I gave it to them. They said thank you.

After that, we rode a jeep going to the carenderia. In the carenderia, while waiting for our dinner to be served there was a boy outside looking but not asking  for food. I stood up and talk to the boy.

I forgot his name. I asked him if Jean is his friend and he told me yes. To be continued. I have to go.

HUNGRY CHILDREN

This is from my early blogs. Please read.


While im typing this I felt like crying, I felt like I am very selfish.

I promised to myself that before Christmas of 2008 I would save 2,000 pesos and buy food for the street children in Cebu City. I made it as challenged so that i can prove something to myself in the midst of crisis.

It was December of 2008 already and havn't save any but Im still confident to fulfill my promise since the Bunos will be released before Christmas.

I am not proud to tell you that til now I have not fulfilled my promise. And it bothers me sometimes.

I am in the office and Im going home now, and if ever I can see hungry children on the street tonight I will surely buy them food.

Shining Smile

This is amazing! I was in my older brothers apartment last April or May of 2009 in Ozamis City, Philippines. We went to the car park which was very near to the gate. I noticed that a street kid was running to him and hugged him, after hugging my brother he hugged me too.

The street kid was so dirty and smelly. He is about 14 years old. He is thin but with a shining smile. He asked my brother if we were twins because he thinks we have similar features. Then my brother asked him “how are you”, “who is with you”…

After the little chat with the boy, the boy said that he will go now because his friend was waiting for him. Then my brother gave him about 20-50 pesos. Then he said bye.

When the boy left us, I asked my brother who was he? He told me that he is the boy he found lying on the street with full of blood. Whom he brought to the hospital that night.

I hope you like it. If you have any some experiences like this please share it to me.

Good day!

My Little Ways

Note: This was my first blog I think it deserves to be read more. Thats why I blog it again so that it will appear on top and many visitors can read it.

This my first blog and I wanted to be sane as I wanted to be and to anyone whose heart is as not as callused as mine.


More than 6 years i have been traveling in major cities in the Philippines. As I have traveled day and night I can always see these kids, whose hearts are so innocent and pure. I can see them everywhere I go and they are always on the streets.

At daytime, I can see their dusty smiling faces. As usual, I can sense that my heart is smiling yet crying upon seeing them. Smiling because their alive and happy regardless of the behaviors we are treating them. Crying because I can feel and believed that somewhere in their smiling faces-there is something excruciating that their tears will flow on their faces without making any sound. May I ask you, have you cried without making a sound?

At night I can see them sleeping on small pieces of carton. I always watch their faces closely and I can see they are so precious and beautiful. And I wonder how they can bear the cold during nights and what if there is rain. I wonder how they managed that.

My feeling of compassion for them is great and sometimes I feel like vomiting. But after that it will be just like a normal day. Sometimes I ask myself why can I still sleep at night knowing their situations. And I also wonder how the Filipino government officials and mainly the religious people can sleep at night? Yah! i know! its because of the soft bed, hi tech airconditioner, huggable pillows and silky bedsheets.

I thought you said you are for them. Some of these kids are right at your church door sleeping or you are now hiring security guards to keep them away? I really wonder how your lifestyle affects them.

I am realy sorry that I am blaming you. I hope you do not have this blaming attitude like me. I know we are human, capable of making mistakes, capable of letting these children to suffer from sickness, capable of letting them sleep on the streets.

Let us be human, let us change to be good, a good government, a good pastor, a good priest, a good nun. Let us be a good human. And let us open our churches, our barangay halls and our hearts so that they will have somewhere to go at night.

Generous People = Good Company

Have you heard a search engine company is giving 20 dollars?

Many companies have different kinds of marketing strategies. Some are simple, some are complicated and some are different. One of the marketing strategies which I can say that has a different marketing strategy is the company named HOTELS COMBINED.

HOTELS COMBINED's marketting strategy is different, not on the negative way but on the positive. Because HOTELS COMBINED will send 20 dollars to the charity of your choice if you mention them on your blog. If you want to know more about them, click this link http://www.hotelscombined.com/

I may say it is great since the people behind it has this love for the poor. These people are saints nowadays knowing the generation we have now are not so generous.

So God bless you all!

FAITH TRUST AND HOPE

This one is my favorite. You must read this.

One day, the villagers decided to pray for rain. On the day of the prayer everyone gathered and only one boy came with an umbrella. Thats FAITH!

When you throw a baby on the air, he laughs for he knows you will catch him. Thats TRUST.

When we go to sleep we can never be sure that we will still wake up the next day but still we make plans for tomorrow. Thats HOPE.

So remember to always keep the FAITH, know how to TRUST and never lose HOPE.

Like it?

I wanna say thank you to my friend whose always sending me nice messages. This one came fron her. Thanks!

ROBBED

As always, I have problems and I looked for solutions so that I may not to be affected. One of the most effective is through reading inspirational quotes. Here is a self lifter.

A man was robbed. In his diary, he wrote;

FIRST: I am so thankful because they took my wallet not my life.
SECOND: although they took it all, it was not that much of my faith.
THIRD: it was I who was robbed, not I who robbed.

Hope you like it too.

CHANGING LITTLE

I had a trip in Iligan City, Philippines where bombing are frequent. I have met some friends. While were eating, a street kid asked for food by just extending his arms while his palm was half closed. His face was like a baby with tearful eyes. Seeing him was a different feeling, for me it is special experience. In just split second I gave the food I am eating and the soft drink. I noticed that they were amazed of what I have had done.

Then I started to talk about them. Our talk focused on treating them nicely. Then they started talking about how they have mistreated them. And they realized how cruel they were to them.

The next day, one of my friends told me her story about what happened last night. This was her story. While she was buying food in a carenderia for her supper a street kid asked her for a cup of rice. Then she bought the street kid a cup of rice in an instant. She can’t believed of what she had done because before she used to be cruel to them. She was so thankful about her change.

I was so happy of the impact of our previous conversation. It changed her view to the street children. I hope I can do more for them. Not just by informing the people on how to treat them but by giving them food and shelter even just for bed time.

HOW TO GIVE LOVE TO AN ORPHAN

If you are a not a Hypocrite Christian please GIVE THEM LOVE. Here is a site on how to GIVE LOVE to them http://www.ehow.com/how_2113098_give-love-orphan-children.html

I Wondered If They Were Shy Or Scared

12 midnight, I went to the streets near a University. I am in a sidewalk where people were watching a movie. I was standing there while observing my soroundings. There were four of us standing, two were sitting and four are lying down on a piece of carton.

I was more interested with the street kids lying down than watching the movie and wanted to caht with them. The oldest (about 14 years old) of them was standing from time to time. It seems that he was waiting for someone, i think.

When the movie ended, they stand up and walked to the downtown direction. I called the oldest one and asked if Jin is his friend (Jin is a Street kid in the area). He answered NO. I asked him if he wants to eat a burger? He did not answered, he just sat on the gutter where the burger machine while the others kept on walking. I told him to call his friends and he ran to his friends. I waited for a minute while talking to a friend whose ordering a burger. My friend asked me if I am going to buy them burgers? I said, it is the least i can do.

When my friend left the burger machine I noticed that the street kids did not came back. I watched where they are going and they are very far already. I wanted to shout at them to come back but its too late.

HAVE YOU BEEN LIKE THEM?

WHO YOU REALY ARE?

My LOVE for the STREET CHILDREN started when i was in my high school years. At that time that love was small and I think it was just normal. But when i reached my college years it turned out to be something. I can remember while I was 18 years old when I saw a dirty little boy carrying a big sack with full of trash inside. Of course I felt pity and suddenly I felt that my strength was being drained by my body and felt like vomitting.

I realy do not know what happened to me at that instant. But now i know because I been in that situation many times already and it will happen to me when I can see them. It is like the blood of your heart is drained for the little children and it is fulfilling for me.

I think that this is my SIGN OF CALLING. Since this is my first blogsite and I never made something for my priorities instead I made http://givethemlove.blogspot.com

ARE YOU HUNGRY? IM SURE YOUR NOT

ARE YOU HUNGRY? IM SURE YOUR NOT

While im typing this I felt like crying, I felt like I am very selfish.

I promised to myself that before Christmas of 2008 I would save 2,000 pesos and buy food for the street children in Cebu City. I made it as challenged so that i can prove something to myself in the midst of crisis.

It was December of 2008 already and havn't save any but Im still confident to fulfill my promise since the Bunos will be released before Christmas.

I am not proud to tell you that til now I have not fulfilled my promise. And it bothers me sometimes.

I am in the office and Im going home now, and if ever I can see hungry children on the street tonight I will surely buy them food.

HAVE A HEART? PLEASE DON’T READ THIS!

This my first blog and I wanted to be sane as I wanted to be and to anyone whose heart is as not as callused as mine.

More than 6 years i have been traveling in major cities in the Philippines. As I have traveled day and night I can always see these kids, whose hearts are so innocent and pure. I can see them everywhere I go and they are always on the streets.

At daytime, I can see their dusty smiling faces. As usual, I can sense that my heart is smiling yet crying upon seeing them. Smiling because their alive and happy regardless of the behaviors we are treating them. Crying because I can feel and believed that somewhere in their smiling faces-there is something excruciating that their tears will flow on their faces without making any sound. May I ask you, have you cried without making a sound?

At night I can see them sleeping on small pieces of carton. I always watch their faces closely and I can see they are so precious and beautiful. And I wonder how they can bear the cold during nights and what if there is rain. I wonder how they managed that.

My feeling of compassion for them is great and sometimes I feel like vomiting. But after that it will be just like a normal day. Sometimes I ask myself why can I still sleep at night knowing their situations. And I also wonder how the Filipino government officials and mainly the religious people can sleep at night? Yah! i know! its because of the soft bed, hi tech airconditioner, huggable pillows and silky bedsheets.

I thought you said you are for them. Some of these kids are right at your church door sleeping or you are now hiring security guards to keep them away? I really wonder how your lifestyle affects them.

I am realy sorry that I am blaming you. I hope you do not have this blaming attitude like me. I know we are human, capable of making mistakes, capable of letting these children to suffer from sickness, capable of letting them sleep on the streets.

Let us be human, let us change to be good, a good government, a good pastor, a good priest, a good nun. Let us be a good human. And let us open our churches, our barangay halls and our hearts so that they will have somewhere to go at night.