But why does it take disasters and cataclysms for nations to feel for each other? Let’s call on some “misguided” world leaders to be humans and start believing that there is a Supreme Being who dispenses justice and holds the universe in the palm of His hands, for in that way no one will ever dare to seriously consider war. Calamities are natural. War is beastly and it’s man’s creation, not God’s.
I grieve for the victims of Supertyphoon “Yolanda” in our country, but I grieve even more that America and other foreign countries/governments have shamed us by their kindness and enduring friendship despite our shortcomings as a people. This is grace—Heaven’s unmerited favor.
With much gratitude to all the nations and people whose hearts truly go out to our despairing kababayan in Tacloban, Leyte, Samar, Cebu, Bohol and other places that were gravely affected by Nature’s fury, we see God at work in their charitable spirit to be one with us in our anguish.
They inspire the Filipino people to rise above the rubble and ruins of this untold catastrophe that has befallen our beloved nation. Providence will surely give it back to them in greater measure. God is good. And Godspeed!
—RENI M. VALENZUELA,
renimvalenzuela@yahoo.com