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What Makes a Government?

The sight of these purple blue flowers  led me to the Provincial Capitol of Cebu City. I've passed by this building a few times  but never really bothered to drop by until today...  It was almost closing time though so the guard just let me in for a quick peek. When I looked up at the dome, this was the first word I saw. oh a lot of things can be said about the Philippines' Justice System but I have hope for a better future. If there's Justice, Equality must follow... I am just as optimistic about this as well. If people will work together towards clean and good governance, there's no doubt that this country would be among the best in the world... where every one can stand proud of being a Filipino...  Just as the first Filipino hero, Lapu-Lapu, (who apparently was not originally a local) who fought against the Spaniards  (which led to the death of Ferdinand Magellan in 1521) we m...

Silence on a Holy Saturday

He who waits on the Word of God in silence,  is answered  not so much by a word  that bursts into his silence.  It is by his silence itself... suddenly... inexplicably revealing itself to him  as a  Word of Great Power ... full  of the  Voice of God ... ~ Dialogues with Silence , Thomas Merton