CRY FOR HELP – REMEMBERING THE BAYANIHAN SPIRIT

Something to think about….
In time of crisis, what can we do as individuals to help our fellowmen?

For the rich and the able, it won’t be so hard to come up with an answer- or probably so…
But how would a person who “doesn’t have much (material resources)” yet his/her heart has that burning desire-
to be of help to people who are in dire need?

This is a challenge for the likes of me-the “have-not(s)”-
who may be thinking that perhaps, it is not possible to be of help to other people
especially if one “doesn’t even have enough” to share and to sustain one’s personal (immediate) needs.

In times of trouble and crises-
All kinds, “all sorts” of help is needed.
In times of difficulties-
We are all under the grace of uncertainty.
We all desperately need something.
The person next to us probably need and ask for things that we, ourselves need.
In disastrous times like this-
All of us become a “giver” and a “taker” at the same time.

WHAT CAN WE POSSIBLY DO FOR THOSE WHO SUFFER IN THE SAME WAY WE MIGHT BE SUFFERING…
This is a challenge-a call for unity
a call for everyone to respond to the need for a “sense of community”-and security.
All of us, everyone of us must have been crying for help.
In times like this, we must not totally rely on outside help (except God’s grace)-

This is my personal stand- that no one is incapable of doing anything for anyone- at all given circumstances.
Take time to think about it, what can you possibly do for others  in times of crisis?

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I feel so “isolated”- like I have these hands yet I can’t even stretch my arms to pat a shoulder, or to wrap someone in a tight embrace just to let him/her that the worst time has passed; life will be okay soon. I have these feet- yet I wasn’t there to walk with people, to carry a child, or guide an elderly; I can speak- yet I can’t even sit beside somebody who went through all those horrible time of struggling and fighting for their lives to let them know that someone mourns with them, that they are not alone-

I can only pray, and at least try to invoke hopeful thoughts so as to keep the fire of hope unite within us all- I am here- not physically present where my limited “resources” would probably help, yet my whole being longs to be there- I just hope that each one of my fellow Filipinos-who were hit by this catastrophic event and the rest of us- would be able to survive as “one people”, as one nation.

©2009leofinajanegalleta

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