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The Top 10 Blogs of the Society of Honor

Posted by: lilian on: July 31, 2015

Coron at sunset [Photo credit: Nandor Studio] The Society of Honor has picked up a lot of new followers thanks to President Aquino’s mention of Joe America during his SONA speech, and thanks to the discussion that followed, and mentions by notables such as Buddy Gomez III. Given that some may wish to “brief up” on the work done here, and 800 blogs is a little much to wade through, I thought I’d list the most popular blogs, the wide readership suggesting they resonate in some way with well-read Filipinos.

Why I Respect President Aquino The title explains what the blog is about. This is by far Joe’s most popular article.

Why Mayor Estrada Is Wrong on Hong Kong This article set a Society record of over 65,000 reads in one day. It makes clear that it is wrong for the Philippines to “move to the back of the bus”…

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THAT’S LIFE

Posted by: lilian on: May 26, 2015

In: Believing | Criticism | Heartfelt | rabbies | Response | That's life | Writer
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A doctor declared the dire news. “You have rabies.” Immediately the patient whipped out a notepad and began to write.

Thinking the patient was writing out his will, the doctor said,”Calm down! It doesn’t mean you’re going to die,”I know,” said the patient. ” I’m just writing a list of people I’m going to bite! ”

Sounds like someone I know!

At a picnic ground, a lady approached me and said, “I read your book.” I smiled politely and asked “Did you like it?

She replied, “You shouldn’t waste your time writing stuff like that. You should write about things relevant like social and political issues.”

I was stunned, I do remember veering from her slowly, reaching our picnic table, I sat and practiced making saliva froth in my mouth. Daaaam, I wish I had a rabies!

That evening, instead of saying evening prayers, I brooded over the lady’s comment. I played with it in my mind like a yoyo– up-down, up-down, angry-discouraged,angry-discouraged. I flipped to a verse in Revelation that I had highlighted years back.

Revelation 9:5 reads: They were told not to kill them but to torture them for five months with agony like the pain of scorpion stings.

There you go ! God’s rhema-

His personal instruction for me.Problem is, scorpion stings won’t be easy to come by so rabbies is better.

Showcased here is how I respond to critisim. I have the gall to take a verse out of context and use it to suit me. My response to criticism shows how haughty I am. Wanting to bite back exposes my pride.Wanting to have rabbies in my bite puts me in another level!It’s called vile.

Why take offense ? So she doesn’t like the stuff I write.So buying my book was a waste. I ought to be able to take it at that. That’s her opinion. I can’t do much about that.

I quit saliva-frothing and prayed. I couldn’t bring myself to ask God to bless her (give me a little time, ok?) but I asked Him to forgive me.

Just the other day, as I waited in line at the bank, a lady approached me and said, “Your book keeps me believing that God is in control of my life. Thank you.” We clasped hands and did a heartfelt chick-to-chick…Later, the teller told me that this woman was battling with cancer.

Figure that out for me. One says my writing stinks. Another says my writing keeps her believing.Anyway, that second remark caused me to start writing again.

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The real Mar Roxas: a kind, intelligent, earnest man

Posted by: lilian on: March 5, 2015

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The Society of Honor by Joe America

We have been snookered by the tabloids once again. The sensationalist rags have relentlessly portrayed Mar Roxas as a goof, a man directing traffic in the rain or hauling bags of rice for the camera or doing a nose dive into the mud from a motorbike. A man totally out of the loop on the planning of a police operation in Mamasapano.

We fell for it. We were the gullible in a land of manipulators. We were fools for the skilled and self-serving game-players at the editorial desks of the nation’s tabloid newspapers. And for the talking heads preening before the cameras snickering their private jokes that we commoners can’t get. Peacocks in Armani suits.

Ha, yes. And a bejeweled lady not exactly dressed in a rice sack.

The 67 deaths at the Battle of Mamasapano were tragic. Well, one was not. His was worth celebrating. But any war waged…

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WHAT WE HAVE IN CHRIST

Posted by: lilian on: February 12, 2015

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Love that cannot be fathomed;

A Life that can never die;

A righteousness that can never be tarnished;

A peace that can never be understood;

A rest that can never be disturbed;

A joy that can never be diminished;

A hope that can never be disappointed;

A glory that can never be clouded;

A light that can never be darkened;

A happiness that can never be interrupted;

A strength that can never be enfeebled;

A purity that can never be defiled;

A beauty that can never be marred;

A wisdom that can never be baffled;

Resources that can never be exhausted.

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be

A pleasant road ;

I do not ask for that thou wouldst take from me

Aught of its load;

I do not ask that flowers should always spring

Beneath my feet;

I know too well the poison and the sting

Of things too sweet.

For one thing only, Lord, I plead,

Lead me aright

Though strength should falter.

And though heart should bleed

Through Peace to Light.

I do not ask, Oh Lord, that

Thou should shed

Full radiance here;

Give but a ray of peace,

That I mat tread

Without a fear.

THE WEIGHT OF A PRAYER

Posted by: lilian on: February 8, 2015

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Louise Redden, as poorly dressed lady with a look of defeat on his face, walked into a grocery store/ She approached the owner of that store in a most humble manner and asked if he would let her charged a few groceries/ She explained that her husband was very ill and unable to work. they had seven children and they needed food.

John Longhouse, the grocer scoffed at her and requested that she leave the store at once. Visualizing the family needs, she said; ‘Please, Sir, I will bring you the money just as soon as I can’ John told her he could not give her credit, since she did not have a charge account at his store. Standing beside the counter was a customer who overheard the conversation between the two. The customer walked forward and told the grocer that he would stand good for whatever she needed for her family.

The grocer said in a very reluctant voice, “Do you have a grocery list? Luise replied, “Yes Sir” “O,K,., he said, “put your grocery list on the scaled and whatever your grocery lists weighs, I will give that amount in groceries,” Loise hesitated a moment with a bowed head. she reached into her purse and took out a piece of paper and scribbled something on it. She then laid the piece of paper on the scale carefully with her head still bowed.

The eyes of the grocer and the customer showed amazement when the scales went down and stayed down. The grocer staring at the scales,turned slowly to the customer and said begrudgingly. “I can’t believe it”. The customer smiled and the grocer started putting the groceries on the other side of the scales. The scale did not balance so he continued to put more and more groceries on them until, the scales would hold no more. The grocer stood there in utter disgust.

Finally,he grabbed the piece of paper from the scales and look at with greater amazement. It was not a grocery list, it was a prayer which said, ‘Dear Lord,you know my needs and I am leaving this into your hands’.

The grocer gave her the groceries that he had gathered and stood in stunned silence. Louise thanked him and left the store. The other customer said. ‘It was worth every penny of it. Only God knows how much a prayer weighs.

Your Life Your Choice

Posted by: lilian on: January 21, 2015

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Capsules of Wisdom

Your Good is Here. Accept it!

Your joy is near, Embrace it!

Your power is within.Harness it!

Your Victory is is now claim it!

Your faith is mighty. Use it! Your love is great.Give it!

Your song is beautiful. Sing it!

Your spirit is divine. Free it! Your prosperity is good. Receive it!

Your abundance is overflowing. Share it!

Your problem is purposeful Solve it!

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GOD’S Boxes

Posted by: lilian on: January 13, 2015

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God’s Boxes

I have in my hands two boxes,
Which God gave me to hold.
He said, ‘Put all your sorrows in the black box,
And all your joys in the gold.’

I heeded His words, and in the two boxes,
Both my joys and sorrows I stored,
But though the gold became heavier each day,
The black was as light as before.

With curiosity, I opened the black,
I wanted to find out why,
And I saw, in the base of the box, a hole,
Which my sorrows had fallen out by.

I showed the hole to God, and mused,
‘I wonder where my sorrows could be!’
He smiled a gentle smile and said,
‘My child, they’re all here with me..’

I asked God, why He gave me the boxes,
Why the gold and the black with the hole?
‘My child, the gold is for you to count your blessings,
The black is for you to let go’

Life is an Echo

Posted by: lilian on: January 11, 2015

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LIFE IS AN ECHO

A son and his father were walking in the mountains. Suddenly, his son falls, hurts himself and screams: “AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”

To his surprise, hears the voice repeating, somewhere in the mountain: “AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”

Curious, he yells: “Who are you?”

He receives the answer: “Who are you?”

Angered at the response, he screams: “Coward!”

He receives the answer: “Coward!”

He looks to his father and asks: “What’s going on?”

The father smiles and says: “My son, pay attention.” And then he screams to the mountain: “I admire you!”

The voice answers: “I admire you!”

Again the man screams: “You are a champion!”

The voice answers: “You are a champion!”

The boy is surprised, but does not understand. Then the father explains: “People call this echo, but really this is life. It gives you

back everything you say or do. Our life is simply a reflection of our actions. If you want more love in the world, create more

love in your heart. If you want more competence in your team, improve your competence.

This relationship applies to everything, in all aspect of life; life will give you back everything you have given to it.”

THEREALSTUFF

Posted by: lilian on: January 9, 2015

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Can You Find the Man Within Three Seconds?

According to medical experiments, if you can find the man’s head within three seconds, your right brain is more developed than normal people.

If you can find the man’s head within one minute, your brain is developed normally. If you can find the mans head within one to three minutes, your right brain is low in reaching. You should eat more meat protein. If you can find the man’s head in three minutes or more, your right brain is a disaster…extremely slow in reaching. And yes, there really is a man in there.

( Source: Forwarded E-mail)

Are You a Friend or a Friendster?

The popular social-networking service has been expanding exponentially at a rate of 20% a week. They can absorbs real-life social groups into a large virtual network and helps users find dates and new friends by referring people to others in their network.

When you sign up, you post your photo and write something about yourself. Then you give a list of your friends and their e-mail addresses. Then they contacts these people to join your network and when they sign up, they’re asked to confirm their relationship with you. This gains them access with your other friends and the friends of your friends, and the friends of your friends’ friends, and so on.

Danah Boyd, a U.C. Berkeley Ph.D. student researching online social networks. said Friendster is beginning to have an (unbelievable impact) on its target demographic,urban-dwelling 25- to 35- year-olds. It’s so popular that the word “friendster” has come to mean a person that someone meets or knows through the network.

That was year 2003, and after 10yrs or more that network was gone….there’s nothing permanent in this world, everything is passing.

Vatican Radio say’s “Matrix Revolutions” Commercializes Christianity

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Vatican Radio given “The Matrix Revolutions” a thumbs down, saying the film represents a superficial commercialization of Christian ideas and symbols. The movie, which completes the Matrix trilogy,engages in open looting of the Christian story, the radio said in a review. For example, toward the end of the film the messianic hero – Neo — stands against the cross and appears to turn into a Christ — like figure. But Neo attains salvation to the human race “not the heroism of the Beatitudes, but with the labor and blood of whirling and violent duels, in the oriental style so people in today’s cinema,” it said, His sacrifice “has nothing to do with Golgotha and the Christian path of redemption,” it said. The film plunders Christian traditions in the most shallow way., using them “in a direction opposite that of the original, in order to commercialize them,” it said.

Ten Commandments Judge Removed from Bench

An Alabama court voted unanimously to remove the state’s chief justice from office over his refusal to remove a Ten Commandments monument from his courthouse. The Court of the Judiciary voted 9-0 to remove Roy Moore, who was elected to a six-year term as chief justice in 2000. the monument had been removed from the state courthouse on August 27 after Moore was suspended by an ethics panel for refusal to obey a federal court order to take the Ten Commandment from public view.

The monument was installed two years ago after Moore was elected. He said the stone marker is a symbol of the Judeo-Christian foundations of US law. He was elected to the state Supreme Court partially on a previous legal battle over a display of the Ten Commandments in his courtroom when he was a district judge.

The court that removed him from the bench found that Moore had violated judicial ethics and placed himself above the law. (Source : CWNews.com)

GIRL TALK

Posted by: lilian on: September 29, 2014

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WHEN ARE YOU GETTING MARRIED?

It’s a wedding you’ve been dreading to go to. Why? Simply because the bride is a nice you used to carry when she was a baby. Nothing wrong with that except she’s all grown up now and about to walk down the aisle while you’re a 30 – or 40-something still hard to snitch a decent date.

The next time a well-meaning relative comes up to you and asks, “And you? When are you getting married?” don’t fret. here are some quick-witted replies you can give to stave off those pesky questions.

1. “Tomorrow, Tita. It’s too late to plan for a wedding today.”

2. “When God gets married. He still single, you know.I wouldn’t to go ahead of Him.”

3. “I’m still looking for a man with a missing rib. I thought I found him but he turned out to be a serial killer.

But the best reply to you can probably come up with is a statement of faith: “If God plans for me

to be married, then I’m sure He’s readying that man for me. he should be just around the corner.”

“Wait here , my daughter, until you learn what happens, for the man will not rest, but will settle the matter today”

(Ruth 3:18).