In
the Lego DVD movie “The Adventures of Clutch Powers”, the main hero Clutch
Powers was given a new team composed of Brick, a weapons and demolition expert,
Peg, a biologist, and Bernie, an engineer. Their initial mission led them to a
lot of challenges culminating in their face-off with the evil wizard Mallock.
So
how did they solve all the obstacles they encountered to win over their
enemies? They “build on each other” (an fitting Lego liner that sums up its
world-wide known product).
It
took another subsequent and devastating natural calamities – the Bohol earthquake
and the Yolanda supertyphoon, to bring to focus the capacity for vast
outpouring of kindness and love of one fellowman to another. Filipinos from all
walks of life and in all regions of the world, regardless of religious,
political or social affiliations, have banded together to pray for, to donate
or to volunteer in their heartwarming intention to ease the hopelessness and
helplessness that the victims after losing their loved ones and their lifetime
belongings. And the international community was equally pro-active and
quick-responding in providing technical and medical expertise to alleviate the
dire situations especially in those hard-hit yet hard-to-reach areas. Stories how
young children donate their piggy-bank savings, how the “poorest among the
poor” even donates his very meager daily earnings to buy relief goods or how a
looted grocery owner even ask one lady looter who thanked her because it was
her child’s birthday that day and they have nothing to eat if she will not join
the mad scramble to steal from other people can simply bring one’s misty eyes
to tears.
If
there is anything good that can come out from these recent tragedies, then it
is only that we learn to give and love again in the most unconditional way.
It
will only be a matter of time, but the Visayan people will be back on its feet
and rise again to restore their lives back to normalcy.
Until
then, they know that their kababayans and the rest of the world are behind them
all they way.
God
bless the Filipino spirit.
God
bless the loving world we can be.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
