One Among Many

It seems that for the longest time I've been meaning to get a journal up and running, but somehow I can't get myself to go to a bookstore to get a journal, well dang, my pens at home don't write as well as i want it. But since working at Teletech,the need to start one that's honest to goodness has been really very urgent. That explains why i am trying to start this blog.

I've been in teletech since June 7, after resigning from PBS on June 1. Marami nang nangyari kaya mabuti na rin na at least dito maitatala ko sa mga girls how my journey has been. And yes, while in a way this is a journey alone, it really isn't. This journey began from the mind of him who planned this for me, and every day is an unraveling of that plan, often to my surprise (recently, fortunately, pleasantly). Today is another chapter, which unfortunately, will have to be continued as my trainer is due to arrive real soon.

But it's nice to get started. One reason for this journal is a greek proverb I first heard from Pastor Butch Conde during our Tuesday night study:

'A society grows great when old people plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.'

This (among so many other significant stuff that has affected me profoundly from those tuesday nights) has been a driving motivation for me to leave something for my children to pick up somewhere down the line (I am, after all, not getting any younger). I am concerned that what the world has to offer to my children's generation is a big plastic pack of chinese ampaw - doesn't matter if its the peanut covered ones or the puffed rice covered ones. Lots of nice sweet stuff on the outside, but inside you find nothing of the pleasant stuff you had when you first bit into it. I want my kids to have a good future, and like the Meridian's mission, I have to build it now.

To start, they have to get one thing settled - God first. Yes, I know its not popular nowadays. Well, heck, it never was (people would rather put themselves first)but that is how I want my kids to anchor their lives on. The first step to that I believe is to have the same thing in operation in myself first - and it is. I will not ask of my children what I cannot or have not done so myself. The goals - Master, Mission, Mate have been planted in their hearts and minds (and I pray that they remember it even if they are far from my presence)

I am grateful for this first step - one among many.