Manariwa means “be refreshed” or “be renewed”, from the root sariwa, “fresh”. It reflects the idea in Romans 12:2 of being changed by the renewing of our minds. Words and ideas are the powerful tools of humans to create goodness and to produce infinite change in the inner person and in the human environment. The challenge still stands: be perfect!
In a chat with old high-school buddies, the story of Jesus raising a dead girl came up and someone commented that it was a prime example of priestly prudence when the Lord brought along the girl’s parents into the room where she lay. Seems like a valid observation; although it is merely one possible, albeit […]
At one point in my life, I learned to enjoy cleaning dishes that it became a relaxing meditative chore, totally against my earlier universal youthful disdain for it. Dishwashing became one of the most disputed household activity in my childhood, until my mother set up a schedule which brought a relative peace and an effective […]
In our high-school yearbook, I wrote as my life’s ambition: To become a naturalist. I never really comprehended then how to become a naturalist like Jose Rizal or John Muir; but I just realized I was one, years before I even stepped into high school! I had grown up in the rustic and relaxing atmosphere […]
Filipinos are known worldwide as perpetually Christmas-spirited people – or at least, many put on their Yuletide attitude when September (the first “brrr” month) arrives. And when it comes to celebrating as a barkada or company, late November and early December already ring out the merrymaking spirit into second-gear, which eventually reaches its fast-and-furious climax […]
Learning logarithms used to be such a challenge back in my school days, ages ago. And it is not that different for teenagers nowadays. I proved that last weekend when I gave a surprise “text test” to my Math-class students to find out if they had retained anything from the previous lesson on the Properties […]