LOVE: The Essence of Christmas

Christmas is the birth of Jesus Christ.  Christmas is the season of sharing gifts, expressing our gratitude to the people who have done good deed to us, and forgiveness. 

Everybody loves Christmas.  Everyone wants their Christmas to be meaningful.  Buying gifts, preparing food, visiting our family, having an out of town Christmas vacation, this is how we celebrate our Christmas, but it seems like we forget the true meaning of Christmas.

The essence of Christmas is LOVE, and remembering the BIRTH of JESUS CHRIST.  Even if we end up giving few gifts, what’s really important is that we know what the real essence of Christmas is.  Gifts are not important, as long as we show our love to our family, as long as we forgive the people who have sinned, and forget what they’ve done wrong, our Christmas will be fun and full of bliss.

Show our love every day, remember our Lord Jesus Christ, Christmas doesn’t stop on the 25^th of December because EVERYDAY IS CHRISTMAS, every day is a gift giving day.

Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities

    EQUALITY! It comes from the word EQUAL.  Equality is all about treating people in an appropriate way, in an equal way.  Equality in its wider sense, as in definition of equal opportunities encompasses gender race, disability, sexual orientation and also individuals and groups facing discrimination or social origin of personal attributes, including beliefs and opinions.

     Equality has a big connection to these words, "Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities."  In our society there is gender discrimination.  Discrimination towards women and girls is one of the most pervasive human rights violations.  Women are being underestimated. They are being harass and abused.  Some say that women are weak or not as strong as men, that they can't do what men can do, but this is certainly not true, this argument is negated by the numbers of women who fought alongside their fellow men in the liberation struggles.  For me, women must not be treated unequal; they must be treated justly in families, workplaces, public life and the Church.  They are the backbone of our families, and they play a major role in our life and in our society.

     Gender equality should be promoted and men should be involved in promoting women's rights.  Women deserve to be treated equally. We must acknowledge the strength of those women entrepreneurs who have created many small businesses which have helped to enhance our economy.  They have been contributed a lot on the progress of the economy in our country.

Responding to Climate Change

     Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to million of years.

     Climate change is  caused by human activity, as opposed to changes in climate that may have resulted as part of Earth's natural processes.  Climate change includes global warming and everything else that increasing greenhouse gas amounts will affect.  The Philippines has experienced temperature spikes brought about by climate change.  It has been observed that warming is experienced most in the northern and southern regions of the country.  Hot days and hot nights have become more frequent.  Extreme weathers has occurred weather events since then.  And because of the climate change some sectors are affected like agriculture, fresh water, and coastal and marine resources and health.

     If only people knows how to discipline their selves and protect and take care of the nature, we won't be experiencing climate changes.