visible rhetoric

I thought I will be forgotten now that I have transferred assignment and had my cellphone numbers changed twice and had the new one put to good use by some needy pedestrian in Manila, the latter being the more Christian way of saying “ay yatis kinawatan ako.” Most often the worst of circumstances can be transformed into good when the mind changes the way it looks at things and events. Twenty minutes after I was pick pocketed my anger dissipated, something that seldom happens. And it happened when I got myself to look the other way around and say that that cellphone, which I seldom used anyway, could be finally put to good use. I think that is what Mother Marie Eugenie meant when she said that “the spirit of Assumption tends towards joyful detachment and going beyond trials and difficulties without complaining and wasting time over them.” Indeed these are not just words for Marie Eugenie. The pains of her growing up years never became a reason to get stuck to whine and sulk about ...

One day a samurai who had too much of wine made a commotion on the streets disturbing everybody as he passed by. Seeing a monk who was walking quietly, he immediate jumped on him and blocked his way. The poor monk calmly looked for another route but the drunk samurai followed him suit and again blocked his way. Sensing that he could not get rid of him, the monk quietly asked, “what can I do for you, sir?”