Psalm 63 Valuing life

² To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

³ Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.

People would thought that life is becoming useless and unworthy. This day became a great blessing for me after we had finished our community service at slums. We are assigned to a family and we stayed there for about 4 hours. We ate our lunch with them and had a great time. With that experience, I had realized many things.  

To be honest, teens at my generation and also with the same situation were never been contented with what life was to offer for us. I could not imagine that I am blessed with my spot right now. Sometimes, I had never felt that I have everything in just a perfect place, what I could ask more for a prestigious university I had right now, cool domicile I am staying, and enough money for my “baon,” complete stuffs good to support my schooling and many more. But how come I had endless arguments with my parents when they cannot give what I want. Sometimes, I ended up hating my parents and crying for a worthless reason. I view life to be contented when I had what… (?) A complete set of my desires? Being materialistic? And then I had realized, there is beyond the real happiness I believe.

Tatay Anoy’s and his children’s story inspired us in many ways. At their house, I could feel the value of family and I can see it that they have a strong bond with each other. Even though Tatay is already 65 and his children were around at their teen’s age, the love of young dad is still the same. He supports and never forgets to leave his children’s side, mapa-Ondoy man o umapaw ang baha. This became a substantial for me. Even though I had just observed them and not much chatted with them for many hours, you can really see the importance of one. This was noteworthy for me because in reality, it is rare to feel this in my family. My parents are workaholics and at the same time our business became a big part in our life.  

With the experience I value life much more I call it life. We must be thankful that we had a great life blessed with our needs. Seeing them is a heartache cuz I knew that they had lot of desires yet they dont mind it. Happiness for them is completely seeing life with the family and not viewing the hindrances that they encounter in every day life. 

Like what the bible says, loving kindness is more than life. It is more than we thought that life composes only when we had reached everything but actually it is about love with each other. :))