Be a Cheerful Giver

1. Christmas is not only for the kids but for the adults as well.

2. Kids have traditionally believed that Christmas is the joyous season of the year.

4. Children have regarded gifts more than the giver.

5. It is in giving that everyone has expressed his true self.

6. The giver is more blessed than the receiver.

7. Christmas carols are not only sung every Christmastime but in some other time too.

Calamity at Stake

1. Rural folks worry so much when typhoon hit their place, but small businessmen rejoice.

2. Billions of money wasted from damages to properties, crops and belongings to the victims of typhoon and earthquake.

3. God sends natural calamities to let the ungodly know that there's Supreme Being who controls the nature.

4.  Prayer is the immediate course of action of everyone for the coming of any calamity and no action undertaken.

5. Many lives, damages to property and crops brought by a natural calamity but the people have never learned a lesson yet.

6. Everyone knows how terrible the wrath of a natural catastrophe but yet some have still the courage to dare the nature.

7. When earthquake strikes or typhoon hits, everyone couuldn't hide their fear, but hardheadedness still rules out.

8. Natural disaster couldn't be prevented or stopped to occur, but planning to stay safe is still possible.

9. It takes lives, properties, money to defy nature's wrath; but it takes a mustard seed of faith to believe God's greatest love.

10. Lives lost in calamity couldn't be regained; but lives offered to God could be found in Heaven.

11. Most of the people tend to be united when it comes to natural disaster.

12. No racial discrimination is evident among the peoples at the height of natural disaster for they're one in helping each other.

13. In critical situation, you may know who really is your neighbor.

Why The Dead?

1. Remembering the dead is the deepest sign of gratefulness.

2. No one could be saved with the dead for they determine the salvation of the living.

3. There is sustenance in tending the dead, especially during All Saint's Day.

4. The dead could communicate with the living.

5. The living sometimes desecrate the dead by making fun of them.

6. When you pray, do it also for the dead for they need you for their eternal repose.

7. The dead could be baptized by proxy in the place designated for that ordinance.

8. It is the temple of God wherein the dead may have their salvation be performed.

9. In All Saint's Day or All Soul's Day, the people well remember their departing loved ones.

10. The dead have no power to save themselves from their sins.

11. The dead are dependent from the living for their eternal salvation.

12. Jesus Christ Himself after He died on the cross, visited the dead in their world.

13. "Touch me not!' Jesus said to the woman for He had not ascended yet to His Father's kingdom.

Election Season in PH Setting

1. Election is held for the people to exercise their right to vote

2. Suffrage is valuable for every vote to vote for the candidates whom they like.

3. Election time is the best opportune season for the candidate to show their best in serving their constituents.

4. Money is aplenty during election period.

5. Those who are running for seem to be friendly, helpful and resourceful.

6. Every candidate is most seen in any social gathering, public forum, meeting, and even in funeral services.

7. No one possesses the best qualifications; everything seems to be faked.

8. Dirty tricks are common among runners and followers of the candidates.

9. Vote buying is the best strategy in winning the election, but cannot be proven.

10. Voter's life is under threat and even every member of his family's future is at stake.

11. Elected officials, after election, are being served by the people, instead of serving the people.

12. Losing candidate is unlikely to concede for his defeat for he claimed he has been tricked.

13. Election final results are always contested for anomaly.

(n.b. This is not to discount those candidates who are qualified and determined to serve the people. But unluckily they have not made it for lack of financial support, political machinery, among others.)