I can remember the days when as a young child in the Philippines, women donned ankle-length dress, men should not touch the women, not even their finger tips.
When the black and white movies were introduced, one couldn’t see any kissing scene. When it was introduced to the motion picture later on, there were loud shouts from the audience. I didn’t know what the emotion was. Was it shout of shame or shout of excitement?
The motion picture had progressed or regressed into a more lustful scenes slowly conditioning the minds of the young and the adult. It is now a common scene, and if you comment that it is obscene, the younger generation would comment that their parents are not up with the times or do not go with the modern technology.
Before, every member of the family was home at the strike of six for the day’s “oracion” or the six o’clock prayer before dinner time.
Now, seldom can you see the members of a family getting into this habit. Either they are out with their “barkada” or friends or you cannot move them from the computer games. Some families no longer eat together.
Stories of child abduction or molestation were not heard. One felt safe at home. But now, families are being massacred. Very young children are being brought into prostitution houses. Children are sold for money.
I am not surprised that disasters and calamities are happening. These disasters could still be vividly remembered: tsunamis in Indonesia and the neighboring countries, landslides in the Philippines where a school with children were buried, the Pinatubo eruption which killed hundreds and thousands of homes were buried.
The flooding and deaths caused by Ondoy and Pepeng was really tragic.
My son and my sister’s house was flooded, the water reaching almost to the second floor of their house. My son and his family, with two young children, aged two years and one month had to wade through waste-deep water with strong current, for fear of another rain. Besides they were short of food and communication was nil. Thank God they were able to pull through it all. Other families stayed on their rooftop for two days, waiting for the rescue. Some were able to take with them plastic covering to protect them from the drizzle and sun, were so pitiful.
One writer criticizes some faithful about their prophecies on the weather, saying that we have to stick to science. Haven’t you wondered what is happening to our climate that even some scientists are perplexed.
Morality has gone so low, that we have forgotten our God. We don’t care about other people. We tend to be self centered.
Read Ezekiel 6:8-10
“8But I will spare some, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the lands and nations.9Then in the nation where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for their detestable practices. 10And they will know; that I am the Lord. I did not threaten in vain to bring this calamity on them.”
(I prayed for guidance from the Lord on what is happening to the world.)
