Life is not about giving but how you give. Life is not about caring but how you care. Life is not about loving; perhaps it is about how you show your love. Few of us are blessed with money, fame, power and intelligence but each of us is blessed with a generous heart. But, sometimes, due to greed and misuse of power, we often forget the purpose of our life. The purpose why we received those graces is to glorify God in each and every action we take for He wanted us to be His instrument of love, to be His instrument of hope and to be His instrument of peace.
We don't have to be rich, to be popular and to be influential in order to help our less fortunate brothers and sisters. A devoted priest proved it well. In his early age, he already saw the cruelty of the world where he saw the abandoned, neglected street children. With a strong faith in his heart, he believed that in spite of this horrible reality God can turn it into something good. And, he asked himself how.
He found himself in recollecting that it was the "go signal from above" to decide and allow himself to be used as God's pathway of love. Being poor didn't hinder him to help the street kids but instead he wisely used the resources he had in the best way he could help.
When he became a priest, the calling and the passion to serve the needy was still burning in his heart and through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, he created a foundation dedicated to serve the poorest among the poor. With the approval and support of the Bishop, Por Cristo Foundation turn into reality on 2001.
After years of taking good care of the abandoned elderly, the foundation decided to extend its arms by forming a group from various sectors of society to help the mayor on his project to rehabilitate the street based kids.
Brothers and sisters, we are full of graces. And, we shouldn't let this graces go for nothing. We were blessed enough, enough to help our neighbors, enough to help the needy and enough to help the neglected and abandoned. Helping is not about what we have but it is about using what we have in glorifying God's name.
