why blog?

       With some encouragement of people who believe in my gift for writing, I decided to put-up a blog. To Fr. Norlan who always pushes me to my edge and to Bobby, a friend, who infects me with blogging, thank you for believing in my gift of touching lives through writing. It should had been long time ago that I put up a blog. You have silently been cheering me, through the years, to start sharing this gift. It took me a lot of time to own this gift. Perhaps, I am just afraid. Or perhaps I am just lazy.

        But now, I have the strength to tell the world that God is gifting me with words. I have to use it, because maybe this is my place in the universe so that I can tell the world about Him- a God who simply loves.

        That is why I am putting this blog. This is an attempt to live out what God is destined me to do- being a writer.

        When I grow older,  I realize that I have many things that I do not understand about this world I live in. I am hungry for meaning. I want to connect things. I want to see the world in a clearer view. I want meaning in the very limited existence I have. I want to know why I am here. Writing, hoping, could satisfy this deep hunger.

        That is why I am writing this blog. I want to help the world, in my very small way, connect broken pieces of the puzzle. I know that is something ambitious or arrogant. Nonetheless,  I am emphasizing the "the very small way."

           I admit, I am not good in grammar. That is my limitation. What can you expect to a boy who was trained by public school teachers who spent their time in classroom selling their little business to us poor pupils? But I do remember in college that a literature professor gave me a perfect score in my essay eventhough  my article was fully blotted with red pen. He commented at the end of my composition, “I am giving you perfect score not because you have perfected the grammar. I am giving you perfect score because you have something to tell the world. And it is so deep.”

            I preserved this comment. I still have it in my drawer.  It gives a little worth. It gives me a little door of possibilities. I heard the small, still voice of God.

          And this blog is my gift for Him.