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Thursday, December 10, 2009

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This image goes along with the article I wrote. This is one of our social workers, Stella, one of the DSWD social workers, Edna and one of the clients giving her testimony the morning after being rescued.

http://www.ijminstitute.org/index.php/site/entry/rescue_operation_in_cebu_philippines/

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EmyDecember 15, 2009 at 10:21 AM
Hey, will you add my blog so we can keep in touch?
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”

-C.S. Lewis

"Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it."
— Henri J.M. Nouwen