ONE burning question many people ask is, if God is truly God and knows everything from all eternity, why does he still create a person when he would already know that that person would end up in hell? Does he not predestine that person to hell? The answer, of course, is a big No. God …
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Covid-19 kills ex-Councilor Dabao’s former secretary
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero JASMIN Abella Jamero Layson’s dream of coming home alive to Iloilo City in the Philippines soon to be with her family has been dashed to pieces when she lost her battle against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at the …
Teledentistry 101
Teledentistry is ideal in a pandemic setting because it avoids person-to-person contact. It’s social distancing in oral health care. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the existing healthcare systems across the globe. And that includes the oral healthcare system. According to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), COVID-19 spreads by contact transmission, droplet and fomite, …
As it is in heaven
This world, as it is now, is, of course, not heaven. But it plays a very important and crucial role in our journey to heaven. It is where God, our Creator and Father, has placed us to see if we want to accept the designs he has for us. He does not impose his will, …
Pacing and changing gears
This is an art and skill that we have to learn, especially these days. With all the developments around and the many challenges and tasks they involve, we have to know when to move fast and when to go slow, if only to keep ourselves on track toward our proper goal with the minimum of …
Living Amidst the Pandemic
No one has expected quite a plot twist in our century. American business magnate Bill Gates may have predicted it, but no one, not even fortune tellers, expected the harsh unfolding of reality. We were all forging our lives well, riding with the tides, and then one day every single one of us was sent …
Burdens in car registration
We find it difficult not to agree with Sen. Franklin Drilon when he called out the Land Transportation Office (LTO) for its delegation of some regulatory powers over private vehicles. At a Senate hearing last week, minority leader Drilon asked the transportation department regarding its basis for allowing private sector entities to conduct vehicle inspection …
One view on the millennials
Truth is what the past generations worked so hard to discover and accomplish are now usually already taken for granted by the current generation as it will try to discover and accomplish other new things or at least introduce certain innovations. This fact will bring about certain differences in attitudes and outlook. This is just …
Are your children overpaid or underpaid?
The convenient excuse of the parents/business owners was lame. They justified their giving of low salaries to their offspring based on the rationale that the children will eventually take over the business and that all of their expenses were covered (housing, gasoline, food, tuition of the grandchildren, insurance, personal needs all the way to the …
The succession curse
Succession can be a tension filled period of the family business where a trained successor grows into the role under the owner’s supervision and guidance or it takes place abruptly and unexpectedly when the owner becomes ill or dies, in which case unprepared family members suddenly find the job forced upon them. With the likely …