Tambuling Batangas Publication September 12-18, 2018 Issue | Page 5

OPINYON
September 12-18 , 2018
Go lauds PH athletes in
Asian Games
SPECIAL Assistant to the
President (SAP) Christopher
Lawrence
“Bong”
Go
welcomed the Philippine
athletes who competed in
the Asian Games, saying the
whole country is proud of
them.

“Ako, very proud po
ako sa kanila… We are very
happy and siguro next week
pupunta sila ng Malacañang
after our trip sa Jordan at
Israel, iwe-welcome po sila
ng Presidente sa Malacanang.
‘Yung mga medalists natin,
including ‘yung mga bronze
medalists po ay welcome
sa Malacanang,” Go said in
an interview at the Ninoy
Aquino International Airport
(NAIA).

(I am very proud of
them. We are very happy and
probably next week, they will
visit Malacañang after our trip
to Jordan and Israel. President
Duterte will welcome them in
Malacañang. Our medalists,
including
the
bronze
medalists, will be welcomed
in Malacañang).
Team
Philippines
got
four gold medals and 13
bronze medals. The gold
medalists are Hidilyn Diaz
for weightlifting, Margielyn
Didal for skateboard, Yuko
Saso for golf, and Saso’s
teammates Bianca Isabel
Pagdangan and Lois Kaye
Go for women’s golf - team
event.

Go also congratulated
the Philippine basketball
team despite its loss to South
Prayer: The Most
P o w e r f u l We a p o n
WE live in a world of
paradise. Wonderful places
and spots, beautiful faces
of different people, many
different cultures, big and
high infrastructues, different
kinds of food, and many
more lovely things that truly
surround the Earth.

If we see things as
they are, we can really say
that we are blessed enough
for having these things
with us that not just satisfy
our sense of sight but also
provide us our needs. But
the question for everyone is,
do we know exactly where
these things came from?
If we will be asked by
somebody, can we answer
them confidently that we
know who provided every
single thing around us?

People have different
perspectives. Everyone has
a belief to fight for. But one
thing is for sure. The Earth
and all the things in here
come from God.

Some say, if God is
the creator of everything,
then who created God?
Others will answer, people
created God. Because of
some religions that use
statues and non-living
things made by man. In our
current time, technologies
have been very useful and
helpful to humans to the
certain point that we totally
become dependent on that,
being blind that on its dark
side, technologies are also
harming everyone’s life.

Nowadays, people
are being caught by worldy
things. They might feel that
the satisfaction they need
can be given by what they
do in this world no matter
how bad they could be, how
worst the outcome could be
because of being liberated
to do the things they want.
Some people will not care
to what others will say
anymore. But sometimes,
most of us fail because of
too much depending on this
world. We make these things
invade our whole being
rather than allowing God to
invade us. And because we
fail, we are being affected
until it comes to the point of
giving up.

Many of us have
lost their path after being
frustrated by the world.
This could be negative but
sometimes, it is a blessing in
disguise. But actually, this
is just the way of God for
us to see the reality of life
and our purpose to change
this life. How could it be?
By knowing how to kneel
down, bow heads and learn
how to pray.
Prayer
is
an
unnatural activity. Since we
were born, we have been
learning self-reliance for
self-sufficiency. Prayer flies
in the face of those deep-
seated values. It is an assualt
on human autonomy, an
indictment of independent
livimg. For some people,
prayer is an embarrassing
interruption.

Why do we pray? Is
it just because we have come
to the point that nothing
and no one can satisfy our
needs? Or we feel that we
are already on that end point
of our life that we become
restless and tired of living?
God uses different ways to
teach us how we can know
and believe that there is
Him. We pray because we
Korea, saying the country
is proud of what the team
achieved.

“Wala po tayong
dapat ikahiya at dapat natin
ipagmalaki ang ating team
kahit na po isang linggo lang
‘yung binuo, still, binigay
natin lahat ng ating makakaya
at alam ko may potential ang
team natin.” he said.
(They have nothing to be
ashamed of. We should be
proud of our team because
despite having been formed
in a week’s time, they still
gave their best. And I know
our team has potential.)

Go was instrumental
in sending the country’s
basketball team to the
Asian Games after it was
announced that the basketball
associations
were
not
planning to form a basketball
team that would represent
Philippines.

He said basketball
will
continuously
be
improved in the Philippines
as the sport itself is a huge help in President Rodrigo
Duterte’s campaign against
drugs.
“Imposibleng matigil ‘yung
basketball. Itong sports
na ito, itong basketball ay
pinakamahal natin. Ibig
kong sabihin, ito lang ‘yung
pwede nating laruin kahit
saang kanto, kahit saang
gym, maglagay ka lang ng
court diyan, kahit sa may…
minsan mga kanto kanto
lang diyan, maglalagay sila
ng ring, naglaro na. Isa ito sa
mahal natin na laro at isa ito
sa mga makapaglayo sa mga
kabataan natin sa droga. Mas
lalo natin dapat palakasin ang
larong basketball,” he said.

(We
can’t
stop
basketball. We love this
sport. It’s a game we can play
anywhere, in any gym. You
can even place a court in any
street corner. It is also one
sport that can help the youth
avoid drugs. We should
strengthen our basketball
program.)
understand by experience,
that the most intimate
communion with Him
comes through prayer.

If we will ask
some people who have
faced trials, tragedies or
grief, failure and defeat,
loneliness and depression,
discrimination, what they
have felt after praying,
they will say that they felt
the embrace of the Lord,
that they felt his presence
while praying. While some
will say that the feeling is
unexplainable, some will
share the comfort and peace
the Lord has given them.

It is a natural
thing that we, people, face
difficulties in life. It might
be a physical problem,
an emotional struggle, a
mental disorder, but we
must always remember
that these hardships are just
small compared to the God
that we have. Problems of
money, diesases, tragedies,
losing of loved ones, they
are just problems, and
problem is just a name and
God is above all names!

We might be in
the worst part of life this
moment but we should be
reminded that God is there
in every moment of life.
And because of his love to
us, He allows these things to
happen for us to realize his existence. For us to see his
power, for us to feel his love
through his son Jesus Christ.
Prayer can change our tears
into joy. It gives us peace.
Through prayer, God’s
power flows primarily to us.

We know who our
enemies are. They are also
surrounding us and we
must beware of that. They
will pull us down until we
reach that black hole where
they want us to be in. They
will tear us into pieces, they
will kill our happiness and
will turn it into darkness,
they will do everything
for us to give up. They are
our greatest enemy, the
problems and situations that
are being used by the head
of all the enemies, Satan.
But God is good that he will
never allow that enemy hold
us. He loves us so much that
he never think of the bad
things we have done. He
loves us more than anything
else in this world. And we
will only know that if we
experience the reality of
life that actually made us
stronger. And no matter how
difficult it is to fight despite
all challenges in life, one
thing remains, we have the
most powerful weapon that
the enemies don’t have.
By: Kathryn Arlan