“Misión Cumplida”

This week is a good week, plus TGIF in two hours as I write this. There has been a lot of things to be grateful for this week. The beautiful, beautiful sky this morning, the breakfast plate my co-worker made for me, the ripe calamansi fruits that another co-worker gave me.  And yes, the shipment I received from Balenciaga. 

But the week unfolded as if to reiterate what Rick Warren (of Purpose-Driven Life) has said,

 “…and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!”

TRUE. 

No amount of material things can surpass the joy that the whole world felt when all the 33 miners in Chile were finally pulled out to see the light and breathe the air again, to see their loved ones, and just “LIVE” again, in every sense of the word. I never prayed this hard for strangers I’ve never met before until I saw their video in yahoo a little more than a month ago. Such deplorable fate they got caught in.

But yesterday, all the 33 men were pulled out one by one. The whole world received 33 consecutive GOOD NEWS stories broadcasted worldwide, all in one day, for a change. Thirty-three good news stories in one day.  It’s really a breath of fresh air. 

Did you notice what they had in common? That we found most of them kneeling and praying, or making the sign of the cross in gratitude upon getting out of the rescue capsule? They stayed alive for 17 days without contact to the outside world (a first, I believe), they were able to hang on until rescue came two months later. Surely, it’s not a coincidence. Now, do you realize WHO really saved them and kept them alive?  ALL OF THEM?