Tuesday, September 30, 2008
My Top 30 love songs!
1. I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston - lyrics 2. Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley - lyrics 3. My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion - lyrics 4. Endless Love - Lionel Richie & Diana Ross - lyrics 5. Your Song - Elton John - lyrics 6. I Don't Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith - lyrics 7. How Deep Is Your Love? - Boogie Disco Nights - lyrics 8. Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor - lyrics 9. Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton - lyrics 10. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye - lyrics 11. Because You Loved Me - Celine Dion - lyrics 12. You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder - lyrics 13. When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge - lyrics 14. (Everything I Do) I Do It for You - Bryan Adams - lyrics 15. Crazy for You - Madonna - lyrics 16. I'll Be There for You - Bon Jovi - lyrics 17. You're Still the One - Shania Twain - lyrics 18. I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) - Meat Loaf - lyrics 19. Un-Break My Heart - Toni Braxton - lyrics 20. I Would Die 4 U - Prince - lyrics 21. Fallin' - Alicia Keys - lyrics 22. How Do I Live - LeAnn Rimes - lyrics 23. Nobody Wants to Be Lonely - Ricky Martin - lyrics 24. Iris - Goo Goo Dolls - lyrics 25. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zepagain - lyrics 26. Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses - lyrics 27. Wicked Game - Chris Isaak - lyrics 28. Secret Garden - Bruce Springsteen - lyrics 29. Thank You - Dido - lyrics 30. Hero - Enrique Iglesias - lyrics
Wanna have a copy of this song? Just pm me at nhelynlacbao19@gmail.com or you can reached me at: 639059040735
Monday, September 29, 2008
Crises have spiritual roots
To be blunt about it, the trouble stems from some serious spiritual malady that’s now showing itself in many and multiplying forms. There’s greed, vanity and pride, insincerity and deception, etc., that make up the lifeblood of the vicious cycle of consumerism, materialism and hedonism.
People are spending more than they earn, they are averse to saving and are hooked to imprudent if not impulse buying, not anymore of consumables, but of much heavier items like houses and other pieces of real estate.
Banks just want to create money even if the portfolios are based more on air than on substance. They have been rediscounting financial instruments under incredibly questionable conditions. So what do you expect? Cracks will soon appear, and collapse becomes imminent.
They are throwing caution and restraint to the winds, deep-sixing due study and planning, while giving instant, almost mindless responses to what can amount to caprices. They have grown complacent, have reached the limits of safety and are falling into a kind of mass madness.
A cartoonist captured the whole situation with a caption that the US economy is running on stupidity. That may be a stretch—it’s a caricature, of course—but it conveys a lot of truth about the turmoil.
The underlying spiritual and moral anomaly has broken away from the confines of the personal and even class dimensions. It has spread like cancer, its ground zero first affecting people’s character, then their mentality and their culture.
This particular crisis has gone beyond Wall Street and is now affecting Main Street in the US . Let’s hope the bailout rescue plan works and contains its spread. The prospects are horrifying, in spite of huge efforts to soften their impact.
This is not the time to talk only of economics. We have to talk about spiritual values and virtues, of faith and morals, in a more serious way. No use staying in the denial stage. We have to explode the myth that talking religion and spiritual warfare is not politically correct in this case.
The Christian concept of poverty has to be more systematically drilled into everyone. Its aspect of responsible stewardship, its requirements of social justice and solidarity, transparency and accountability have to be appreciated better.
It seems that the American landscape is increasingly allergic to these concepts. That is the problem and the daunting challenge that has to be faced. There’s a certain dulling of conscience of a growing portion of the population that needs urgent and drastic conversion.
This disturbing development is writ large in the current electoral campaign where issues go beyond the purely economic and political, and have gone deep into the field of faith and morals.
It’s amazing how those who are against Christian faith and morals in the US appear to be growing. They are less of a minority now, and are not anymore in the fringes. They seem to be more and more into the mainstream.
Those for abortion and who are openly atheistic and agnostic are getting more strident in their views. For example, they fault the candidate Sarah Palin for praying, for not aborting her handicapped baby, for allowing her unwed teen-aged daughter to have her baby instead of aborting him.
For sure, there’s a lot of good elements still in that great country, but I’m afraid a lot of things are changing in a frightening way. Analysts may describe the parties as conservative and liberal, centrist or left-leaning. I feel that at bottom, the divide is created in the deeper recesses of people’s faith and consciences.
The US financial crisis now is just but a tip of the monstrous iceberg now drifting dangerously in the American waters and in that of the world. We need to do something about it.
People are spending more than they earn, they are averse to saving and are hooked to imprudent if not impulse buying, not anymore of consumables, but of much heavier items like houses and other pieces of real estate.
Banks just want to create money even if the portfolios are based more on air than on substance. They have been rediscounting financial instruments under incredibly questionable conditions. So what do you expect? Cracks will soon appear, and collapse becomes imminent.
They are throwing caution and restraint to the winds, deep-sixing due study and planning, while giving instant, almost mindless responses to what can amount to caprices. They have grown complacent, have reached the limits of safety and are falling into a kind of mass madness.
A cartoonist captured the whole situation with a caption that the US economy is running on stupidity. That may be a stretch—it’s a caricature, of course—but it conveys a lot of truth about the turmoil.
The underlying spiritual and moral anomaly has broken away from the confines of the personal and even class dimensions. It has spread like cancer, its ground zero first affecting people’s character, then their mentality and their culture.
This particular crisis has gone beyond Wall Street and is now affecting Main Street in the US . Let’s hope the bailout rescue plan works and contains its spread. The prospects are horrifying, in spite of huge efforts to soften their impact.
This is not the time to talk only of economics. We have to talk about spiritual values and virtues, of faith and morals, in a more serious way. No use staying in the denial stage. We have to explode the myth that talking religion and spiritual warfare is not politically correct in this case.
The Christian concept of poverty has to be more systematically drilled into everyone. Its aspect of responsible stewardship, its requirements of social justice and solidarity, transparency and accountability have to be appreciated better.
It seems that the American landscape is increasingly allergic to these concepts. That is the problem and the daunting challenge that has to be faced. There’s a certain dulling of conscience of a growing portion of the population that needs urgent and drastic conversion.
This disturbing development is writ large in the current electoral campaign where issues go beyond the purely economic and political, and have gone deep into the field of faith and morals.
It’s amazing how those who are against Christian faith and morals in the US appear to be growing. They are less of a minority now, and are not anymore in the fringes. They seem to be more and more into the mainstream.
Those for abortion and who are openly atheistic and agnostic are getting more strident in their views. For example, they fault the candidate Sarah Palin for praying, for not aborting her handicapped baby, for allowing her unwed teen-aged daughter to have her baby instead of aborting him.
For sure, there’s a lot of good elements still in that great country, but I’m afraid a lot of things are changing in a frightening way. Analysts may describe the parties as conservative and liberal, centrist or left-leaning. I feel that at bottom, the divide is created in the deeper recesses of people’s faith and consciences.
The US financial crisis now is just but a tip of the monstrous iceberg now drifting dangerously in the American waters and in that of the world. We need to do something about it.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
True friend
This is Aniket Prasad, he is a good friend of mine, he's from India; a country of southern Asia covering most of the Indian subcontinent..I haven't met a chatmate as good as him. he is great and a responsible son to his parents. I am hoping to know more about him as we keep in touch chatting over yahoo.messager..
Wishing for a star to fall
The star of the College of Engineering, Western Mindanao State University.
Favorite Song: Wishing for a star to fall
Other name: Worldbestwriter2008
Echo & Basilio
This is Jericho Rosales, also known as "echo", he has notable performances in Filipino soap operas especially in 2001 hit "Pangako sa'yo". with Kristine Hermosa via ABS-CBN. Resently, he started to join the music industry and had his own album.
This is just an enhanced photo, the body of Jericho Rosales and Augustine Basilio's face, my classmate.
He's taking up the same course "ABMC" major in Journalism.
He's taking up the same course "ABMC" major in Journalism.
Watch out!
Watch out the movement of the lady dragon.
No other than the woman after cupid's own heart.
The Nova of College of Enginnering
The woman after men's own heart? Could you believed this? heheheActually she was the incumbent Governor of the College of Engineering as being aired inside the campus, she broke-up the record of his teacher being the youngest governor ever in the history of college of Engineering
She's a Dean lister and presently enjoys one congressional scholarship.
My youngest sister
This is Lea Dianne Lacbao, the apple of the eye. (laugh) She is 10 years old. She is now on her grade five level with highest honor.My parents are so very proud of her. She's a kinda sweet and thoughtful sister. We love her much.
One of my close Friend
This is Karen Collado-member of PBB team. She's smart and approachable. Her sports is playing table tennis. thanks! that's all for Karen.
The University PBB Team
The PBB team stands for Philippine Big Buddies is a newly organized group of Mass Communication under the college of Liberal Arts. The team member are the following
1. Nhelyn Lacbao
2. Jaspher Shariff
3. Karen Collado
4. Jeron Marticio
5. Mary Claire Nangit
Saturday, September 27, 2008
More about Me
I'm Nhelyn P. Lacbao, studying at Western Mindanao State University, Zamboanga City taking up AB Masscom. I also have another sister studying in the same school under the College of Engineering. Her name is Nova Jane Lacbao, you will know her by the username of worldbestwriter2008. I am the one who is saving all her works in my blog for security reasons and future references.
Until here and hope you will find time reading all of our articles displayed in this website.
Thank you! and God speed!
Until here and hope you will find time reading all of our articles displayed in this website.
Thank you! and God speed!
We answer God's love for us
Thelove of God for us is a mystery, but its wondrous reality is luminously clear. Our very existence, all that we are, all that we have, proclaim that love in unmistakable terms. But nothing manifests it more clearly than that glorious plan which the Father has for us, revealed fully and made possible in His Son-that plan through which, by the participation in His own life through the Spirit, we are made God's children, one with Christ.
This privilege in not forced upon man: his acceptance of it must be free. The wholehearted response man gives to the call of divine love is the Christian life. Essentially it involves complete openness to God, Who infallibly undertakes teh work of radical transformation in every person that yields to his loving designs upon it.
The first step a man must take in answer to God's entirely new, supernatural level of existence. By virtue of his intimate filial relationship with God, he must hen live a life of childlike, complete adherence to the will of his Father, continually striving to grow more and more like Christ, of Whose Sonship he is made partaker through the Spirit. The lifelong struggle to respond to his vocation will secure for the Christian the eternal possession of his Father's kingdom, where with all the sons of God he will forever rejoice in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
The life of a Christian is one faith because the supernatural life can be known, loved, embraced and adhered to only through faith.
It is also a life of hope because the Christian seeks as the only proper goal of his existence the eternal union with his Father in heaven -a goal impossible to unaided nature, but one which the Christian is confident of attaining with the help of his Father, Who has called him to it by the infusion of His grace. It is above all a life of his Father, Who has called him to it by the infusion of His grace.
It is above all a life of charity, because by grace the Christian loves God filially with His own love poured into his heart by the Holy Spirit Who is given to him.
The response of love the Christian makes is twofold: prayer and action. By prayer and action. By prayer he enters into a direct and intimate contact with his Father, lifting up his heart in loving grateful worship. By action, which shall be the first of prayers, he does everything to please his Father; his whole life is conformed to God's will made manifest in a life of virtue, vivified by faith, hope and love.
Sin, on the other hand, is the refusal to live the Christian life. One sins when he fully and knowingly rejects the gift of divine life, or when one, after having accepted that gift, rebel against his Father, weakening or cutting the bond of love that unites them.
Nothing can surpass the Christian life in beauty and dignity. It is a call a happiness that alone can completely and perfectly satisfy the yearnings of man. God by the Christian vocation holds out to us no less a goal than Himself, infinite Truth, Goodness, Beauty, to the possessed in a wondrous union which no creature could ever be worthy of, or achieve by itself. The gratitude that should overflow in our hearts at the thought of God's love should lead to complete self-surrender, which does not balk at the inevitable sacrifices. That there are sacrifices is understandable, for such a great privilege brings with it duties as well as rights, and its full effects are not to be possessed without a struggle. But the proof of love is sacrifice, and the noblest Christian lives have always been marked by the stamp of suffering, after the example of our Model and Brother, Christ.
This privilege in not forced upon man: his acceptance of it must be free. The wholehearted response man gives to the call of divine love is the Christian life. Essentially it involves complete openness to God, Who infallibly undertakes teh work of radical transformation in every person that yields to his loving designs upon it.
The first step a man must take in answer to God's entirely new, supernatural level of existence. By virtue of his intimate filial relationship with God, he must hen live a life of childlike, complete adherence to the will of his Father, continually striving to grow more and more like Christ, of Whose Sonship he is made partaker through the Spirit. The lifelong struggle to respond to his vocation will secure for the Christian the eternal possession of his Father's kingdom, where with all the sons of God he will forever rejoice in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
The life of a Christian is one faith because the supernatural life can be known, loved, embraced and adhered to only through faith.
It is also a life of hope because the Christian seeks as the only proper goal of his existence the eternal union with his Father in heaven -a goal impossible to unaided nature, but one which the Christian is confident of attaining with the help of his Father, Who has called him to it by the infusion of His grace. It is above all a life of his Father, Who has called him to it by the infusion of His grace.
It is above all a life of charity, because by grace the Christian loves God filially with His own love poured into his heart by the Holy Spirit Who is given to him.
The response of love the Christian makes is twofold: prayer and action. By prayer and action. By prayer he enters into a direct and intimate contact with his Father, lifting up his heart in loving grateful worship. By action, which shall be the first of prayers, he does everything to please his Father; his whole life is conformed to God's will made manifest in a life of virtue, vivified by faith, hope and love.
Sin, on the other hand, is the refusal to live the Christian life. One sins when he fully and knowingly rejects the gift of divine life, or when one, after having accepted that gift, rebel against his Father, weakening or cutting the bond of love that unites them.
Nothing can surpass the Christian life in beauty and dignity. It is a call a happiness that alone can completely and perfectly satisfy the yearnings of man. God by the Christian vocation holds out to us no less a goal than Himself, infinite Truth, Goodness, Beauty, to the possessed in a wondrous union which no creature could ever be worthy of, or achieve by itself. The gratitude that should overflow in our hearts at the thought of God's love should lead to complete self-surrender, which does not balk at the inevitable sacrifices. That there are sacrifices is understandable, for such a great privilege brings with it duties as well as rights, and its full effects are not to be possessed without a struggle. But the proof of love is sacrifice, and the noblest Christian lives have always been marked by the stamp of suffering, after the example of our Model and Brother, Christ.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Behind the username
Hi! I would like to display one of my images in my blogsite. This photo located on the right side is my own picture. It's me who designed it. Hope you like it. And i'll gonna show you more photos about me.
Thank for dropping by my page...
God Speed!
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
PRAYER
Prayer is said to be our personal encounter with God. Through prayer, God, our Creator and Father becomes present to us, close to us, eager to listen and speak as our most intimate friend. But God is more than a friend. He is the almighty, so powerful and great, so that we do not come to Him all our secrets, even those we would never dare say to a friend and bringing Him a long list of what we want and need.
Because our Father is so great, and we, for all our nearness to Him, so weak, nothing in fact, our soul opens up to Him and bows before Him in adoration. But because at the same time we are aware that He is our loving Father, that adoration is inextricably linked with love, filial confidence, joyful gratitude and praise. Realization of our complete dependence on God, and of His infinite fatherly goodness towards us, makes us naturally turn to Him for all the needs of body and soul, confident that He will not fail us. Knowledge of our infidelities and acts of ingratitude fills us with humble sorrow, and the firm resolve to correspond more generously to His goodness.
These four aspects of prayer life-adoration, thanksgiving, petition, reparation - are also known as the four ends of prayer. Scripture is full of examples of these prayers. A true Christian cannot but pray, for his relationship to God is not an impersonal or artificial thing that touches His life only remotely. Precisely because God is his Father, he must pray, he must have towards Him that continual Christ has commanded it, and thought us how to pray, by the Father anything in my name. Ask and you shall receive..." (John 16:24). And often in the Gospel we see Christ retiring into the desert to pray, sometimes spending whole nights and days in colloquy with His Father, such as when He made the forty days' fast before the start of His reason for prayer is its vital role in our spiritual life; without it we cannot be saved, for the graces we need can be ours only through prayer, " Ask and you shall receive" (Matt. 7:7).
Our prayer, in order to be truly Christian, must have certain essential characteristics. Prayer is speaking to God with respect and love in order to adore and praise Him, to thank Him, to obtain pardon for our sins, and to ask for His favors and blessings for ourselves and for others. In prayer we also listen to God who reveals to us what He wants and expects from us
Because our Father is so great, and we, for all our nearness to Him, so weak, nothing in fact, our soul opens up to Him and bows before Him in adoration. But because at the same time we are aware that He is our loving Father, that adoration is inextricably linked with love, filial confidence, joyful gratitude and praise. Realization of our complete dependence on God, and of His infinite fatherly goodness towards us, makes us naturally turn to Him for all the needs of body and soul, confident that He will not fail us. Knowledge of our infidelities and acts of ingratitude fills us with humble sorrow, and the firm resolve to correspond more generously to His goodness.
These four aspects of prayer life-adoration, thanksgiving, petition, reparation - are also known as the four ends of prayer. Scripture is full of examples of these prayers. A true Christian cannot but pray, for his relationship to God is not an impersonal or artificial thing that touches His life only remotely. Precisely because God is his Father, he must pray, he must have towards Him that continual Christ has commanded it, and thought us how to pray, by the Father anything in my name. Ask and you shall receive..." (John 16:24). And often in the Gospel we see Christ retiring into the desert to pray, sometimes spending whole nights and days in colloquy with His Father, such as when He made the forty days' fast before the start of His reason for prayer is its vital role in our spiritual life; without it we cannot be saved, for the graces we need can be ours only through prayer, " Ask and you shall receive" (Matt. 7:7).
Our prayer, in order to be truly Christian, must have certain essential characteristics. Prayer is speaking to God with respect and love in order to adore and praise Him, to thank Him, to obtain pardon for our sins, and to ask for His favors and blessings for ourselves and for others. In prayer we also listen to God who reveals to us what He wants and expects from us
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
We answer God's love for us
Thelove of God for us is a mystery, but its wondrous reality is luminously clear. Our very existence, all that we are, all that we have, proclaim that love in unmistakable terms. But nothing manifests it more clearly than that glorious plan which the Father has for us, revealed fully and made possible in His Son-that plan through which, by the participation in His own life through the Spirit, we are made God's children, one with Christ.
This privilege in not forced upon man: his acceptance of it must be free. The wholehearted response man gives to the call of divine love is the Christian life. Essentially it involves complete openness to God, Who infallibly undertakes teh work of radical transformation in every person that yields to his loving designs upon it.
The first step a man must take in answer to God's entirely new, supernatural level of existence. By virtue of his intimate filial relationship with God, he must hen live a life of childlike, complete adherence to the will of his Father, continually striving to grow more and more like Christ, of Whose Sonship he is made partaker through the Spirit. The lifelong struggle to respond to his vocation will secure for the Christian the eternal possession of his Father's kingdom, where with all the sons of God he will forever rejoice in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
The life of a Christian is one faith because the supernatural life can be known, loved, embraced and adhered to only through faith.
It is also a life of hope because the Christian seeks as the only proper goal of his existence the eternal union with his Father in heaven -a goal impossible to unaided nature, but one which the Christian is confident of attaining with the help of his Father, Who has called him to it by the infusion of His grace. It is above all a life of his Father, Who has called him to it by the infusion of His grace.
It is above all a life of charity, because by grace the Christian loves God filially with His own love poured into his heart by the Holy Spirit Who is given to him.
The response of love the Christian makes is twofold: prayer and action. By prayer and action. By prayer he enters into a direct and intimate contact with his Father, lifting up his heart in loving grateful worship. By action, which shall be the first of prayers, he does everything to please his Father; his whole life is conformed to God's will made manifest in a life of virtue, vivified by faith, hope and love.
Sin, on the other hand, is the refusal to live the Christian life. One sins when he fully and knowingly rejects the gift of divine life, or when one, after having accepted that gift, rebel against his Father, weakening or cutting the bond of love that unites them.
Nothing can surpass the Christian life in beauty and dignity. It is a call a happiness that alone can completely and perfectly satisfy the yearnings of man. God by the Christian vocation holds out to us no less a goal than Himself, infinite Truth, Goodness, Beauty, to the possessed in a wondrous union which no creature could ever be worthy of, or achieve by itself. The gratitude that should overflow in our hearts at the thought of God's love should lead to complete self-surrender, which does not balk at the inevitable sacrifices. That there are sacrifices is understandable, for such a great privilege brings with it duties as well as rights, and its full effects are not to be possessed without a struggle. But the proof of love is sacrifice, and the noblest Christian lives have always been marked by the stamp of suffering, after the example of our Model and Brother, Christ.
This privilege in not forced upon man: his acceptance of it must be free. The wholehearted response man gives to the call of divine love is the Christian life. Essentially it involves complete openness to God, Who infallibly undertakes teh work of radical transformation in every person that yields to his loving designs upon it.
The first step a man must take in answer to God's entirely new, supernatural level of existence. By virtue of his intimate filial relationship with God, he must hen live a life of childlike, complete adherence to the will of his Father, continually striving to grow more and more like Christ, of Whose Sonship he is made partaker through the Spirit. The lifelong struggle to respond to his vocation will secure for the Christian the eternal possession of his Father's kingdom, where with all the sons of God he will forever rejoice in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
The life of a Christian is one faith because the supernatural life can be known, loved, embraced and adhered to only through faith.
It is also a life of hope because the Christian seeks as the only proper goal of his existence the eternal union with his Father in heaven -a goal impossible to unaided nature, but one which the Christian is confident of attaining with the help of his Father, Who has called him to it by the infusion of His grace. It is above all a life of his Father, Who has called him to it by the infusion of His grace.
It is above all a life of charity, because by grace the Christian loves God filially with His own love poured into his heart by the Holy Spirit Who is given to him.
The response of love the Christian makes is twofold: prayer and action. By prayer and action. By prayer he enters into a direct and intimate contact with his Father, lifting up his heart in loving grateful worship. By action, which shall be the first of prayers, he does everything to please his Father; his whole life is conformed to God's will made manifest in a life of virtue, vivified by faith, hope and love.
Sin, on the other hand, is the refusal to live the Christian life. One sins when he fully and knowingly rejects the gift of divine life, or when one, after having accepted that gift, rebel against his Father, weakening or cutting the bond of love that unites them.
Nothing can surpass the Christian life in beauty and dignity. It is a call a happiness that alone can completely and perfectly satisfy the yearnings of man. God by the Christian vocation holds out to us no less a goal than Himself, infinite Truth, Goodness, Beauty, to the possessed in a wondrous union which no creature could ever be worthy of, or achieve by itself. The gratitude that should overflow in our hearts at the thought of God's love should lead to complete self-surrender, which does not balk at the inevitable sacrifices. That there are sacrifices is understandable, for such a great privilege brings with it duties as well as rights, and its full effects are not to be possessed without a struggle. But the proof of love is sacrifice, and the noblest Christian lives have always been marked by the stamp of suffering, after the example of our Model and Brother, Christ.
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