BE COOL

BE COOL

I remember my old departed friend, the fake Frenchman Monsieur Javelona who used to quip he belonged to the so called Temperamental Law Firm. What he meant was his partners were more on temper than mental.

Temperament runs thick in my blood. I must have gotten it from my parents who had short fuses. This malady often attacks me.

One day, tension was high as my voice, while I was stressing a point. There was no anger in it but assiduousness. Then  my daughter said, “Tatay, Be Cool.” 

Like cold water dousing burning coals, the hot air was blown by the wind of winsomeness. I wish I could always be cool, quiet, calm and composed.

The wise cleric J. Maurus aptly observed that the mind will never function when it is super hot, only when it is cool and composed.

“Be Cool!”

Well I’m cool for now. No big deal.

MORAL CONFUSION

MORAL CONFUSION

A thief in New Jersey stole $ 7,000.00 in Jewelry, old coins, 

and cash from a widow. The items taken were all she had left from her husband’s estate.

In sorting through his loot, the thief came across several

church offering envelopes, containing money the woman intended to give to the Lord. Leaving their contents inside, he put them in another envelope, addressed it to the woman’s church, and then dropped it in the mail.

When the Minister found out what happened, he commented, “It is a characteristic of the moral confusion of our times that someone would consider stealing from a widow and her children and yet think it reprehensible to steal from the church.”

Like this thief, there are some who think that God’s property line ends at the door of the church and anything or anyone outside of it is fair game.

On the other hand a group of thieves in the Philippines, stole the ancient bell of an old church and sold the metal for scrap. This same group of thieves passed an old beggar holding out her can for alms. One of the thieves dropped  two hundred pesos in paper bills, in the can.

The same Minister would comment, “It is a characteristic of the moral confusion of our times that someone would dare steal the property of the church and yet think that giving to the poor a portion of his loot would erase his sins.”