MARGIENARY

The post below generated some very good questions:  They are as follows: In Filipino culture, would you value something that a stranger gave you or that was passed out to many people at a large gathering?  Do you have any thoughts about free distribution to strangers?   Even if a friend gave it to you, would you value it as much if it didn’t cost her anything?  In America, we would especially value a gift if we know it cost something.  For example, if your friend told you that she hadn’t paid anything for the gift she was giving to you:  “Here, I want to give you a purse that someone left in the church building.  Nobody claimed it, so I decided to give it to you!”  Or, “Here, please take this Bible tract.  Some people in Australia paid for it.”  Would this give you the same feelings?  And so here's my two-pence: Based on my personal observations with my tribe, reasons for not buying Scriptures depend on ...

Centuries ago (at least it feels that long), even before there was Facebook, I started this blog to sort of serve as my journal and confidante. I have read blogs where the bloggers say that they blog because they live for comments. Not me. Except when I write about updates where I ask for prayers, I blog because writing whatever comes to mind is therapeutic and having readers is secondary. I do not care if I am read or not because what I really like is to reread whatever I have written in the past and compare what areas in my life have I experienced growth and where I have not, based on the thoughts I have put down and the thoughts that are currently running through my head.  But then real life hit me between the eyes, and I stopped blogging for months. Well, actually, the real reason maybe because Facebook happened. After all, Facebook only needs a short sentence or a quote every now and then to keep the status message fresh and that does it for most ever...