People Power and Change

December 1, 2008

Bob Ocio

Breaking the Walls

“The worst of the Filipino today is an opportunity to bring the best in us.”

We said at EDSA, “people power”. Twice we invoked that. Yet, nothing is left of us today but our faith not in ourselves as a people but in what we still can believe in.

It is in the belief in ourselves that we thought we won at EDSA. Yet, it was the faith of Ninoy and the rest of the millions at EDSA that won it for us. Yet, we kept the faith only to our own selfish ways. Hence the stupor, the indifference and the loss of our self respect as a nation. But God is good. He left us now with nothing but an opportunity to see Him as our strength not only by a mere declaration of faith but by the act of our faith. He left us with nothing but to see the difference between truth and fiction; between truth and lies, between truth and the poverty of the spirit.

The truth is, it will not be “people power” which can humanize us. It will not be us who can keep us together. It will never only be about us because without the faith that Ninoy kept, the sense of sacrifice that Ninoy had shown, we can never get there. Now, we got no other choice but to realize to make use of that faith to work because “faith without work is dead.” This is a journey and the road ahead is rough but faith we can keep. Faith we can hold on to. Faith, we can work on. Faith only in “people’s power” is not enough. But faith in Gods power can move us. Faith in Gods Power can make us move mountains. Faith can make us powerful against the GMAs and the Congressmen and the Bolante’s of our times. Faith make us tell these leaders that they can take our lives but they cannot take our souls. They cannot take our spirits.

They cannot take us away from our God. Faith can make us different to make the difference the way Fr. Panlilio did in Pampanga. Faith can make us believe that we are capable of change the way Obama did in America. But faith we must keep, we must keep it for the love of God and our country. Let us keep that faith burning. We must not waiver, we must not falter. We can tell the evils in our society that their power is nothing. We can tell all the GMA’s of the world that like Marcos, their powers are meaningless and the darkness that they bring us will not stop us from seing the light.

There is hope, there is light. I have been through with these fights all of my life.

Change did not come, until I realized that change must come from within. Do we mean we can tell them its alright for them to continue running this country like hell? The answer is no. The answer is that we must keep hell out of our inner lives. That will be like a candle illuminated in the dark. And when the right time comes, we will win this race.

The worst that we have today will only bring us to realize that what is left is the best in us….. which they cannot take from us…. our faith in God and our love for our country.

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