From a Distance

From a distance, you can see in a broader view and general picture of a whole.

From a distance, not only a song, is a strategic way to view and to have the whole scope of a dream, your dream, like the vision of your organization or your family.

If you imagine your self on top of the mountain like the pictures above taken in Cavite and Davao, you can see down below the whole sorroundings and consider every angular view as part of the whole; every side as part of the dimensional picture of the whole.

Having a new year is just good to refresh ourselves on our dreams and take a look of the whole picture of it to make us closer to a realistic way of achieving our dreams.

Although I am far from my mission country the Philippines, I always take a look of what is going on in there in both external and internal ways. From where I am, I also study the good things that can be applied too to my country like the sports system in Japan, the hoykuen and youchein systems or early childhood education system of Japan and how it can be possible to do it successfully in the Philippines. These are two big examples from a distance. They have the nursery, todlers, kindergarten and day-care programs which are good enough for working mothers and fathers as they dont have domestic helpers here. In the Philippines domestic helpers have pros and cons. Which one is much better to apply? There are lots and more from this distance.

But looking the internal of the Philippines from a distance is much deeper as you dont have a direct or first hand information on why or how things happened to the recent trends and/or changes.

There are national, regional and local programs and projects in our NGO centers. One of it is the 210 local and regional GPF festivals for this year 2009. Local GPF's will be purely under the planning and financing of the local centers and members who dont have any resources but purely fundraising. And there are less than 50 centers in the Philippines right now. Hence, each center should have at least four to five GPF festivals per local center to conduct this year. Am I right from a distance? There are lots more in the inside.

Well, I asked since as I have said, it is too difficult to get direct information from the inside of my mission country. Communication is always a two-way communication and if one does not reply, stil, there is no communication even if one has raised or shouted his message/s or question/s from a distance.

From a distnace, there are people who wish to reach and be there in a specific place they saw. He may have admired and dreamt of being a part of that beautiful scene he has seen from a distance. But how can he be there?

To participate to local projects and activities in our local centers while being in a distance is not impossible. You can shout from a distance and perhaps your voice will be heard in that far place you want to be.

The internet, the cellphones, the radio broadcasting and the modern technology are good bridges for people from a distance to be closer.

We only pray and wish that people in our country will also have their internet, their phone loads, and their heart to also communicate and give essential importance to communication for people based from a distance.

New year, new communication system from a distance. May it be done according to His long awaited plan.