ariellalisan.org – Homeward Bound

LET ME share to you this passage from the Bible, Ecclesiates Chapter 3:

 1 There is a time for everything,
       and a season for every activity under heaven:

 2 a time to be born and a time to die,
       a time to plant and a time to uproot,

 3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
       a time to tear down and a time to build,

 4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
       a time to mourn and a time to dance,

 5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
       a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

 6 a time to search and a time to give up,
       a time to keep and a time to throw away,

 7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
       a time to be silent and a time to speak,

 8 a time to love and a time to hate,
       a time for war and a time for peace.

I AM currently here at the 6th YES Camp in Dumaguete or the Youth for Environment Summer (YES) Camp 2008 with my students, while, at home my family is facing a very difficult challenge.

I was already on my way to here when I received a message from my sister that they brought my mother to the hospital because she has a deep wound in her foot as a result of an infection from an ant bite. The wound cut deep into the area around her ankles that she can barely walk. We doubted that her wound had gone into such state due to diabetes but her laboratory results proved that her blood sugar level is normal. She was able to go back home after a day at the hospital.

The following day, I received a message from my niece, who is a nurse at the hospital where my mother was brought that my father was brought there, too, that morning because he had cardiac arrest. Later, I learned that his aneurysm was reason. Blood was already inside his brain an an operation can’t possibly be successful says the doctor. He was confined in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital until the doctor declared that my father’s is a hopeless case. He was transfered to a private room on the same day and is unconscious up to now. I and the rest of my family has decided to accept whatever is the God’s will. We are hoping that His miracle would save my father.