Rejoice for Christmas is not so far away, and may your heart be filled with love & happiness this Christmas & beyond.

If you want to take care of animals at home, then these puppies top your list. So cute and adorable, you might let them sleep beside you on your bed. 

Wishing us all a Merry Christmas this year 2021, even with the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Pope Francis visits Iraq for 3 days as Pilgrim Of Peace.

Remember those times you fell in love with someone, you gave all you got. Every moment you spent together is filled with love and care. And you felt you can't live without each other anymore. 

Then you had a theme song to strongly define your love and every time that music played, it made you smile and long for one another. Your theme song made your relationship more beautiful and more perfect.  

But as they always say, nothing lasts forever in this world. You broke up and became broken-hearted. You became sad, depressed and felt like dying. And worse, your theme song you love the most now hurts you the most every time you hear it. The happiest and most beautiful song now becomes your saddest and most painful. Truly devastating!

This couch makes you feel special and loved and cuddly and cared for, and so on.

Making a heart out of snow is an easy task. Instead of a red heart, it's a white heart, meaning it's pure and unadulterated.

When it comes to love, everything else matters less 
because love is everything already, the ultimate feeling. 
But if you were given a choice, which one you prefer, 
​someone who loves you or someone you love?

It should be clear to everyone what the choices are. 
The "someone who loves you" is the someone you don't love 
and the "someone you love" is the someone who doesn't love you back. 
It sounds like a pretty easy thing to do 
but it's very hard to find a reason for choosing.

As I walked the street alone after attending the Holy Mass, 
I was amazed by this couple arm in arm with each other 
obviously very close and hopefully in love. 

Rich or poor, young or old, love knows no boundaries. 
A rich guy can fall in love with a poor girl, 
or a rich girl can fall in love with a poor guy. 
But this couple in ragged clothing is very poor.

She was a financially successful woman with a very handsome man. 
And she was madly in love with him and doing everything to keep him 
to the point of ignoring her family and friends. 

With her high-paying job, she spent so much for the guy - 
shopping sprees and fine dining were common 
and traveling together around and out of the country. 

But the guy was a hillbilly (probinsyano) of very humble family background. 
Both of his parents were farmers 
who depend on a small track of land for survival. 
He came to the city and finding job as a salesperson
in the shoe department of a large popular mall 
and ​earning just the minimum salary.
But the girl didn't seem to care at all. 
And she did it all for love.

You sure heard stories about a working family man 
who left his wife and children for another one,
most of the time younger woman, and started another family. 
But as years went by, he decided to return to his first family 
but that time, he was already paralyzed and all his money gone.

He was successful with a homemaker wife and good children 
and blessed with a nice-paying job. 
He was always a good husband and father and a great provider for the family. 
He was friendly and amiable 
that was why he was always surrounded by friends.

​Taiwan is the first nation in all of Asia 
to recognize same-sex marriage on May 24, 2019. 
As expected,
the decision was well-received by the LGBT community
but denounced by conservative and Christian groups.

Now that one nation recognizes same-sex marriage, 
​is the Philippines ready to follow? 
Remember that this country is about 80% Catholic 
and Catholicism strongly opposed same-sex marriage.

​Feel free to express whatever you feel about it. 

Happy Mothers' Day to all mothers in the world. 
Today is your big day and we have to celebrate. 
Nurturing us for nine months in the womb, and enduring all the pain. 
Our mothers know what's best for us, 
working hard to give us a bright future. 

And what will be the greatest gift for our mothers? 
It's the gift of love and she deserves all the love in the world! 

​Below is a heartfelt message by our Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte 
to his mother and ​to all the mothers in the world.

​Saint Valentine, a 3rd-century Roman saint,
commemorated in Christianity on February 14,  
making that day Valentine's day or Saint Valentine's Day
​or the Feast of Saint Valentine,
a celebration of love and romance in many parts of the world.
He is also a patron saint of epilepsy.

February 14 is the best time for people
who are romantically involved or who are falling in love 
to spend time together at home or somewhere else. 
It is a very special day of love and romance separated from the rest of the year. 

There are people who find it hard to fall in love 
or don't fall in love at all for their hearts are stone-cold or dead. 
And there are those who easily fall in love
because their hearts are soft as marshmallow.

 To better understand these things and to present them in simple terms,
let us put them this way:
the harder the heart is, the harder it is to fall in love.
The softer the heart is, the easier it is to fall in love.

We love food and we love music. 
In a party or celebration where there's a lot of food, 
music should accompany or else it becomes boring. 
​Good food and good music become a memorable event.

What's common between food and music?
Their taste or appeal depend on the person.

A lot of people say that love hurts, that love breaks their hearts. 
And the pain that it causes is so much more than anything else. 
But don't be fooled. ​It's the lover that does it.

Love is the most wonderful thing in the world, 
and if you have it, you are the most fortunate one! 
Happy are those in love for they're living their best lives!

Ever since we were young,
we have loved and we have been loved. 
But times when we loved but unloved ​and it hurt much. 

We can't force anyone to love us back even when we do so much for love. 
Maybe someone else is waiting who is meant for us. 
And the pain and the hurt could be unbearable for some time. 

WHAT IS LOVE?
   LOVE is a very special something that is very hard to describe or define. ​
We feel it then we show it to someone or give it away. 
And it doesn't need anything in return. 

And LOVE is a mystery, something we only know so little. 
There's more to love than just feeling and showing it. 
Something right inside our hearts tells us that it is there 
but we don't fully understand it or how it works. 
Like all the things in this world, only God knows.