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Date Posted: 17:34:11 01/14/18 Sun
Author: Carlo G. Soldevilla
Subject: ..by G-d-allowing,.. (Pls. check. Thanks.).
In reply to: Carlo G. Soldevilla 's message, "Poem for the Police Trainee -- Praises by Carlo G. Soldevilla" on 18:32:52 01/11/18 Thu

>Poem for the Police Trainee -- Praises by Carlo G.
>Soldevilla
>
>-0-
>Praises
>by Carlo G. Soldevilla
>Written on January 11, 2018
>
>One held the ‘foot of Jesus’, and one stroke the nape
>of the neck
>For those who are unprepared for ‘bad things’ that
>come unexpectedly might say ‘What a heck.’
>
>The call for duty versus the call for spirituality
>One is official, the other is personal (conviction).
>
>If I were him, maybe the same thing I will do,
>Follow my heart..and what I think as ‘evil’-Eschew.
>
>It can be no evil in holding the sole..but with the
>‘stir-of-the-moment’ (?) consequence of the beating of
>the nape
>..and later on, he might just ponder and reason: ‘The
>pain which I felt is unequalled to the pain of Christ
>who died for my sake.’
>
>Surprisingly, He (trainee) might later on end up as
>chaplain, and in the future, with G-d-allowing, when
>his higher up officer would need his religious
>services,
>..and find himself confessing to the police trainee
>whom he once beat, he might be in awe and wonder,
>saying: ‘Father, I can’t believe. Is that you? …
>Praises…
>
>Time flies.
>The good things, we ought to remember. The bad we
>forget,
>
>Life must move on happily, gracefully, joyously,
>despite we are frail, human. May the two end up as
>‘buddies’.
>
>-0-
>Based on the link:
>http://www.facebook.com/dzrhnewstelevision/videos/16032
>33989731869/
>
>-0-
>Note: I don’t know if ‘The Call’ or ‘Buddies’ would be
>the better title for this poem.
>
>-0-
>Cc: Uncle Greg Soldevilla (former Parish Priest of San
>Jose, Antique who was on the stage of Luneta together
>with the other priests, listening to the homily of
>Pope Francis during the latter’s visit to the
>Philippines. We will have a grand Soldevilla Clan
>reunion in Iloilo on January 20- 21, 2018 in New
>Lucena, Iloilo, Philippines).
>http://www.facebook.com/GregorioJrdelaCruzSoldevilla

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