Our Lady holds the Philippines in her hands. eastwind journals, May 18, 2022 By Bernie V. Lopez, eastwindreplyctr@gmail.com Share by sending this blog link – https://eastwindjournals.com/2022/05/18/volume-5-images-that-touch-and-heal-2/ 569 / 564 / 544 / 342 / 631 MORE INSPIRING ARTICLES – click ‘HOME’ (top right of this page) or go to eastwindjournals.com. FOR THOSE WHO NEED HEALING,Continue reading “Volume 5 – Images that Touch and Heal”
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Lessons from a Lady Tycoon
Jessica had a simple happy life, fulfilled in her job as a high school teacher. She loved her students and was blessed with many close friends. She was ‘poor and happy’. She married a textile tycoon who suddenly died of heart attack from too many business meetings. She became filthy rich in the blink ofContinue reading “Lessons from a Lady Tycoon”
Esqualine, the Wonder Drug / Dolphins Rescue Fishermen
MINI-JOURNAL VOLUME 2 Esqualine or squaline is revered by the Japanese as a medicine with magical healing powers, capable of curing all kinds of diseases from heart ailment to arthritis, you name it. Esqualine oil is extracted from the liver of a rare deep-sea mini-shark, one or so meters in length, found in the straitContinue reading “Esqualine, the Wonder Drug / Dolphins Rescue Fishermen”
Trapping the Elegant Chambered Nautilus
MINI-JOURNAL VOLUME 1 During my young days as a journalist, I chanced upon a village in Mindoro where that there was not a single dog. I discovered that dog meat where placed in bamboo traps and sunk in places where the elegant giant seashell, the CHAMBERED NAUTILUS, roamed. The meat of the shell was eatenContinue reading “Trapping the Elegant Chambered Nautilus”
The Billionaire Art Collector and the Sidewalk Artist
Isaiah is an aging black billionaire art collector who could instantly correlate an artwork to its dollar value. He did not really have an ‘eye’ for good art, but for rich art buyers. He could tell if a painting would sell based on his psychic view of his art buyers. He had an inventory ofContinue reading “The Billionaire Art Collector and the Sidewalk Artist”
Orphans of War (3)
Story no. 3 on war orphans. Back half a century ago, in the 1970s, a counter-insurgency war against the New People’s Army (NPA), communist rebel army, was raging all over Mindanao. I was in Kidapawan, covering a human barricade of farmers against the bulldozers of a company backed up by the military in a protractedContinue reading “Orphans of War (3)”
Jesus the Rebel
Jesus was aptly labelled as a rebel, a subversive, and a trouble maker. That was why the leaders of the old religion, Judaism, the Sanhedrin and Pharisees, just had to get rid of him. For how can he defy thousands of years of Jewish tradition. Ironically, his death from the hands of his ‘enemies’ becameContinue reading “Jesus the Rebel”
Happy Easter – 3 eastwind posters
eastwind journals, April 17, 2022 By Bernie V. Lopez, eastwindreplyctr@gmail.com Share with friends via this blog link – https://eastwindjournals.com/2022/04/17/happy-easter-3-eastwind-posters/ posters p322 p323 p293 FOR THOSE WHO NEED HEALING, spiritual or physical (depression, anxiety, loneliness, terminal cancer, covid, diabetes, etc.) – say a healing prayer with one or both healers below. Terminal patients have been healedContinue reading “Happy Easter – 3 eastwind posters”
Volume 4 – Images that Touch and Heal
Five images of the suffering and healing Christ. eastwind journals, April 14, 2020 By Bernie V. Lopez, eastwindreplyctr@gmail.com Share with friends via this blog link – https://eastwindjournals.com/2022/04/14/volume-5-images-that-touch-and-heal/ p457 p451 p202 p474 p317 MORE INSPIRING ARTICLES – click ‘HOME’ (top right of this page) or go to eastwindjournals.com. FOR THOSE WHO NEED HEALING, spiritual or physicalContinue reading “Volume 4 – Images that Touch and Heal”
The Soldier and the Nun
This story is inspired by true characters and events. Dimataling, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines, early 70s. The place is a “no man’s land” of Christian soldiers and Muslim rebels killing each other. Sister Josephine of the Medical Mission Sisters stays on to service the health needs of both Christian and Muslim civilians. How does sheContinue reading “The Soldier and the Nun”