by Ruby Kagaoan – Calo
Written on August 29, 2010, Sunday, as a Facebook Note, 6 days after the hostage-taking tragedy.
Death causes you to stop in your tracks.
In light of the grief and great sorrow Hong Kong is feeling because of the recent hostage-taking tragedy, I pray Filipino groups in the Philippines and around the world will stop for a moment from their busy schedules to lay flowers for those who perished during the hostage-taking tragedy, so that Hong Kong and the rest of the world will know that we, Filipinos, are one with Hong Kong’s grief and sorrow and cry for justice. Filipinos outside Metro Manila may consider to choose a symbolic site in their respective places for this act.
In Metro Manila, Alex Lacson and some friends have already led the way for this gentle answer to Hong Kong’s anger towards the Filipinos. I read in my Facebook account, through Gerry Gamez’s status, that they went to the Luneta Grandstand yesterday to bring flowers and say a prayer for those who perished during the hostage-taking tragedy and for those whom they left behind. They did this with the hope that it could begin to heal the wounds.
“A gentle answer turns away wrath…” (Proverbs 15:1).
Let us, Filipinos, unite to show the world that we are a people of peace, and not as what the world has come to believe us to be, and that we are very deeply grieved to see our Hong Kong friends in such great pain.
