Tuesday, December 1, 2020
God Gives Strength In The Broken Places
To all who mourn in Israel he will give: Beauty for ashes; Joy instead of mourning; Praise instead of heaviness. For God has planted them like strong and graceful oaks for his own glory. Isaiah 61:3, Living Bible
Ernest Hemingway, wrote, “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”[1] In this, Hemmingway was right. Ours is an imperfect, broken world. You discover your spouse has been unfaithful to you for years. A doctor breaks the news that you have inoperable cancer and will lose your leg. Your son is arrested for drunk driving. Or, the promotion that you deserved went to someone less qualified.
Everyone is broken eventually, but only some mend stronger because of it. “Out of the presses of pain” wrote A. B. Simpson, “Come the soul’s best wine.”[2] When the remarkable Amy Carmichael, missionary to India, became disabled from a fall, she spent the next 20 years of her life confined to bed. Instead of crying out in anger, she ran to Jesus for strength and comfort. Those years which she spent immobile were some of her best as she wrote, counseled the unending stream of people who came to her, and prayed for India and the world. “Some get strong in the broken places,” said Hemingway.
When prolonged sickness slowly took the life of her husband, Lettie Burd Cowman wrote a daily devotional based on her hardships and experiences of fellowship with God during this painful time. Her little book, Streams in the Desert, was so loved by Chang Kai Shek, the Chinese leader, that both this book and the Bible were placed in his casket at his death. Yes, some get strong in the broken places.
Sometimes God allows the breaking which eventually produces something of great value, having been in the fire, having sustained the blows of life, having grown strong in the broken places, as Hemingway put it.
Joni Eareckson Tada was just 17 years old when a diving accident left her paralyzed from the shoulders down. She went on to become a spokesperson on disability and founded Joni and Friends, a global ministry to the disabled community. “My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen—especially since God’s power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit … glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes,”[3] she wrote. Joni is strong even in the places that remain broken until heaven.
Who said that life is fair or just? When Hemingway felt devastated by the world’s breaking, as he termed it, he ended his life in suicide. When Lettie Burd Cowman, Amy Carmichael and Joni Eareckson Tada felt the crushing, unexpected blows of life, they turned to God and found solace and strength. To those who suffer, God promised “Beauty for ashes; Joy instead of mourning; Praise instead of heaviness. For God has planted them like strong and graceful oaks for his own glory” (Isaiah 61:3, Living Bible).
You can be certain of one thing. Nothing that happens to you as God’s child can happen apart from His knowledge and His will, and nothing which life throws at you can carry you beyond His grace and care. God doesn’t fix everything in the here and now, but He gives grace for everything, and that makes the difference which produces strength in the broken place.
In the Book of Genesis, when Jacob ran for his life from his angry brother, Esau, Jacob turned to the Lord. His encounter was characterized by physically wrestling with the Angel of the Lord. From that point on, he walked with a limp—the sign of his broken body and spirit, but God gave him a new name, Israel, and used him to give birth to a nation (Genesis 32).
Never forget that following the brokenness of an imperfect world, God gives strength in the broken place.
Resource reading: 2 Corinthians 4:1-18
https://www.guidelines.org/devotional/god-gives-strength-in-the-broken-places/
TV Coverage of the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
At this time to prepare the coverage, ABS- CBN executives led by chairman Eugenio Lopez III, president and CEO Charo Santos-Concio and COO for broadcast Cory Vidanes that the broadcast rights of the regional multi-sport event to be held in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. This company, along with the Philippine Olympic Committee, Philippine Sports Commission and Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation to sign an agreement to air this event in February 24, 2006, three months after the Philippines hosted the Southeast Asian Games.
Thus, the ABS-CBN corporation, it's sports division ABS-CBN Sports, it's TV channels, ABS-CBN and Studio 23, cable channels Balls and DZMM TeleRadyo and AM radio station DZMM, to cover the 2007 edition of Southeast Asian Games in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand live nationwide and worldwide on all platforms - TV, Radio, Internet via Facebook and Youtube on PC, smartphones and tablets.
Rappler is the Official Webcast Partner and bringing Live Chat Updates and MEDAL TALLY from Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. The replay of 2007 Southeast Asian Games sporting events such as swimming competitions (morning heats and evening finals) will be uploaded via Rappler's official YouTube channel.
TV network resident announcer Peter Musngi and Chinapaps are they doing the 100-day countdown promotional plug for the regional sports event.
The anchors and hosts of this coverage are Paolo Abrera, Julius Babao, Karmina Constantino, Jorge Carino, Ron Cruz, Karen Davila, Ces Drilon, Alvin Elchico, Ted Failon, Gretchen Fullido, Mico Halili, Zen Hernandez, Henry Omaga-Diaz, Korina Sanchez, Alex Santos, Bernadette Sembrano and Boyet Sison, while commentators are Dyan Castillejo, Boom Gonzales, Gretchen Ho, Doc Ian Laurel, Gretchen Malalad, TJ Manotoc and Mozzy Ravena.
ABS-CBN Star Magic artists such as swimmer and 2007 UAAP MVP Enchong Dee and taekwondo jin Japoy Lizardo, as well figure skater Michael Martinez are the athletes of the event.
Dee is the swimmer in the Nakhon Ratchasima Games who failed to win a medal in the men's 100-meter and 200-meter butterfly events.
4-time swimming gold medalist Miguel Molina was named the Most Valuable Male Player of the 2007 SEA Games, the third Filipino to bag the major award for outstanding SEA Games performance after Akiko Thomson in 1989 Kuala Lumpur Games and Eric Buhain in the 1991 Manila Games.
Aside from swimmer Dee and taekwondo jin Lizardo are Kyle Arrieta, Eugene Herrera, Prince Carlos and Franco Hernandez, they was able to spend more days to take photographs in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.
While besides next to Dee and Lizardo, Arrieta, Herrera, Carlos and Hernandez are former noontime show co-host Christine Jacob Sandejas, she will take photos on Facebook using Canon EOS during the swimming competitions.
Jacob-Sandejas is barring from leaving the Philippines for Thailand, she and their group are using the Thai Airways flight for Bangkok on December 2.
The country has 41 golds, 91 silvers and 96 bronzes and placed 6th in the medal tally.
The replay of 2007 Southeast Asian Games sporting events, along with opening and closing ceremonies shot in 16:9 1080i HD will be uploaded via Rappler's official YouTube channel.
ABS-CBN still has the Kapamilya campaign, which has been with the network since January 1, 2000. The Kapamilya campaign of ABS-CBN was first done in coinciding ABS-CBN’s two grand events: the network’s Philippine Independence Centennial party at Expo Filipino in June 1998, and the nationwide and worldwide multimedia year-end broadcast “The ABS-CBN Worldwide Celebration of the New Millennium” last December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000 and the papal coverage "Thank You sa Malasakit: Pope Francis sa Pilipinas" last January 15 to 19, 2015.
Eighteen of the top 20 highest rated TV shows for 2007 were from ABS-CBN as well, according to Kantar Media.
The primetime drama series of two networks were pushed back for up to two hours.
Plebisito sa paghahati ng Palawan, planong gawin sa Marso 13, 2021
PUERTO PRINCESA, Palawan, Dis. 1 (PIA) -- Ipinapanukala ngayon ng Commission on Election (COMELEC) provincial office na sa Marso 13, 2021 isagawa ang plebisito para sa paghahati ng Palawan sa tatlong probinsiya.
Gayunpaman, ayon kay Shiela Guno, itinalagang lider ng plebiscite team kinakailangan pang aprubahan ito ng Comelec en banc, kung kaya dadaan pa sa proseso ang magiging pinal na petsa.
Aniya, nagpapatuloy pa sa kasalukuyan ang pagbuo ng opisyal na guidelines para sa gagawing plebisito, subalit patuloy rin ang kanilang pakikipag-ugnayan sa pamahalaang panlalawigan ng Palawan kaugnay sa mga ipatutupad na panuntunang pangkalusugan sakaling matuloy na ito.
Ang plebesito ay naunang naitakda nitong Mayo 2020 subalit hindi natuloy dahil sa pagkakaroon ng pandemya dulot ng coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Nitong Oktubre, inanunsiyo ng Inter Agency Task Force (IATF) Against COVID-19 na sa taong 2021 na magaganap ang plebisito.
Sinabi rin ni Guno na plano nilang idaos ng isang araw lamang ang botohan sa halip na dalawang araw na siyang pinahihintulutan ng IATF. (LBD/PIAMIMAROPA)
Ways to Receive Signals
Ways to Receive Signals of Digital Terrestrial Television
In general, TV households within the signal coverage area of the transmission stations mentioned above should be able to receive DTT broadcasting signals with the use of standalone full band antennas in reasonably good condition and DTT receivers (i.e. the set-top boxes or the integrated digital television). After performing the “auto searching” function, the DTT receiver will automatically tune to DTT channels and display the channel numbers.
For households within the signal coverage area who are receiving television broadcasting signals through in-building communal aerial broadcast distribution (CABD) systems, the CABD system owners and managers of the buildings concerned have to install an appropriate DTT channel receiving equipment in the system before these households can receive the TV broadcasting signals from UHF TV Channel 62.
