Finally got out of the house this morning for brunch. Coffee shop was full of office workers working "from home" and having checkpoint meetings. Was especially touched when a boss opened the meeting with a prayer to thank the Lord for keeping everyone safe during the quakes.
Friends, Cebu and Bohol will rise. In fact, it is already rising: Everyone is eager to work, and life is moving along with that fierce Bisayan perseverance. Church buildings might have been destroyed but the Church is as strong as ever. She prays in coffee shops, in make-do offices, in schools, in cracked houses, in every place where there is God and a hopeful soul. Truly, not even the gates of hell will prevail against the Church.
