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RISING FROM THE ASHES
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Bro. Eddie C. Villanueva's New Year Message New Year has always been about beginnings, resolutions and turning over a new leaf. But for many of us, it means so much more. It means rising from the ashes. And marching onwards with greater courage and a more unyielding fortitude against all the failures, disappointments, hurts and pains of the past year. We have much to rise from. Blow after blow has been thrown to beat us down. On a personal level, we have had to face our own challenges in our families, among our friends and peers in the workplace. Ruined plans and broken dreams. Financial devastation and loss of home and properties. Betrayed trusts and emotional devastation. Illnesses. Injustices. And deaths. On a national level, calamities after calamities came one after another: earthquakes, landslides, floods and typhoons, the latest being this year's world's strongest and most devastating Super Typhoon Yolanda.
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