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    Couples for Christ

    Ecstasy Weekend
    Baguio City, Philippines
    January 21-23, 2000

    TALK 5: PASS ON THE JOY

    I. INTRODUCTION

    A. This weekend we were ecstatic. We had great fun in the company of great
    friends. We had great romance. We had a piece of heaven. It’s easy to be
    happy under these circumstances. The real test of our decision to be happy
    starts when we go home after this weekend. When we go back, the problems
    we left behind will still be there. We’ll still have bills to pay and problems to
    solve in the office. Those who made big investments in stocks are still faced
    with a lot of losses. Obstacles in service will still be present; e.g., low
    attendance in our assemblies and teaching, low turnout in our CLPs,
    problematic unit heads and household heads. Faced with these realities, can
    we still decide to be happy?

    B. Yes, we can; by not forgetting the “Be Happy Attitudes” that we learned
    yesterday and applying them to day-to-day problems that we face.

    II. OUR MISSION: TO MAKE OTHERS HAPPY

    A. Since both husband and wife are here this weekend, they can support each
    other’s decision to be happy.

    1. If our spouse is happy, he/she will become a better and more pleasant
    person to live with.
    2. If your spouse is happy, you will also be happy.
    3. When one spouse forgets and starts to be unpleasant, unreasonable or
    miserable, the partner should remind him/her about their commitment to
    make each other happy.

    B. Husband and wife are partners in making others happy, starting with their
    children.

    1. Introduce them to our God who loves and forgives, provides and protects,
    a God who wants them to be happy.
    2. Show them that you, their parents, love each other and are happy
    together. Remember that the emotional stability of our children is very
    much affected by the stability of the marriage of their parents. Generally,
    happy parents raise happy children.
    3. Bring the children to the community. If our children see their parents
    happy in the community, they also will want to be a part of it. If parents
    are always complaining about their service, if they are burdened by their
    commitments, the children will be afraid to be part of this community.
    4. To make children happy, parents should be able to communicate with
    them and build a trust relationship. Unhappy children are oftentimes
    those whose parents are malicious, suspicious and paranoid about the
    behavior of their children.
    5. Respect our children’s ideas, hopes and dreams. It’s important for
    parents not just to teach their children to respect them but to respect their
    children as well. They should not shout, curse or always impose their will
    on them.

    C. Husband and wife are partners in transforming society.

    1. Elders in CFC believe that the work of evangelization is a concrete


    expression of our desire to transform society and make it a better place
    for us to raise our children. It has often been said in the past that our
    service in this community is an investment in the future of our children.
    While many parents are fearful and frustrated about the deterioration of
    morality and the peace and order situation in our country and the world,
    those in CFC are taking action rebuilding families that produce unhappy
    children, juvenile delinquents, drug addicts and criminals.
    2. Our work of evangelization is an effort to restore happiness in many
    homes that are miserable because they do not know Christ. Our
    guarantee that life will be better and safer for our children is getting more
    and more families to our side.
    When we feel tired or want to give up in our service, just remember that
    we might fail to transform that particular criminal or person who might
    harm our family. Like our work with the poor in Bagong Silang has
    transformed criminals including snatchers, hold-uppers of jeepneys and
    buses, drug pushers, and notorious “akyat bahay” gang members.
    The families of CFC in the areas where they operate have been spared
    from becoming victims because of our evangelization effort that has
    transformed the lives of this people.
    3. This millennium, the thrust of this community is to work for total human
    liberation. Our objective in the next 10 years is to replicate the work in
    Bagong Silang in all the clusters of CFC throughout the country. When
    we achieve this objective by being faithful to the vision and to our mission
    then we would fulfill the promise of the Lord of a safer nation for our
    children where they can build their careers and raise their families.
    4. There is much to be done and this is coming at a time when we are
    starting to feel the aches and pains in our bodies. But, if we truly love our
    children then we should act with urgency and with total commitment.
    We must realize that it will be extremely difficult for our children to be
    happy if there are a lot of criminals in the city, insurgents in the hills and
    countryside, and corruption government and society. The only way to
    address this condition in our society is through evangelization and our
    total commitment to our work in building the Church of the Poor. We
    need our doctors in this community to commit to our medical mission, our
    lawyers to our work in St. Thomas Moore, our businessmen to support
    our media effort, and the affluent to support our work with the poor.

    III. CONCLUSION

    A. As parents, true ecstasy for us is believing and trusting that our children will
    have a happy future. The way to guarantee a happy future for them is by
    committing totally to the mission of rebuilding society. As long as there are a
    lot of miserable people in the country because nobody has brought the Lord
    into their lives, it will be difficult for our children to be happy.
    B. Let us call on the children of the elders to march in front of the stage.
    C. True ecstasy is leaving this life and meeting Jesus after a fulfilled life
    dedicated to the care of our family. It is also leaving this life knowing our
    children will have a great future because we have dedicated our lives in
    transforming the environment where they will raise their own families.
    True ecstasy is also seeing our children taking on the mission of CFC and
    continuing the work that we began.

    IV. ACTIVITY

    A. The children of the elders march to the stage.


    B. Reflection Question: Are you now willing to give all to build a better life for
    your children?
    C. Parents are asked to stand and given this direction: Let us now consecrate
    our children to God and pray over them.
    The speaker leads the group in consecrating and praying over the children.
    D. Praisefest.

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