Chapter
III
Prayers
of Filipinos & Filipinas
4. “Almighty
God, Creator of the Islands, you benevolently instilled in our simple
hearts and minds the foundations of your love. When the Spanish empire
declined in 1898 and American ‘Manifest Destiny’ annexed us
along with Guam, Puerto Rico and Cuba, our spirit of independence from
human domination of any kind, manifested violently inspite of President
McKinley’s ‘benevolent assimilation’ proclamation that
‘God had entrusted the archipelago to the United States of America’.
Our poor souls and simple hearts believe that the only Sovereign Being
we adore and worship is you, LORD, the planner of our destiny. Benevolent
God, though we did not have perfect liberty, you blessed our landscape
with navigable sea coast for protection and extend our power of exchanging
outside our own island the provisions and materials planted in our midst
and tilled with our hands. LORD God supporter of the weak, for the first
time in our lives, we saw ‘equality of conditions as the creative
element’ in a democratic society for we accumulated human capital
learning a unifying English language taught by ‘Thomasites’
teachers on crusade to mass educate, uplift and Christianize.”
"All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came
to be. What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light
of the human race."John 1:3
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
6. “LORD, God, protector of the forsaken, savior of those without hope, in 1969, your divine power enlightened many of us to immigrate to United States of America with our families learning and assimilating in our poor souls and simple hearts equality of opportunity and individual freedom to pursue our self-interest for our happiness and prosperity. For the first time in our lives, LORD God, our labors, ‘the real measure of exchangeable value and the first price paid for all things’ afford us the necessities, conveniencies and amusements of human life.’ For the first time in our lives, LORD God, there’s a natural, market price for our human capital of educational skills to divide into wages, profit and rent; our wages rise and fall with the price of commodities, our profit depends on market demand of
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