Forgiveness - how easy could you forgive someone? It's difficult right? Don't worry, you are not alone. Forgiveness is never easy, if it was, then we would have world peace at this time. And I have something to share with you, it shocked me the 1st time I saw it, it also encouraged me to forgive.


Gary Ridgway, a known serial killer in the US, admitted to the killing of 71 women and 49 of them were already identified as his victims. He was sentenced to life for 480 years.

When he was interviewed back on 2001, he mentioned that he killed so many that he lost count of it. Most of his victims were either prostitutes or runaways.

He would pick up women and strangle them, throwing the bodies on the woods and would go back to them to have sexual intercourse. One of his victims was the very young Linda Rule who was just 16 years old.



Gary was apprehended on November of 2001 and he was put on a trial. Ridgway confessed to the killings and a verdict was given to him.

On the court trial, family members of the victims were present and as expected, a lot of the family members damned Ridgway. They wished for him to suffer so much is as if they wanted him dead. Who could blame them, for what he has done, who wanted him alive?

But not this man, Robert Rule stood and exactly did the opposite.  Check this video out.


How far could you go and forgive someone? For Mr. Rule, he did something that no one did in that courtroom.

Why? Because he believed in God. He believed in forgiveness.

Matthew 18:21-22

21 Then Peter came and said to Him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” 22 Jesus *said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.

Does anyone need your forgiveness? If Mr. Rule can forgive his daughter's killer, then you can forgive too! It may not be instant but work on it, don't hurry it up. Forgive and start making, if not the world at least yourself better.

God bless you!

Video is not mine, all credit goes to SnapOMGcom.
Picture is not mine, credit goes to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gary_Ridgway_1982_Mugshot.jpg

I am certainly almost sure that everyone wants to be successful. We want to be rich, we want to be promoted in our jobs, we want to have a business swarmed by customers everyday, we want to have a strong family, you name it, we want to succeed in all of our dreams.

How bad do you want it? How many times have you thought about it? Have you ever imagined yourself on that successful position?

Well let me tell you this, YOU CAN BE SUCCESSFUL! You can be the person that you have ever wanted in your life, you can reach your dreams!

You know what you need? You just need fuel to keep on going, not the fuel for the cars but something to fuel your desire to be successful.

And that fuel is your WHY. Your WHY is your reason to be successful. Why do you want to get rich? Why do you want to be promoted in your job? Why do you want customers to swarm your business everyday? WHY?

You start with your WHY, make it BIG and you are good to go! Let me tell you a story about a woman who made it big because of her BIG WHY.

Let us call her Julia. Julia had 6 children and only the husband worked. With hubby working it all, they lived a pretty comfortable life.

Unfortunately, hubby got diagnosed with liver cancer. Later on, hubby passed away leaving Julia and her 6 children.

Julia could not get an office work because she does not have any degree. One time, she got a part time job but the pay was not sufficient.

Out of no choice, she had to do business. She teamed up with her mom and her Ninang (Godmother) the supplier. They eventually made a small meat shop in the Palengke.


Long story short, her small time meat shop became very successful and was able to support all her 6 children. All of them finished college and became successful. One of her children is named Dean Pax Lapid, the founder of GO NEGOSYO.

Why did she become successful? She had a very big WHY! Her Why was for her children to finish studying, for her children to be successful, for her children to be well fed and well supported and for the family to survive. These reasons allowed her to keep on going, it fueled her dream to be successful.

Reach your dreams! Fuel it up! Start with your BIG WHY and from there, move forward and do what is needed.


God Bless you!

Credit goes to http://wonderfulengineering.com/increase-your-cars-fuel-mileage-using-these-simple-steps/ for Fuel image 

Credit goes to http://www.flickr.com/photos/hulagway/1099226828/in/photostream for Palengke.