Manny Pacquiao Concedes Defeat to Bongbong Marcos

 "I will definitely continue my mission to help our people ..." --Manny Pacquiao, PI Senator/Pro Boxer

Senator Pacquiao leaves office on June 30, 2022

"I know how to accept defeat," Pacquiao said. "But I hope that even though I lost this race, my countrymen, especially the poor, still win in this scenario."

The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.

24Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand. (Psalm 37)

Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao, Sr

LEGEND MANNY PACQUIAO CONCEDES PHILIPPINE PRESIDENTIAL RACE

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Triggered by Typhoon Pictures in Laoag, Ilocos Norte PI

Severe tropical storm, Ineng:  People killed, crops gone, many farm animals dead -- yet it's the one picture below that truly stopped me in my tracks. 

At the height of the typhoon on Saturday, Ilocos Norte residents particularly in Laoag, Bacarra, Pasuquin, Burgos and Vintar experienced one of the worst flooding caused by torrential rains of around 50 millimeters volume of water for 16 hours.-- pna.gov

I am prompted to remember: 

Me as a young passenger in a motorized tricycle being driven to my private grade school.  We pass a man & woman on the dusty road (this is how I immediately surmised how poor they were). The lady had to try hard to keep up with her husband who with his ramrod-straight back was focused straight ahead towards their destination. He is carrying their young daughter in his arms similar to the man above. She is also fully wrapped in a white hospital sheet, and her exposed feet bounced as he walked. She is obviously dead. Not from a severe flooding, but very likely from a short illness that our rural hospital could not cure. Her Parents were taking her back home, on foot, for a simple wake; and then a burial in a pauper's grave. I weep inside.

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My heart breaks for the people affected by the tropical storm and flooding but together, we can make a huge impact! Imagine if everyone gave just $5. Thank you for helping others!  -- Senator Manny Pacquiao, Instagram

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, 

saith your God.

-Isaiah 40:1

‘Ineng’ leaves Ilocos Norte flooded

"Ineng" Leaves Over P1.1-Billion in Damages in Ilocos Norte

Manny Pacquiao Foundation

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Boxing Video: Pacquiao versus Matthysse -- 9 Years in the Making

Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao versus Lucas Matthysse.  

Knock-out! The Filipino versus the Argentinian! A memorable boxing fight, and worth remembering just in case it's Manny's last fight before he retires from the ring.

Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things

- 2 Corinthians 2:14-16

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