We go through life looking for independence, testing boundaries and trying to work out who we really are and what we can become.
In doing so, it is always our Father’s Love that keeps us secure and grounded because it is almost always steady and very assuring. Our father’s presence is always a good reminder for us to have faith that things will work out; maybe not always as we have planned them, but how they’re meant to be.
As we celebrate Father’s Day this weekend, we gathered some valuable lessons that the fathers in our Team NOEL family willingly share to our bigger community.
Jun de Leon
No day should be half lived. Biking the road less traveled with family is the best. Someday our children will spread their wings, and fly high. I will always be watching them touch the sky!
Ryan Agoncillo
(First Attempt at writing a haiku)
apples of my eye
did not fall far from the tree
grow happy and free
Gabe Mercado
Tonight is my son Beeto’s senior prom. And there was no one to drive him to and from the prom in Baguio. He has had to figure that out himself. It seems like it was a lovely prom.
He’s been sending me pictures and updating me. They’re now at the after party.
He just messaged me: “Go sleep. I’ll be fine.”
I trust that he will be.
And that is a fitting rejoinder for this farewell to high school life. I can rest easier now as this boy is now a man.
He’ll be fine.
And so will I.
Kim Atienza
I learned that hard work far outweighs natural talent. In my 57 years of life I’ve seen the talented fall from high places and the masipag ones stay on top. So I tell my kids “Masipag and humble is the best combination versus talented and proud. They fall and fall hard.”
Coach Culver Padilla
Rushing things, ruins things. How you do anything, is how you do everything.
Chris Tiu
Always promote good values. Inspire people to serve others. Pursue excellence and become champions in life!
Patrick Garcia
Build the Faith. Start from loving the Lord. Find something you love to do. And wherever, always have fun. Children are sponges. They copy what they see. So we try to be good examples to them.
Victor Neri
Never stop learning. Always listen to your mother.
Joross Gamboa
In this world we will have challenges, mistakes are part of it. But God didn’t create us by mistake, yes, we are born in a fallen world and we will have troubles, but fear not because our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was able to overcome it. Always trust in Him with all our heart and mind. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
Rico Hizon
Let our children pursue their dreams – and experience all of life’s adventures. Let’s ground them with love for family, country and God!
Truly, the home is the nest where children are raised and the place where they are the most important inhabitants. And the ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are, accepted, cared for and loved – especially by Fathers and Father Figures we hold on high esteem.
And if it’s true that we become whom and what we love, there will always be a part of us which is borne out of our Father’s love; and we are forever grateful.
