“PAGPAPAMUKHA”: Reflections on Hurting, Hoping, and Healing in Context

Abstract

I will be taking the stance from a religious point of view .Let me begin by saying that many among us here hopes unless he or she is despairing; no one seeks healing unless he or she has been sick, wounded, or broken. “Despairing”, “sick”, “wounded”, “broken” all these descriptions represent the dire side of human reality. They suggest the oppressiveness of a situation; and, they are found in the lot we are being charged to today: the pandemic. On all levels, we can safely say that mankind is grappling and haggling from all of these: physical up to mental, and even moral and spiritual. What sense does it get from all of these? What sense do we, human beings, achieve from these?