FOREWORD

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"[God] will not let you be tempted/tested beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it."

From varied points of view, none of us is the same. Therefore, it’s difficult to interpret and/or to apply the above verse of Saint Paul to onseself. However, for me personally, I know that beyond so many ups and downs in my life, I have successfully fled overseas, and that a new life-style I had been voluntarily looking for has begun.

I also know that there is a kind of cord - invisible but existential, light and tender but strong and sharp - which ties my whole life with the life of my confreres and relatives who still are under pressure and trapped within an altered life - a life-style that they have had to accept in trying to adopt, willy-nilly - in my homeland.

I realize that not I alone acknowledge such a mysterious yet marvelous tie, but all people of different beliefs and races seem to be co-related and inter-supported by it: That is by HUMAN LOVE. I am convinced that this Human Love is displayed by Threshold of New Hope in the building of inter-personal bridges at the very moment one would think we are at the most desperate circumstance of our life.

And that is what I am trying to show in this Journal 2, yet limited to the little world of the De La Salle Family.