Balik-bayan box has always been apart of our family, a tradition established by my father from Saudi with love, a legacy that my father imprinted in our heart. I have always been a fan of him not only because he's my father but also without any degree he keeps his family from starving to death, he keeps his hardworking spirit and go to unfamiliar place to work there. Time and existence is my father's investment to keep going in life there in a hot-weather place in middle east. But the Lord is so good he bless my father so that my father is also a blessing not only to his immediate family but to other as well, like relatives, neighbors and family friends. My father is not around anymore yet his spirit live in us. From my father to my mother in Kuwait, then my three eldest sister's in Japan and now in my own family.
But the thrills of excitement is also the tears of absence obviously because of missing your loved-one. I remember our pastor said that it is the stigma of an Overseas Filipino Worker family the thrills and tears, the two opposite extreme feeling yet embrace by the same virtue.
Kudos to all the OFW and their family! God bless you more than you ever imagine!
