Amuma, Blessed and Strong at 20!

Amuma soars high with GOD’s grace.

A short history. “Grateful giving back to GOD for all HIS goodness” was the SPIRIT that enfleshed AMUMA on July 5, 2003, when Doc Margie survived her cancer. When the cancer came back, same spot, same kind, and even after Doc Margie’s death, gratitude to GOD was still the passion that spurred AMUMA on.

“What is the reason for staying on with AMUMA
the whole of 20 years?”, I was asked.
A litany of GOD’s transforming love –
A husband requested the funeral parlor
to get her wife’s body the next day so
they can spend the last night with her in
bed;

regretful to leave her son untaught
in prayer, a mother prayed the Holy
Rosary with her son for the first and last
time before her death;

a child of 3 lisped
a prayer to GOD to not take away her mother;
a friend whose tummy was
abnormally bloated, a mother who had
terminal cancer got healed with fervent
prayers;

a comatose lawyer shed tears as
the ‘asking for’, and giving forgiveness were
being prayed;

old but spritely priests,
navigated “taytayans” over swampy areas,
wobbly stairs and house posts in squatters’
areas to pray over and bless the dead;

a terminal patient spirited away from her
oppressive family;

a father and son who
earnestly forgave and asked for forgiveness
on the father’s death bed;

projects that started on zero ended up with extra cash
to deposit after the event;

the line of selfless volunteers, primarily prayer partners/
warriors, who journeyed the years;

the pray-overs that flowed freely as AMUMAns visited the lonely, broken-hearted, the sick, the dying and the dead; the novenas, recollections, Holy Masses that wrapped up every event undertaken.

Miracles of repentance, conversion, submission to GOD’s Holy Will adorned AMUMA’s 20 years. GOD alone, WHO created each human heart recreated it.

This is what AMUMA is, through the years with JESUS.

On a personal level, I saw GOD’s Hand upon me, experienced HIS unlimited second chances as a sinner, and witnessed first hand HIS daily miracles. HE opened my heart to know myself as a miserable, proud and needful sinner. Gratefully, I now know that every breath I take, each beat of my heart is a gift from GOD. Stubborn in HIS love for me and my family, I learned to cooperate with HIS perfect Will. Bowed, step by unrelenting step, HE taught me to love back. To love back with HIS prayers, HIS promises, HIS plans, HIS healing, HIS timing, HIS love, HIS glory – in JESUS’ Name and Blood.

It was never AMUMA, it was JESUS, giving and sustaining life in AMUMA.
I question back, why leave with so much grace yet to see?

All these 20 years, there is no one alone, and nothing at all, that came to fruition apart from GOD. And so it will be for all of AMUMA’s years to come.

With Mother Mary, to GOD THE FATHER, THE SON, THE HOLY SPIRIT be all glory and praise forever! (Bella Sarenas)