Strong Foundations

Once upon a time a man from China sailed to the Philippines. He fell in love with a Chinese-Filipina and built her a house where they could raise their children and their children’s children and so forth. A deadly earthquake devastated Bohol last night causing damage to many historic buildings and houses, but that house still stands. That house is the ancestral house of the Lim clan - the house my mother grew up in, the house my great-great grandfather built for his heart. Sometimes even natural disasters can’t bring down the foundations built from love and the promise of a future.