Is A Lack Of Love Causing You To Get Sick?
One day, a man came to a priest and said, “Father, please help me. My wife is poisoning me.”
“What? How can you be sure?” the priest asked.
“I’m very sure!”
The priest was very concerned. He said, “Let me talk to your wife. I’ll see what I can find out—and I’ll let you know.”
The next day, the man came to the priest again.
“What happened, Father?”
“I called your wife. I talked to her for three solid hours! Do you want my advice?”
“What’s your advice, Father?”
“Drink the poison.”
Why People Are Sick
Do you know why so many people are sick?
Because their relationships are poisoning them.
So many people are starving for love.
But all they get is poison.
Today, I’m going to make a bold claim: I can predict the state of your health 30 years from now. How? By asking you a simple question: How’s your relationship with your parents?
Let me tell you where I got this…
The Effect Of Our Parents’ Love
From 1956 to 1991, Harvard asked 126 healthy men to rate their relationship with their parents, whether it was…
a. Very Close
b. Warm and Friendly
c. Tolerant
d. Strained and Cold
(Go right ahead and choose two answers, one describing your relationship with your Mom and the other with your Dad.)
These researchers went back to these men 35 years later.
Among the men who said they had “very close, warm, and friendly” relationships with both their parents, 47% had major illnesses. But 53% of them were healthy.
You might say, “Well Bo, what’s so surprising about that? Isn’t that normal—half are healthy and half are sick?”
Yes, that’s normal.
But the next answers aren’t.
After 35 years…
§ Among the men who said only their mother was warm and close, and their father wasn’t, 82% were sick; 18% were healthy.
§ Among the men who said only their father was warm, and their mother wasn’t, 91% of them were sick; Only 9% were healthy.
§ Here’s the worst. Among the men who rated both their father and mother low in warmth and closeness, 100% of them were sick. None of them were healthy!
By sick, I mean major diseases like heart disease, ulcers, hypertension, even alcoholism.
I have good news for you: You don’t have to follow these statistics. Because God has another plan for your life.
He wants you to be vibrant and healthy and strong.
If you follow what God is telling you to do today, you’ll experience health and healing in your body.
But first, let me explain why we get sick when we lack love.
Sickness Is Separation
God designed our bodies for love.
The Bible says, It is not good for the man to be alone (Genesis 1:18).
Think of fish. Pull it out of water and it dies. Because its body was made for water. In the same way, our bodies were made to swim in love. Pull us out of love and we die. Our bodies get sick, become weak, and perish.
Whenever we move towards separation, conflict, isolation, and loneliness, we get sick.
Stress is really separation.
Worry is separation.
Fear is separation.
Sadness is separation.
We’re afraid because we feel alone.
We’re sad because we feel no one is there for us.
Anger and unforgiveness is also separation.
Here’s my belief: Any movement towards separation makes us sick. But any movement towards connection makes you whole!
When you forgive, when you love, when you trust, you walk towards your healing.
Take a look at this small town called Roseto.
The Effect Of Our Neighbor’s Love
Roseto has become very famous because Malcolm Gladwell wrote about it in his bestselling book, Outliers.
For many years, this small town in Pennsylvania was a “medical anomaly”. Doctors and researchers couldn’t understand why Roseto’s residents were incredibly healthy.
For example, virtually no one in Roseto had heart disease!
And the death rate for those age fifty to sixty years old was half that of the entire USA.
So many theories came up to explain this medical anomaly. They said perhaps it was the air they breathed. Or the water they drank. Or the food they ate. But after much research, all these theories didn’t hold water.
Why? Because right beside it was another town named Nazareth. And people of Roseto and Nazareth ate the same food, drank the same water, and breathed the same air.
But Nazareth, just a few miles away, had a lot of people with heart disease. And their death rate of old people followed the national average.
So what was so special about Roseto?
After many years of study, Doctors finally found the answer.
Many years ago, the people of a tiny village in Italy, also called Roseto, migrated to America.
They pitched their tents in a place in Pennsylvania and called their town Roseto too. And these migrants brought with them their close-knit relationships.
For years, they were insulated from the “individualist” lifestyle of America.
Let me give you a glaring fact: Unlike many Americans, in Roseto, three generations lived under one roof!
Grandpa, grandma, all the children and their spouses, and all the grandchildren still lived in one house, eating together everyday. Imagine the noise. Imagine the fights. Imagine the chaos. But imagine also the love!
Here’s a second unique thing about this town. After dinner, you’d see neighbors gathering on their wooden porches and talking over a hot cup of coffee. You’d see neighbors greeting each other on the street and chitchatting. No one is rushing. Everyone knows everybody.
And that, my friend, was the only reason for the medical anomaly in Roseto: Something called Love.
Create This Medical Anomaly
In Your Family
I believe God wants you to build a Roseto in your family.
He wants you to be 100% healthy.
He wants your family to be 100% healthy too.
How do you receive this grace?
Increase your love in your heart.
Increase your love in your family.
Spend more time together.
Go home after work and play with your kids.
Date your spouse.
Eat together often.
Laugh with your friends.
Better yet, serve together.
You’ll bless your loved ones with spectacular health.
Because only love heals.
4 Prescriptions To Heal Your Body
By The Power Of Love
Let me go to specific ways of healing.
Here are four things you can do to increase healing in your body by the power of love.
1. Open Up More
Dr. David Spiegel wanted to disprove my very message—that love has something to do with health.
He got women with metastatic breast cancer and divided them into two sections. The women in the first section were each given small support groups. These small groups were to meet for 90 minutes each week for sharing and encouragement.
The second section didn’t have these support groups.
Result? Those women in the first section, who had weekly support groups, lived twice as long as the other women.
Sadly, after five years, all the women in the second section were dead.
Dr. Spiegel was proven wrong.
Love has everything to do with your health!
If you want to be healed, open up in your close relationships. If you don’t have close relationships, find them.
In Light of Jesus, we don’t only have large gatherings like the Feast. We also have Caring Groups. These are small groups of 8 to 15 people who gather each week for sharing and loads of fun.
So here’s my first prescription for you: Join a Caring Group.
God wants to bring healing to your body. And He’ll do it by your close relationships.
They’ll change your life and heal your bodies too.
I’ve been part of these small, nourishing, Caring Groups for 30 years now. I can’t imagine my life without them. Each week, I always look forward to these relaxing, happy, fun meetings. I believe they’re the best stress-busters in the world.
2. Touch More
Do you have a pet?
You’ll find this next study riveting.
In Ohio, researchers wanted to measure the effect of a high-cholesterol diet among rabbits.
So they fed rabbits food rich in cholesterol. (I have no idea what they fed Bugs Bunny and his friends. Aligue? Crispy pata?)
In one room, rabbits were stacked in wired cages from floor to ceiling. All of them were given the same food rich in cholesterol.
The doctors were expecting all the rabbits to develop blockages in their arteries.
But the results boggled their minds. The rabbits at the higher cages got more blockages than the ones in the lower cages.
It made no sense.
The rabbits were of the same genetic background.
But after much thinking, they found the answer.
A very obvious, simple answer.
They discovered that the guy who fed the rabbits loved animals. He would play with them, pet them, cuddle them, and stroke them.
But here was the problem: He was short.
So he could play only with the rabbits in the lower cages. He couldn’t play with the rabbits in the higher cages. He could only feed them.
Result? The rabbits that were petted, cuddled, caressed, and loved had 60% less blockages in their arteries.
Amazing?
That’s the power of touch.
Go Against Your Culture
And Show Affection
If affection is good for rabbits, it must be good for you too.
I recommend that you touch, hug, and caress your loved ones more often. They need it. (Correction: They starve for it.)
And you need it too.
When I say this, some tell me, “But Bo, my family isn’t the touchy-feely type. It’s just not our family culture. We feel corny and icky when we do that.”
Then don’t follow your culture.
Unless, of course, you want to get sick.
Let me give you an example of culture.
Psycholgist Sydney Jourard wanted to measure the number of times couples touched in a restaurant. So he went around the world and through hidden cameras counted the number of “touches”.
In Puerto Rico, couples touched 180 times an hour.
In Paris, couples touched 110 times an hour.
But in the United States, they touched only 2 times an hour.
And in London, it was zero!
Too bad he didn’t come here to the Philippines.
But our national average isn’t important.
Here’s my second prescription: Today, make a decision to create a culture of touch in your family. If you know how important touching is to the health of your loved ones, you’ll do it.
Make a conscious effort to embrace each other everyday.
I embrace my kids everyday—and it’s good for them, and it’s good for me too!
Embrace your children.
Embrace your parents.
Embrace your friends.
We need hugs for our physical survival.
3. Volunteer More
Receiving love is important.
But giving love is important too.
In a huge study done by Cornell University, they gathered 427 married women with children. They hypothesized that the more kids a mother has (and thus, more stress), the earlier she dies.
They were wrong. The number of kids wasn’t a factor at all.
They were shocked to discover that the determining factor of a mother’s longevity was something very simple: whether she did volunteer work or not in a volunteer organization.
After thirty years, they went back to these 427 women.
Here were the results:
· Among the women who didn’t do volunteer work, 52% had major illnesses.
· Among the women who did regular volunteer work, only 36% had major illnesses.
You get sick because you move towards separation.
How does healing happen?
When you move towards connection.
When you love and receive love, your body rejoices.
Your body is happy!
And your body becomes strong.
Today, I ask you: Do you do volunteer work?
Do you give of yourself to people who won’t be able to pay you back? I invite you to join a ministry in your prayer group or charity work.
My third prescription for 100% health:
For a few hours a week, forget yourself. Think of others. Go out of your way. Serve strangers.
And yes, welcome healing into your body.
4. Accept More
I’ve got a great marriage.
People ask me, “Bo, what’s your secret? If there’s one thing that I can do to have a great marriage, what would it be?”
I tell them my secret.
It’s very simple, really.
Everyday in my marriage, I face a choice: To be right or to be loving. And I always choose to be loving.
There are times when I’m totally convinced that I’m right and my wife is totally wrong. But I’ve long decided never to insist that I’m right. I just love her. Believe me, this decision has made my marriage—and my life—so enjoyable. (And after two years or so, I realize I was wrong and she was right. Oh well…)
And my body is healthier too!
I heard Deepak Chopra once talk about this. He said if you want to be healed, you have to lose your need to defend your point of view.
War is the defense of a point of view.
But war has never worked. Just look at the history of the world. No one wins in a war!
Hey, it’s great to have a point of view. (It’s healthy.)
But don’t be attached to it.
Because no two people will experience reality in the same way. Repeat: When you lose your rigid need to be right, you experience healing.
Do you want to be healthy?
Here’s my fourth and last prescription: Don’t judge.
Don’t label.
Deepak says that in the silence of non-judgment, healing comes. (Silence happens because much of the noise in our minds is the noise of judgment.)
When you drop your defenses, there is nothing to attack.
Also, if you want to be healthy, choose the people you hang out with—those who don’t add to your stress. Have cheerful friends. Proverbs 22:24 says, Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man, do not associate with one easily angered…
You Will Be Healed
Friend, God wants to heal you.
God wants you to be healthy.
This is His great desire for you.
And the only way to be healthy is to live in love.
In the same way that fish need to live in the water, you too need to live in love.
Move towards connection with my four prescriptions.
· Open up more.
· Touch more.
· Serve more.
· And accept more.
Fill your life with love!
And you will be healed.
May your dreams come true,
Bo Sanchez
PS. Do you want a stronger, tighter, happier family? I just wrote a new book for you, entitled, How To Build A Happy Family. You can get it for free, including a 7-session audio and video course, Relationship Reborn, when you join my brand new FamilyReborn Club. Bring more love and healing to your family and prevent them from drifting apart. Go to www.FamilyReborn.com now!
Filed under: Health, happiness, Relationships, Family Life, Blogs by bosanchez
Dear Bro. Bo,
Good day!
I have been receiving your soulfood articles for some time now with the help of my daughter who subscribed them for me. The articles have been very uplifting and it is always a joy to be enlightened by God’s words thru your writings. I’ve been meaning to thank you but because of my hectic work schedule and other domestic demands, this reply has been long overdue.
I’m writing Bro. Bo, to express my gratitude for the wonderful nuggets of wisdom you have imparted to me and the rest of your readers, at the same time, I want you to know that you’re especially remembered and prayed for especially since it was your birthday. So Bro. Bo, BELATED HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY! May God’s love continue to overflow in you and may you be blessed forever in his Spirit!
God bless you Bro. Bo!
Sincerely,
Fiscal Gloria Cynthia P. Icao
Dumaguete City
I’m wondering where you got all the statistics from?
Hi, Bo. Happy Birthday! Thank you very much. Wish you all the best!
Happy Birthday, Bo.
Hi Bro Bo,
I love your insights and it help me in my everyday living. It inspires me to love more and be more caring. Thanks for all the wonderful thoughts. God Bless!
Happy Birthday Bro. Bo…u always inspire my heart and soul thanks for the words…May God bless you more and more…
happy bday! thanks for your inspiring and life changing articles!
God Bless !
Hi Bro. Bo!
Belated Happy Birthday!…Thanks for your words today. It’s really soulffilling and it gave me an anwer to my …why…
question.
More power to you. God will bless you more ….
Hi Bo! Happy Birthday, this topic is a perfect timing now that my mom is starting to take insulin for her diabetese. I know she’ll recover in God’s Grace and I’ll add ur prescriptions
happy birthday!!!May The Good Lord shower you with more insights to guide His flock to the right path…
Hi BRO BO,
It is part of my daily routine to read your mails..Its helps me a lot.. . Thank you for sharing your knowledge to us.. keep it up! I hope you can write topic / tips on customer service ( esp. in advertising ).
more power to you! and belated happy b-day!
- miggy
Hi Bro Bo…..you inspire me a lot…hope to see you in person….God Bless…..
yes!!!! i need to throw away my culture and start hugging my parents and kids and grandkids……. tnx bro bo
hi brother Bo., advanced Happy Birthday to yoU
i would surely follow these things that are written in this article.. you truly are very inspiring..:D
ang sarap mgbasa… thanks Bro. Bo…
Dear Bro Bo,
Allow me first to greet you a HAPPY, HAPPY AND A BLESSED BIRTHDAY! Thank you for all the inspiring and nourishing messages. You have blessed a lot of us. I thank God for giving you to us to be our spiritual leader. You have truly blessed and inspired so many including me. Please pray for me. I want to bring my family closer to God and I want them to be one with me in attending the feast. I want them to experience the joy that I feel every time I hear God’s messages. More power and more blessings too for you and your family.
This is really powerful message!
Hi Bro.
Happy happy birthday.
God bless
Noel
Happy bday br.o. Bo! May you have more and more birthdays to come because you are truly a great blessing to many. I want to thank you for helping me change my attitude in life…for the better of course.
God bless you and your family.
Hi Bro Bo,
You have truly been an inspiration and a mentor of my life. You were the one who proved me that Jesus loves even the sinners and gave me hope to lead the right path.
Belated happy birthday! May God continue to bless you because you surely is a blessing to others and you have touched many lives and lead them back to the Lord’s path.
I love you, Bro Bo! God bless you and your family.
Din-din
bro. bo,
thanks for this, i really need healing at this moment and this article is so timely. God bless you and your family.
rene
Dear Bro. Bo,
God send his message through you . Those message help me a lot to change for better, know more about relationship.
Thank you again for inparting your knowledge to us.
Belated Happy Birthday,May bless us always.
Lilia
Thanks Bo!
happy birthday!
more power!
Hi Bo,
Happy birthday and thank you for the insights for a health living, thank you for the 4 prescriptions you gave,
Open up more.
· Touch more.
· Serve more.
· And accept more
I will follow what you have said. thank you so much.
bro. Bo!
Happy happy birthday! i join you in thanking God for the gift of life.
i wish you more blessings! and
i praise and thank God for the gift that you are to me and to all whose lives you have touched.
thank you so much for inspiring us in many ways!
prime
Hi Bo,
Your works are inspiring. I always get something to think about every time I read them. I sometimes extract lines from them and share on my facebook page (I of course write your name after each one). I love sharing inspirational words that I get and I hope your would never get tired of inspiring more and more people and bring them closer to God.
Dearest Bro. Bo,
I was a nice talk yesterday at PICC and i was so happy to be there in your special day…. I would like to greet you and wish you a very happy blessed birthday. That as you grow older you will continue to be a blessing to others as you became a blessing to me and my family….. I pray that as we reach a 100 years that you bless a lot of generations through all the 1000 Feast that you build in your life time… Truly you are a blessing to us God made a right choice when he pick you to be his servant leader in the light of Jesus….. Continue to be a blessing to others and I also pray that as you prosper in your ministries you also prosper in your family life….
I also pray that you prosper in your marriage with Marowe she is a great blessing to you…. God did not sent a man without a companion and both of you are the foundation of God’s kingdom on earth…..
I am happy to be in your birthday yesterday…….Again Happy Happy Birthday God bless you and prosper you all the days of your life…. Miracles do happen the suppose robbery in your office was a great manifestation that God protects His people in everyway He can through discernment and wisdom….. Thank you for being the mentor and guide for my life…. You bless me every single day through gabay and through the feast every sunday and I don’t want to miss it…..
Be healthy and be happy always….
Rose Alovera
i am a single-mom OFW, how can I hug my children???
very inspiring…. i don’t have a very good, perfect relationships with my parents, too and we are not a touchy-feely type coz we also feel corny and icky when we do that.. i hope i won’t get sick. no matter how i try to be “showy” with them i feel shy and goosebumps are starting all over my body. i just can’t. i hope someday, we could also go against our culture.
nevertheless, when it comes to other people.. friends, colleagues, etc., i open up more, touch more, serve more and accept more..
Thanks …..
thank you Brother Bo for another inspiring article… I love reading your posts and been posting it to my fb account, I hope that people finds it inspiring as well.
Amen to this!
Hi Brother Bo! Belated happy birthday!
Thank you so much for such an inspiring article.. Now I know how much love can change our lives.. It’s been hard for me to give full love to the people I love for fear of emotional abuse… Bro bo you have been God’s instrument in spreading His love.. Help me pray bro bo that I can give out full love to this people that I really cherished… Again bro bo thank you for inspiring me.. God lbless u always!
Darling
thanks Bo. do you a special book for us being a OFW, thats very true being alone is very hard like us (OFW)
Belated Happy Birthday BO!
Thank You very much. You are trully a God Instrument to all of us. Thank you for all the blessings and graces of God that is showered upon us through you. You are so good! You are so blessed thats why you are blessing us too.
Always take care Bo. I hope that I will also like you someday.
GOD BLESS US!
Keep on investing,
Jurieve
Bro Bo,
Thanks for sharing this inspriting article.
God bless.
James Parmis
http://www.JamesParmis.com
Thanks for this article especially about pets. I have a pet cat at home and I observed that we all relax when the cat’s around and I feel better whenever he climbs on my lap. My parents even talk to the cat.
My aunt also got cats in Manila and they keep her company.
*embrace* thank you Bo. =)
I realized Im healthy because I surround myself with love, care and positivity.
There are alot to improve, and this gives me more motivation.
*hugs hugs*
This article made me realize the value of love and it should start in your own family.
Thanks Bro. Bo
Thanks Brother Bo another inspiring message and story from you….. God Bless and More Power….
Hi Bro Bo…Happy Birthday! May you continue to be God’s blessing to us. By the way, pls. continue praying for my family as we are separated (my daughter stays with my exhusband; my son stays with me). I still want to feel hopeful but lately, Im losing hope
Pls. pray for us.
Thanks and more power!
happy birthday Bro. Bo…God bless you.
Thanking God for the gift of your life and for being an instrument of His love and healing!
Dear Bro. Bo,
Happy Birthday!!
May God Bless you and your family and the LOJ community with more blessings and blessings and blessings….
Your article is a great reminder to give, serve, value and honor our family at all times.
It also reminds me to avoid those people who causes me stress..and be with people who are fun loving and cheerful.
Thanks again!
B-anne
Belated happy birthday, Bro. Bo!
Bro. Bo,
Know what? just by the title of your blog itself, i immediately taught that this is meant for me!!!
I am a wife of an OFW. My husband just left the country last March, and everytime he’s out, i really feel so alone & left behind by so many responsibilities with our five growing up kids. At the same time, i had to work to be of help to our family’s needs. because of this i became more impatient in dealing with the kids, i shout a lot, i get angry at times, & i worry to much! My stress level is above my head! Lately, i notice a change in my health, my head aches, my stomach aches, i had a pain in my chest and i my pulse rate is above normal…i feel so alone…i had no one to complain to, i had nobody to take care of me… I f i were given the chance, i would love to have a complete family, i love being around with my husband. We compliment each other. And i feel the security for my family esp. for the kids.That’s what i miss about him. But reality’s not fair…we had to be separated by fate.
After reading your last blog “Are Negative Emotions Causing You To Get Sick?” I had a change of plan, i had to put in mind to tone down myself, minimize getting angry, be more patient (as in maraming pacencia!) relax at times. I had to mellow my myself, for me to live longer! To come to the day when my husband & I, we’re both in our retirement age. When we’re both together again. To see my children having the lives of their own. To experience having grandchildren.
I have to see the positive side of life & i love it!
Thanks Bro. Bo, for being an inspiration…more blogs to come…God bless!
Dear Bro Bo,
Belated Happy Birthday.
I am part of your ministry and it really fulfilled me to share what i have to your ministry every month by sending portion of my salary to Shepherd voice.
Indeed i feel so blessed and overwhelmed by Gods pouring grace.
I am receiving daily passage from you and inspiring words thru Gods whisper. It is really inspired and give me hope to everyday trials that comes my way.
Please continue sharing your Gods gift to us.
God bless you and your family and your ministries.
Thanks and more power
we went home to attend our high school reunion last April. i saw one of my teacher after so many years. we parted with a warm hug and it etched a very good memory in me.
yesterday, he put a bullet in his brain. cause: family problems.
still, i’m in shock right now.
you’re right bro. bo, lack of love can cause anyone to get sick. whether physically or mentally.
you article hit the target. and a thank you is not enough.
God bless us all…
Thanks. I needed this.
hi bro. Bo, ur such an inspiration to us…reading your article helps me a lot in my everyday living, as a mom, i need all inspiring stories, i really learned a lot from you. Thank you for sending me soulfood…
Thank you for inspiring me.
Belated Happy …happy birthday.
Dear Bro. Bo,
happy birthday! thanks for the wonderful and inspring articles.
God Bless
Dear Bro. Bo,
Belated happy happy birthday. Reading your soulfood articles
give us a glimpse of how to live heaven on earth! Thank you so much for in guiding and inspiring us (your readers) in healing our minds, bodies and souls!
Praying for you.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to one of my favorite man in the world….!!! Godbless you more and more…thanks for the unceasing encouragement and enlightenment…We do all love you…..ENJOY!!!
hi bro. bo, god bless you for all that you do. people like me who seek the divine in our ordinary lives are inspired because of your words. you are prophetic in my life in a way that when i read your message , it is almost always at the right time in my life, thank you so much!
happy Birthday Bo.
Continue to inspire us…
Hi! Bo, happy birthday! Thanks very much for the article. You really need love inorder to be healthy and happy. Thanks for that very important reminder which we sometimes forget. I guess, I am somehow guilty of not much associating unless it’s online. Just because I make it a problem not having money for gimik fund or transpo and food allowance. I don’t have work but I try to have. And now I have some options as before coz I always read the Sunday ads but to no avail. Nobody would hire me for the nth time because of my unadmirable resume. Guess, there was God’s hand on this but I always believe that as humans we also have a hand in our lives. God gives me and provides for me and so I have allowance for things such as seminars or fairs or talks to attend to. But I am already ashamed of that because I still have to ask money from my mom. But I am sure trying my best to do it on my own. Only I don’t exactly know how. As a consequence of my frugality in money, I have limited gimiks with friends. When I feel I should have much. I was wondering where I could meet more friends even if I don’t have much money for socializing. Anyway, I am praying to God about this coz I don’t want to be just with my mom all the time. You know being young and single and all. I know God will bless me as God blesses you. Thanks again and hoping that some good things will happen in my life. God bless!
Happy Birthday Bo!
Thanks so much for inspiring a lOt of people, including us, my family! God bless yOu mOre! ☮ ♥ ☺
Happy, Happy Birthday Bro. Bo!
Thanks for the wonderful blessings and inspiration that you have continuously shared with us.
Thank you for making our lives more meaningful!
Thank you also for leading us to God’s path where we are blessed with more miracles, healings and gifts.
Thank you for making us realize that life is wonderful, love is great and God is good all the time!
God bless you and your family!
wow!
Hi Bo,
Cheers! I agree with everything you said. Among the 4 prescriptions, I think the one on serving others is the most powerful medicine. For those who read Bo’s article and now read my comment, may God lead you to serve in any of these ministries: Anawim, Tahanan orphanage, He Cares, Grace to be Born, Pag-asa scholarship, prison ministry.
Need details? Please contact me at reylindo.ortega@gmail.com.
Dear Bro. Bo,
Belated Happy birthday Bo! Keep on inspiring us and long live!
God bless!
thank bo for ur word of wisdom.. ur really one of the most admirable person i’ve ever known..God Bless u
This is my first time to actually start reading your blog. I have also read parts of some of your books. I actually have the book “40 Stories of Passion” and I have it for quite some time now but never really finished reading in in a 40-day duration. Now I decided to read it again one story per day (as advised) starting from the first story, the guy who lost everything yet still smiles and he’s happy. It’s really amazing.
I will also try to read your blogs regularly, from the latest to the oldest.
Thanks Bo.
Dear Bro Bo,
Belated happy birthday.
I have been subscribing your soulfood articles. There have been many times in my life that I am down yet, I feel spirited whenever I read these inspiring articles of yours.
Thank you so much for nourishing everyone’s soul. May the Lord our God will continue to shower you and your family with great abundance of blessings from above.
More power bro.
P.S. by the way, I’m from St Paul University Surigao and I hope that you can conduct a talk here in our school.Thanks.
Belated happy Birthday Bro. Bo! Im always inspired by the wonderful articles I received from you. The holy spirit really keeps moving in your life and how I could even wish in will continuously flow in the lives of so many people as well. Spread God’s love on Earth. God bless you more. God’s love is so GREAT!
Godspeed,
Jenny
Brother Bo,
Belated happy birthday! May the good Lord bless you always! Thanks again for a wonderful articles, it’s give inspiration to every one, i will try to be closer to my “nanay” especially now that she is “matanda na”.
God bless,
Hi Bo!
Thank you for this wonderful message I really believe being loved and giving Loved heals. Its just difficult for my part because I am far away to my kids and my wife being an Overseas worker. I really long to embrace my family everyday .Whenever I am home we still do with my daughter our good morning kiss and good morning hug routine and a big warm embrace to my wife and play a lot with my youngest. We have plans that this will be my last CONTRACT and this article give me the Inspiration why there are a thousand reasons why I should stay at home and One reason why I should Go Abroad only MONEY. Thank you BO PLEASE PRAY FOR ME!!! GODBLESS!!!
While I do agree with 90% of what you said, I somehow have trouble agreeing with the last part about just accepting your loved one’s wrong beliefs and/or actions. Yes, we do need to forgive. Yes, we do need to live in harmony with the people around us. But should the filling of that need come at the cost of teaching those around us what is wrong and what is right? What if my husband should one day say that he thinks it’s not necessary to go to mass every Sunday and adamantly refuses to do so–should I just let that pass? For the sake of peace and good health, should I just let him be? What if, after letting him be, my kids would say that they, too, don’t think it’s necessary to go to mass every Sunday since they can see that their father isn’t going and nothing bad seems to be happening to him anyway and I don’t get mad at him for not doing so, should I just take that sitting down–for the sake of peace and my good health? Should we just stop trying to discipline our children so that we don’t get stressed out and get sick? Should we just love, love, and love and not concern ourselves anymore with what is right or wrong and with showing the people around us the right way?
But isn’t loving about leading a person to his greatest good which is God? Isn’t loving helping others to know and serve God and be happy with Him in heaven some day? Thus, if we just let the people around us do wrong or patently evil things just so we wouldn’t get sick, is that not tantamount to hating them because we are tolerating their evil ways which separate them from God?
Hi Bro. Bo!
Thank you so much for the wonderful articles and reflections you always share with us. My day will not be complete if I don’t read the daily reflections in Kerygma and the soulfood articles you post regularly.
You’re articles and insights always inspire me. You are such a blessing to us, Bro Bo. Keep going….more power!!
By the way, Belated Happy Birthday, bro.!! May God continue to richly bless you and your family !!
Warm regards,
Belen
Hi Bro. bO,
salamat uli sa blog nah ito.
talagang nakkakataba ng puso.
soooo full of love itself.
Yes it’s true. Touch heals. Because there are things which we cannot say but we can feel- and only a loving touch can do that.
thanks bro. bo,
mmmwwwaaahhh… God bless
Dear bo. Bo,
I’m so sorry for my late greetings but still want to greet belated happy & blessed birthday!..’been busy these days but deep w/in my heart, i give praise & thanks to God because of you..i just can’t express how i really appreciate all your write ups, your books, i say amen to all the messages sent to you by our brothers & sisters..i’m not really good in English but i’m sure God knows what’s in my heart….thank you so much for being an angel to many people like me..God bless!
Dear Bro. Bo,
Belated Happy Birthday! Your articles give me so much inspiration to live and celebrate life. Thank you very much!
God bless!
Jun Leron
Dear Bro. Bo,
I commend you & your staff for keeping up with the signs of times in order to reach out to a greater multitude.
With unwavering zeal, may you continue to serve as a beacon of light to the modern day disciples of Christ.
More power.
Belated Happy Happy birthday!
Sincerely,
Kaye
happy birthday bo god bless you always
thank u :))
Happy3x Birthday Bro. Bo! Your birth is a wonderful blessing to us for you have been our fountain of wisdom and blessings all through the years. Thank you so much Bro. Bo! God bless, we love you!
Dear Bro. Bo,
Happy Birthday!!!! Wish you the best.
Again, thank you for your very inspiring article.
pat g
Hi, Bo! Belated Happy, happy birthday!
Thanks for the inspiring articles. May God bless you always!
Bro. Bo,
belated happy birthday…thank you again for sharing this loveable article of yours….may you continue inspires us through your good writting…
GOD bless us all…..
Dear Bo,
You have always been an inspiration to me. Your writings have been my source of strength and guidance. Thank you for being an instrument of God’s love and for always being generous of your insights.
Be more blessed and may you continue to bless others more!;p
Thank you for being my virtual spiritual mentor.
I’m truly bless and inspired everytime I read your books
and articles on soulfood.
Wishing you long life, good health,and abundant life of blessings and grace.
You lead me to become closer to God..im truly grateful.
Happy Birthday..
Belated Happy bday bro. bo, i wish evrything good in ur family… I agree that love is the answer in everything that,s why God sent us Lord n Savior Jesus Christ to teach us the truth about love…
hi bo,
thank you for this article.this article is such a great help on me.it made me realized the secret formula of happy and longer life.i will definitely apply this formula from now on.
thank you bro..
Belated happy birthday Bro. Bo. Thanks for the inspirational messages.
God Bless.
Happy Birthday Bo Sanchez…thanks for your inspiring stories-so simple yet so meaningful to me…God bless you more!
Hello Bro. Bo!
Today is the first soulfood email that I received. I’m so thankful because now I realized that I lacked Love in my life. I will apply everything that you said especially right now that I’m so down. Please include me in your prayers.
Thank you!
geniuses!!hehe,happy birthday, sir!ito lang tlga masasabi ko ang laki tlaga ng pinagbago ng buhay ko simula nung nabasa ko mga articles mo..salamat po!
Happiest Birthday Bo!
You have again inspired a lot of people with your new article, including myself. 
Thanks so much! I’m a single mom from Batangas and i’ve been wanting to be part of a caring group. Would like to know, how can i be part of such? 
GOD bless you! 
dear bo,
i consider you as one of my greatest blessings in life..your teachings, your inspiration and your encouragement..
i had been reading and following you for so many years, and i have continued to read about you even when i have moved from one place to another to work outside the philippines.
how timely can your messages get, i am now battling a major illness here in the middle east but your words and timely sharing had been a great source of inspiration and strength..and has led me to a lot of realizations.
i look forward to attending the feast again when i visit the philippines.
thanks again, more blessings to come
good evening!
thanks for the informations that is full of inspiration and hope,i really like your teachings.
Godbless po.
Dear Bo. BO,
Being an OFW here in Riyadh is not an easy thing to do despite the fact that I have to be physically separated from my family. Your blogs such as this one had been giving me my soul food and a lot of inspirations to move on and keep my relationship with GOD intact.
Thank you so much for doing such a very wonderful, powerful and noble act to share GOD’s love to everyone.
More power to you and to your staff. God Bless.
Percy
happy happy birthday bro. Bo!!!! thank you very much for inspiring many of us….may you have more happines and more love in your life…may you be blessed always…love yah bro. bo!!!
happy birthday…
Happy Birthday! Wish you good health, happiness, prosperity and all the best you could ever wanted. Thank you for the inspirations you are giving me and my family and to those millions of people around the world. God bless you and your family!
good evening bro. bo,
belated happy birthday.
yesterday after the holy mass, i asked for a sign from the Lord if indeed He wanted me to pursue my desire to join a volunteer organization and if so, i asked for wisdom and courage to send my application which i started filling up since january this year and have been dilly dallying. i said if a see or hear the word volunteer within the week, i’d send my application.
lo and behold, the word volunteer came in bold letter through your article. your article did not only give me the sign i asked from the Lord. it also gave me a hint why i have this back pain bugging me of late.
thanks. and GOD bless.
agape,
bing
hi bro. bo, you made me inspired. i just hope i can see you and talk to you soon.
Thanks bro. bo! your words of wisdom are really very nice.. God bless you more and belated happy, happy birthday! may all your wishes and dreams come true! (”,)
happy birthday bo!
May God shower you and your family with more blessings… thank you
i like this.. i knew why people love you Bo.
Dear Bro, Bo
Hi Bro. Bo!
Happy Birthday! May God bless you more.
happy birthday bro. bo…thanks for all the article and blog u made it help us to love moare..
Dear Bro. Bo,
Happy Birthday!
And thank you for constantly sharing words of inspiration. You provided answers to questions I’ve been mulling over for days now. Thank you so much for being a source of strength. God bless you and your family.
Happy Birthday Bro. Bo. Congrats!!! for successfully trip around the Sun. Thank you for the Prayer and life-changing and encouragin message. Godbless us all
“Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or anohter’s spiritual growth.”
The Road Less Traveled - M. Scott Peck
True, Love is powerful ! ” Love makes the world go round. ” Take away love from the universe and it will be just like a dry , wilted flower under the scorching noon day sun ! Even Jesus teaches us to ” Love one another as I have loved you. ” Further, He says, ” No greater love is more than this, than for one to give up his life for a friend.” So amazingly and beyond human comprehension, our Lord has shown us to love ultimately by dying on that heavy cross , in order for us to be freed from sin an death , gaining us GRACE, PEACE, LOVE, and JOY of the RESURRECTION !
” Love begets love . ”
Be happy everyone !!!
Thanks Bro. Bo and family .
I wish to feel the same love. please pray for me. Thank you.
Hello Bro. Bo.
Better late than never, happy happy birthday. More Blessing to you and your loves ones.
Honey
Great article! knowledge-based, statistics-based, & more importantly…Divine-based!
i feel so blessed being able to read the long article to the end in just one sitting :).
Perhaps much much more blessed (me & my family–our health) if i’ll be able to follow even at least 50% of the advices/prescriptions!! :).
More power, success & blessings in abundance to your family & to your new “Family Reborn club” as well!
…& belated Happy bday!!!
Sincerely,
Don
(Parokya ng Sta. Teresita, Makati City)
(Church of Divine Mercy, Singapore)
Thank you very much for the inspiring words about Love…the song goes..What the world needs now is love sweet love it’s the only thing that there’s just too little of….Thank you very much I will follow your advice from a-z
Happy Birthday…God Bless you.
Thank you very much for always inspiring us with your Godly message. Your truly a blessing to everyone…… keep it up….. God bless!
Thanks Bro. Bo! and Happy Birthday! Let your light shine forth before the human race so that they will give glory to our Father in heaven!
Thank you Sir! Your inspiring words and the words of God help me sustain my life though I am FAR from my children.
Good Day
kuya Bo
SALAMat ng maraming marami
Thanks Bro. Bo. It really gives me an insights. I do hope I can learned how to give love and share with others. Spending more time to my family.
God Bless.
Belated Happy Birthday Bo, I really love reading your articles especially this one, because it is about love. Yeah it is much better to have great connection with our parents and everyone around us in order to keep our spirit alive always and not think of problems or any negative thoughts and it will change our view of life because no man is an island.
this is true..
after all the head/heart aches in the past..i realized its not good so i decided to change my way of life..
trying to do this things in my own little way..
thank you for this..God bless us all!
bo,
love makes sense.
thanks.
It’s a good article
keep it up ! godbless ! happy bday .
Thanks for this another inspiring message. Love is, indeed, very important to keep us alive.
” To be right or to be loving”-these words really hit me.Thanks a lot for this inspiring & moving article.Cheers!