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To the November 2019 Civil Engineering Board Exam takers


To the November 2019 Civil Engineering Board Exam takers,

By this time, you are probably exhausted. You feel that the pressure is already on. You look at the calendar and your day of examinations is fast approaching. You stare the Manila paper you hanged on your walls and wonder if the formulas you have written there are already mastered. You open the index cards or the apps you downloaded filled with another sets of formulas, theories, or abstract principles and turned awestruck with enormous things you think you have already studied well. You become tired of your everyday routine – to solve problem after problem.  Your day and nights are filled with monotonous tic of calculator’s keyboard. Maybe you are now asking: Am I ready to take the board exam? Will I be able to make it on November?

I must admit, I was in the same position as you 10 years ago. I understand your situation. Before thinking of quitting or before experiencing breakdown, let us put the question this way, “ARE YOU READY FOR THE HARVEST?”

I said harvest. As a son of a farmer, we enjoyed that season when crops are gathered from the fields. Your present situation is like this simple lifestyle we have in our province. Board exam is like the promdi culture that taught us much wisdom from farming - the determination in sowing, the patience in cultivating, and the joy in reaping.

DETERMINATION IN SOWING
The sower prepares the soil and the seed. After your college graduation, you motivated yourself towards the goal which is to pass the board exam. You begin seeing the journey as a positive avenue towards the realization of your goal. You decided either to attend or not to a review center and either to enrol or not to a refresher course. You bought books or borrowed review materials. You planted and set a goal with the determination to be called a LICENSED CIVIL ENGINEER.

PATIENCE IN CULTIVATING
Cultivating requires more patience and endurance. The farmer fosters the growth of his plants. He labours well – waters the fields, removes the unwanted weeds, pesticides the plagues. It is on this season where he exerts more efforts. As to your situation, this is the time when self-doubts start sneaking, when your courage is draining, when your thought is wandering. This is the time when anxiety and extreme fatigue come along. This is the time to remember who this fight is for. This is the time when you want to believe that this final month is nothing compared to five or more years of sacrifices in college just for you to be here. Just as the farmer who believes that God gives rains on the earth then sends water on the fields, this is the time to believe that Someone up there is in control of everything.

This time, you are probably wounded and it is time for you to come to the Lord Jesus Christ and reflect that with His stripes and by His wounds, we are healed. This is the time to remember the old, old story how the Saviour came from glory, how He gave His life on Calvary to save a sinner like you and me. This is the time to ponder on His love - “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Aside from claiming the PRC license you have asked for, this is the time to accept His eternal gift of salvation.

JOY IN REAPING
I love the expectancy of a farmer. He believes in perseverance but believes more in God’s perfect timing. To everything there is a season. The prefix of your name “E-N-G-R” is so near yet so agonizingly far! Just keep on watering and cultivating. Never be weary in well doing. Be not faint. Endure hardness. Stay motivated. Be prayerful. Be patient. For it is in due season, you will reap the harvest.

With prayers,
John Joseph Marcelino Esteban
a CHRISTIAN who happened to be a CIVIL ENGINEER
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