Books by Myrna Pilpa Barinaga

"Behind A Tiny Story is a huge heart and a profound character.""Behind A Tiny Story,"centers on the idea that life is precious and a precarious ordeal. A valence of a Christian driven life and high spirited individual, make this masterpiece an urgent literature to have. This utterly interesting life story of the author will surely weave into every reader''s life. One may see oneself in either episodes of the story. Everyone has battles in life and we choose when and how we fight them. In this book, the battles of the author''s tense existence during the Japanese invasion in the Philippines and the struggles of life difficulties were won through a masterful combination of the Christian way of the cross and the heart of a persevering and courageous warrior. Indeed, we win our battles and we consequently claim our respective prizes. However, Myrna won her battles but the prizes are not for her taking but for the generations to come.This stems from her wanting for her succeeding generation to know what they were so as to better understand and appreciate the choices and directions she took in life. The traces of her life story aptly show the way she fights every challenge she was into. Her accurate and realistic accounts of the pains brought about by her difficult pregnancies manifest the strength which the author gained from life principles that she firmly held. Additionally, her immigration to the United States of America is equally challenging and yet she manages to hurdle through it with enormous success. On the other hand, the pleasure of the triumphs of her academic success that affords her the carrier that defines her, the triumph of having given birth to her children and a business venturethat is propelled not by profit rather by the Christian principle of "via, veritas, vita."Myrna has her ways of dealing with life. These prove to her effective. It is now everyone''s task to discover a new and fresher ways that are deemed effective. One can definitely sift out patterns of which from the juices of Myrna''s huge heart and profound character.The inspiration and the message:Evidently, However, it is best if these are done along the principles of love, care and compassion.

A story of a family's struggle and survival of the brutal Japanese-American war. I was one of eight children in that family, walking for days in the jungle for safety and living on prayers. Thankfully, the war ended with us all in the family alive and together. Marriage and childbearing brought four children, two with very special needs. Searching for help led us to come to America. I was a total wreck. My faith was at the breaking point. This was one time in my life when I felt God had abandoned me.