Up to Us

        The love of God for us will never change. Do we accept his love or reject it? It's like the key for opening the door to heaven is being offered to us and we either take it or leave it alone. The ball is in our court.

Calling for More Sheep

        Jesus calls his disciples his sheep who follow him as their shepherd. On Judgment Day, he'll be separating the goats from the sheep. Let's be his sheep now to be the sheep on Judgment Day.

Urgent Reminder

        I caught a little bit on NPR that once a deadly virus wiped out some 20,000 people in some country. I thought of the recent tsunamis and other devastating natural disasters that took so many lives. Now the wars and terrorist attacks again cause unexpected deaths everywhere. The insecurity of life is obvious. All the more we need to go to and follow Christ the Savior to get our eternal life secured.

View Our Solar System

        Here are striking views of our solar system as seen from space. What amazes me is that the sun, the moon, and all the planets are all so round. The link: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35292518.

Open and Ready

        Communion experience. It's a beautiful feeling to be open to the Lord and ready for what he has to say.

To Have Life Abundantly

        There is only one true creator, and that's God, for all things are created by him. A creator is one who can cause things to come into being, while as creatures we can only make new things out of existing things. Naturally, God is the creator of all life and can even make our lives eternally blissful. In John 10.10, Jesus says, "I have come that they may have life and have it abundantly."

Spiritual Progress

        It must be 60 years ago when I first read about the Albanian nun who went to India to devote herself to serving the sick and poor, the dying and the destitute. And that was, of course, Mother Teresa. I was impressed but wondered why anyone would want to do something like that ~ I really did not know God then yet. Later, even after I became a Catholic, I picked up Thomas Kempis' book The Imitation of Christ and found the writing beautiful but way beyond me, too extreme. I was still too much of the world. Of course, I am happy now that I understand how God can call someone and make him or her do the seemingly impossible or inspire someone to the extreme. In those early days, it was I who was not completely with God and got left behind. We are really supposed to be with God at all times for him to make all things possible.     

Beyond Criticism

        Criticizing others is easy and there are plenty of Christians and non-Christians who criticize Jesus or God. These people are not obviously with God yet; for God, being wise and omnipotent, is perfect. The only alternative for us is to submit ourselves to him ~ only being in harmony with our creator can we attain inner peace and spiritual freedom.

Worst possible feeling

        We feel bad if no one appreciates us or we lose the winning lottery ticket or a loved one dies or we fail to pass a test ... ~ there are a millions things that can sadden us. But there is no feeling worse than knowing that you are a lost soul, for the consequences can be grave. It follows that there is no better feeling than knowing that you have been saved through the mercy of God and are heaven bound.

Christ Admired

        The chaos of the world made me admire Christ even more, for his teachings expose the evils of the world, putting it to great shame.