***Complete Trust Our Business***

        Jesus wants us to trust in him and not worry about anything. This means that we should never worry for him either, for he can take care of everything. And we should just pray that his will be done and not wonder about when and how it's going to happen. 

**Security in God

        Communion experience. I felt totally secure physically, mentally, and most of all spiritually in the Lord. 

***Only Proper Response

        Today I just feel that the Lord God is so beautiful and awesome that the only proper response for me is to yield myself completely to him. I also believe that this is what he desires from us and would please him the most.

****Enormous Difference****

        We basically battle with ourselves most of our lives—to be our own god or to let God be God. Be your own god and you cut yourself off from the true God. Let the true God possess you and you possess all of him as well! The difference is enormous, practically infinite, for you are looking at eternal death vs. eternal joy. 

**The Choice Is Clear*

        If we don't have the Holy Spirit occupying us, we are open for the evil one to possess us. If we don't belong to God, we are up for grabs by Satan. With God you experience freedom, peace, and joy; while with Satan, oppression, turmoil, and pain. Making the right choice should be a no-brainer unless you don't have a brain.   

*****HOW TO STOP SINNING*****

        We sin in thoughts, words, and deeds. Since thoughts always precede words and deeds, we sin in thoughts a lot more than in words and deeds. So, if we can keep our thoughts pure, we can stop sinning altogether! With so many temptations and evil influences around us, how can we achieve that? My answer is—attain union with God thru the Holy Eucharist. For the more you come to know God, the more sin becomes obnoxious to you. Finally, you remain clean and secure in the Lord, shielding us from all temptations and evil influences.

**Sign God Has Adopted You

        In today's reading 1 from Romans 8, Paul tells them that they have received a spirit of adoption through which they cry, Abba, Father! So if you feel like calling out "Abba, Father" from your very heart, it's a clear sign that he has adopted you. Rejoice!

**Spiritual Life in Essence*

         We empty ourselves and open up to God, and he does his work through us. We let it be all God's doing.

***Loving Our Neighbor a Challenge

        In today's Gospel reading from Matthew 22, Jesus said to a Pharisee, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments." Indeed, God is love, and love is the answer to all our problems! In practice, loving our neighbor presents us with the greatest challenge today when evil is so prevalent that there aren't that many people you can fully trust anymore. So what are we to do? This much I know: If we love the Lord, he'll never subject us to any test we cannot pass. He knows each of us thoroughly and is merciful. So trust in him and follow him faithfully and you'll come thru fine.

**Banishing Sin Once and for All

        We need the Lord to forgive all our sins and then ask him to keep us pure so that we may not sin again. This second intention is no less important than the first one.