***God Our Ultimate Transformer

        From personal experience, I can tell everyone that the God of Christ is the only one who can actually change us fundamentally. After all, he created us in the first place. If you feel enslaved, burdened, depressed . . . he can change all that, depending upon how much you'll let him. Abandon yourself totally to him and you'll have freedom, peace, and joy in this life, not to mention eternal life later in heaven!

***One to Go To***

        If there is someone you want to go to, whom would you choose? For me, Christ is the only choice, for there is absolutely no one else who can even come close to matching him. Years of following him have convinced me that he is both God and our Savior. He is unique and the best and only choice hands down. And I know that a multitude of others have also come to the same conclusion.

**Best Thing to Look Forward To

        We'll all be returning to God to be judged by him. So are you preparing for that day? What kind of meeting would you like it to be like? I want to be fully ready so that it'll be a day of greatest joy for me to begin spending eternity with our most loving Father. This is absolutely the best thing I can possibly look forward to.

***What God Expects of Us

         (1) We be holy. (2) We trust in his plan for us and focus upon bearing fruit for his glory. This will be different for each of us. (3) We respond to God's will alone and never compare ourselves with others. That's all.

****Happiest Thing to Do on Earth****

        Communion experience. I felt that to die to ourselves so that we may live in Christ is the happiest thing we can do!

***The Breakthrough*

        To surrender to God is difficult because you need first to have the humility to acknowledge that God is your Lord. If you can do it, you are set free. You've now broken down this big barrier to enable the Lord to make your life both easy and a joy to live.

**Answers to Some Questions

        What's most refreshing to the soul? Ans: God's holiness. How to best live our life? Ans: Follow God's plan for you. How to know God loves us? Ans: Love God with all your heart and all your soul first. 

***Saying "I Love You"

        We say "I love you" readily to a lot of people. We say it simply because we like someone or that someone pleases us or just as a compliment. When the Lord lets you know that he loves you, he's on an entirely different level, for his love is pure and unconditional. He won't say it just to please you; he wants you to know that he loves you to the point of even willing to lay down his life for you! So we shouldn't say "I love you" to anyone lightly if our motive isn't that pure. Taste God's love by letting him love us first and we can do it better.

***Jubilant Awareness***

        The Most Holy Almighty God and Father loves me, always watches over me, and now awaits my return to him in heaven.           

**Communion Experience

        At Mass, my Lord offered himself to unite with me bodily and in spirit. The only appropriate response I could see was "total submission." When I receive him thus, he completes me, fulfilling what I desire the most, and both he and I triumph.

**Increasing Our Love for God

        Communion experience. Receiving the Body of the Lord is a heavenly feast. Receive it with all you heart and with all your soul, and your love for him knows no bounds. 

**Believers' Benefits

        As we believe in Christ, he blesses and sanctifies us. 

****Jesus Knows Everything About Us

        Today is the Feast of Saint Thomas, Apostle. This is how the Gospel reading from John 20 started: Thomas, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples said to him, "We have seen the Lord." But Thomas said to them, "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nailmarks and put my hand into his side, I will not believe." A week later his disciples were again inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, although the doors were locked, and stood in their midst and said, "Peace be with you." Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe." Jesus wasn't there the first time, but he knew exactly what Thomas had said. The Lord knows every thought we think, every word we utter, and every deed we perform. You unbelievers better wake up and watch out. To those who already believe, it's a great consolation that the Lord knows all about and watches over them.

        Communion experience. To let God's love inundate you is to be in heaven. 

***Thinking About Leaving the Church?

        If you are a Catholic and see other Catholics, lay or clerical, behaving improperly and decide to leave the Church, then you are judging others and probably never knew Christ the Lord well in the first place. Christ is most holy and perfect and we must never leave him. The Church he has established as a whole is his body, so to leave the Church is to leave him, cutting yourself off from all the sacraments he has given you, especially the Eucharist which is his greatest gift to us. There will always be sinners among us. The proper thing to do is to remain in the Church and pray even harder for yourself and the Church. Always pray and ask the Lord to help you see things clearly.