What's Wrong with Us?

        Man and God can fit together perfectly: we need God for survival now and living forever later, and God loves us and wants to renew us now in preparation for our imminent return to him ~ yet we still hold back, remaining stubborn and not giving in. Are we being hubristic or just plain stupid?

A Plan for Peace

        I attended a funeral earlier today. I suppose it's a worldwide custom to eulogize the deceased at his or her funeral. If we all speak well of each other while we are still alive, the world would be a much more peaceful place.

Loneliest Creatures

        Today there was no thought to post; all the more I realized that the Holy Spirit had been the provider of all my thoughts. When he dries me up, it will be time to stop blogging. Only one quick thought came to me that made me want to do this post. It was that without God, we would be the loneliest creatures in the universe, no matter how busily we keep ourselves occupied in this life. 

Source of All Sins

        Not believing that God is love or rejecting his love for you.

Solving the Riddle of Life

        Life is all about reconciliation with God. If you play your own god, your life will be chaotic. If you surrender to God, everything settles down in peace. It's either you or God ~ your choice.

Fear Ourselves, Not God

        In today's Gospel reading from Mark 2 at morning Mass, Jesus forgave the sins of a paralytic for the faith he saw in him, and healed him too. In yesterday's reading from Mark 1, a leper begged Jesus to make him clean and Jesus, moved with pity, healed him. Here's our Lord who always listens to our requests and is always gentle and ever ready to forgive when we believe in him. There is really no need to fear the Lord but ourselves. For if we do not believe in him, we cut ourselves off from him.   

Eucharistic Power

        Today's Communion experience. The Holy Eucharist entered me, healing my soul by purifying him.

Formula for Peace

        Jesus teaches us not to judge others. He wants us to examine ourselves first before criticizing anyone. Chances are once we see our own faults and sins, we'll be kinder to others. Some saints say only good things about others, never the bad. In sum, God wants us to mind our own business by becoming holy and blameless, and never attack others in any way. This is truly the formula for peace in the world for us.

On Entering the Next Life

      If you know Jesus intimately in this life, he will be expecting you when you enter your next one and the transition will be joyful and smooth ~ of this I am certain. If you've been misguided in this world but are a good person, I believe that the Lord will still clear up your confusion upon your entrance and save you. But if you choose to remain lost in this life, you risk being lost forever.

No Fear in Love

        Today's Reading 1 at Mass came from 1 John 4. The last two and a half verses are beautifully true: 

       God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him. In this is love brought to perfection among us, that we have confidence on the day of judgment because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment, and so one who fears is not perfect in love. 

        

         Attain union with God and experience everything St. John has said here.

Know God and...

you will know yourself and everything else as well.

On Charlie Hebdo

        I just read the latest news on Charlie Hebdo ~ the magazine has published a new issue depicting the Prophet Muhammad again, prompting fear of further attacks from extremists. All I can say is that there is a time to be defiant and a time not to, depending upon whether it glorifies God or not. Christians should at least remember Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in which one of the Beatitude reads: Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Going with God

        If abandonment to God means no barriers whatsoever between you and God, then loving others must not make exceptions. Going with God is exciting because it's going all the way (bobsledding with God?). 

Sad State Observed

        The result of not abandoning ourselves to God is the constant battling among the over 7 billion souls on earth with each one wanting to be a little god ~ a sad state of affairs. 

Abandonment to God

        When we came into the world, we were totally in God's hands. When we die, we put ourselves in his hands again. In the meantime, why don't we put ourselves in God's hands too by abandoning ourselves to him? Total abandonment removes all barriers between God and us, setting our spirit free. This is liberation of the highest order!

Is Jesus Your Shepherd?

        Today's Gospel acclamation, John 10.27: My sheep hears my voice, says the Lord. I know them, and they follow me. Therefore, if you do not hear Jesus speaking to your heart, do not feel that he knows you, or do not follow him when you hear his voice, then you are not quite his sheep yet.

Don't Limit God

        Since God is infinite in every way, ask for big things from him. Offhand, I beg him to save every single living soul in the world and make the size of my faith much bigger than that of a mustard seed (see Matthew 17.20 or Luke 17.6). Nothing is impossible with the Lord, so be bold and ask big.

Know Jesus and...

you will be ready for anything.