Faith in Christ Most Beautiful

        Yesterday I could have attended morning Mass after returning home the day before, but I was too tired physically. So I attended Saturday morning Mass today. I experienced the beauty of remaining faithful to Christ. There is beauty in remaining faithful to anything that's good, but this was remaining faithful to the most holy, perfect, and loving Lord! You can't get more beautiful than that.     

*Living for God Only

        If people say good things about you, you do not become a better person. If they say bad things about you, you do not become a worse person. Ignore what people say about you and respond to the Lord God alone. Live to please only him and you'll have peace.

Body, Mind, and Heart

        Our body is good for doing physical work and labor; our mind, for learning new things and coming up with ideas. As for our heart, it's best to be used for searching for God and getting to know him.

**Serious Consideration

        Not accepting Christ as Lord and Savior is writing him off as one who has come and died for nothing. Do you honestly believe that there will be no consequences for that?

Christ Faithful and Trustworthy

        Communion experience. Jesus let me see that he is forever faithful and trustworthy.

God Our Renewer

        Attending Sunday Mass at a church away from home, the Lord let me know that we could start anew with him anytime we wish. In fact, he's going to make me new, whole, and as perfect as possible that day.

Guided Wisdom

        Since the infinite God is all-knowing and we are not, we are truly wise only if we let him guide us. Wisdom unguided easily becomes foolishness.

***Tragic Living

        You live as if this is the only life you have to live, and you end up wasting your whole lifetime living for yourself.

A Great Feeling Is . . .

knowing that you are ready to meet your Lord and God at anytime.

*Learn How to Exist

         Attain union with Christ and you'll know how to live, how to love, and how to die.

God Alone Trustworthy

        The people elect our political leaders and officials based much upon the misinformation, propaganda, and dishonest media reporting they have received, so none of those elected can be totally trustworthy. But you can surely trust in God fully, who alone is the eternal truth.

**Perfect Compatibility*

        Do you know that you cannot achieve perfect compatibility with another human being, but you can with God! For God can transform you.

To Complete Trust in God

       At my age, my injured left shoulder just does not seem to heal on its own anymore, but I know that the Lord can heal me instantly if he so wishes. This has made me place my complete trust in him. That night I saw St. Thérèse in a dream. This seemed to confirm my decision, for she always abandoned herself totally in Jesus.

Christ Our Best Guide

        Since we were born into this world and do not know the spiritual world on the other side, all the more we need to follow Christ as our guide and believe in the Gospels.

***Most Wonderful Blessing!

       It's truly wonderful that the Lord God can enter our innermost to cleanse our heart and heal our soul. This is the same Lord who can let us experience joy, peace, and freedom in him. I consider it an unbelievable blessing that we can even become soulmates to this our loving Lord and creator!

Perfectionists, Good and Bad

        A perfectionist with a big ego is a bad perfectionist. He wants to be perfect in and by himself; he tends to judge both others and himself harshly and is never happy. A good perfectionist, on the other hand, is one who remains humble in God. He asks God to make him perfect and does not judge himself nor the outcome. Before God, he acknowledges and accepts his own imperfections.

**Ending Self-Importance

        It is normal for us to want to fit in, to be noticed, or to be somebody. Knowing Christ wipes out all these desires, for the peace and contentment of knowing him you experience makes you realize that God is infinitely more important to you than yourself are. You are already valuable and important to him, so feeling self-important is no longer necessary nor appropriate. 

The Thrust We Need

        I was on a flight and saw how the plane, by casting off its burnt fuel, produced the needed thrust to propel it toward its destination. The Lord made me see that we, by casting off our repented sins, would produce the needed thrust to propel us toward heaven, our destination.