***Way to Become Ego-Free

        The ego is so tenacious that to become thoroughly free of it, you need to be humble enough to see that everyone else is better than you in every way.   

**Healing Past Wounds

        God is not limited by time. If we have hurt someone in the past and deeply regret it, we can ask the Lord to go back to that time to heal all the wounds we caused, and it'll be done for us. 

**Accepting Reality

        As I was heading home after Mass this morning, driving on a straight road, it seemed as if the earth was fast slipping rearwards under my car wheels. This reminded me that my life is slipping fast away from me as I head nonstop toward God. There is no sadness here; I simply accept the reality in peace.

***Deep Commnion

        Communion experience. As the Lord dissolves in my mouth. he is in direct communion with my soul. 

**Be like Little Children to God

        In today's Gospel reading from Matthew19, Jesus said to his disciples, "Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the Kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." Little children are always amazed by the many things their fathers can do. We have a most amazing heavenly Father for whom nothing is impossible. Shouldn't we then believe in him like little children? If we do, the whole Kingdom of heaven belongs to us!

**All Up to Us

        As sinners we start out with a big disadvantage—we must work out our salvation. But God has taken care of that—we only need to accept and follow Christ. So it all comes down to how we personally choose, which I think is very fair. 

**I'm Glad That . . .

this life will end, for who would want to live in this sinful world forever? I am also glad that there will be a judgment by the Lord so that justice will be served, setting all things straight. Best of all, we have a loving God who can save us the moment we wish to be with him forever.

**Grateful to God for This*

        I am so happy the Lord knows all about me so that he may show me exactly how to live the best life on earth. 

***We Need to "Help" God

        God's sole mission is to save us and he needs our cooperation. For without it, he cannot do anything. Then we may be doomed. So if we want the Lord to help us, we must "help" him too. There is no relationship more beautiful than God and us becoming of one mind and one heart!

**Christ, Source of Our Peace

         The peace we need the most is the peace we experience when we have reconciled ourselves to God through Christ. This is the peace granted by the Lord that surpasses understanding. No other peace is on that level nor as permanent as this one.

***We Absolutely Need God

        Today I realize that we absolutely need God, no matter how righteous we are. First of all, without him sustaining us, we would instantly stop breathing and die. Secondly, as sinners, how are we going to overcome evil and save our souls without his help? Among the myriad reasons, these are just two most fundamental ones.  

***The Lord Serves Us!

        The Lord, being most meek and humble, always serves us. We ask him for so many favors, to do this or that. And he often does more than we ask for. Shouldn't we at the least serve him back equally?

***Beautiful Miracle

        This maybe an old video, nevertheless the sign is wonderful. I have seen another photo taken here in California not far from my place, showing a light beam shooting straight up through the roof of a house where a priest resides. It turned out that the beam originated from a consecrated host that happened to be in the house at the time. 

**Greatest Ignorance

        To those who know Christ, everything is meaningful; to those who don't, life is big puzzle. Being ignorant of God is the greatest ignorance'

**Lamenting the World*

        I weep for those of the world who have rejected Christ, the only one who can give them life now and forever. They know not what they do nor what's coming to them, remaining alone and lost.

***How to Love God?***

         Simple. Just obey him. This is all he wishes from us (out of love) and the best we can do. This is also the way to receiver power from him!

**Another Tragedy

        In Matthew 15:11, Jesus said to the crowd, "It is not what enters one's mouth that defiles that person; but what comes out of the mouth is what defiles one." Jesus is right. People don't change unless they allow God to change them interiorly, and that's difficult for many, for they have already become deeply mired in the material world. So they remain the same. And God gets shut out.

***God Infinitely More Merciful

        God is infinitely more merciful than us. If I pray that someone will not be lost, I am sure the Lord would want to save him even more. Suppose my guess of the ratio of those who'll end up in heaven to those who'll end up in hell is say 7 to 3, I wouldn't be surprised that it turns out to be 8 to 2 or even 9 to 1. God is always more generous than we can expect.