**God's Special Peace

        Communion experience. You know that the peace you receive can only be given by the Lord, the one who knows you heart and soul. It is that special.

**Outstanding Difference

        On earth, we all are just passing through until life ends, but the Christians also see themselves on a pilgrimage to their eternal home in heaven. This is the outstanding difference.

**Loving God Makes You Lovely

        As Christians, we must love everyone as ourselves. But you can't help noticing that those who love God dearly are extra lovely. 

**Being One with God*

        In today's Gospel reading from John 17, Jesus prayed for those whom the Father gave him out of the world that they might be one just as he and the Father are one. To choose to be on God's side is not good enough, we need to be one in the Lord. And there is no better way to attain union with God than through the Holy Eucharist.

***Enjoy the Lord Now

         God is infinite. His love for us is infinite. He'll draw you as close to him as you'll allow him. There is no limit to how much you can let him love you and how much you can love him. Start enjoying him every moment every day now when you are alive on this earth.

***Secret of Success*****

        A big responsibility comes with accepting God's blessings. We must now live up to his expectations. This becomes easy when we let him make it happen. The Lord demands and gives. Follow him and we'll always succeed. You want to get to heaven? Listen to and obey him and it's done! You want to become a saint? Just as easy. If you don't know that God can be so amazing, you should get to know him better first.

**Ego Existence

         When you are still aware of your ego, you still have it. 

***Do Not Burden God

        God carries each one of us. Of course, many don't want God to carry them, not realizing that he still sustains their every breath and heartbeat. For us who know that we are totally dependent upon the Lord, we must make sure that we do not burden him. Obey him always and we become his delight.

***Communion Benefits*****

        I received the LORD, entered his infinite space, and experienced infinite freedom in him. And I gained access to all the power I needed to live a triumphant life!

*****Our Only Way Out

        We are surely living in evil times. So many godless and lawless acts are being carried out by so many people. Three days ago, three of the locked metal mailboxes (one of which was mine) outside my house were pried open by force. Of course, this kind of crime, though serious, is nothing compared to say corruption at various levels of a government or legalizing abortion. Recently, I read some history of the Church and learned that she had certainly gone thru troubled times. The Church had faced persecution, attacks from within and without, and dealt with heresies and schisms. Today you can add corruption and immorality to the list. Then in today's Gospel reading from John 16, we hear Jesus say to his disciples, "Behold, the hour is coming and has arrived when each of you will be scattered to his own home and you will leave me alone." Of course, we know Jesus was going to be arrested, scourged, mocked, and nailed to a cross. Can any act be more godless and lawless? I don't think so. So whether it's two thousand years ago or now, sins have always been around. You can't really say that one time is better than another. To follow Christ is the only answer, regardless of the time you are in. Only by living in him can we be freed from sin and disassociated from the world we live in. I sincerely hope that everyone will see that this is the only way out for us.

****Opportunity for Surrendering to God

        When we pray to God, especially in making supplications, we need to submit ourselves to God interiorly first. Can you imagine that we ask God for favors, but haven't yielded ourselves totally to his will yet? Many prayers such as the Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet Catholics say are repetitive in nature. Here I see an excellent opportunity to surrender your will to God each time you say the same prayer. This can really help you achieve union with God through the Holy Eucharist.

****Life Made Meaningful!

        I am so glad that the Lord has made life meaningful to me in this way. Every one of us will appear before him to bring his or her existence to a conclusion. We'll receive either punishment or reward, exactly what we deserve on that day. It's a one-way journey with no turning back. The only time we can change things ahead is the time we have now on earth. After that it'll be all up to the Lord. This may sound somewhat pessimistic, but as long as you are still on earth, bright hope is ever present, for Christ still awaits us with boundless love.

**The World Becoming Boring*

        Once you know the LORD deeply, you'll find all the so-called fun things people enjoy in the world becoming boring. That's because by God's design they can never satisfy our spiritual hunger and thirst for him. When you become attached to anything in the world, you're surely to lose your spiritual freedom. Furthermore, know that all things we enjoy in the world do pass, whereas the Lord God exists forever.

***Power of the Truth

        Be completely open to the Lord God to let him reveal whatever he wishes to you, and you'll know without a doubt that what you have received is true. The Lord God being the truth himself can only impart truths. 

***How to Get Along with God

        The Lord God means everything he says always. If we do that also, then we and God will surely get along with each other well.  

***How to Not Judge Others

        When we are totally willing to let the Lord God judge us, we stop judging others. 

***New Prayer Experience***

         I learned of some news who broke my heart. I never thought people could be this evil (demonic is the word), so oblivious of God's love for them. I feel sorry for the people these evildoers hurt, but most of all I feel sorry for the Lord who bears the brunt of all such attacks. I felt called to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy to atone for our sins. I stood before the Divine Mercy image of the Lord and prayed from my heart and my soul with closed eyes, and I felt the presence of the Lord and knew he heard every word I uttered. This was a new prayer experience because I felt the Lord so close and intimate that it's almost unreal! I thoroughly enjoyed it and will never forget those seven or eight minutes I spent with him. May this be the beginning of a new phase of my walk with the Lord.

**God Tidies up and Completes Me

        Communion time thoughts. Before I know Christ, my life was like a pile of jigsaw puzzle pieces not yet put together. After I find Christ, it's like he not only puts all those pieces together, but also turns out himself to be the main piece needed to complete that puzzle. Life changes from a pile of mess to an integral beautiful picture!