***How God Has Made Us

        We were created in the image of God, so we understand good and evil and can conceive God. When we reject him, we feel uneasy and lost. Then when we believe in him, we actually experience freedom and peace. All this confirms what St. Augustine has said: You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you. Knowing how God has made us can help us understand ourselves and point the way to becoming more like him.

***How God Wants Us to Feel

        When we abandon ourselves in God, all our anxieties vanish. This is exactly how the Lord wants us to feel. He wants us to experience freedom, peace, and joy.

***Great Question

         God is pure love, so why are you afraid of him?

***Start with Yourself First

        In today's Gospel reading from Luke 11, Jesus made a Pharisee see that making one's inside clean is a lot more important than making the outside of things clean. You see, the latter is for others to see and the former, for God to see. 

***Spiritual Life Summarized

        To reject God, you just do it—you don't need God's help. On the other hand, to love God with all your heart, with all you mind, and with all your soul, you need all of God's help. Surrender yourself to him totally and it's accomplished!  

**God Calling

        If you feel the need to change yourself for the better, know that the Lord God is calling you!  Rejoice.

***Infinity Realized

        Infinity is an abstract concept until you meet the Lord God, for he has always existed, is not limited by anything, and nothing is impossible for him. We are creatures made by him, so we are finite. The creator just has to be infinite or he won't be able to create anything. So the Lord has made infinity a concrete reality and I am excited about that! 

**Learning from the Right One

        Often we realize that we should have done something we didn't do or should have done differently. There are always things to learn. Then we'd better learn from the holy Lord and not from the world, for he is the only one who will not lead us astray.   

***Communion Experience***

        At Mass, the Lord again reminded us that he gave up his body and poured out his blood to bestow his greatest love upon us. He exalted us by entering us thru the Holy Eucharist and we were never the same again! The Lord surely knows how to please us!

***Letting God Be Our Lord***

        We like to do what we want to do, and God wants us to do what he wants us to do. Considering that the Lord knows infinitely more and is infinitely wiser than we, and has the final say in everything that happens, we'd better let him be our Lord if we possess any sense.

***Be Invited AND Chosen*

        In today's Gospel reading from Matthew 22, Jesus told the parable of the wedding feast to the chief priests and elders of the people. The reality was summed up in his last statement: "Many are invited, but few are chosen." This has remained the same as of today. All the more we need to make sure that we are chosen by God. In the parable, the king invited everyone, so it's really up to us. 

**Death Already Destroyed*

        In today's first reading from Isaiah 25, the prophet prophesied that the LORD of hosts would destroy death forever. This happened when Christ came to us. Death now no longer exists for those who follow Christ! If you still die, then it has to be your own doing.  

**Our Final Chastisement

        I know I have offended my God and I am ready and willing to pay every cent I owe him, knowing that he is most kind and always just. To be disciplined by the Lord before entering heaven is totally fitting and something to look forward to.

**Only Response to the Lord

        Communion experience. No questions, nothing to say . . . I simply submit myself to the Lord with gratitude and in contentment.

**Not to Be Ignored*

        God can make us holy. I am pretty sure that you all know that, but how does it strike you? If you ever wish to get into heaven for sure, then you should try to be as holy as possible. To ignore this matter is to bury your head in the sand.  Pretty soon, life will be over and you chance to get into heaven for sure is no more.

**Changing Your Course of Life

        To believe in the God of Christ is to change you outlook and life. First, you repent of you sins to get started. Then you realize that you have the perfect almighty God, your most loving Father, looking after you and helping you grow holy. You finally develop an unshakable faith and know that nothing can ever stop you from returning to God your Father in heaven. Now you rejoice in the Lord always!

***Call to Perfection***

        Communion experience. You can't receive the Lord and still sin. If the Lord dwells in you, there must be no place for sin. Remain in deep union with him and you will be off-limits to sin.

**The Lord Essential to Us

        In today's Gospel reading from Luke 11, Jesus said to the crowd, "Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters." This tells me that we must follow and produce good results for him. In other words, we need him.