***Sign You Love Jesus*

         You want him to change you so that you may obey him in all things.

*****Christ for the Hardhearted

        Alas, people have hardened their hearts so much that they no longer feel sorry about their wrong doings. Not willing to confront their own sins is playing with fire! No humility, no repentance of sins, no cleansing of of the soul, no entry into heaven—it's going astray all the way! But if you turn to Christ for help, he can and will turn you around instantly. He's not called our Savior for nothing.

***Fractured Church and Families***

        Fr. Patrick Peyton who launched the Family Rosary Crusade in 1987 popularized the phrase "The family that prays together stays together." Indeed he spoke the truth, but sadly today family members don't even talk or listen to each other in the same family! Everyone follows his or her own way. We have church members whose children don't ever show up to see them. It's not surprising when the Church is already so fractured herself. What we have left is a small but strong remnant Church. The Lord will surely come to us soon.

***Love All the Way***

        God has first loved us. Then it is he who has called us. If you feel drawn deeper into him, it's him again. It's love all the way. To not accept the God of Christ is to reject his love. 

***God's Peace

        In Philippians 4, Paul writes "The peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus." Once you know that God loves you, give yourself to him, and secure your eternal future, the peace you receive is truly wonderful. You now know that you are totally in his loving hands and you are not anxious about or afraid of anything anymore. It's the peace that comes from having been set free from sin!

***Contrasting Weights

         When the Devil takes hold of you, you'll feel like being crushed to death under a heavy weight and all your hope is gone. When the holy LORD takes charge of you, you also feel a powerful crushing force that's irresistible, but this is the weight of his love and now you know you are going to live forever! 

**Sign You Are One with God

        When you desire only what God desires for you, you are one with him.

*God We Can Trust

        In today's first reading from James 1, the author wrote that "God tempts no one." I can see that this is true because God is always truthful and forthright. In fact, he is the one who can keep temptation away from us. So he is the one we can and should trust wholeheartedly.

***Holy Anger Is Differemt***

        In Matthew 2, Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those engaged in selling and buying there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves in his attempt to cleanse the temple, his house of prayer. We all get angry with a cause too. The Lord showed me that our anger must be free of hatred. So if anyone upsets you, you still pity and pray for him.

***Suggestion***

        We pray for our loved ones who have passed away. It'd be infinitely better to have loved and converted them when they were still alive and know that they are now in paradise. 

***Our Consolation and Joy

        Unrest and sorry happenings prevail in our world and I've found Christ to be my consolation and joy. This has totally lifted up my spirit. Christ is the only one who can wipe away all our sorrows!

*****Triumphant March to the Lord*

        Every time you let Jesus override your own will, feel good about it because you have won another battle against yourself! This is a victory for you on your way to meeting the Lord. Keep winning and imagine the kind of welcome you're going to get from him! 😃

**Spiritual Progress*

        I still remember the days when my thoughts were always dashing around and I found it difficult to remain still. Now, the mind is directly affected by the heart. Today, since I feel so much peace in the Lord, no random, uncontrolled, or extraneous thoughts invade my mind anymore. Both mind and heart tend to remain in perfect stillness. Praise be to God!

**Getting Personal with God

        Today after morning Mass, I remained in the chapel and prayed to the Lord, letting him know of all kinds of needs for the world, the Church, my country, my family, myself, etc., some of which might seem unlikely that he would fulfill. Nevertheless, I asked for his help anyway since I truly believe that nothing is impossible for him. Always trust in the Lord fully and ask for as much as you want with a sincere heart. 

***God Heals

        Communion experience. I submitted myself to the Lord and he healed all my inner wounds! And I prayed that he would heal the inner wounds of all of us.

***Happy to Have God

        We cannot read others' minds nor discern what's in their hearts. People often change their personality or behavior unexpectedly. I am most grateful that we have a Lord who knows all about me and whom I can even entrust with my soul.

***What God Thinks Matters*

         Communion experience. I was a nobody before the mighty, holy LORD, but he thought otherwise. This gave me great joy!

*****Greatest Act*****

        One Small act of total obedience to the Lord is infinitely greater than putting up a most ostentatious entertaining show on the grandest scale for the whole world to watch and enjoy.