***In Love with Love

        Communion experience. You realize that the Lord's love is so beautiful that you can't help but fall deeply in love with him. This is the love that also makes us beautiful. Glory, praise, and gratitude be to him forever!

***Total Abandonment = Freedom***

        Today's Psalm 55 response: Cast your care upon the LORD, and he will support you. I love this verse. it shows total abandonment to God; you now care about only what God wants you to do, not what you want to do anymore. This is true humility. This is how we are set free!

***On Securing Your Salvation***

        How often do you do something that helps you secure your eternal salvation? 10% of the times? 50%? 99%? The best answer should be 100%. All the times you spend not securing your salvation is counterproductive and totally wasted.

***Greatest Injustice of All Times***

         Today Tuesday I again pray the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary. The Mysteries—Agony in the Garden, Scourging at the Pillar, Crowning with the Thorns, Carrying of the Cross, Crucifixion—stand out sharply, yet they are difficult to meditate upon as the scenes are just so poignant. Here Jesus shows his greatest love for us by laying down his life for us. That many people today treat him as if he were the worst criminal of all times has to be the greatest injustice of all times!  

*****An Urgent Wake-up Call*****

        Every time we sin, Satan cheers. You look around and realize that Satan has never been happier. We have people scamming others full-time. Arguments go on in so many families. News media spread fake news nonstop. Cheating and corruption have become the norm in our government, many corporations, and even the Church. Scandals come out of the entertainment industry big time. Road rages are common. This listing can go on ad inf. We have strayed away from God much worse than we realize. It's absolutely time for us to wake up, turn around, and submit ourselves to God to repent and beg for his mercy before it's too late!

*****Ther Holy Spirit Is Real!

        Today is Pentecost Sunday. It's good to recap again my experience with the Holy Spirit. We must go back almost half a century to the 1970s, the heyday of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement. I got involved in it because I was searching for the Holy Spirit. We were told that after confirmation the Hoy Spirit dwells within you, but how do I know if I didn't feel anything different? All members of the Renewal Movement had the choice to take the Life in the Spirit Seminar. After seven sessions, the whole group prayed over you for the release of the Spirit. I must say that in every case I saw, including my own, you develop a terrific desire to know the Lord who became alive in the Gospels. Praying to God became super easy and a joy at any time. Different people also received special gifts. One person found that his addiction to watching all the ballgames on TV was cured. I experienced a bubbling exuberance in my upper body for about three and a half months nonstop. At the first Charismatic Mass I attended, I received the gift of tears which made me cry tears of joy the entire time. The zeal for Christ I felt in my heart has only increased over these last five decades. God the Holy Spirit is real! Do not neglect to praise and pray to him!

**Great Sane Moment*

         I got up early this morning, went to the family room, and sat at the dining table, ready to pray. It was a beautiful day outside. My head was clear, my body feeling comfortable, and my spirit, resting in peace. I was aware of my Lord, his love for me, my faith in him . . . and the whole truth. I felt that moment was the most sane moment of my life!

***Confronting Our Greatest Challenge

        We are faced with whether to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior or not, for it could very well determine our eternity. If you were wise, you would try believing in him to see if it works for you. Of course, in that case you'll have to do it with complete honesty, for you cannot fool God if he's real.

*****Taking Control of Our Future!

        We know that life is so precarious that we can die at any moment. In an instant we'd be on the other side. Again, this is clear-cut, yet a lot of people don't seem to be concerned about that. Perhaps there're really having a good time on earth. Perhaps they think they'll be entering an unknown and there's no point thinking about it. I think they are making a huger mistake. My future is so important that I must find out as much about it as I can so as to be ready for it. In my case, I found Christ, learned the whole truth, and became super ready. What a relief and comfort, and great joy too as I think about what awaits me on the other side! 

***Serious Matter to Consider***

         Whatever we do, we serve either God or others, "others" here including ourselves, the world, and Satan. This is clearcut. We need to serve God out of gratitude alone, for he loves us and has died for our sins so that we might live forever. Secondly, being our creator, he's also going to be our final judge. Do you want to go to heaven or not? I hope you'll see the whole matter clearly and make the right choice. 

**Communion Experience*

           I attended a heavenly banquet offered personally to me by the Lord. 

**Jazzing Up Your Life*

        The Lord God is infinitely rich and loves us. What we can receive from him is inexhaustible! Get to know him well first, ask for whatever that's good for both you and him, and you'll get it. Then you'll be living a most exciting life! 

**It's a Great Feeling . . .

when you know Christ and that he is the truth.         

**Beauty of the Family

        While driving to morning Mass today, I had to brake my car to an almost complete stop when I saw a family of Canadian geese crossing the road ahead of me. These geese visit us every year and they pair up for life. The family I saw consisted of the two parents with around half a dozen goslings. They were not in a rush and the goslings looked really cute following their parents. The Lord made me see how beautiful a human family could be when all its members love him and are united as one in him. Alas, can you even find such a family today?

***Remain Awake and Active

        We need to remain awake and active at all times. When we are asleep or half-asleep, impure thoughts often enter our minds and we find ourselves weak in resisting them. Then we wake up, see everything clearly, and are able to dismiss them outright. When we are awake, we need to be aware of God's holy presence and the urgency to help him defeat evil and save souls. That the Lord will be victorious in the end is certain, but that doesn't mean we can just trust in him and wait for things to happen. On the contrary, we need to submit ourselves totally to him to actively carry out every single will of his for us.

**Union Counts

        Communion experience. I don't see or hear Jesus physically, but I know I am in union with him spiritually, and that's all that counts right now.

**Believe Only in God

        We humans come up with some amazing products and inventions and believe that we are capable of achieving anything on our own. Let's now look at the Lord God. Not only he created us and everything else, he's able to create anything on the spot simply by willing it. We are just not in his league! We can't even remain alive without his support! Be humble foremost so that you may remain in the truth.

***More Basic than Patience

         Three days ago, I blogged about patience being a sign of holiness. I now see that to be perfectly patient, we mustn't have any ego. I see clearly that it's my ego that has caused me to become impatient every time in my past. So humility is even more basic than patience. Be totally humble and you are holy.