***Living for Best Possible Returns*

         Forget all about yourself and live only for Christ, then you'll receive all he's got for you, returns beyond all expectations!

***Nothing to Say to the Lord***

         Communion experience. I am speechless! Here's the Lord, the I AM, the alpha and omega, the infinite God who knows all about me and loves me to death. He has already saved and completely fulfilled me. What more is there to say? I'm just going to trust and follow him in silence.

*****Again, We Have a Choice****

        Today's Communion antiphon based on 1 John 3:2—When Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. It is absolutely awesome that we can be like Christ. We can get a head start by seeking to attain union with him through the Holy Eucharist now and become perfect when we see him. This sure beats not doing anything and ending up not knowing how we're going to get judged when we see him!

***Nothing Can Stop . . .***

us from growing old and dying. Then nothing can stop God from loving us and wanting to save us from sin so that we may have life in heaven forever! This is all we need to know. Have Christ and we can cast aside all worries and be set for eternity!

***God's Delights and Sweetness***

        Today's Communion antiphon, Wisdom 16:20: You have given us, O Lord, bread from heaven, endowed with all delights and sweetness in every taste. To me, Christ is that bread, for he is most delightful and sweet. How so, as in the world we find only those people who amuse us, please us, flatter us ,,, in general, inflate our egos delightful and sweet, and Christ does none of that? Well, that's because the Lord knows how to reach our hearts, bypassing all our senses ... and the delights and sweetness we experience all come from him directly, humbling us in the process.

***Loohing Up to Christ

         It's Tuesday, the day of praying the five Sorrowful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary, the last one being the Crucifixion and Death. Christ was fully aware that he's going to be put to death on the cross in the end, yet he felt only agony without any fear, knowing that he's carrying out the will of God the Father. I am thinking if any of us foreknew that we're going to be put to death like that, how would we feel? I can tell you that I probably wouldn't be able to sleep well every night and totally fall apart as that day gets closer. Being aware thus, I resolve to respect, love, and obey the Lord wholeheartedly even more.

*****A World of Hardened Hearts***

         Today, I see how much God loves us and how most of the world doesn't even care. God has practically bent over backwards to save us, waiting and hoping that we would at least turn and glance at him, yet we march on as if he doesn't even exist. This is the pathetic picture I see in my mind. I truly weep for those with such hardened hearts. Like those who crucified the Lord once, they know not what they do! 

**Watching, the Name of the Game

        Today's Communion antiphon based upon Matthew 24:46-47: Blessed is the servant whom the Lord finds watching when he comes. Amen, I say to you: He will put that servant in charge of all his property. We who follow the Lord must keep watching, for he will come unexpectedly. At the same time, we must watch whatever we do to be sure that we are ready. Anything we do, the Lord knows.

**Healing of the Soul**

         When you ask the Lord to heal your body, he may not comply right away if that's not the best thing for you then. Now, if you ask him to hear your soul, he'll alway comply, for that's what he has wanted all along.

**Returning to God Is Simple**

         If you really want to go all the way home to your heavenly Father, start trusting in and following Christ right now—there's no point in delaying. God always expects a yes or no answer from us, for responding any other way is being duplicitous.

**Christ Needed Once More*

         In today's Gospel reading from Luke 12, Jesus told the crowd to guard against all greed. I see greed to be the main sickness of all generations. We always seek more and more fame, power, money, and/or material things to feel good. Then we never become truly happy as we fall further and further away from God. Again, Christ is the only one who can turn us around to make us heaven bound.

**Christ Needed!*

         In today's second reading from Colossians 3, Paul wrote, "Put to death the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that that is idolatry. Stop lying to one another." Clearly, a big change for us is necessary. Now, we cannot possibly effect all that on our own. Thus, we absolutely need Christ in our lives if we ever hope to succeed.

***A Great Disposition to Have***

        Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." To be poor in spirit to me means that I do not possess anything and am ready to receive all that the Lord wants to bestow upon me. 

***Powerless Without God***

        It's impossible for us to become holy and perfect without help from the Lord God of Christ. Most of us gladly offer the best advice we know of to help others to overcome their problems. But if God were not involved, no fundamental changes would take place. When the advice helped, the change never lasted long—I've seen this again and again. (An example case might be asking someone to control their temper.) Until the person you try to help can change themselves internally, the problem remains. Now, the the Lord Christ our creator is the only one who is able to change any of us open to him fundamentally. So, to help others, we need to pray to him first and bring him into the picture. Basically, converting others becomes our primary aim.

*****Highest Exaltation on Earth*****

        Communion experience. When you receive the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of the Lord Jesus in the Holy Eucharist with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind, you are exalted to the highest possible degree on earth! And you become most beautiful to him!

**Natural Outcome

        The More You Praise God, the more you become humble like him.

**Only Two Ways to Live**

         We either live unselfishly for God or live selfishly for ourselves. If you live for God, you become free of yourself and experience peace. On the other hand, if you live for yourself, you become your own slave and will not experience true joy ever. These two outcomes are a matter of course.

***So Easy to Know***

         When God lets you know something, you know that it is true, When he forgives you, you know that you are clean. When he gives you joy, you know that it's his joy. When he promises you eternal life, you know you are heaven bound. I can go on and on.