Good
Morning! The Peace of Jesus be with you
and your families. May the love of mama Mary guide you in your walk of life.
In the Moon and the Stars,
Oh God! Your glory we see
For Love and Peace,
Friend’s and family,
For Your grace, Your mercy and care
these are the blessings we have to share.
This day we offer the words of praise
with a promise to LOVE You all of our days.
I
love the colour Red. You know what it best represents-it represents love. When
I think of love, the first thing that comes to my mind is all the feelings that
my heart can sum up. And all the memories, they just start weaving into a
beautiful pattern. When ever I return to a moment in time, I return to it with
the utmost fondness. Its nothing short of being a magical moment.
Life is Love and love is what the heart contains.
Life is Love and love is what the heart contains.
Everything
that one understands, one only does because of love. Love awakens our innermost
being. It makes us one with nature. Our greatest happiness of life is always
when we are convinced that we are loved. Love is a feeling to be cherished
forever.
Love
is build over time. When you are ready to sacrifice, that is when you know,
that you love. You don’t love someone because they are or can be perfect. You
love them anyway.
I
love you, I always have and I always will to the day I die.
When
you really love someone nothing will seem to matter. Nothing ever will.
Stop, I'll be thinking of you
Look in my heart
And let love keep us together
Love wasn't put in
your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away.
Let
the love flow from your heart to others. When you really love someone your
heart is no more yours….it is a complete surrender...!
So
faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1
Corinthians 13:13
History
was one of my favourite subjects, in school. Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther
King, Jr. were two of my favourite people.
Abraham
Lincoln was the sixteenth President of the United States . His strength was his
great character. He regarded slavery as evil. Many historians believe his
humanity and honesty made him the greatest of all the Presidents.
Martin
Luther King, Jr. was an amercian-clergyman and prominent leader in the
African-American Civil Rights Movement. These lines are taken from his Nobel
Peace Prize acceptance speech, December 10, 1964. Here Martin Luther King Jr.
states:
“I
believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in
reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil
triumphant.”
Nonviolent
resistance, King wrote, is ‘a courageous confrontation of evil by the power
of love’.
Principles
of Non-Violence by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- It is active non-violent resistance to evil and it is always persuading the opponent of the righteousness of your cause.
- Non-violence seeks to win friendship and understanding.
- Non-violence seeks to defeat injustice, not people. Non-violence recognizes that evildoers are also victims, and not evil people.
- Non-violence holds that suffering educates and reforms. Non-violence accepts suffering without retaliation. Non-violence accepts violence if necessary, but will never inflict it. Non-violence willingly accepts the consequences of its acts. Suffering has the power to convert the enemy when reason fails.
- Non-violence chooses love instead of hate. Non-violent love is unselfish.
Non-violent love gives willingly, knowing that the return might be hostility.
Non-violent love is unending in its ability to forgive in order to restore community.
Non-violent love does not sink to the level of the hater.
Love for the enemy is how we demonstrate love for ourselves. Love restores community and resists injustice.
Non-violence recognizes the fact that all life is interrelated. - Non-violence believes that the universe is on the side of justice and that justice will eventually win. Non-violence believes that God is a God of justice.
No
individual without Jesus Christ can ever have peace, and no world without God
can ever know peace.
Peace I leave with you; my
peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your
hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. John 14:27
The
peace He gives has to be received and applied in our lives. If we lay hold of
the promise of the very peace of Christ, we will have calm, untroubled hearts,
regardless of external circumstances.
The
peace of Christ is also an unending source of strength in the midst of
difficulties.
Paul
said, in 2 Corinthians 4:8-11 “We are
afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;
persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying
about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be
manifested in our body. For we who live are constantly being delivered over to
death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our
mortal flesh. “
But
he wrote, Therefore
we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man
is being renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is producing for
us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at
the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things
which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
v.16-18
Paul
didn't focus on his problems, but on the promises of God to sustain and
ultimately glorify God. Troubles come and go. Paul understood that, and that's
why in the midst of his trials he could write to the Philippians, "Rejoice in the Lord always; again I
will say, rejoice!" Philippians 4:4.
Isaiah
26:3 says, "The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, because
he trusts in You." Perfect peace comes when our focus is off the problem
and constantly on Christ.
God's
peace comes to those with the personal discipline to stop in the midst of the
storms of life and take the time to seek Him and know Him. And to those whose
minds are steadfastly fixed on Him, He gives the gift of peace.
In
a world that is filled with rage, in a world that knows hatred Love will always
be the answer. 'LOVE WILL KEEP US
TOGETHER.'
Just stop, 'cause I
really love youStop, I'll be thinking of you
Look in my heart
And let love keep us together
When
you face opposition, it’s easy to get discouraged and think, negative. David
would only be known as a shepherd boy if it weren’t for Goliath. David’s enemy
became the tool that God used to lift him high. And God will do the same in
your life today. He’ll use those challenges in your life to catapult you
towards success! If you are going through a hard time today, if things look
impossible, don’t give up now. When all is said and done, you’re not just going
to come out of that difficulty, but you’re coming out stronger, wiser, and
better than you were before! Stand strong in the Lord today and trust that what
the enemy meant for your harm, God will turn around and use to your advantage.
He’ll take you places you never dreamed of!
The
6th of October, 2013, we celebrated Thanksgiving Day in the Church.
After,
the 6.oo pm mass celebration I met Fr. Alvaro, outside the Church. He is such a
warm hearted person. In our conversation that followed, I told Fr. I love
listening to homilies (sermons).
I
crave to listen to God. It is a thirst that never ends.
As
confirmed with the Holy Spirit, I write. It’s been nearly two weeks now and the
number 111 has been showing up so many times, that I think I know two things of
what it means. The first, being Hebrews 11:1- Now faith is the assurance of
things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
And
the second would be my birthday. For the last two years, on both my birthdays,
I attended the evening mass. Both the years they were celebrated by Fr. Alvaro.
The
first year, as I was standing in line for the Holy Communion, the body of
Christ fell down from father’s hand, and that was no mistake of his as the
person suddenly moved. I was standing to the side, I lifted Jesus, and was presenting
Jesus back to father, when Fr. indicated that I could have Jesus to myself, my
joy knew no bounds.
I
have always wondered what it would be like, to be there, when Jesus carrying
the Cross, fell to the ground. I have always wanted to go to help Jesus up. And
the moment, I lifted Jesus and held Jesus I knew I got my wish. It was the best
birthday gift ever. I got You, Jesus.
The
second year, when I attended the mass, Fr. Alvaro gave me the body of Christ.
And I received Jesus, twice in the same mass. And there could be no fault of
anyone. Its Jesus wish for me.
The
evening mass on the 6h of October, was celebrated by Fr. Ashlyn. And the topic of Faith that Fr. spoke on was
perfect and my favourite. It was everything that I could wish it would be. The
Gospel was based on the apostles asking Jesus to increase their faith. Luke 17:5-10
I
write this down as it coincides with 111. - - -
FAITH.
James 4:2, “...yet ye have not,
because ye ask not..”
God
desires for us to come to Him in prayer, making our requests known unto Him.
The Bible tells us to have an attitude of thanksgiving when we approach God in
prayer. This is important, because gratitude comes from a humble heart.
God
simply wants us to pray, TO ASK. But if we ask amiss, then the Holy Spirit will
step in to intercede and speak on our behalf to the Father, explaining what we
really need.
I
ask for God's will to be done, because I've learned that God's ways and God's
thoughts are far above mine. Isaiah 55:8-9
PRAY
WITHOUT CEASING as 1st Thessalonians 5:17 states and then we have to be rest
assured in our mind and have peace in our heart, knowing that we have cast our
burdens upon the Lord. Philippians 4:6-7
If
we ASK, then we have done as God commanded, and the Holy Spirit will help our
infirmities and intercede for us if we're off target in our prayers.
When
you get close, to your goal or maybe you have just begun to think of having a change in your
life irrespective of your immediate surroundings, the enemy-the devil will have
obstacles thrown in your way. He will have people come to discourage you or
throw abuses at your face. Whatever you
do, don’t give up and don’t give in.
TRICKS of the devil
1.
The only entrance the enemy has is the one you give him.
2.
Everything starts with a thought: disobedience, divorce, adultery, envy &
jealousy.
3.
The enemy knows if he can affect our thoughts he can keep us in bondage for
a month, for a year and so on.
4.
Many times the problems that we face are created from the fears we build
overtime.
5.
His goal is to set up barriers in our minds. When the fears grow, one becomes a
slave to the thing they fear the most.
6.
Be very careful of the words you speak. The devil always uses that against
you.
The five main powerful weapons
against the devil.
The
Word of God. (The Bible)The name of Jesus.
The CROSS
Prayer-The Rosary.
A Priest.
If
we yield to temptations, the devil will continually follow us but if we put on
the whole armour of God, and stand it out against him, he will be gone from us.
Resolution shuts and bolts the door against temptation.
Therefore
take the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day,
and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your loins with
truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your
feet with the equipment of the gospel of peace; besides all these, taking the
shield of faith, with which you can quench all the flaming darts of the evil
one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is
the word of God. Ephesians 6:13-17
Praise
is the expression of gratefulness to Abba, Father.
Praise gets God’s attention. Praise is a powerful because God inhabits our
praises! When we enter His presence the right way, He enters our circumstances,
and when God shows up, the enemy must flee! Enter into His gates with thanksgiving
and open the door for Him to move on your behalf!
Where Love is God is
Through the wind and
the rainthe storm and the pain
Up where the mountains meet the heavens
And where the lightning strikes the sea
All I pray, dear God of mine, REMEMBER me……
With
all my Love,
For
Love Prevails!AnitA.
PRAYER:
Abba, Father, keep me obedient and always faithful. Remember, this your
servant.
Mama
Mary keep me humble, I pray. Amen.
Emmanuel-God
is with us.
Promise date: 14th October, 2013. Fr. Ashlyn (7:30 pm)
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