Life is unpredictable.
One day Mother Teresa found a man dying on the street. She began to care for him with tenderness. The man was completely weak and dying, but he asked ‘why do you care for me?
Mother Teresa' reply was simple - 'I see Jesus in you'. The man smilingly said, ‘I will die like an angel loved and cared for.’
Mother Teresa's love allowed this man to experience compassion in the last moments of his life. We learn that even the smallest acts of love make people feel special.
To hold in one's arms a dying (discarded) person, it is an act of immense love, it is a comfort to the dying. The sense of touch is so important and much needed.
When dying you want to be held, so that the fear in dying alone, unloved is driven away.
None of us has any guarantees to life. We do not know, our last hour from the moment, now that we are in. Therefore, it is imperative to love everyone that we come in contact with.
We can do good to our loved ones when they are alive. A truckload of flowers when they are gone, means nothing.
We must love and respect the people in our lives. We must cherish each moment with them. For every minute makes a difference. Each moment builds memories that time cannot erase.
We must treat them with the utmost love like there is no tomorrow.
We can encourage them and be with them and tell them how splendid they are.
We must always tell our loved ones; how much needed they are.
Love begins at home. You begin with loving the people in your life. If you don’t love your family members, you cannot love others.
Love is God!
In this lifetime, we are given this wonderful opportunity to live our best in and through our families.
We can live our best, always praying for the grace of the Almighty God and always in imitation of the Holy Trinitarian God and The Holy Family, Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
But no matter how many times we fail, we need to get up and try again. Because every family falls short at some time. In God, we are never alone, no matter how broken we are. Trust God.
Peace begins at home and then through each one of us goes into the world.
Do not neglect any member of the family.
Don’t play favourites, it creates a split in the family.
Don't try to control the members in your family. Don't try to control anybody.
Don’t play the game of divide and rule. IT IS THE WORST THING YOU CAN DO AS A PARENT – and the worst thing you can do as a person! No Blessings – no good comes from this.
NOW!
In the woman who suffered from haemorrhage for 12 years, Jesus asks of the crowd, ‘who touched me?’
What we know about the woman is, she had a bleeding condition, for twelve years. The Jewish Law at the time declared a woman with a bleeding condition to be unclean.
Being in the crowd and edging towards Jesus, meant that each person would have become unclean by her touch. But, after twelve years of suffering, the ability to touch was all that she needed to get her healing from Jesus.
Mark 5:28 - For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I shall be made well.”
This woman believes she will be healed on touching of Jesus's garment. And here she is saying to herself…’if I touch even his garments…’
And this is what she did, she 44 came up behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment; and immediately her flow of blood ceased. 45 And Jesus said, “Who was it that touched me?” (Luke 8:44–45).
As soon as the woman touched Jesus, her bleeding stopped, and she knows she’s been healed.
This woman had the courage to walk into the crowd-to touch the fringe of Jesus’ garment, knowing what her predicament could mean had she been caught by anyone.
What she had been deprived of for 12 years that is what she believed in for a miracle – the sense of touch and Jesus permitted her. And that is the reason Jesus asks
“Who was it that touched me?”
Jesus KNOWS!
A girl restored to life and a woman healed. More on this matter. If you wish to - Please also read: Way to Believe...
(Jesus did not let the woman who suffered from Hemorrhage go quietly, He wanted her to know, that He knew. For knowing that Jesus, knew and allowed her to touch Him, would bring her immense JOY.)
How great is Your love, oh Lord!
Love with all your heart. In the last moments of life, in that last breath - LOVE IS ALL.
When Love has been and is your life, it is Love that filled your heart, and LOVE was and is your every song.
Love is ETERNAL! LOVE IS GOD!
No one who calls on God is ever alone. It is His Promise! God will make a WAY to you!
With all my Love,
AnitA. JMJ
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