Draft To Craft

So Recently, I noticed, that the draft number of posts of this blog - posts that never made it- was sitting at 27. I have been thinking for a while wondering what I should do with these guys. And I came up with a PERFECT solution. I am going to do a series called,"Draft to Craft" 

I will be taking the posts, as they were, almost complete or not, leaving them at where they are, and continuing the post. I will get into the spirit and write the post, even if I think it's a bad post, idea, or I don't know where to go with it. You never know some of the worst could end up being the best! I will only be doing 10 to start off. If I get good feed back ( comments, emails, ect.) then i will do more :D

Keep an eye out for these posts! The titles of them will be "Draft To Craft-1" ect.

Hope You enjoy!

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Thanks :D

Five Minute Friday- Afraid

Linking up, and doing the 5 Minute Friday Challenge!

GO!

I Am NOT Afraid.

NO.

With God, There is NOTHING to be afraid of. God is our protection, and will NEVER let anything bad happen to us. He is the ultimate God, who loved his children, and will feed them and protect them. I am NEVER afraid.

God, will/ would NEVER lead us on the right path, so why should I be afraid? God is ALWAYS there to protect us, and be there when we need him. He will deliver us in peace, and will grant us healing and peace.

God is Good. He is our protection and our armor. He is there to save his children in times of need. Our God is a God, who, if we believe and have Faith, will bring us into his heavenly kingdom.

I am NOT afraid, to take another step.

I am NOT afraid, of what others say.

I am NOT afraid to Cry.

I am NOT afraid to be happy.

I am NOT afraid  about my sins.

Cause I know God, will help me on my journey, he is the one that sees me for who I am, take care of me when i'm sad, be their when i'm happy, and certainly I am not afraid of my sins, for God, will forgive all my sins.

God WILL deliver us from all evil. He will take us away from all pain and evilness, when it falls upon us. God, will deliver us from evil. He will make sure no enemy of ours  shall come between our connection.

God will supply. He will worry about tomorrow while we however, worry about the struggles of today. I am NOT afraid to face tomorrow, cause I know God is already their, ready to protect me and forgive me.

I am NOT Afraid.

Isn't that great knowing that WE have a God like that?

STOP 

Welcome Back!

So, as promised on Christmas Day 2012, I promised to bring back this site! :D (Shout for joy) So, I want to introduce some new things I will be doing throughout this year. As you may or may not know, my One Word of 2013 is "FAITH" I have dedicated this year to grow in my faith more and more. ( If the pope can, why can't I? )

The first thing I plan on doing is reading the bible cover to cover in 365 days. I have never read the bible completely, so this will be a good challenge to grow in my Faith. I actually have fallen back on my reading, but thats because I was sick. I will catch up tomorrow. Encourage 365 is hosting this challenge as her word of Commitment. I suggest you head over there, it's a great read. She does a post everyday, about the 2-3 chapters we read everyday!

Next, I plan on continuing to do the  5 Minute Fridays. I enjoy writing based on one word. Even though I do go over a lot over the 5 minute mark.... But shhh thats our secret :)

In February, I  plan on  starting a series. This series will be two posts, every month. One at the beginning of the month, and another near the end of the month. This series will be on different people through out the bible. Each month will be a different theme. For an example, One month might be on Women in the bible, another might be dedicated to St Paul. You never know. What do you think? A button will be available here staring on January 25 on the right side bar. You can take this button if you are following those posts, or even if you want to do your own post on these people! I would love it if you left a comment in the comments below if you are!

Also, I have dedicated time to make sure that there is ALWAYS something new to read on my other blog and here! Sorry I haven't been posting here, If you miss the posts here, be sure to check out the posts at Pray To God Today!

Also, On February 14, I will be opening a BRAND NEW PRAYER REQUEST PAGE! On this site and Pray To God Today! It's a way in which you can send me a request to pray for you! If you would like me to share it on the blog please include it in the email. ( You decide if you wish your name to be said. If not stated, I will not use your name, but I will say the problem)

So far I think This is a good list! What do you think?

 What are you doing?

 Whats your word for 2013?  

As always, you are welcomed to leave a comment. I want to hear your answers to those questions!

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Welcome to a Brand New Year!

Welcome to a brand new year! We all survived the End of The World. We all beat that scary year of 2012. Congratulations! Now, as Promised I am Bringing Life Of Us and Saints Back. Well, for now. I have missed it and I have certainly been told by people how much they miss it! So, out of some consideration I opened it up again.

Pray To God Today, is gonna still be my main focus. I will continue to post there and i will post here as well. If it's been a few weeks since i have not posted here, PLEASE check out Pray to God Today because I will have posted there and not have had time to do another here.

Ever since I stopped Life Of Us and Saints, I have gained 2000 Viewers!!! That is AMAZING! Thank You Fellow People for keeping up with this blog even though I didn't update it. Starting next week I will start my normal Posting here again. I have a few things to finish up with the site before I officially open it up to normal posts. 

Thank you!

Mike 

The Announcement!

LIFE OF US AND SAINTS IS COMING BACK!!!

Starting January 1, 2013

Christmas Spirit!

Are you in the Christmas Spirit? Well, if your not I say you should! And If you are well thats GREAT! It's all about joining together as one adoring our new born king. Born in the town of Bethlehem an also being born in the space you set aside for him in YOUR heart.

Christmas is a time of spending time with family, and giving gifts. ( notice I say, GIVING and not Getting) Christmas is a time where we should put aside our difference, our pride, our self wanting and make it a happy and joyful time of the year.

God loves you SO MUCH that he sent his one and only son to live among us just to die. He came to earth for us. He wants to show us the way to Father and he does so, by teaching us how to live of our lives.

Gods love is like many things. But what we describe it has doesn't even come close to what it actually is. His love for us is AMAZING! None of us would ever be able to show that much of love to everyone we know and don't know. God's love is like the advent wreath. It's in the shape of a circle; Never ending.  The Christmas Tree is Tall and Green. It's BIG Showing us how much he loves us and it brings our attention upward to heaven! Also, the tree is green. Fake or Real they will always remain Green. ( unless you have the smart idea of putting candles on the tree like Martin Luther)

This Christmas may  we come and adore the new born king. Let us join our hearts together has one and worship our soon to be born king!

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT COMING TOMORROW! MY GIFT TO YOU! 

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Thank YOU

Thank You To Everyone who helped with Life Of Us and Saints!!!!

Thank You to all me viewers and Followers!!!!

THANK YOU!!!!

PLEASE VISIT MY NEW BLOG:

PRAY TO GOD TODAY 

A Challenge...

Okay, I will admit... I Do miss Life of Us and Saints. But I am glad to start a new blog. I just feel like I have a wider range to write about aat my new blog. But I do miss LOUAS.. This few days have been busy getting back to school and getting back into the routine of life.



I AM SETTING A CHALLENGE FOR YOU!

IF IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER, BEFORE SEPTEMBER 30 @ 11:59 pm THIS BLOG CAN GET MORE THAN 1,023 VEIWS THEN I WILL START LIFE OF US AND SAINTS AGAIN! THIS IS THE LAST CHANCE FOR SURVIVAL OF LOUAS!!! WE ARE AT 390 RIGHT NOW!!!!!! I WILL GIVE POSTS ON HOW WELL THIS WILL GO!!!

Good Bye!

The First thing I want to say, it THANK YOU! Thank you, Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I want to thank, ALL OF YOU! For reading and following Life Of Us and Saints! Thank YOU! I can't thank you all enough! I just can't. This last year and4 months have been a GREAT learning experience for me. And I hope You my readers may have learned something new or possibly read something that made your day a little better.

I have a new calling; A new mission. A new beginning ( I think) To start a new blog, and move on from Life of us and Saints. I Have made a new blog where I will continue to write devotionals and hopefully a little learning post or two. 

Here at Life of Us and saints, I will post my guest posts, Thursday Think About ( I am moving that to My new blog) and If I link up with 5 Minute Fridays.

I Am Sorry to my daily readers, but I Can't wait to see you read at my new blog. 

THIS AS NOT BEEN EASY! I have been thinking about this for over 4 months, thinking about a new blog and this blog. I Have come to know that I need a new start a new place. 

I remember the say in May, in 2011 when I thought about creating a blog. I had been doing a lot of research on saints, and putting it on an old website I had. But I decided to down size and just run a nice blog that people will enjoy. Well the All saint name didn't last that long.... One week to be exact. And thus was born Life of us and Saints. I was talking about our selves more then saints, and then I saw other blogs and then was born Life of Us and Saints. 

It is hard to say bye to my first Blog! But I look forward to Many years at my new blog!

AND NOW THE BIG OPENING TO MY NEW BLOG:

www.praytogodtoday.blogspot.ca

See You there! 

Thursday Think About

Our Mission.

"Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. 6 Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. 7 As you go, preach this message: 'The kingdom of heaven is near.' 8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.

Matthew 10: 5-8

So after a LONG time looking through the bible, asking friends and family what they think and thinking and sleeping on it I have come to this post. I hope it's not just me; but I fin writing a guest post is harder to write for than a post for your own blog. 

Nothing really stuck out to me, these past few days. Of what I should write about. SO after emailing and asking and THINKING and PRAYING and continuously going through the new testament I hope this is okay.

I woke up this morning thinking about our plan... Whats our plan? Whats our mission? Whats our instructions? What are we suppose to do? So  I spent a good hour looking through the bible. And I came across this perfect reading to fill my hunger for these questions. 

Why wouldn't Jesus want us to go to the Samaritans and Gentiles? Because Jews and Samaritans had there different believes and they just didn't get along. And there could certainly be a death penalty to those Jews who go into Samaria and vice-versa.  

We are told to Go into the lost parts of Israel. No, we are not suppose to go now, onto a plane and go to Israel. We are to go to the lost part of our own home towns and cities and preach the Good news there. And well of course unless we are the 12 apostles we can not drive out demons or raise the dead, but we can Pray.

4My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words but with a demonstration of the Spirits power, 5 so that your Faith might not rest on mens wisdom, but on God's Power. 

1 Corinthians 2:4-5 

Now we can fully see, our mission. If we love God and love Jesus and ask them anything it will be given. ( taken from John) If we have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, he will have mercy on us and give us the Holy Spirit. When we have the Holy Spirit we can do anything... Maybe not raise the dead, but something among those lines that we can do.

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But What about those who Do not listen to us? Those who hate us, what do we do with them? What are we suppose to do?

12 As you enter the home, give it your greeting. 13 If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. 14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.

Matthew 10: 12-14

Back in the time of Jesus, dusting the sand off your feet at the door was a big insult. It was to show anger and disappointment. When ever you would go into someones house, the host or the person who lives there would bring a some water for you to wash your feet, because most people didn't have shoes. It would have only been the rich that would have sandals on there feet.

So shaking the dust off your feet at the entrance would bring a "curse" to the place of dwelling. It was an insult to the people of the house. And it would then create a separation between those who are nice to who.

18 "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.

John 15:18-20

We are hated by this world, because it didn't accept Jesus. Jesus bore the message of God, and the world went against it. They crucified him. ( Luckily for us crucifying isn't as common so we probably won't be)  The world did not want to accept us. But we still must continue the work of God.

Why should we continue the work of God? Because Jesus choose us from the world, to be HIS disciples. To be his followers. We did not choose him; He Chose US. And Jesus Loves you. And that loves is strong enough to put down the hate of the world. 

No servant is greater than his master. So what happens with the master happens with the servant. Ever since the last supper we have not been called servants but friends. We are friends of Jesus. And We bring Joy to others through the works of Jesus through us. So for those who hated Jesus they will hate us because we bring the same message has Jesus.

So now that I/ we can understand this we can now fully know God plan for us and to know what he wants from us. We have our instructions, we have our plan and know it's time to wake up and make it happen... Everyday. not Just today and tomorrow but everyday of the week. :)

Many Blessing be with You all,

Originally posted at Encourage 365

Thursday Think About! (Sorry it's Late!)

Pictures....

¹⁸ I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 

 

¹⁹ Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live

20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

¹⁸ I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.   ¹⁹ Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. ²⁰ On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

John 14: 18-20

When We Are Called

Today, I was Alter Serving for a funeral at my parish. The founding priest of the parish had past away, and his will was that his funeral would be At our parish. So we had the Archbishop and about 20 other priests come, with the large crowed of course. He also had in his will all the songs and readings for the mass today. 

One line from the Gospel stood out like never before. I've always heard it at mass; Every year. I read it all the time in the bible; all the time but this one line stood out more than ever before:

"And I will go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you may be where I am. You Know the way to the place I am going."

John 14: 3-4

It Just hit me; like a wall of understanding. I just got it. Yeah, I've always, "got it" But today I Got It. I understood it. I knew it. Everything seemed like I knew it for a lone time. So this is what hit me: 

Jesus didn't have to leave this earth. No he didn't. He did to prepare a place for US.SO that we may live with him forever. He did it because he loves us. He wants the best so he does the best. So he left so that we may have the best. Because he cared and he wants us to confess on our tongues that he his lord God with out us seeing him.

Jesus left, heaven because God sent him;because he loves us. Ever since Jesus was born he knew that he would die and suffer. Jesus could have done so many things differently so that he wouldn't have to die, but he did. He did for us. And that's what counts. 

It's when we are called is when he will come back. When our time is done, he will take us by the hand and bring us to our room of dwelling, Our room of where we can live happily. Jesus calls us at different times. When we are done are mission here then we may go back to him. Jesus wants US ALL. Not matter what! He knows we are sorry for our sins, And he will forgive us. 

Jesus wants us to recognize our sins. Why, to make us conscience about things around us and people we meet. He does it so that he may bring us into his kingdom. When we recognize our sins, it's we say them to Jesus and when we say them to Jesus he knows we believe so then he can take us to his kingdom. 

I didn't know this priest that well. I met him at the 50th anniversary Mass at my parish. He was nice, seemed caring seemed to like me. I'm not sure if he had remembered me. 

Faith!

      Today, I just don't know what to write about. I woke up, turned on my computer, sat down, and my mind went blank. I just had nothing on my mind to write about. So then I went to my handy-dandy bible, That always helps me, to find SOMETHING to write about.

So, with an optimistic mind I turned to Matthew 5, 6 and 7 ( My favorite part of Matthew and possibly the bible.) And I read all the stories and i think I've blogged about them all... Possibly twice.... So I was stuck. K, so then I thought maybe if I stare out the my window long enough, something will come to me. Because I always find God in nature. But not today. I didn't know what to do. Then, all of a sudden I thought of a conversation I had with someone yesterday, and it stuck to me  because I thought about last night all night.

      One of my friends that i haven't talked to in ages added me on facebook a few days ago. And so I accepted the friend request. No hi, no nothing just got to his point quickly. This is what my friend had to say, "Michael, I don't believe in christ jesus or god i am atheist what do you have to say about that mr priest?" And my response was simple, "All I have to say is that it is your choice to believe or not to believe.... God will come into your life soon enough" I know it might have not been the best answer. But it was my answer and I stand by it. But I was very surprised by what my friend said because knowing everything that had happen to him in the last 3 years is just amazing.

God shows himself, to all of us at different times, some when we are young and some when they are older. My friend is the same age as me, we use to be in the same grade. Yes, I could have tried and made him see the great things of being a Catholic and all the things Jesus does for us and quote and un quote from the bible. But that wasn't necessary. I didn't need to. All I thought i had to say was, It's your choice, But god will reveal himself to you soon.


I pondered on this, all night. Thinking about stuff thats happened to him and then thought of why wouldn't he still trust in God. But then he was one to question everything, and be iffy about this stuff. And I could see before that it could lead to this one day. And I got saddened that he couldn't hold his ground as a catholic. But it's not my choice or my say what religion people are.

Jesus told them,"Because you have seen me, you have believed; Blessed are those who have not seen yet have believed"

John 20: 29

What would you have said? To someone who would say that to you. I know you don't have the whole story of his life, but it's not my job to let the whole world know it. But What would you have said.... I'm curious. 

When Sun Shines in the morning read this:

1. Read it once Fastlly

2.Look out the closest Window

3. Read this slowly

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The Lord is my shepherd, 
I shall not want; 
He makes me lie down in green pastures. 
He leads me beside still waters; 
He restores my soul. 
He leads me in paths of righteousness 
for His name's sake

 

Even though I walk through the valley 

of the shadow of death, 

I fear no evil; 

for You are with me; 

Your rod and Your staff, they 

comfort me.

You prepare a table before me

 in the presence of my enemies; 

You anoint my head with oil;

my cup over flows.  

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me 

all the days of my life; 

and I shall dwell in the house of the 

Lord forever.