Make Peace Not War!

"Make Peace Not war"  One of my Favourite sayings... If you really think about it it brings a type of comfort to yourself and to the people around you. If God really wanted war on earth he would not have sent the flood  to Noah, he wouldn't have let the people escape from Egypt, he wouldn't have sent Jesus.  He did all of these things to make peace on earth, but some how as human as we are we made war instead of peace.

To be honest I am kind of surprised God did not send Jesus again to earth! Think with all the wars there as been, all the attacks on some country , all of the murders, the war in Afghanistan,  All of the stuff where there is no peace. Thinking of all of these wars and what not doesn't really have to do with us everyday people.  We as everyday people must be at peace with our enemy. That will cause one less " war" in our life time....

Lets start this off  in the Bible shall we?

Peace in Hebrew means "Shalom"


You lord give perfect peace to those  who keep their purpose firm and put their trust in you-Isaiah 26:3


For all of those who love and serve God and keep God in there life, will have peace with God forever and ever. Forgiveness  is one way to stay with peace with God, we must forgive others and our selves to stay at peace. God will Give perfect peace and harmony to those who keep on the path God wants and if they trust there life with God the almighty father.

Those who do not  Have trust in God, are not at peace with God. God will have that final word even if they do not trust in him. God will say if they go to heaven or hell. Those who do not trust in God will never live in peace with God.

"There is no peace for sinners" says the Lord.


 No peace for those who betray the almighty lord of heaven and earth. The lord cam to save those from sin and to make peace between them.

We always here this saying " make peace not war".  How??? Well to make peace with our enemies can just be as easy as saying hi or smiling to them. Those can be the simplest things that can make a great friendship. The Lord put these people in our lives to test us to see if we can make peace with them, if we do we are at peace with God.

Now the most common peace. "Peace be with you"  at church. When we say peace be with you and shake their hand, we are forgiving any conflict between you and that person. To bring peace. Many people will go  to everyone around them to say peace. Don't. It is usually best to say peace with one or two people. Don't make a big show about making peace with one another. Don't go around to every pew in the church saying peace to everyone. 

Child to Priest......

Every year the years go down until that day when I become a priest. 14 or 15 more years I believe even with thinking about it makes me soo happy :)

It's always been my dream to become a priest since grade one or two I believe. It's just something I heard God calling me to do and still calling me to do. God speaks very loudly in my life, and I try to let I'm into my life has much as I can.... 

Now how did this all start????

Well I was in  grade one I remember I went to a Sunday mass  at my church and I just got so inspired by what the priest was doing and wanted to see what he was doing.... we always sat near the back and i would always wanted to be lifted up and see what was going on, while my parents were saying I was getting to heavy to be lifted up..... Then one day we were sitting in the front row ( my favourite now)  and the priest got me to hold the book at the "Let us pray" there I was soo nervous but so happy trying to balancing  the book on my head. O, How happy  was getting to help the priest that inspires me to become a priest. (and still does)

He has been my biggest inspiration  to become a priest. And now I pray to God to help me go down that path   and to make sure that is my future. I pray to God that he will help me become a priest and pray for all those who to want to become a priest.

I have family behind me on this, cheering me on to one day become a priest and  helping to learn about God and to love God more everyday I shall live......

And now today, I am and alter server at my church and serve at Sunday mass and special masses... I like helping, it helps me to be on the right track and one day become a priest and possibly a bishop........ 

Shepherd psalm

One of my Favourite songs sung in church. This song speaks to me in many ways, and I hope it speaks to you to in many ways!

Love your enemies

The father in heaven has no enemies, not us, not the murders, not Satan, not your next neighbors kids,  not the people that bug you the most, Not the people that get drunk, not the people that have a bad attitude, not the people that swear and not the people of the world around us.... God is with everybody, it's if everyone chooses to accept God. God says no to nobody, In Gods kingdom there is no right or wrong everything is always right and on track. In the kingdom there is no bad or good it's always good.

" But I tell you who hear me; Love your enemies,do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and one who hits you on the cheek, let them hit the other one too; if someone takes your coat, let him have your shirt as well. Give to everyone who asks  you for  something, and when someone  takes what is yours, do not ask for it back.Do to others just what you want them to do to you." - Luke: 27-31


Jesus in this scripture is telling us about that we should have no enemies. If we do Forgive them, if they sin against us forgive them, that's the one thing he wants us to do is to forgive. Know if they make you go on a walk  for a mile take them another mile and make them suffer as well.... If they slap you on one cheek... give them the other to slap as well show them that you what they are doing is wrong, and you are giving them another opportunity to be bad,  which if they are pure evil they will slap again and not look for forgiveness.

So this is the first time when Jesus says that commandment out loud... it's on thing he came to preach and he preached it till the very end!


The people that just drive you crazy, the people that bug you all day long are the people that need the most love and forgiveness. They  need to find the love of God, they need to find what talents they have, they need to find themselves. But those are the hardest  people to forgive and to love, the bug us and we try and try to forgive and love , but just seems like we just can't. If we try... God will love and accept us... For the love and forgiveness of god can not be replaced or broken. for the love of God is the most powerful thing on earth.....


People think that if we do not ask for forgiveness on earth that we are messed and will go to hell..... No.... God will give us another chance in heaven... whether we believe in him or not.... God will give everyone a second chance in heaven to ask for forgiveness, but if they say no then it's off to hell they go.... But God gives  more chances in heaven for us to forgive. We can not judge others by the way the have acted on earth in how there judgement will be that's between God and the person.....


For God loves us so we can love him. For God forgives, so can we. For God will help others, So can we... For God is every ones friend so we can try...


Our road on earth can be bumpy at times, it can be with people who sin against us, people  who hurt us, it can be our sins, it can be anything, but there are five things that can help us on the journey of life.

1. God
2. Jesus
3. Holy spirit
4. Family
5. Forgiveness

God is  always there though we may sin and betray him, he could build the biggest church from us, we could do extraordinary things because God is with us. But sometimes it's not about doing the extraordinary things... it could simply be waving or giving a smile to some one instead of a stare. that saying is the number one saying repeated in my life.. a simple smile could change the world....

The Foundation

" Why do you call me "Lord, Lord," and yet yet don't do what I tell you? Any one who comes to me and listens to my words and obeys them --I will show you what he is like. He is like a man who, in building his house dug deep and laid the foundation on rock. The river flooded  over and hit that house but could not shake it because it was well built. But anyone who hears my  words and does not obey them is like a man who built his house with out  a foundation;  when the flood hit that house it fell at once -- and what a terrible crash. ---  Luke 6: 46-49




What were the people back doing just before the flood with Noah ? Sin. That is why he made the flood. Why did God send his Son?  Cause of sin. And yet today there is a lot of people who sin, kill, murder, get drunk and then drive. What can God do next? I don't know. We are human, and God sent the flood, sent his son to teach us and tell us to be better and get on the right path.

Gods love for us is SOOO GREAT he gave HIS SON to DIE For US. We can't even understand the love he has. His love is bigger than the sun, bigger than the universe, bigger than the galaxy. Bigger Yet! He wants us so bad on the final day, he will do whatever he can to make sure we are in his kingdom with him forever, because he made us and wants to take care of us! Things in this world will pass heaven and earth, people and pets, but Gods love will never!

People who hear his voice on earth, have a strong foundation in life, have a strong love for him. If we listen to him and obey him and have that strong foundation, we will not be snatched by the devil when he tries.....But those with little faith will be snatched by the devil  and how terrible it is for them because of their little faith.

Our faith is stronger than any thing on earth, Our faith  keeps us safe on earth, Our faith in God will always keep us alive and will always make us grow stronger in him with love and peace... Our foundation is always standing has long as we believe in God the father almighty.

God is telling us not to go and be hypocrites. If we say we believe and make our selves public while praying and giving alms we are hypocrites. God wants things in private, and our foundation will be built a lot stronger.

God Loves You!!!!

Children

We all have this "judgement" for little children. Either they are really good and cute or just plan annoying and disgusting. I can't really see how people can look at children that are small and cute and think the are annoying and disgusting.Children are the life of tomorrow, THEY ARE THE FUTURE.  Sadly some people can't see that and abuse and hurt children.

The real question now is:

 Did the Disciples like Children?


 So Jesus called a child to come and stand in front of them, and said "I assure you that unless you change and become like children you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.-  Matthew 18: 2-3


"Unless you change and become like children" As tough and big and strong the disciples are they  are told by their master that they must change and become like children to enter the kingdom of heaven.What is a child? and how do we change to become one? Children are  playful, loose, sometimes easy going, loving and cute. They also will let things go easily, but the bad part is that they can cause a lot of  trouble. God is not asking for us to cause a lot of trouble he is just asking us to be good easy going and to follow him as a child would follow is mother, to love him and to keep him in their hearts forever. Jesus knew from the very beginning that Judas would betray him, peter would doubt, and deny him, and he knew that Thomas would doubt him, he knew he would die, and he knew/knows all of our sins and good things we do in out life time. We must become innocent  little children that are born again by the spirit  and worship and follow the almighty God in heaven.

Then you flip the page in the bible and you get this :

 Some people brought children to Jesus  for him to place his hand on them and to pray for them, but the disciples scolded the people. Jesus said" LET THE CHILDREN COME TO ME, and DO NOT stop them, because  the kingdom of heaven  belongs to such these." He put his hands on them  blessed them and went away after that.-  Matthew 19:13-15 



So in this one  Jesus is inviting the children to him to love them and to bless them. As worried as the disciples are they jump in and send the people away, when Jesus saw what was going on he jumps on it and shouts " LET THE CHILDREN COME TO ME" and at that moment all the disciples are now embarrassed for sending the people away. It's not said how many disciples were there just that there was disciples present.
So has the disciples tell the children to back up and leave the parents are just starting to leave and must be arguing with them.

 So Do the Disciples not like Children??

Table of Plenty

God has a feast ready for us, when he wants us. He has the biggest feast of only the food you like. He is the one who is ready for us, the one who is the chef and the server, preparing the food we like as we grow  up on earth. He gets to know us better each day we live, and makes the feast even better every day! 

The Flow of Water.....

The flow of water can be strong and powerful or weak and calm. Gods power Go's each stage through out the bible. He quickly goes from calm and nice into Just plan mad  just in Genesis! The Flow of water will always continue no matter what is in it's way it will always continue. Just like God, no matter who he deals with he all ways is the gentile and love that we know of him....


If you look into the water, seeing the lightest things touch the surface  there will be these small waves causing changes in the water. Waves going one way, waves going another way. If you look past the dirt, garbage, and old tree roots under the water and on the shores, and look at the surface in reality. What do you see? You see the reflection of nature,  the trees blowing, the birds flying, the clouds movin' you see a reflection.... The beautiful part....the reflection.....

We are the water God is the person  who is standing on shore waiting to see his reflection on the water, from us, we must leave the past. past and our sins behind us and reflect the greatness of God. God wants us to reflect him the best we can in our lives.... share things, give a smile, be nice, give a hand are just a few but, some people might say  " that's not reflecting God your doing something simple...." it's not about doing anything big and fancy, it's what you do, like wave or smile at someone.... that's what God is.

Today's first reading was about Moses tapping a rock and getting the water  in the desert.... This is one cool story. The people complain to Moses and Moses asks the Lord and then Moses is ordered to tap the rock twice and so he did and at once the water flowed into the crowed... a nice and gentle flow.

We can be a strong and hard flow at times, when we get angry ad stir up all the junk and dirt at the bottom and let no chance of anything getting reflected.

From the flow of the river to the sky, to back to the flow , back to the ground to water our plants, to make the flow flowable again. To make the world and easy flowing loving place.

May the father almighty bless us and help us to reflect him the best we can, and to send the Holy spirit to keep us in his love and compassion

Jesus Calms a storm.

Meanwhile  the boat, already a few miles offshore, was being tossed about by waves, for the wind was against it. During the fourth watch at night, he came toward them , walking on the sea. When the disciples saw him walking on the sea they were  terrified ." Its a Ghost!" they said, and they cried out in fear.  At once Jesus spoke to them " Take courage, it is I ;do not be afraid ." Peter said to him in reply , " Lord if it is you, command , me to come to on the water" He said " Come"  Peter got out of the boat  and began to walk on water toward Jesus. But when he saw how strong  the wind was he became frightened and had little faith.- Matthew 14: 22-35

While Jesus is away on a hill praying his disciples leave him  into the sea by his order... Its not said what sea. but by looking at maps I would believe Sea of Galilee.In my belief I think that while Jesus was praying on top of the mountain, he wanted the wind blowing storm to happen so that he could test his disciples. To see how much faith they have in him, how much they believe in him....

  Peter as human as human can be first is the doubter with little faith, causing himself to sink and testing the lord he had little faith and this one thing grew in him to become a great person... until the day he betrayed the lord when the Lord needed him the most. But, Jesus forgives everyone, even the doubter/ disbeliever. Peter and Jesus has had the most unique  journey out of all of them..... Starts out with picking him, getting his brother bring him to Jesus.... Having a hard time believing  Jesus at times, not trusting him at others, saying he is lord of lords and king of kings, denying the lord, and becoming the head of the church, with the keys of heaven.

   I got to say we all have are times when we doubt in the Lord when we lose faith, and hope but if we try to let God back and we want God in he will come in, he will guide us back to the road to that narrow gate. We are only human peter made mistakes we make mistakes it will take longer for others to get back on the road but if you have faith they will.

Jesus did this to see how much faith the disciples have in him, to see if they believe, to see if they know their teacher. but in this case it's a ghost! :)  I would think that too if I haven't seen my master in a few hours and it's 2:in the morning. Now the thing is all the stories are were passed down. Matthew wasn't sitting their with a pencil and paper writing everything down that Jesus says.... or if he was he would have used I and would have made it more of him not others and not so much detail. The Gospels won't be 100% accurate... they are close but not 100% because things change over person to person... like one time I played that game where the message is passed down person to person, I said an elephant drove a truck. when it was  The ice cream is in the trunk  now you think " how the heck can that be" it's hoe it gets passed down.

The lord loves us and will keeps us floating on the water if we have faith and love God and give him our praise which he wants from us for us to recognise  God in our life.

July 31, 2011 Gospel reading

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