The Beauty in Nature

As I was biking home tired, I wasn't just thinking of how tired I was from the beating 30+ heat, but I was thanking God about the beauty of nature. The trees blowing in the wind the bird i almost ran over, The branches falling, the birds chirping, and then the connection  with God comes back(never left) and grows.


The beauty of life and nature is quite the thing. How often now in days' do people take time to look at the good things of nature?

I'm one of those people who like to take care of the environment and not litter and stop plastic bags and hate how plastic bags are 5 cents and reusable bags are $1. Cheap ways now in days how people try to make money. While i was biking i was thinking of the miracles God has done in my life. Noe those miracles are nothing great like healing my back pain, but, helping me get through my tough moments in life, in the times i felt like he's not their.... but he is.

The great thing in just stopping and looking and taking time to thank God for all this nature brings us closer and reminds us why we are here and brings that connection closer to God. I find just stopping and thanking God for everything calms me right down, brings me to peace in soul and body....

The beauty of God works with life and peace, which brings us closer to him and to our right path, and will help us to say yes a lot easier.

Take time today, to recognize those things God has done in your life, and your connection with him will grow stronger with you and with life, and bring you closer to the kingdom of God...

It's hard to find time to thank God for what he does for us,because of the noisy, impatient, disheartening world we have right now. If  you have something great in your life thank God!

The Sower

This Sunday's Gospel  was the parable of the Sower. My favorite of them all. So of course  I listened extra close to the Gospel.

At most times we are in one of two categories seeds that fell  on the rocks with little soil and sprouted or those that fell in good soil and produced  one hundred, sixty or thirty.

At times we can be like those on the rocks because we will receive the holy message at first, but then we will run away from our faith and forget all about it and start doing wrong.

We are those seeds that fell in good soil because some of us listen and keep God's word and not let go no matter what. But, that's very hard, today's society doesn't support stuff like this, it supports other thing's and detaches us from God. We can't focus on what god wants us to do, when we are to focused on what society has for us and go away from Gods almighty plan.

Just think, God is the sower, The seed is his message. Look how clumsy/messy  he his when he sows the seeds throws  it everywhere. So that we can be tested to see if we follow his word or the evil of society.

I think at least once in your life you've evenly folded a piece of paper in half and on one side you written the good of your life and the other you have written the bad. We always think about the wrong in our life and think we can't do this or that......  but we have to  Forget... about our wrong and  think about the good in our life because the only side God looks at is the side of good. God didn't even look at our  bad side, he has already forgiven us for our sins and hatred.

Now lets think here do you think Jesus would really describe a parable???? No Jesus leaves his parables open at the end for us and them (in the past) to relate to and think about..... So it's very unlikely that Jesus actually explained the parable....


I can't quiet explain why exactly  I love this reading so much but I just do. The love show by God lives in us each day and it's if we accept it is what matters.

F.F.F

 Forgive,  Forget, Forever.


Forgive. The one thing God wants us to do. Yes he wants us to worship him in all, but if we don't forgive and ask for forgiveness on earth, he may not accept us on the judgment day. I believe that people get another chance in heaven and if they don't take it, they go to hell...( my opinion)  


Forgiving is a very hard thing, God himself knows it's hard but he wants us to forgive people so that we can live pure and true in his heavenly kingdom and not in the lake of fire with the devil. 


      I recognize my faults;  I am always conscious of my sins . I have sinned against you - only against  you- and done what you consider  evil.... So you are right in judging me; you are justified in condemning me.- Psalm 51: 3-4




   We are conscious of our sins. We must stay true and love God. When we know our sins we can ask for forgiveness. Confession is one way, that we can speak to the lord, to ask forgiveness, but it's always good to go to that person and be serious with your apology.  Before we can forgive someone else we must learn to forgive our selves, if we don't forgive our self ,we can not fully forgive others, and ask for forgiveness.




Our sins are with the people on this life, but more against God, God that father, where he the only one knows are sins before we do.


Once we have forgiven people we must forget them and what they did and forget what we did and move on. Has humans this is hard, because of the imaginary mind we have. Our brains like to think, because it's what brains do, and then we get haunted by those thoughts.... So life must move on from whatever it was, but we must forget a treat the person  like it never happened.   




Then you must forgive and forget, forever. Leave it behind you forever. Thou shall not speak of it after thee apology as been said. 


May God help us to forgive, forget, forever

The Tough Thing: The End: Understanding

The last but not least, Understanding.

Understanding Gods love,plan and fate for us is what is a hard thing. We might not even understand things that he did in our life, for the rest of our life. That's how God just works. He will renew in us the life and wisdom so that we may understand this our plan.

  Understanding Gods plan isn't as easy as 1 2 3. It's hard and can take years for it to reveal to us. It's not the point for us to know Gods plan for us, or else life would be rely boring. Gods plans are different for everyone, Yes, people will have a calling to become a priest, nun, doctor, ect.  but everything else in life is different.


   Understanding is the key to help us know and grow in OUR Mystery Of Faith.

 Understanding is one of the seven gifts of the holy spirit.... It helps us to take in and use the knowledge of God the father almighty. When the Disciples received the Holy Spirit in the house in Galilee, they received the gifts of the holy spirit.... understanding, To know and to speak in other languages....

 When we have a hard time understanding Gods love and peace, we must ask the Holy Spirit to give us the gift of understanding in mind, body and soul. God's plan for us is a mystery, God's love for us is already given to us from the moment we were born..... He gave us parents,  one way or another, Gods care and peace for us, as/and will come/came and we will live in the heavenly kingdom with  him forever and ever.

Understanding  Gods love is hard through most peoples eyes.... But to understand his love Just thank him for all the Good things in life, all your blessing... ( Good things in as home, parents, nature and not as in money and power)

The Lost Son.

Jesus = The Father
The son who runs away= us
The older brother= the pharisees

So When the younger son asked the father can i have my piece of the land, he is technically saying to his father  "i want you dead" because they only get the land once the father dies back then.

When the Son comes back from his horrible life the father greats him and throws a big party for him. And  the older brother Got mad and complained to the father, and Jesus left  the ending open, because what the older brother did to the father is the same thing the pharisees did to Jesus.  The older Son killed his father. That's why Jesus left it open, because he was talking to the pharisees.

This Just shows the understanding mind God as for us, he knows we are human and that we will make mistakes and he will forgive us with all his love in peace a joy.

For God  loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, So that anyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life. 

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The Tough Thing: Listening

  As humans we just want to talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, and talk. Just you. We don't give time for the other person a chance to speak.... Which I mean is quiet natural. It's just who we are.  Many of us like to talk. And when we don't give the other person a chance to talk, and let them say whats new. or whats wrong, they hang on to it, they keep it inside, and then it starts to eat them alive. So sometimes it's better to listen. Not to say a word, But listen because sometimes, that's all a person could need is someone who will listen.

   Listening is one hard thing to do because we just want to talk. Especially during prayer. We talk and talk and say the things we need from God, but we don't give God a chance to speak into our hearts and answer our prayer
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God speaks a lot to you.... Do you hear him?

God is speaking to you, but the stone hearts we have are blocking his voice. We need to ask God to make these hearts soft and gentle so that we can hear him, and let him tell us what his plan for us is. Because if we don't let god into our hearts we will never know our true destiny, we will never know our fate. God is/ should always be in your heart telling you your fate and life has it unfolds.

Everything happens for a reason, we might not see it right away, but everything happens for a reason.  God will speak it into our hearts and when we are ready to know why that happened he will open our hearts and lets us know.

  If today you hear gods voice harden not your hearts.- Psalm (don't remember where)

I will give you a new heart  and a new mind. I will take away your stubborn heart, of stone, and give you an obedient heart. - Ezekiel 36:26

If today you hear Gods voice don't harden your heart, don't close your heart keep it open let God speak with you, in you, and for you. If you allow God to speak to you, he can change your whole world,body and life. :)

God will take out that heart that hardens and put a new one in that will not harden as easily, and give us a new mind and bless us deeply in body and soul. Amen.

The Tough Thing: The Big Ten

1.You Shall have no other God's before me.

2.You Shall  not set your heart on your neighbors possessions.

3.You Shall misuse  the name of Yahweh your God.

4.Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. 

5.Honor your mother and father. 

6.You Shall not kill

7.You Shall not commit adultery 

8.You shall not steal

9.You Shall not give false evidence against your neighbor.

10.You Shall not set your heart on your neighbors house.

Taken from the new Jerusalem bible :)

The Big Ten. The Love God had for us, was so much he gave us the two tablets, of great rules on how we shall live. He also, gave us his beloved son, his one and only Son, to get crucified and buried, to rise from death, to rise to heaven.

Now you must be wondering why I put this has a Tough Thing. Well it's because of the things we do has humans  that breaks these rules. Now you're thinking that i don't kill. But that's  not exactly what it means....

#1 means: - God must come first in your life

                 - Money and Power shall not replace God

#2 means - That things are never more important that people.

                -  this reminds us of the evil power of envy and greed

#3 means -  that it reminds us of those "powerful words" 

                - that when we say hurtful things or gossip mean we are misusing gods name.

#4 means-taking time to go to church 

               -that we should take time to rest and to praise and worship God.

#5 means -  We must show and give respect to them

                -  We must   keep peace with them because the take care of us and guide us.

#6 means - speaks about violence of any kind.

               - avoid dangerous anger 

               -  we must not hurt our selves

               -  and not to hurt our relationship with God

#7 means- We must value our lives and bodies.

               - only after marriage and not before

#8 means - Not to take without asking

               - Not to steal people dignity and life or hurt their life in any way 

              

# 9 means - avoid  all dishonesty, hate, gossiping especially when it hurts someone.

#10 is very similar to #2 

God made these For us so that we might live and love in his greatness of his love. The love God has for us if great. 

     The hard part his following these rules.  I think the most popular ones are #'s 4,5,6, 4 keeping the Sabbath day holy. This has Gone out the window in the past 10 years. everyone's doing this and that on Sunday places are open and it's just gone out the window. #5 our parents teens ages 14-18 will argue a lot more and will think they are wrong, but they need God to guide them back to the road to respect their parents. And last but not least killing ( not literally)  People hurt themselves, and hurt their relationship between them and God, once that relationship is broken, it can be fixed you just need to pray a lot more and act better.

The Big Ten. 

The Big eleven, Jesus gives us one more at the last supper "Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another" -John 13:34-

The Golden rule.... I've already said a lot about that in the past, so i won't get into that. but anyways may the lord bless us all to help us to follow The Big Ten.... Amen

The Tough Thing: Saying Yes

Yes saying Yes to God the father almighty. To accept his plan for us, to listen to his call. For example some of our calls from God is to become priests or nuns. God Calls us to him to become better people, because God has put a lot of thought into are plan and to give the gifts we have the best we can. If we don't do Gods plan he'll gently bring us back to his plan for us.

We all have a hard time saying yes. Moses did, Mary and Joseph did, The Disciples did, We Do. If you think of it, it's kinda natural.... cause of the kind of world we live in talking about  this and that and then it becomes very hard to follow God. The world detaches us from God and bring us to stuff like Santa, Easter Bunny, and fake cartoons like that.....

These detach us from the real meaning on that day. The life we have, is known has the will is strong, but the flesh is weak. Jesus says that in  his life time. Which is true because out flesh is weak and the will is strong.

Say Yes to the lord and we might have mercy. Amen = Yes. When we receive the body and blood of Christ we answer "Amen" or in other words " Yes"  The Body of Christ is one  of the easiest things to say Yes to because we have to say Amen to the lord in respect and faith for him, our Lord. Saying Amen to the Host means that we will try to  be better than what we are and that we will give 10% to God.

I have a Friend who always yells and gets mad when I and a other friend say give ten % to God. And his response his " HOW????? ?UH?? HOW???" and I reply "Not only think of God when you play but, play something to worship God" ( this friend plays guitar) Once he leaves i pray to God " Lord show your mercy to the earth". This one friend has a hard time Saying Yes to God.

When we sin we are not saying No to God. God knows we are only human and make mistakes. If God, didn't knew we were only human and we will make mistakes he wouldn't created us. He wants us to try to fix those mistakes  while we are here on earth and he wants us to say sorry and to apologize to people we have sinned to/against.

May the Lord God bless us all and keep us in his love for ever and help us to say yes... Amen :)

The Tough Thing: The Truth

(I might be repeating my self in this one)

   Going back in time when I was younger the world was different, not just what was playing on t.v, no not the technology we had put a language change. The World is so much filled with lies and death and disloyalty. Death in spirit, death in person, death in life. What truth is left in today's Society?

   The main reason (in my perspective) God put us on this earth is to prove to him that we are worthy of eternal life with him in the heavenly kingdom. Yes, we must die from this life and Go to our next eternal life with God the father almighty. Proving to God that we are worthy is hard, but, at the same time easy. Hard because of the time phrase we live in with all the bad temptations in this life we turn away from him the almighty father. And fall into the sin and temptation of the devil. The easy part is that God wants us to be good and to always try to improve.... that's hard to. He just wants us to live by his example and turn away from sin.

The Truth is one hard thing to do. Now truth can have many reasons.

1. Truth- to tell the truth.
2. True- that this is real
3. Truth- what is dependable

Telling the truth can be hard, especially when you  know the truth but, don't like it and twist it up so in your mind people will like it. One easy thing, on the other hand is telling a lie. A lie is the most common sin, because not many people can stand up for the truth and what they believe in. 

Deuteronomy 32:4 says: 

 The Lord his your mighty defender, perfect and just in all his ways: Your God is faithful and True. He does what is right and fair.

Our God is faithful and true.  He his  true to his people in all promises he makes, he his the true vine , he is a true person, he is real and with keep promises! 

The Tough Thing: Silence and Judging

 Silence. One hard thing to get in out noisy world today. The beauty of silence is great and enjoyable. God wants us to be silent and to listen to is word, to listen to his love.

When we pray lets not only have our say in the conversation, but also have God have his turn to speak. Once you speak let God  speak back to you in the silence of the room and place you are in. and the silence of your pure heart.


If  I can say for most people, the time of silence they have  is very little, no time to sit back and relax, no time to let God speak, no time in the silence. In the noisy world we live in, it's very hard to find silence, it's hard to find silence to worship God, it's hard to find silence to reflect on your self. With all this new systems,in today's world making  annoying noises it's Hard to even concentrate.

God wants us to make time for silence, God wants us to make time for him and to follow him. God wants his turn to speak. so the silence is special the silence is good.

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We know that God is right when he judges the people who do such things as these. But you, my friend, do those very thing for which  you pass judgment on others! Or perhaps you despise  his great kindness,tolerance,and patience. But you have it hard and stubborn heart, and making  your own punishment even greater on the Day when God's anger and righteous  judgment will be revealed.- Romans 2: 2-5


 Judging. We all do it. But, when we do it hurts us more on the final day. God's love for us is great it is not our responsibility to judge others because of something they did to us, it's God's job to take care of them.... They will get what they deserve in God's eyes in the heavenly kingdom.

I have a story to tell you. So there was all these people kneeling before the gates of heaven wanting to get in. But before they could get in they must be judged by the lord God. Now God made a quilt for everyone their on how they lived their lives.... Everyone's  was perfect except one lady.... hers and many holes in it
( representing sin and failures)  Then they  were judged by they way their quilt was..... the lady was very upset that she had many holes in her's. And she started to cry.  Then, before she was judged by God she noticed the holes in her quilt made the face of Jesus Christ. And God accepted her into the heavenly kingdom and not the rest of them because  this one lady had something the rest of them didn't...... Faith........  Her faith saved her.

Now this doesn't mean that it's still okay to make mistakes, this one lady worked hard  at being good and that is  what God wants us to do, he wants us to try to be good, to try to be better, so that we may come into his home with him. Not to judge but to better. If you judge, your judging will be more horrible than the judging you did to that person.

None of us are to judge.

Remember never judge a book by it's cover.

And

                                                               Who are we to judge one another?




May God be with us for now and for ever!
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* The Tough Thing is a series I will be doing

Summer..........

  Yes my most favorite non-liturgical time of the year. The Grass is green, to feed animals, the trees are blooming  ready for apples, the leaves are blowing, the wind gets stronger, the sun comes out and makes it +30, Fishing season comes, Dogs are running around again And my favorite part.... Gardens getting planted, seeds popping up, vegetables are growing and enjoy the nice summer rain (unlike me).

  lets Go into the bible, old testament and find  the first magical seven days.....

• Genesis 1:3 says "Then God commanded let there be light"- The bright and beautiful sun, that we all soak in. The warmth of the sun also makes us feel comforted. The light it shines that  make are plants grow.....

• Genesis 1:9 says "Then God Commanded, Let the water below the sky."   The water which 65% of are bodies are made of. The water on the earth lets fish control the sea, which (the sea) water our gardens, which waters are grass and trees and bring us life.

• Genesis 1:11 says "Then he commanded  Let the earth produce all kinds of plants, those that bear grain, and those that bear fruit ---  and it was done"  The best part... The garden. Now why is the garden the best part? Because it is a miracle being able to grow fruits and vegetable and see them from when they are 1 cm and pulling them out by accident  thinking they are a weeds. But from the mud of the earth food comes. From the dust of the ground we were made. 

•  Genesis 1:20 says Then God commanded "let the waters be filled with many kinds of living things, and let the air be filled with birds"  Yes one of my favorite things to do during summer (besides planting a garden) is to go and catch fish.... Only the good kind. :) it really depends what god leads to your line. Blessed be the fish 

• Life of us and saints  says have a great summer, once and a while thank God for making all the things he did, have life and live in God Love and be his light for has long has you live. :)