Water.

      Water is essential to our everyday life. And I KNOW that we all use it and we all need it. Especially on hot days like today. It really needed for our plants, and our grass. It's been so hot out, that my grass was burning my feet. So, I decided to cool it down.

  Water is always flowing. Water makes up 70%  of our bodies, salt water makes up 90% of all water on earth. And sadly the amount of water that is usable by humans is running out quickly. We are suppose to have 8 cups of water each day. But this does not mean we need it in liquid form as most of our food contains water.

As critical water is. God is just more. We need him all the time. 100% of our bodies should be Gods. We need God. We need to stop having him as our 911 call and have him as our guide.So then we won't have so many 911 calls. With his we can turn to the scriptures. A lot of people say there is no guide to life. But do you know what?  There is. This is called the Bible. It is Gods love letter to us on how to live our life.

As Christians we are on a diet of The Word of God, and The Body and Blood of Christ. By eating, and taking in these two, our soul can live. It can live happily and truthfully.  We are told to live our lives for Jesus. And for him to guide us on our journey. We are to go to communion with an open heart and open mind. Jesus invites us to this special meal. This meal is like no other.

This meal is a Mystery, A Gift, A Celebration, and a call. This is a Mystery because Jesus wants us to learn more about out faith and always learn from each other. We are to discover this mystery by praying and having him as our guide.  It is a gift because we receive Jesus. It's like our Christmas present, to help us grow more in the love of Jesus. This is a celebration because  we are united with each other to celebrate in this gift. It is a call, because it helps us live better, it is our call to YES to Jesus.

Sprout

     So, it's summer. Time for all the seeds we planted to sprout, and to give us food. It's time that they come up for us to receive it's beautiful belongings. I know for sure this year my grandpa planted his garden.( as long as I've been a live, I don't thing he has never not planted  his garden) Well, lets say that streak for me, well is over. I didn't plant anything this year. I'm not to sure why, but I haven't. My little box garden was flooded, in the spring. Actually it got flooded for a month and a bit the day after i planted seeds. 

     Of course it's quiet rare when a nutritional plant grows in such hot temperatures, such as in the desert or even in the hot days of Canada. The sun will even stop the sprouts. It sucks any juice right out of it, and kills the plant or seed. The sprouting is the 'most' important time of the growth of the plants. It's the time to see if we will get anything or not. Then we can plan of what to do next. 

     We are called to spread the good news. To preach it, every where. And to believe in it. Lets look at yesterdays first reading. 

The Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and I heard him speaking to me.

 ³ And he said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.

 ⁴ The descendants also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’ 

⁵ And whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house) they will know that a prophet has been among them 

      Firstly we hear, that the prophet is sent by Jesus says  I SEND YOU. He is giving the prophet a direct message. Now, he is not sending the prophet to a place that will be easy to preach the good news, but a nation of rebels and of people who rebelled against him.  But during this time the prophet is filled with the holy spirit. And we know this from the first line, "The Spirit entered into me." 

    Then know that them AND their fathers transgressed against the Lord. Against the spirit. They were violating, by breaking the Law of the Lord. They were breaking his commandments, and hating the Lord. Their descendants were disrespectful to the Lord and they were stubborn in there ways. Obviously this land really need the help of a prophet. So then the Lord tells the prophet, I SEND YOU, TO THEM. Now directly speaking to the prophet, says that, and tells him to go. The Lord obviously had Faith in the prophet. 

      Thus Says the Lord God.

       Whether they hear you or refuse you, THEY WILL KNOW that a Prophet is among them.By the words you speak, they will know. They will understand, that a prophet  is with them. And even this, will go with them forever and may help the to change, to transform . 

     Then we find, in the gospel, the place where Jesus had the most trouble. In his own Home town of Nazareth. I'm not sure if there is anywhere else in the New testament, where it says,"And Jesus was amazed of their unbelief "  Jesus said that. The Son of God. Isn't that just surprising. And you often hear to start off in your hometown to do anything. But obviously, this is another humanly struggle Jesus went through, to prove he is human and divine.

     We find out in this Gospel reading that Jesus has brother and sisters. I was very confuse when I heard this line in the gospel. This is how my priest put it," There are two ways Scholars explain how Jesus had brothers and sisters, Firstly, back then when a man's wife died someone related to them (sister) would take the role of the wife and get married to the man. So the children would have been Josephs, from his previous marriage. That is why Joseph is often portrayed a lot older. And the second way is that the translation of Aramaic to English, could have gotten confused because 'cousin and brother' are                                            the same word." 

I though that made sense, so then my mind started thinking about a whole bunch of stuff. And then everything started to make sense.

We are all called to be a sprout in the desert. We are to go into dry nations where people rebel against the Lord and to sprout to them the Good news. Even though they may only realize that there is a sprout; a prophet among them, that's good enough. We have a mission to preach, and maybe starting in our home town may not be the best, but where ever we preach will bring glory to God.

    

The Burst of the Butterfly.

       The unwanted caterpillar, strives to survive. Trying to meet it's fundamental needs to become that bright and beautiful butterfly. But first it must grow, and make it's cocoon. The caterpillar moves along; searching for food, searching for shelter. Searching for a place; a place to grow.

    Then it times comes; when the caterpillar is fat, ready to be transformed, wraps himself into a cocoon. And stays there until he becomes a butterfly. Then it cracks through the cocoon and fly's. He gets use to his new set of wings and fly's. Go's where ever he wants.

    As we ALL know it's summer. And with summer comes the HEAT WAVE. +30 temperatures everyday, with a little rain; just enough to make REALLY humid. And barley enough rain to water our gardens which have sprouted beautifully. We must adjust to the times. Water our gardens by our selves, drink water our selves and turn the air conditioning up.

 

      As the caterpillar adjusts to become a butterfly, we adjust to the heat. And we all adjust to the greatness of God. We are like the butterfly. We ALL start off as the caterpillar, We are lost, and needing fundamental needs to survive. We need God. So then we begin our lives by getting  Baptized.

Then we continue our ways and gather our selves together, and go into our cocoon. We learn and take our sacraments, then we burst out of the cocoon, belonging to Gods GREAT family.  Then we go out to all the lands freely preaching the Good news to all the lands. We give others the way, to fundamental needs. And lead people to a better life, by helping them become a butterfly. 

   It's by teaching that we learn more. And by helping others in one way or another, that we develop our relationship with God. It's not by how many times we go to church, it's not by how many confessions we go to, it's not by how many times we read the bible. 

It's by How we live our lives for Jesus. Yes, it is good to go to church. Yes it is good to go to confession to have out sins forgiven and Yes it's good to read the bible for direction. It's how we LIVE OUR LIVES and HOW WE TREAT OTHERS is what God will look at. He won't care about our earthly things. 

^{29 "}And he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree, and all the trees. ³⁰ As soon as they come out in leaf, you see for yourselves and know that the summer is already near. ³¹ So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near."

Luke 21:29-31

Google

Everyone uses Google. Either a lot or not,  but we all use Google. Google has EVERYTHING. Google has almost Everything. But i'm sure for people that have essay or research to do, Google has it. Google does have A LOT of stuff. (especially Life of Us and Saints) But the one thing Google doesn't have is you. It doesn't define you. Yes, Babyname.com or Urban dictionary may have Your name on it, but it doesn't define you. 

God sent us onto earth for this reason. To create who we are. For us to discover if we are worthy of the kingdom of God, To create our selves.  We must have faith in God, because God sent us to create our selves and he will help us. 

There are a lot of things that we create. And for many it's excuses. We find excuses for everything.We find excuses for not cleaning the house, for not helping others, for not going to talk with someone, for not going to a meeting or not doing something someone wants us to. We all find excuses. And

 Excuses will not get us out in creating  our selves. It is our mission on earth, to create our selves and to prepare our selves for Gods kingdom. We Need to go to his tables. To listen to the Word, and eat and drink his body and blood, and pray to God for direction and truth. Then creating our selves will be a lot easier.


God didn't make an excuse not to create you. So i think we can not make an excuse to create our selves 

Canada Day!

      Today, I know, me and all Canadians are celebrating one of the best days of the year, for the best country.  I mean, whats not to love about Canada eh? God has given us this country this land to continue life and to grow is his spirit and love. And it's the way we treat it that decides if it will last or not. Here is the Canadian Anthem

Here are 15 reasons why I LOVE Canada:

1.We Canadians say EH? 

2. We are Democratic

3. We have a lot of sight seeing 

4.We make the BEST Maple Syrup 

5. We are not forced to do anything

6. We are a proud country

7. We have FREEZING COLD winters

8.We have  MELTING WARM summers

9.We have a lot of Fresh water

10. We have an interesting past

11. Gods, name is in our Anthem :)

12. Amazing people in Canada

13. We control the North pole

14. We have a city (winnipeg) that is the Slurpee Capital of the World 

15.We Canadians say Eh?

Symbol

     The main symbol of OUR faith. The one sign which we can recognize any Christian if they wear this. Firstly used by Romans; then adopted by Christians as our main symbol. He carried it. He Died on it. He  defeat the devil on it. He Saved us on it. Have you guessed what it is? Yes a Cross.

What does the Cross mean to you?

John The Baptist

    Today, I am sure that you all know is The Nativity of John The Baptist. The great preacher who prepared us for the Lord. What do you think life back then would be like without John? Do you think Jesus would have been recognized  he same as without John preaching to the people? We see the John becomes a more important person through out the ages. Especially right now.


     We can now prepare our selves more for Christmas, when we hear the Words of St. John the Baptist saying, " Make roads straight and hills flattened. He is greater than I, I am not even worthy to untie his sandal." These words bring us closer to God, and help us realize that it's not that much longer until Christmas.


      Today we come we celebrate the "first" Christmas or "Johnmas". We listen to the naming of the child. And because  Zacharius  did not want to believe in God he was mute; unable to talk. But how strange it would have been to get the fathers approval for a different name for his son, than his own. But then we see that by, John naming HIS child John - the name given by God- he was able to speak again because he listened to God. ( See how weird, but smart God is... He does things to us until we believe in him)


      I spent most of my day and my Grandmas and Grandpas. My Grandma of course was so happy to see me, and I was Most happy to see her. And Her favorite line is," Are you hungry" It's always Good to hear that line.  :)  She is always ready there to feed anyone, and always as food. I thank God for a Great Grandma like Mine :D

Garden of Eden 

    Then my Grandpa, likes to show me his garden, and likes to tell me how well everything is growing. It is beautiful I must mention. But fundamentally it's about the growth of the plants and if the produce the best of the food there is. My Grandpa, is proud of his garden, he always will show it off any chance he gets. :p  He puts so much effort into it, and  gives thanks to God for a bountiful harvest.


      Lets look at John. He's like a Garden. Growing. Full of different vegetables, here and there. And He's different. Like ever Garden. His name was not his Fathers. And so there was a confusion of families and who did he belong to. John grows up and produces the fruit of Jesus.The Word of Jesus. And so we rejoice in the greatness of the difference between gardens and people.


We must grow also. We must grow in the love and peace that God gives us. He is the branches we are the fruit. We are names by God before we are born. Before any word shall leave our lip, God has thought of it at least a thousand times. God named us, and we grow in the Goodness of God. We are set straight by John, and shall live with John and produce the best of fruit for Jesus in his name.

Locked

       
               Trying to get into your locker. And forgetting your combination and your locked out. Have you ever locked your self out of your house? And had to wait for someone else to come home? Your locked. Your held in the same postition  until someone comes. Just like in chess when it's  a stalemate. Theres nothing you can do. Your locked.  Your back at the begining where you can't move your king.

       The only place we do want to be locked from is the gates of hell. I am 100% sure if you are reading this you would not want to go to hell. And the only place we don't want to get locked from is Heaven.

            I am sure everyone: everyone has had to keep a secret and could NEVER tell anyone that indeed. You had to "lock" it away. Deep inside you and forget about it.

 But when it comes to God, God locks nothing. He makes everything that we need available to us. God locks nothing. God brings us everything we need to do HIS plan. It's how he works. Just like parents say," BECAUSE I SAID SO" And with God, it's because his mind crossed it, his mouth spoke it, and now it's up to us to fulfill it.

We ALWAYS lock things up, our shed, our house,or bikes, our computer screens, lockers. And when something is locked there is always that one person who will come and try to figure out how to get past the lock.

So then there's another advantage to Gods not locking ANYTHING. He doesn't have people trying to sneak in. Well God know everything and thinks everything you think before you think it. God opens and closes doors and windows Everyday, he will open them again, if he doesn't see we like them this day, but later we may. These are never locked, so WE CAN GO BACK.

May God, the Almighty father be with you and may he NEVER LOCK ANYTHING. We may lock things on earth, but god will never lock us. He opens new things, and will always remember our combination. He is always home, and always gone. He is there and he is here. He lives in us and in others and is NEVER LOCKED.

Corpus Christi

I'm not really sure if there is any other time where I find More holiness in the Holy Body and Blood of Christ, than this weekend. The weekend of CORPUS CHRISTI (and no, not the country)


For today is the Feast of the recognition of the Holy Body and Blood of Christ which came from the Last supper.

I know in a lot of countries (including Rome) there are Big Processions with the Host in a Monstrance.  Monstrance came from the Medieval time's usually to show relics. But The Roman Catholics adopted it and named it a Monstrance which come from the Latin word monstrare which means "to show." And it does just that. it shows us the Body of Jesus Christ.

  Today we come an find Our lord Jesus in several places. The great words from the last supper and table of where we receive the The Body and Blood of Christ. But as the Holy Father Pope Benedict said that to have a Good Spiritual life we MUST take part in the Eucharist of the Mass and Adoration. The Holy Father States "it is wrong to oppose [Eucharistic] celebration and adoration, as if they were in competition with each other." (words of Pope come from: Here)

If you do think about it we do already adore the Blessed Host after the priest blesses it. Then we adore it;believe it is Jesus then we bow. 

The bread and the wine are brought to us, fruit of the vine; made of human hands. Ready for a sacrafice to Jesus for his ultimate Sacrifice for us. 

May we look upon the Host is greatness and see the true lord Jesus Christ in it. Amen

And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”

Revelation 5:13

Prayer.

My Father in Heaven, Come and let your spirit be know. Let me feel your Holy Spirit; Ready to do your work.  Send the Spirit to me with the calmness of the wind and by the warmth of the sun. Let Your light shine to all those who are in Darkness. Come to me in the Darkness and prove to all that you are MORE POWERFUL THAN THE DARKNESS.

Lord, Guide me today. Guide me to do your will. Like the water reflects nature. and nature shows off your beauty, and the beauty show You. May I be like the water that reflects the trees and the sky and the clouds let me be that perfect image of you and your will. May not even the biggest wave destroy the perfect Image of you.

Let Your will be Done!

May I come to know you more and more o heavenly, Father by doing your will. For i Strive to do your will now and always. Be with me and I ask you send your spirit among me.  That all my works are led my the spirit to follow you; to make your plan be as you planned it to be.

Amen