Im tired, what a day it has been! i woke up @ like 10, laid in bed for a while watching tv. i thought i would officially be done w/my xmas shopping today, apparently not. 1 more to go, which should be fairly easy being im getting the person a gift card. I went to the buena park mall today, to drop off some lumpia for my sisters potluck @ work. Then i went to a couple stores in there, trying to finish up some last minute shopping. i ran into aela there, juss like myself she was trying to finish her shopping. I was able to get something for my cousin there, so i did accomplish something. I also ran into an old former coworker @ ross, actually she still works there. Gosh shes been there forever since the store first opened in aug. of 1999. Thas like 3 years, going on 4! i asked her how long she was planning to stay there, she said she was going to see what happens after the holidays. She's been through all different kinds of management there too. She only got the job, to keep herself from being bored @ home. Which is good, she's a really swe3t, nice lady, errtime she's always so supportive and happy. Where's kuya he was on then he signed off.
We got satellite installed in our tvs today, no more cable for us. Were stil trying to get the hang of it though. I guess its coo, there isnt anything whoa bout it. In fact we were having problems w/it already. At least we still have ewtn on there! thas tight, cuz i they always have interesting programs on there.SOmetimes i like to pray the rosary w/it. I went to wal-mart to get attempt to try to finish the leftover people i had on my list. It was so hectic there cuz i went to the one in cerritos. THe lines were packed, it was crowded, though i did get what i wanted to get. Then i forgot something right after i walked out the door, i was almost just going ot wait till tomorrow, but i decided i mine as well since i was there already. Praise God, cuz i was in and out really quick. THen i went to best buy to see if i could get a gift card there, but the line was too long, it went around the store like a snake. i wasnt bout to wait forever in line for a only one small item. So i said, ill juss go somewhere else tomorrow.
I went home got ready and left to go to carson for Love & faith's xmas party. There was a lot of people there! wooo they had St. Lucy's prayer group as well as Holy innocence's group there. so many people and good food, what a great way to celebrate JEsus' birfday. One of their elders has xmas lesson that she told us. Hopefully i can remember the general idea/point of the talk.
She told this story of this little girl who was watching her mom wrapping presents, then she asked her mom, "did you remember to wrap Jesus' gift too mommy?" i guess the mom juss kinda stared @ her, giving her a blank response. The lady said some other good stuff, but i forgot but i do remember this point. "Are we being bethelems for the manager?" Are we ready to for Christ to come? i thought it was something really good to think about. THey had some coo entertainment there as well. i left early though cuz i was getting tired.
I met up w/gang @ fridays @ the block, as usual the place was busy. I didnt eat, juss had some water, actually i take that back, i ate the rest of jeanne's dessert. haha It was good, juss a time to fellowship w/one another, a way to kick of winter break. i was kinda out of it, cuz i was tired from the whole day. I really think when i drive too much i get tired, cuz i was getting sleepy driving over to carson tonight.
I gotta write my xmas cards tomorrow, i guess my family and i are going to el torito after church for kuya alex's thing. its $15 though per person to eat, it all you can eat though. they better have some good food for $15! i dont wanna go though, i have stuff i need to get done before the gift exchange. Like write xmas cards, and pick up around the house. Its so hard to find some good xmas cards with good powerful messages. YOu know i realized today that certain people i know of, hmm how do i put it. Well i told some of my friends this today, but some people arent looking @ the big picture, instead they focus in only on wha is seen through their eyes. Which is wrong!
I finished chapter 2 last nite in my kindness book.it was a really powerful one talking bout passing judgements on others. Which im very guilty of. I learned this though, "if you are faced with such difficulities, remember the following considerations:"
*Do not allow pride to cloud your vision.
*Recall your own faults.
*Appreciate differences between people.
*Remember your duty as a genuine Christian.
All those deal with passing judgement on others, i wont go into detail bout what each of them mean cuz im sure you could do it on your own. I hope this upcoming new year will be another great one, filled with a lot of love. Im going to try and become spirtiually stronger. Not let the devil try to distract me on wha the real goal is. Especially this upcoming week, im sure the devil has some tricks up his bag ready to pull out on us. I hope we'll be able to recgonize his attacks and conquer them w/prayer. i really like what jaymee said in the last paragraph in her blog entry for today bout the world is what you make of it. What she said is really true, so many people i know "bathe & soak" in their problems and sufferings, wanting nothing else but sorrow and attention. Or when things arent going the way they want them to, they tend to get disgusted with life and wish theirs would end. God has given each and errone of us, an important gift. Why waste it and trash it, when we could be cherishing it and loving it. Radiate cheerfulness cuz cheerfulness is found in hope and through your actions you can foster that cheer! So many people seek comfort for attention, but yet like jaymee said who comforted Christ on the cross? We didnt, thats for sure! But yet no matter what we do, he is still there for us. Some spiritual food for thought there.
I want to go snowboarding next week, but i dont think i have the $$ to go. its cool, there will always be other times! its gonna suck not working all next week. Looks like no more shopping for me for a while that is!
Mama Mary thank you for your prayers everyday, for your continual support and guidance!
Pray this:
A Godly Meditation~
Give me grace, good Lord, to set the world at nought, to set my mind fast upon you and not to hand upon the blast of men's mouths. To be content to be solitary. Not to long for worldy company, little and little utterly to cast off the world, and rid my mind of the business thereof. Not to long to hear of any wordly thing, but that the hearing of wordly fantasies may be to me displeasant. Gladly to be thinking of God, busily to labor to love him. To know my own vitilty and wretchedness, to humble and meeken myself under the mighty hand of God, to bewail my sins passed; for the purging of them, patiently to suffer adversity. Gladly to bear my purgatory here, to be joyful of tribulations, to walk that narrow way that leads to life. To bear that cross with Christ, to have the last thing-death-in remebrance, to have ever before my eye death, that is ever at hand; to make death no stranger to me; to forsee and consider the everlasting fire of hell; to pray pardon before the judge comes. To have contiunually in mind the passion Christ suffered for me; for his benefits incessantly to give hhim thanks, to buy the time again that i before have lost. To abstain from vain confabulations, to eschew light foolish mirth and gladness; to cut off unncessary recreations. Of wordly substance, friends, liberty, life and all, to set the loss at nought for the winning of Christ. To think my worst enemies my best friends, for the brethen of Jospeh could ever have done with so much good with their love and favor as they did him with their malice and hatred.
"Come and behold him born the king of angels..." Im done...im out, God bless!