"God doesn't give people talents that he doesn't want people to use..."

A crazy follow up story upon my 'rose' answered prayer. Well thurs. nite i was asking for confirmation from St. Therese juss to make sure i was suppose to be at the camp. Friday after going to mass, i was walking to set up for apologetics. As i was walking by inbetween the statue of our lady and the coffee and donut there's that small garden. I passed by and there was a red rose juss one single red rose bloomed. I thought whoa thas crazy i dont think ive ever seen roses in this area of church. I didnt think much about it after that. Tonite after prayer meeting i thought let me pass by and see if that rose is still there. I walked over durr and the rose was gone!! Now i realized dang St. Therese put me on check telling me foo im forreal go to camp! So besides toni rose that mustve been my confirmation to go. Praise God, thanks St. Therese!

Well if you thought that was crazy! I got something even more whoa! I was talking ot one of my parents today at work. Really nice lady we talk bout catholic stuff all the time and ask each other to pray for each other. She was telling me today how over the weekend she was kinda stressing bout getting this other full time job. She was praying right before she ended up falling asleep. Well she woke up by someone tapping her on her arm and telling her, 'Dont worry God is taking care of you, juss trust in Him.' She asked her daughter who was downstairs at the time if she came up to wake her up. HEr daugther said no mommy i didnt go upstairs, she asked her son the same question and he gave her the same answer. Besides that her son is 5 and her daughter is like 7. I told her after she told me the story whoa praise God! I said it had to ahve been your guardian angel juss looking out for you. Wow, so many d0pe things have been happening, praise God!

SRE went really tonite, i had them attempt to sing 'redeeming love.' THough i made the font point too small on the transparency and then on top of that the woman on CD sings it real high. Though i got a compliment from the next door teacher telling me how she could hurr us sing. The kids thought the actions were funny especially yhe 'worship' westsider rider one. I figured theyd get a kick out of that. So i guess imma start them off w/basic common praise & worship songs like Shine JEsus Shine, Lord i lift your name on High, Shout ot the Lord etc. This way theyll be preaped for youf alpha at the same time.

The mediation/reflection we did tonite, went really well praise God. I heard a lot of sobbing and sniffling throughout the whole time. I think i got to their emotions, i kinda changed things around as i was being lead by the spirit. JEsus ended up telling me to use the prodical son story as an example. I used that parable as a way of letting them know that no matter wha happens, Jesus is always there w/arms wide open. He's always ready to accept us back when were ready to choose Him. As i read this story i felt heavy hearts, i saw young kids who felt there was no one to turn to. THough later on i felt that the spirit was leading them to the right direction. To focus on the cross and not to let go.

Lord Jesus, i pray that you continue to shine your light upon these kids. That you open their hearts and mind so they make seek you all the time. Lord may their hearts never grow cold but only rejoice in Your eternal love. Let them know Lord that youre all they need. May they seek you throughout their hards times and good times. Answer their petitions Lord according to your will. Help guide them to understand your will for them. Most of all may they never get tired of seeking You. In this I pray by the power of the Holy Spirit through the intercession of the angles and saints along w/our Blessed Virgin Mary. Amen.

Fr. Kevin talked about accepting the bible as teachings of teh church. How many people often protestants may not accept the bible as teachings of the Church. He said that God works in mysterious ways and its up to us to listen to His word. A real hersey is thinking and saying that we dont need the church. All i need is Jesus, the bible and me and thas when the whole you gotta accept the whole pie concept comes into place. You cant juss pick and choose to accept the bible yet not the teachings of the church. For its because of the church we have the bible. If start to disregard the teachings of the church, then we start to form our own images of God. We start to form our own likeliness of who and what God is. Thas when we try to pkay God or try to 'become' GOd. Again we project our own image of God, which is wrong! Bottom line, if youre gotta accept the bible you gotta accept the teachings of the church.

IT seems that errone needed that email that i was sent out. Praise GOd cuz im sure it was a great reminder that often we forget bout surrending ourselves to Him. How that without Him we are nothing. THat without him we can do very little. 'Youre all i want, YOu're all i ever needed, You're all i want, let me know that you are near..." Cool thing the SLY ryhdas stopped by tonite for prayer meeting, which i thought was d0peness. Mark called me tonite and asked me for directions. I didnt know that his brother was mike the one whom jeanne and i had met back in april when we to visit SLY. Cool kids, praise God for youf!


Get well soon strider!

"Every three minutes and thirty seconds of every day And every chorus was written for us to recite Every beautiful melody of devotion every night..."im done, im out God bless!