"To go through something like this humbles you. You understand your ultimate purpose here is to do God's work. When im out there playing bball, its not me going out there and playing or me controlling anything, its just about maximizing the blessing that God has given me..." -Kobe Bryant

I was humbled this morning, i was reading something that really humbled me. I thought wow to go through what this is person is going through all the time, is nothing compared to what i go through. To carry a huge burden everyday, to really carry that heavy cross in the back of your mind every min. yet still manage to keep your faith and trust in GOd is juss d0peness. Im not going to go into detail what that persons particular struggle is, but all i gotta say is praise God. Praise God the particular person is able to offer up his suffering every single day. To get up and to continue to praise GOd with everything he has.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and conveniences, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." this quote by mlk jr. truly appies to this particular person. As i learned being a christian is all bout facing challenges and rising up to them. So this is probably God's way of strengthening this person's faith. To see how he can handle it. Though i will continue to pray for this person so that he will be able to rest in God's peace and love soon without such a heavy cross to carry.

I cant believe its almost 1am! Toni called me at like 1140pm juss in time for us to do our novena to St. Therese. Its funny cuz after we pray we end up talking on the phone for while bout all these different things. We were talkin bout the beautification of Mother Teresa coming up this weeek. Its cool how we can talk bout whatevers, shes funny she goes do you wanna hurr my 11-11 story. I said okay, so she told me she was born the eleventh month in the evelenth day on the eleventh hour. Pretty crazy huH!

Speaking of saints i got my mystics and miracles book back tonite, thas one of my favorite books. I bought it last summer at the 'goodbye-goodmen' conferene i went to. I remember being able to finish the whole book in 2 days. I woudl read it at the park whurr i had no kids at during the summer. Thas one of my favorite books of all the times, and thas what got me so interested in the saints. Thas how i was able to find out bout all these different saints. There's really good quotes i like in there. Especially the one toni and i were talking bout tonite bout the garden of God. I havent heard from my rosary buddy in a while...hmm she must be real busy. I read that kobe has a tatto on his arm that reads Psalm 23. Which is also one of my favorites verses in the bible.

We had a parent SRe meeting tonite regarding the whole skool year. At the end i talked to my kids about going to mass. NOt even half of them turned in a mass card. A couple of them told me their parents were too tired to take them to mass. How sad is that?! I very bluntly told the kids, if you do not go to mass youre in mortal sin. IF you are in mortal sin then you must get yourself to reconciliation cuz you cannot take the eucharist if youre in mortal sin. Achie thought i was a little hard on them. She told me they proabbly shurgged it off sand didnt curr. THough i have to explain it to them in their terms. Like holding it agaisnt them not being confirmed. etc. etc. I dont know i juss felt that needed to be pointed out to them.

OKay i must rest now and take curr of myself, i dont want to get sick,. My boss keeps telling me if i need time off let him know. He even told me if you want to go home its okay. I was like eh im cool. I watched that movie 'Holes' today, you know that disney movie based on the book. That guy even stevens is the main character. I thought it was a d0pe movie, i gotta watch the end cuz i had to miss it. Now i want to read the book, ill probably check it out at the library tomorrow. Oh! something i forgot ot mention the other day. Well today i was at the market and there was this cute girl there, she was getting some stuff w/her mom. SHes probably like 17 or something, too young for me. ONe thing i like, i forgot to mention this entries ago, but i like girls w/the blonde streaks in durr hurr. Im feelin that! okay thas all...

One more thing, i got this story in an email today and i thought id shurr it w/errone else. ITs a true story and im sure youll like it. Banne, this one is especially for you to read cuz i know youll enjoy it!
UNTIRING LOVE

This is a true story that happened in Japan.

In order to renovate the house, someone in Japan tears open the wall.

Japanese houses normally have a hollow space between the wooden walls.
When tearing down the walls, he found that there was a lizard stuck there
because a nail from outside hammered into one of its feet. He sees this,
feels pity, and at the same time curious, as when he checked the nail, it
was nailed 10 years ago when the house was first built.

What happened?

The lizard has survived in such position for 10 years! In a dark wall
partition for 10 years without moving, it is impossible and mind boggling.
Then he wondered how this lizard survived for 10 years without moving a
single step--since its foot was nailed! So he stopped his work and observed the lizard, what it has been doing, and what and how it has been eating. Later, not knowing from where it came,
appears another lizard, with food in its mouth. Ahh! He was stunned and touched deeply. For the lizard that was stuck by nail, another lizard has been feeding it for the past 10 years...
Such love, such a beautiful love! Such love happened even with this tiny creature ... What can love do? It can do wonders! Love can do miracles! Imagine? it has been doing that untiringly for 10 long years, without giving up hope on its partner. Imagine what a small creature can do that a creature blessed with a brilliant mind can't.

I was touched when I heard this story and started wondering about relationships between family members, friends, lovers, brothers, sisters.

As information and communication technology advances, our access to information becomes faster and faster. But the distance between human beings. . . is it getting closer as well?

So then i started to think of that song i sang at LF 2 weekends ago. Its a really cute action song one of their elders taught errone. It went something, like' Love is something that you give it away, give it away, give it away..." the rest of the lyrics are inside my bible thas inside my curr. I juss thought that the song went w/the story.


I looooove learning about the saints!

"I'll will stand before God, give you all that i got i can promise you I'll be true..."im done, im out God bless!