"A saint is one who falls down and reaches up to grab hold of the hand extended to him..."

So my one year blog anniversary is coming up. Wooo! I never thought this 'blog' was gonna last this long. I remember when i first started my blogs were crammed in together, no paragraphs or anything. Then it was suggested that i break them up into paragraphs, so i did that and it looked a lot better. HA i read some place blogs/xangas etc. are like in a way some people's bf/gf/husband etc. Why? Well some people you know get really intimate w/it and write down errthang. Or its like you come home and you hop onto your blog and it's like, 'Hey honey, guess wha happened today!' or 'oh man you'll never believe wha happened to me today!' Ha in any case im blogging is fun! Its interesting wha runs through certain people's minds.

I was feelin like eh at work yesterday, i dont think im giving my body enough rest. So i had a stuffy nose all weekend and even still. Though its getting better i think, the kids were juss so loud! My boss let me get off an hour early, which was nice. Came home ate dinner and i was off again to land of carson. Oh man traffic was so bad! It took me 30 min. from the time i got on the freeway until i got upto cerritos, juss barely getting into it. Geez, and i ended up being late too to the united nations meeting! agh! I hate traffic!

Anyway, so the united nations of prayer communites/youf groups met up last at. St. Philomena. Both charisse and i couldnt stop thinking bout all the good fruits of the meeting last nite. Errone who confirmed that was gonna come came and more! Praise God! There were leaders that ive never seen/met before. Wow im so excited for the now called, 'spirit games.' We had memebers from SOL, LF, SH, Liwanag, SLY, Lambs of Christ, Student Catholic Assoc., YFC, HEart of Jesus, YOuf Coming together, Alliance of two hearts. We started w/a some soaking prayer, it felt really relaxing. YEt my puso was beating so hard, maybe juss cuz i was so excited w/the turn out! I made these cardstock name tags, so we looked all professional. The name tag had the person's name and wha community they were from. Ha i wanted to have the whole 'united nations' look/feel to the place.

Praise God cuz the meeting was really fruitful as well as really productive. It was coo, how despite the fact some of us barely knew each other or didnt knwo each other at all it was all fun. There wasnt that awkward silence thats like whas next? Actually in fact errone was juss joking around and juss having a gran ol time. Even after the meeting was over we still talked outside and caught up bout whas going on in our own communities or own countries so to speak. Ha! The hardest part of it all was trying to get a date to have the event. The whole month of july ws impossible to do. June was out of the question cuz of graduations etc. So we tenatively planned it for Sat. Aug. 7. Please pray w/us that nothing will be going on that day w/the different communities. Were looking to have at a college campus, like uci or lmu. We changed the name of the games too. The motion to change name to the 'Spirit Games,' was moved to the table and carried.

Then nick brought up the whole leaders formation team, like an community outreach team. Thas also somethign to be excited about. A group of leaders from different communites to come together and train other communites. The goal hopefully maybe even later on is to even do LSS/GSS and all that good stuff. Charisse, christy and i were saying later on after, how as leaders its always were feeding, yet its so difficult to get fed. Thas why we tend to go and visit other communities to get fed. Yum spiritually fed! Anyway, im excited to see the formation of that team build as well.

So youre asking how is this 'spirit games' gonna work? Each community will be responsible for setting up one game and all the materials/logistics to it. Charisse and i emphasized how it will be the community leader's responsiblity to make sure their community is practicing good sportsmanship. OTherwise her and i will be the sportsmanship po pos. Then instead of how the normal friendship games work with tallying up points for each game, were gonna have a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winner for each game. Too complicated to do the whole tallying up points. Each communtiy also will be responsible for coming up w/like a team cheer. yay! Well have a 'spirit award' for the most 'spirited community.' THen were planning to have an opening ceremonies w/a mass. Christy and this other guy josh from umm LOC i think are responsible for putting together a mixture of different music ministires combined. Then have like a choir w/each person wurring their 'community colors' representing. Ahh yes im excited!!!! I love it!

Our next meeting is gonna be @ sPv, errone agreed that its pretty much general location for almost errone to meet. Like its middle ground, except for the valley peeps. Check that out, we had a couple of people come from northridge and up in the valley! Even julie came up from all the way in temecula! Craziness yo thas juss confirmation though of how much God must want these games to come together. I even told cyril that last nite. She told me its funny cuz the day i sent out that email/proposal her and some other person from her community were juss talking bout it! Coincidence?! I think not. ALl i gotta say is praise God, for a very productive, fruitful meeting. Im excited to see how the plans are gonna unfold! Yay!!!

So im burr's new cell phone agent, like how you have a real estate person to help you look for a house. Well i guess im his cell phone agent to help him look for a new cell phone company. I checked out verizon and cingular, one of two popular ones. Sprint and nextel are too expensive. T-mobile didnt have any really good plans either. I think he's leaning towards cingular, or maybe staying w/att & t. Cingular has whas called 'roll over' min. so whatever min. you dont use it carries over to next month as extra min. I like to call them 'roll over the ocean, roll over the sea' minutes. Speaking of rolling over, its funny when liwanag does the 'community' song, they actually 'roll over the ocean, roll over the sea.' hahahahaha thas funny!

I had my confirmation students for their hw, read certain entries on my blog that pertained to what was discussed in class. They were then to email be back a response on what they got out of those entries. Well one of the kids replied back w/this last nite and i thought it was inspiring to me so i thought id shurr it w/errone else.

"From the October 30th entry, I learned that death is not a bad thing at all. If you have lived your life as Christ would have wanted you to, and if you believe in God and His Kingdom in Heaven, then you'll pass away to heaven in eternal bliss. God chooses when everyone is to die. Trust in God because He knows when the time is right for you to be with Him and the angels and saints.

From the November 3rd entry, I learned that you should cherish the good times you have with everyone. I also learned about the relationship triangle with God on top.

From the November 4th entry, I learned that in a relationship, the first and most important aspect is the spiritual one. A strong spiritual bond leads to a good emotional bond which leads to a good physical aspect. A couple's relationship should make their faith stronger as they grow together. I also learned that having faith can help with so many emotional problems as it did with the kid in the story."

Do me a favor, hit up the tagboard and write down one thing youre thankful for. Ha i heard last nite on the radio that ol song, 'This one's for the children.' Oh man tha song is freakin old! But it leaves you w/one fresh cool message. Oh last nite it was funny, gretchen made the announcement about SOL winter formal. Christy, greg and charisee and i all started to laugh. The whole SOL winter formal inside joke. I want to see Love dont co$t a thing, honey and lotr-return of the king. Pray for me as i lead prayer meeting tonite, and pray for those whove asked me to pray for them as well! Thanks! Well thas it now for now, short week yay!


Spirit Games, hurr we come!



"This one's for the children, may God keep them in His throne..."im done, im out God bless!