"Christ changed himself into bread of life. Changing himself into bread, he became totally at our disposal so that, having been fed by him, we would feel the strength necessary to give ourselves to others..."

Some people have asked me whurr i get my quotes from. As of lately, majority of them have been coming from the two books i bought a couple months ago. "Mother Teresa: In my own words" and "Pope John Paul II: In my own words." THough other times i get quotes from talks i go to or from TV or websites.

So if you read that last line of the quote it says, 'we would feel the strength necessary to give ourselves to others.' Giving ourselves to others, i think is the key phrase thurr. To me i think that says giving in w/o holding back. When you give yourself to Jesus, you give your whole entire being to him. You offer errthang you have and give back to him. Same thing He wants us to do w/our own brother's and sisters.

He constantly feeds us that strength through the Eucharist. Eucharist is like the vitamins, the daily vitamin C. This vitamin C, our daily bread nourishes our soul. Keeps us going strong, w/o we'd be lost. Giving ourselves to others means offering errthang we have to them. Yes, thurrs been many times whurr people have done stuff to us, hurt us, persecuted us, etc. Yet, same exact thing happened to Jesus, even at the point of his death, He still gave himself up for them. Wow you cant beat that.

Of course this isnt the easiest task in the world. Of course its a lot harder then it all seems. I can tell you ive gone through points in my life, whurr i sure didnt want to give myself to certain brothers and sisters. Im sure in the same token, ive definietly hurt people and yes they didnt want to give themselves to me anymore.And yes, sometimes it still feels like that. However, i know loving is a choice we have to make. Are we gonna sit and let anger hold us in for the rest of our entire lives? Or are we gonna surrender it all and through His grace be able to love again.

Jesus holds our hands through all these struggles to help us give in. He knows that true love hurts and true love causes pain. Jesus himself died on two wooden beams to show us His proof of love. A mother in order to give birth to her baby, has to go through sometimes hours of suffering. So if you really love one another, then it shouldn't be a problem giving yourself to them.
The first day of the LFT workshop was frutiful. I was sooo tired driving up thurr. Its always the waking up that hard to do. After that errthang else runs smoothly. It was great to see a lot of the leaders go through such an important training. It was coo also to see the various communities bring thurr members to help develop and train them to be leaders. I wish thurr was SH members who had gone.

So i spent the first purrt of the morning helping charisse label sandwhiches. She made all these various types of sandwhiches for lunch. We juss needed them to be labled so people knew wha they were getting. While doing that, had as always a nice chit chat w/charisse. Then listened to the end of darwin's talk. I love that guy, whenever i see him he always has a smile on his face. Anyway, two main points he gave in his testimony...

'Whats the point of doing anything if it doesnt glorify GOd or retain your salvation?'
SUch a strong point, why do anything if it doesnt glorify God or help get you one step closer to heaven?

Then the one that really made me say wow, is when he said, 'im called to serve everyday of my life-the good and the bad.'
I had hit a point in my life when i didnt want to serve cuz i was weighin in on my own problems. Yet i knew that what would life be like if thurr were no crosses to carry. No trials to go through. So were all called to serve God through the good times and the bad. Juss like a marriage, couples take that vow to love each other in sickness and in health in good and bad times.

Actually yesterday i learned a lot bout serving, and what makes a 'Servant's Heart.' Wha servtitude is and what servant hood is.
HOw service should be our second nature, not juss during ministry time. Which goes back to serving, errday not juss during the good times, but including the bad times.

I had a good group shurring w/my group. I had 3 people from SOL, one person from hoj, and anthony from lf. Raymond was my co faciliator, we got into a good convo bout the call to serve. Praise God for all them cuz they were inspiration to me. The best purrt of the day was the exposition, having adoration. Very exciting to see Jesus up on that altar and give him my all. So my brothers and sister if i thurr comes a time when i may feel 'tired of serving' please remind me wha service is all bout.


Please continue to pray for the LFt workshop!

"The salvation of our God..."im done, im out God bless!