SCRC-Day Two

"Love heavenly desires, and desire heavenly love..."

So it turns out I was put down as a volunteer for this weekend. I was kinda worried that i wouldnt have any tickets for any of the talks. Fred and I carpooled over thurr and it was packed! Well sat. morning is when errone gets thurr and thas when you run into all the different groups. SOL made thurr annual apperance also, helping out at the youf track. Had a funny talk w/jaymee before leaving to the YA track.

The first talk was w/alex jones, one of my fav. speakers cuz he has so much furr for the church. He talked bout keeping the faith and how thurrs an enemy out thurr after our faith. The war isnt w/society or culture either, its w/this invisble force that has woven into our culture, to make us loose our faith. This enemy is trying to blow out the flame that was lit during our baptism. He talked a lot bout how people today rely so much on materialism and pleasures of this world. How we need to keep God as the throne of our hearts. Then gave us 4 ways to keep the faith...

1. Practice our faith-practice wha we preach
2. Keep positive relationships-Keep in contact w/people that will help our faith grow, Christ-centered people, people who have direction in life.
3. Continue to be converted-
God has much more to show you
God wants to juss shower you w/gifts
God wants to juss pour out grace after grace.
4. God has not given us a spirit of fear-
Be not afraid! God through life in faith, know that you're a child of God. He'll never leave you. Whatever you go through in life is for your own good & sanctification.

The next talk was w/Fr. Jim Clarke bout intimacy, Jesus, me, and you. I really liked this one cuz it talked a lot bout in a sense how to keep a Christ-centered relationship. Fr. said the defintion of love is the will to extend oneself to the purpose of nurturing one for another's spiritual growth. One thing that he said that stuck out was, 'The christian symbol for marriage isnt a wedding ring, but a cross. YOure invited to die to yourself, say yes to a new journey in a different relationship.' Then he said in a relationship youre gonna suffer, dont be nieve. You're never gonna find that 'perfect' person cuz they're gonna fail. This was funny fr. said, 'to fall in love is as easy as tripping.' Which makes a lot of sense, so many people see someone and 'bam' they think theyre in love w/them.

No one can fufill you, the best they can do is point you in a direction to God. No one belongs to you, all of our relationships are not meant to be for clingyness. Youre named by GOd, God brings people in your life to remind you to be love and that you are loved. We belong to God-our relationships bring us back to remind us that we were named by God and we belong strictly to Him. Anyone who says yes to relationships, is saying yes to ahh i cant read my notes they talk so fast that it becomes all scribbles! haha i shouldve juss bought the tape. Its about transformation-once youre in a relationship, youre never the same.

Relationship Issues~
1. Loneliness-Imitation from God to come on the inside
*Sit w/the loneliness and listen to it.
*Way to authetntic intimacy
*I am alone before God
*It's God's way of saying, 'you are mine.'
2. Recongnize communication is an art
3. Creating rituals of letting go.
*The past bagging ruins the present relationship.
*Offering and surrendering them as a form of prayer
*Ask God for the grace continually
4. Attitude adjustment
*Knowing that you are gifted
*Seeing that each personality is unique and different
*We each have different ways of dealing w/conflict

Recongize the key attitude is respect and reverence for others. This helps love to grow, if not love becomes spoiled, perverted etc. None of us know how to love well, we all struggle w/intimacy, we fear of facing ourself before God, before others.

After that went to lunch w/errone on the grass, its soo hot! Fun times chillin w/the community, eating and juss messin around. Arch-n-me, Arch-n-me, arch-n-me! haha Ive been meaning to write bout this for a while, i juss keep forgetting. Anyway, it always a blessing when i see arch! yay! A lot of times he's always working so he's not able to chill w/errone else, but when he does, he's juss so much fun. Errtime we hang out, we juss laugh bout stupid stuff, and juss the things he does is so funny. At the same time, he's real w/you and he helps you out w/whatever you need. He's one of those people you can count on to be thurr for you. I looove archie!

It was funny cuz we saw SOL during lunch walking in a row off to lunch. They were in a straight line and with thurr dark red SOL shirts, so they looked like red ants. The ants go marching one by one harrah, harrah w/myron being the 'king ant' leading the troop! haha Anyway, after lunch had a nice chat w/myron in regards to spirit games and wha not. He's so funny, ' i miss seeing everyone.' I laughed i said i do too! He goes yeah especiallly when we were meeting every week! Ha i told him i was getting attached! haha I miss errone stilL!

I also ran into an SFCer over thurr too, her name was peggy. It was her first time @ SCRC so that was coo, ate nariza said she was blowing up her phone w/stuff she was getting from talks! haha fun stuff. I guess she came w/another community, called 'BLD.' I forgot wha they stood for, sometihng in tagalog, i juss dont remember.

The last talk for the day was 'errthang you need to know bout lust.' This speaker gave a talk last yurr @ SCRC, he was like on a panel for the YA track. It was coo cuz he gave the facts, the basic facts bout lust, wha lust is, why its wrong blah blah. One thing I learned new was that each of the 7 deadly sins are corrected w/a virue. I know thas not the word he used i juss cant read wha I wrote. Ha anyway, so I found that interesting. The one thing I didnt like was how he was answering the q & a after. He didnt give good advice in regards to wha the church teaches and its stand on issues liek abortion & contraception. He pretty much gave a psychological advice being thas wha he is, a psychologist. Then thurr was juss one question, that was juss off the wall weeird! Someone asked, 'well wha does he thinks constitutes as a marriage?'

So I thought maybe I was being OA and i was looking for too much. Then after the talk, I was talking to will and he was saying he was very grey w/his answers. HE didnt give the best advice in regards to the major issues that were coming up. Ha it was so funny cuz I had to pee really bad and he was juss going off bout how bad the answers were. LAter on that nite I was talking to other people at the Jesus and Java, and they were telling me the same thing. They didnt like his answers, sooo I guess It wasnt juss me. The thing too, is that w/him being a supposedly 'practicing' catholic, he shouldve been more black and white. Agh!!

Healing mass was d0pe, the filipino priest who presided over the mass was so funny. Praise God for a lot of healing took place that nite. People who were contemplating suicide, people who had lumps, and cancer. Praise God for thurr discernment how its so keen. I love it! I love being charismatic!! I love SCRC!!! After healing mass was ova, we all stopped into the Jesus and Java. AGh tehy did the same set-up as last yurr w/the churrs all up in the front. AgH! i didnt like it cuz it made it real crowded in the back. ANyway, I met this girl who was from mo val going to UCR in the fall as an incoming freshmen. It was real coo cuz we were talking for a while bout the convention and other stuff. It was her first time @ SCRC and going through the whole experience, its always interesting to hurr people's first experieces w/it. Did the whole 'fellowshipping' meeting new people, promoting SH Cafe at the same time. Good stuff!


I love being a catholic charismatic!!!

"Do not fear, i am here..."im done, im out God bless!