Pray, Hope, & Don't Worry

"This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God..."

TARDINESS: Okay, so you have a class that starts at 8am, whas the point of coming into class 45 min. late when you know you only have if anything a half hour left? I would've juss stayed home then coming to class that late. Anyway, this girl walks into the class at 845am when the class ends at like 920am. I watched her come in all non chalant as if she was on time or something ha. Ah I hate it when the class goes for the whole time and they dont let us out early, especially when it's the last class meeting of the week. This whole geology stuff is pretty booooooooring. I look to my left and to my right and I see people juss literally falling asleep.

MORE BORING STUFF: THen I come back for my multicultural dance class and now I'm falling asleep. I didnt even really write anything down, this class is even more boring! Whas worse is her lectures arent even organized, she's juss saying random things then erronce she'd write words on the board. I had my head on my hand falling asleep then I think I started to really fall asleep cuz my hand slipped ha and I woke up. Good thing she let us out a half hour early!

EDITING: I was at work sitting here proofreading the brocuhure for my boss. Sometime's he comes thinking he knows grammar and spelling, but maan his grammar isn't the best. Not that mine is either, but at least my sentences make sense. ha Its tiring reading pages and pages of text, text, text...then I had to go back and make sure all the dates were correct. He gave each of us a one to read and I was almosted tempted to put at the top of my copy, 'c/b' ha Remember when in skool when you would switch papers and correct your neighbors? The teacher always made sure you put who correct the paper at the top, so if there's a mistake or something you could be held accountable for it! ha

LADIES NITE OUT: The boys and girls club had this 'ladies nite out' at the center last nite. Oh man was it a mess! Though they had some good food, albertsons donated snacks for the event. The chicken wings were real good! It was juss tiring cuz I knew I wouldn't get off the time I was suppose to be getting off. On top of that I had to be at holy family for how meeting and practice. Luckily, I was still able to make it to holy family, despite I didn't get off til freakin after 9pm!

GHETTONESS: It's hard working with non-ministry youf, they're more of a challenge to work with. Now I wish I didnt get the youf action alliance cuz they're juss lazy, and I dont think they're interested anymore. Hopefully, I'll be able to weed these guys out and find youf that'll be easier to work with. Well let me take that back not all of them are like that, juss most of them. Were suppose to put this dance together next friday and I told them in order for this dance to work we need 50 peeps signed up. They think we should juss cancel it cuz they don't think we'll get people to sign up. It was a little discouraging that they didnt want to make the extra effort to get their friends to go. Why? Only cuz they fliers weren't the 'glossy' type that we originally talked bout. Though when you look it, there's no point in making glossy fliers when the dance is at the small center. We'll see wha happens...

WAKE UP CALL: I came across fr. francis xanga and well it was something I needed to remind myself. Here's the insight: it is so easy to get lost in the work. Because the work is so good, your eyes start to leave their focus on Jesus to focus on the ministry. Ha! Great trap by the devil. Don't be fooled. Even the devil can use your ministry as a way to take you away from God. My...Lucifer is a clever one. If you are so only focused on work that you forget to pray, then you lose. I URGE ALL OF YOU FULLTIMERS and those whose ministry is lifelong service to God, to commit yourselves to prayer or else the work will eat you alive. It will no longer become life giving. And you will begin to resent it. Keep your eyes focused on Jesus. It is HIS work anyway...not yours. This is a hard lesson I am having to re-learn.

BORROWED: From dorthee, who borrowed it from noreen.

What Will Matter
by Michael Josephson

Ready or not, someday it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.

Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed. Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.

So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will expire. The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away. It won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived, in the end. It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.

So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?

What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave. What will matter is not your success, but your significance. What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.

What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.

What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone. What will matter is not your memories, but the memories that live in those who loved you.

What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.

Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance. It's a matter of choice. Choose to live a life that matters.

THE TITLE: Padre Pio, one of my other favorite Saints. So inspirational! I think the title juss brings it all back that through our sufferings, trials, etc. that we must remind ourselves to continue to pray, hope for God's will to be done, and to continually juss trust in Him and Him alone. Pray, Hope, and Don't worry, yup something I need to start doing.

HOLLA BACK:
arch: you better check ur fone if its still there, i might have it. ha ha (evil laugh)
Ha I know let's switch phones for the day! stop trying to jack mine!
rangeles: don't get all emo now that your boy or boyfriend is off the show
ha stupid...that foos got hardcore talent, it wont be the same anymore! haha
anonymous: What's up Dog?
anonymous: hi
sup...
burr: i love history! i should have been history majurr haha!
agh shouldve bee history major...whoooooo cuurrrrrs! hi john roberts! hahah!
burr: hahaha rangeles is funny!!!! hahahahhaa
agh oh cuuurs thas stupid tag
rangeles: I'm guessing he reconciled with Alaine
naww man...she's well...ha nevermind
kitkat: nice pix!! :)
thanks!!
Fred: hey howd u do that? how do I put my digicam in "blurry" mode?
agh another stupid tag
Fred: i've been out of the loop; who did u reconcile with and why?
ask God maybe He'll tell you =

PLAYED OUT: There are juss sooo many songs that I hate hearing on the radio cuz they're so played out. Golddigger, shake it off, let me hold you,that other mariah carey song, ying yang twins...however I am feeling the frankie j remake of the song, 'more than words.' I need to make myself a new CD for the car. I think i am juss listening to the radio too much.


spirit games 2 more days away!

"Much mas..." im done, im out God bless!