New Windows

"The first step of humility is unhesitating obedience, which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all..."

NEW OPP: FIrst off, I'd like to praise and thank God for allowing a new job opp. to come up. I landed a job at the rectory at holy fam! Yay! No, I'm not quittng my other job at the skool, but since opp. came I thought I'd go for it. When I found out I was pretty excited, get to work at the church and see all the insides and outsides of things. Hopefully too, it'll allow me to have some extra money on hand. Sometimes it's hard not having enough money to go on trips or wha not. Like I said this will juss be another great oppurtunity to learn new things and stuff like that.

BACK TO BACK: Sunday, was juss craziness sometimes I wish I could multiply myself to be at so many different places at one time. First off, I hate missing any type of meetings juss cuz I feel like I miss out all the info. On top of that I can't really put in my two cents on a certain issues. Thas why I try my best ot make it to meetings. It shows responsibility on your part too on top of all that. So anyway, I had an advisor meeting for the youf min. which was real productive. Then right after that had a young adult meeting which also was real productive. Im glad we're going to be moving along with that ministry. Im excited to see the new leaders and all the great stuff they have planned for it.

BYE, BYE, BYE: MOnday nite was fr. tino's going away party potluck. Great turn out by errone in the parish. Sunday was the first time I had heard Fr. TIno celebrate mass and wow his homily was real good. You know how you have certain priests that you love when they celebrate mass. Then there are others who aren't as exciting, so you're not as exciting. God sorta proved me wrong, on sunday ha. He talked bout teaching and wha it means to be an apostle and disciple of Christ. I love the homilies at holy family, Ive really taken that to become my 'home' parish now. Especially since I'm there and practically working there now.

MEGAN'S LAW: I had receieved an email today bout a link that shows you sex offendors in your area. As I was browsing on there, I tripped out on how detailed that thing was. Man talk bout being put on blast, for the whole world to see you. Thas crazy though on how detailed it is, showing you where the person lives, wha they did, scar/tatoos they have etc. Now you know wha houses not go to on halloween ha! This will defintely come in handy when ti comes to moving what kind of area you want to live in. I looked up on my city and I have 45 sex offendors living in the bpc. On top of that there are possible 4-5 of them living within blocks from me! Good thing none of them living on my street, I'm glad we know my neighbors at least for the most part who they are. You should check out that site when you get teh chance, youll be amazed and wha you see.

WORK: The kids have been alright these past couple of days. However they still tend to wear me out as usual. Yesterday was kinda funny so we were doing social studies and one of my kids who speaks mostly spanish was talking bout gfs. He wsa saying something like tu es cinco novias and I was laughing cuz he was smiling. So then I asked him if he liked any of the girls at the table. I said to te gusta carla? He would no no me gusta carla, ella es fea! ha I was trying to hold back from laughing. We got a new student also in the class, her name is yosi, sounds japanese but shes actually hispanic. I got myself a whistle finally! wooo! I love using that thing, now its easier to get the kids attention. That care card program is pretty cool, now I love giving those things out. At the same time Im waiting for the moment to write some kid up for doing something minor/major. haha Working for the skool can be sooo fun!

BLESSINGS: There has been a lot of blessings coming to holy family. Within the short time I've been here, I've met a lot of good people and have made some good friends. One of them have the group of people in the youf ministry. Great group of people who I really enjoy serving God side by side with. The youf help inspire my own spirituality, and it's great sharing the things I've learned with them. Im grateful for another set of good friends I've been able to make. Of course, it has its ups and downs, but what group doesnt have that right? It reminds me of the ol skool SH days, where we'd see each other errday, talk to each other, hang out all the time on the weekends. The one thing bout them is I dont think they quite yet understand my ghetto slang ha.

CONFIRMATION: The past couple of weeks I've been slowly bringing in a little bit of praise & worship into my class. I figured I'd test the waters, despite their maturity level to see wha happens. By golly, they were able to get it, I was shocked. LAst year at first it seemed like I was having to pull teeth, ths year they went w/the flow of things. Crazy! So we learned lulaey last week, which I always enjoying singing and doing action songs to. Last nite we did let the river flow cuz our theme was about offering ourselves to God. We talked bout compromsising our faith and making deals with God. I love when we can have discussions like that, I really wish confirmation was at least an hour and a half or two rather then an hour and fifteen. The other classes after they got out were looking at us. I love bringing music into the classroom.

REFLECTION: These past couple of months, working a lot more with the youf min and teaching confirmation has allowed me to relfect on my own faith journey. A lot of the youf had asked me, 'fish how do you know all this stuff?' I always tell them its juss stuff I've learned over the years. Gosh I can remember the first time I stepped into room b, and how I wasn't into the whole 'lifting my hands in the air' type thing, ' or thinking I'd look dumb doing the action songs. Man my faith has been incredible coming into the charismatic movement learning so much. Its through all that, that I've gotten to where I am in my faith today. The many nites I'd sit in front of the blessed sacrament talking, listening, whether it was at sPv or driving all the wya in the middle of the nite to savio. The very first time going to SCRC, charismatic mass, my very first LSS, brings you back in perspective bout juss falling in love all over again. MAaan those were days!!! Im juss glad that I can take the light, and share with holy fam. All that seems forever long ago now...how time flies.







YEAR AGO: A year ago today I started working at the fern street center. That place was like my own. For many of the kids that place was like their home, some of them even when it came to closing didnt want to leave. The memories...chsaing kids to their house and ratting them out to their parents. Fooseball table tournaments, trying to incorporate a homework problem...Im proud of the accomplishments I created over there. There are some days where I sorta miss doing all that programming stuff. Or when my boss would stop by and have this smile on his face cuz he was proud of all the good stuff happening there. Yeah I think in my 3 years at Stanton that has be to my biggest accomplishment...the opening of the fern street center.




Ive become so lazy in blogging now

"Jesus, you are the way..."im done, im out God bless!