I have the Lord's firgerprints all over me!

Their's a radio in here called "Radio Luz". One of my many not blood cousins works there and all her family listens to this station even when it's not her shift.

Anyways, the thing is today, my mother and I spent the whole day with them and while we were talking, my aunt told us an anecdote about how a woman that aslo works in this radio, one day during her shift told everyone how she realized we are full of the Lord's figerprints. We tried to guess that was because He hugs us everyday, or that His our shild, or something like that, but to our sorprise, that wasn't exactly the answer. She said that we have His fingerprints because we were made by His own hands. Just like any other work of art made by clay, the potter molds it with his bare hands, leaving not only fingerprints, but love, dedication, effort and part of his life.

That's what each of us are: A Work of Art! and made by the best potter we can ever ask for.

"the LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his

nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. " Genesis 2:7

THE ONE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION:

Will you go to Heaven when you die?

You don't have to be a genius to know, only consider God's standards to get there.

Here's a quick test: Have you ever told a lie, stolen anything, (value doesn't matter)? Used God's name in vain (as a curse word)? Have you looked with lust? Will you be guilty on Judgment Day? If you have done any of these things, you are guilty of sin in God's sight. The Bible warns that if you are guilty you will end up in Hell. The good news is, that's not God's will!

Imagine you'r in a court AND guilty of a serious crime. The judge is about to swing the gavel when sunddenly, someone steps in front of you and says HE will pay for your crime. THAT'S WHAT JESUS DID FOR US! The Lord sent His Only Son to suffer and die on the cross for you. You broke God's Law, but Jesus paid your fine. That means He can legally dismiss your case.

Confess and repent (turn from your sins)! Trust in Jesus alone, He will give you eternal life! In 100 years, will it matter if you had a million dollars? NO! What will matter is where you spend eternity! Then read your Bible daily and obey it.

God will transform your life!

PS: This is taken from a fake dollar bill mixed with the one I found in the internet. I was inspired by it, maybe it can help others. Now, I'll take it with me in my wallet, so I never forget to where I want spend my eternity.

Sometimes, you can see the rainbow

It's diffcult to imagine a good day with an occupaid head just as it is difficult to see the rainbow when it's raining. Not today. The Lord is so grateful, full of love and understading that He made an obvious rainbow for me to see it, to remind me that there's hope, nevermore a flood.

"I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the
covenant between me and the earth."(Gen 9:13)

Family, work and even football

This month has been really hard. Like REALLY HARD in all aspects, physically, mentally, emotional, spiritually, etc.

Right now my family and I are going through another difficult moment and changes, but this time I’m more conscience of the situation than last time. Also, my opinion and participation are more important this time, therefore I must have my head straight to think properly and not let my emotions rule my mind. It’s been difficult to control that, and even more when other problems like work, payments, university, friends, come along and accumulate tension. I haven’t even had the chance to really enjoy this world cup. There been some lights of joy and happiness during these days but they’re very difficult to keep them in front when there are many other negative things happening. People try to fill me up with wise words and encourage me to never weaken my faith in the Lord. I’ve honestly been trying yet I sometimes look way and get lost for a second. I need more strength… do pray for me.

This is my favorite psalm, it helps me to remember that even in the most diffcult time, the Lord is with us, He never abandons us.

Psalm 23 A psalm of David.

The LORD is my shepherd; there is nothing I lack.

In green pastures you let me graze; to safe waters you lead me;

you restore my strength. You guide me along the right path for the sake of your name.

Even when I walk through a dark valley, I fear no harm for you are at my side; your rod and staff give me courage.

You set a table before me as my enemies watch; You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Only goodness and love will pursue me all the days of my life; I will dwell in the house of the LORD for years to come.

So be it.

He's love

How many times our Lord is shouting us through the rain, the plants, a beautiful sight or even more obvious, our family, friends, our own life. He loves us so much that He thought of everything and gave us everything we need. Then why are we so slow to return that love?

"El mundo se va a arreglar el día que logremos que, por el conocimiento del mensaje de Cristo, reine en el corazón de cada hombre el amor, el deseo de justicia, el deseo de paz» (Cristo al centro, n. 1677)"

The winner takes it all!

Soap operas are not good for me. They make me feel lonely when I know that God is wating for the right time to send me the right guy. But can't help watching them (I have no cable, so that's the only thing to see when having lunch) and can't help feeling emotional.

Thank to the Lord, every time I feel like that, now I have Nick's word on my mind:

"If you want to be treated as a queen you have to marry a God's man. But to find a God's man you have to be a God's woman yourself. When honor God, God honors you" - Nick Vujicic.

So, I'll be patient and wait for my God's man. Nevertheless, this song (the winner takes it all) kinda represents pretty much how a feel right now. Maybe 'cause is my favorite song in the movie or maybe because Donna gets the guy at the end; don't know, but was the perfect song to hear this moment. Love it.

Getting educated

I love this new sensation of reading the bible or searching for quotes and finding them there. I truely believe now that this book has ALL the secrets for us to have a perfectly happy life. Yet I have 2 problems:

1. I need to be tough by real persons who have study the Bible and not by internet. And
   
2. I need to exercise more my memory. I never remember any verse!
   

Touching hearts

I've never been asked to give a talk or preach before, and for the first time I did.

There's a small group of teenagers who are about to do their Confirmation and they asked to go and speek to them about "God's Mercy" and "Why and for of my life".

To beggin with, I showed them "The Butterfly Circus" which is a short film made by Nick Vujicic and Eduardo Verastegui. It's wonderful! The perfect way yo tell you: THERE ARE NO LIMITS BUT THE ONE YOU BUT YOURSELF AND BELIEVE ON.

We talked about leaving a foodprint in this world and how to behave like God's children, for someone will want to imitate us, but are we going to be a good example?

Then, we passed to God's mercy and I read them the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15: 11-24) . I was shocked when I asked them if they had ever read it o hear about but none of them ha!

I hope that they keep at least something I told them in their hearts. I'm just glad I was used as an instrument of God.

B verse:
"The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments." Habakkuk 3:19

A story I will never forget:

A Girl's Heroic Holy Hour

A few months before he died in 1979, Bishop Fulton Sheen gave a television interview. The reporter asked, “Your Excellency, you have inspired millions. Who inspired you? Was it the pope?”

Bishop Sheen responded that it was not the pope or a cardinal or another bishop or even a priest or nun. It was an eleven-year-old girl. He explained that when the communists took over China in the late forties, they imprisoned a priest in his own rectory. Looking through the window, he saw the soldier enter the church and break open the tabernacle, scattering the Blessed Sacrament on the floor. The priest knew the exact number of hosts: thirty-two.

Unnoticed by the soldiers, a young girl had been praying in the back of the church and she hid when they came in. That night the girl returned and spent an hour in prayer. She then entered the sanctuary, knelt and bent over to take one of the hosts on her tongue.

The girl came back each night, spent an hour in prayer and received Jesus by picking up a sacred host with her tongue. The thirty-second night, after consuming the final host, she made an accidental sound, awakening a soldier. He ran after her and when he caught her, he struck her with his rifle butt. The noise woke the priest – but too late. From his house, he saw the girl die.

Bishop Sheen said that when he heard about this, it inspired him so much that he made a promise that he would spend one hour each day before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. He always said that the power of his priesthood came from the holy hour.

"I want to be like you..."

And so we started: monthly misions with Familia Misionera!

I was told for the very first time I went to a mision that at the end, you get missionized by the incrediable faith some people have. It was been long since I felt that sensation again... today happened again =)

Today's biblical passage was Luke 2, 40:52. The aspects we most highligthed were the respect Mary had as she asked gently to his son of his action:

48	When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety."

As well as the Jesus' obedience towards his earthly parents:

51	He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart.

Both are such important facts because both Mary and Jesus ought to be our role models; one as mother and the other as sons and daughters. And this is what we were explaning when the man we were visiting took the word and continue the speech better than any of us could have done.

After describing Mary's and Jesus' good examples, he continued with his own example and how he had done with his own family. That is when he said this beautiful phrase he had once seen and tried to follow: "Señor, yo quiero se como Tu, por que mi hijo quiere ser como yo" which means "Lord, I want to be like You, because my son wants to be like me".

Aren't they just exceptional? And hearing these words from a man who had no easy childhood but has done his best to rise his children in hand with love, was just amazing and unthinkable. I was atonished; so was my partner.

Then, a question came into our minds: What would be of the world if everyone would think this way? An aproximated answer: much much better.


- "and all who heard him were astounded at his understanding and his answers."

Mother-daughter retreat!

Due to the fact that we're in May, and for us catholics it is such an important month dedicated to Virgen Mary and mother's day, we had a mother-daughter retreat.

IT WAS AWESOME!

It was only during the morning and a few hours of the afternoon but it really help mum and I to understand some things that are going around in our lives and that we have to manage them.

Hope to put a photo here when Mariana sends it to me:

PHOTO

Substituting

I love being a teacher, I really do. I haven't regret what I'm studying... yet. It's just that substituting is really hard because YOU:

• don't know the kids
• not even their names (well, some of them)
• they don't you (only your name)
• different ages in one day
• your not totally familiar to the subject AND
• you don't have a real schedule

The last one is the worst part because without a schedule, I really get lost sometimes, specially when the classrooms are in different buildings separated by many meters apart. And not only I get lost but twice as tired.

The good part is I get to be with my fourth grade girls. I love those girls, even when they are a little anoying, very chatty and sometimes I get really upset due to their attitude. But that is the whole point of being a Christian teacher, to get to those student who most need you and God in their hearts.

Anyways, I thank God for this job, hopping for it to be permanent by next school's year and praying for those student's soul that need it the most.

Angels

Angel: a being, either spiritual or human, sent by God to take care of us.

This is MY definition for Angel. I truly belive that we live among persons that act as Angels in certain occasions. They might not know this, but when they talk or act, they transmitted love and calm. I bet their words are chosen by God itself, so in them, you can see Him.

I know that I'm sorrounded by Angels, I just can't see them. But when I hear their words or I see them actting with love, I know it's them. I must thank the Lord for this and more.

Thank you Lord for sending help when I most need it.
What would be my life without You?
I'm a sinner who gets lost many times,
but with You at my side,
it is easier to find light and the correct path.

Thank you for you love and compassion,
for your patience and forgiveness;
You truly are my everything.
Thank you.

Self-control!

That part of life is also difficult. Having self-control means doing or not doing things my your own; no one is suppose to help you, you have to work it out by yourself but, at least for me, it is easier when someone else is looking out for you, even if is anoying put it constructes a kind of conscieness. Then again, there is no effort, someone else is doing it for you and that is why it's so hard.

When you're in a diet: no sweeties or greasy food. When you're exams: study! "no going out, tv, facebook or blogging". But it is more difficult when it's about thinking of someone because it's only in your mind!. I must distract myself reading, listing sweet music, praying, etc.

And the thing that I hate the most is to be thinking of that person instead of JC! When He is always there for me; He doesn't dissapoint me or leave me. He loves me! He is there, wating for me to talk to him and the worst thing is THAT I KNOW IT! - need more Self-control to guide my feelings and thoughts to more possitive and healthier things. I'm working on it.




Me note: I wish I would be like my friend K, she's very good at doing poems to express herself; me? not at all, that is why I just write a bunch of words and sentences, but that helps me ALOT! Blogging is good.

I'm learning...

You live, you learn, right? Well yesterday I learned. Livinig is fun but learning is the hardest part of this life. Why? because our teacher is the Lord, not that I'm complaning or anything like that, the thing is that when He is teaching, His methods are unique for each of us; sometimes confusing, sometimes as clear as the water. "God writes straight on crooked lines" - popular saying.

That is why many belive in the joke that says "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans". That is exactly what I did; He propably laughed at me, not as making fun but maybe with sucha a sweetness, just like tha one when you laugh at the innocence of a child. He must have though "poor girl, she needs a little help" and that is when he send me a sign for me to learn that things are not to be like I planned or even thought, but it is His will we must follow.

Learning is hard; sometimes it even hurts but I must accept it.

So be it.

THE LLAMA SONG!

For you K!, found your song in my Itunes Library.

OUR ENEMY TRIED BUT DIDN'T WIN:

WE'RE GOING TO MISIONS!

First I only had the option of staying at home waiting for news about the retreat, then a second choice appeared, I could go misioning with Family Misioners; but by the end of this day, God gave me a third choice: Young Misioners are going!

We're all going to the same place due to security and only girls from universities and profecionals (besides the families). But that doesn't matter because what really matters it to live, and share the real meaning of Holy week: the Passion and Death of Jesuschrist! He does it for love!

I knew nothing would stop us from spreading our Lord's word! NOTHING!

Until next week.

no more days, no more misions

There are no more days to countdown, but there are no more misions either.

Last minute yesterday, after having our meeting, telling us the schedule, after paying, filling out the inscription sheet, etc.; one of consecrated entered the room to announces misions have been cancelled due to security and that is the best thing for moment. There were sad faces, surprised and even in shock, but many unbelieved the news, yet it was true.

First year after 5 without going but things don't happen without His approvement, and if this is His will, we have to accept. We're having a retreat instead, it will be great and full of grace!

So be.

3 more days =D

When your heart starts to beat faster you know it's because:

• You saw someone especial
• You know you did something wrong
• It's an especial day
• You have an exam
• You are worried
• You are happy
• or simple ...

JESUSCHRIST IS IN YOU!

Can't hardly wait for Saturday. I don't remember being so exited for Holly week in previous years as I'm this year! Although we're going less girls, one whole town, many friends are not going and my sister probably can't go, I'm still very very happy. And that happiness it's just 3 more days away from growing more and more!!!!

My Universe (Mi Universo)

Be my universe

Don’t want to give you just a little bit of my time

I don’t want to separate one day for you only

Be my universe

Don’t want to give you my word as droplets

I want a flood of praise in my mouth

Be my universe

May you all I feel and what I think

May you be the first breath in the morning

And the light in my window

Be my universe

That fills every one of my thoughts

May your presence and your power be my food

Oh Jesus is my desire

Be my universe

Don’t want to give you only part of my years

I want you to be the owner of my time and my

Be my universe

I do not want to do my will I want to please you

And every dream I have I want to give to you

- Jesus Adrian Romero

This a very popular Christian singer who is about to give a concert here in El Salvador and I hope to assist. He has many lovely songs, put this one songs which I most love as well as "Aqui estoy" but the diference with this one is it's meaning.

How many times do we say "Lord, you are my everything!" but we actually work for that to happen? To accept Christ with all you heart and live for him is a very hard mission; yet is that not that the whole point? Matthew 16:24 "Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me."

So to wish He is your whole universe is to want to accept His will at every time; Not only in mass or only one day; not only on the morninings or at night; not only at difficulties or when having doubts. Everytime is to accept Him as your guide, your light, your eyes, words, mind, EVERYTHING during all the seconds of my life.

If He is my universe, I must know that everything I do, make, speak, act, etc., will be under His law. Know I now that is what I want. The lyrics of this song have become my desire too.

Handcraft work shop

Just wanted to share some photos I took from a handcraft workshop I went on Tuesday with some friends.

Girls, just wanna have fun!

This is paco, the roster

This is Kevin, wannabe from the one in UP!

This is the guy who gave the workshop;
he is from Spain and don't remember his name =)

This is serious!

Title: Greenpeace | Ask Nestle to give rainforests a break
Link: http://gotaf.socialtwist.com/redirect?l=-60254895685351765211

¿POR QUE NO TE CALLAS?

Summary of what happened:

King of Spain tells Chavez to 'shut up'

The king of Spain told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to "shut up" during a heated exchange at a summit of leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal.

Chavez, who called President Bush the "devil" on the floor of the United Nations last year, triggered the exchange by repeatedly referring to former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar as a "fascist."

Aznar, a conservative who was an ally of Bush as prime minister, "is a fascist," Chavez said in a speech at the Ibero-American summit in Santiago, Chile. "Fascists are not human. A snake is more human."

Spain's current socialist prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, responded during his own allotted time by urging Chavez to be more diplomatic in his words and respect other leaders despite political differences.

"Former President Aznar was democratically elected by the Spanish people and was a legitimate representative of the Spanish people," he said, eliciting applause from the gathered heads of state.

Chavez repeatedly tried to interrupt, but his microphone was off.
Spanish King Juan Carlos, seated next to Zapatero, angrily turned to Chavez and said, "Why don't you shut up?"

The Venezuelan leader did not immediately respond, but later used time ceded to him by his close ally Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to answer Zapatero's speech.

"I do not offend by telling the truth," he said. "The Venezuelan government reserves the right to respond to any aggression, anywhere, in any space and in any manner."

And here is the Video: