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:

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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.