"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.

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.