"Please God show me a small miracle today, inspire my children, radiate your love through my heart" - that is how I started my day yesterday.
After my morning prayer time, I went directly into the My Saint My Hero office to work with the team as we prepare for the launch of our website (yes our goal is still EASTER)!. We need all the prayers we can get to get this all finished by that deadline!!! Anyway, I was sitting in front of my computer for less then 10 minutes when Christine told me that her daughter received an e-mail from IMMACULEE! Yes Immaculee the author of the New York Times Best Seller "Left To Tell", yes the Immaculee that survived the Rwandan Holocaust and yes the Immaculee that has witnessed the apparitions of Our Lady of Kibeho first hand.
Christine's daughter was doing a Famous Person report and she choose Immaculee. She sent her an email with 3 questions and the answers that were returned are truly inspiring!
In that moment, I reached into my heart, felt God's presence and thanked Him for inspiring us all with people on this earth that are truly instruments of His peace.... read the dialog between Immaculee and Christine's daughter:
The questions were:
1) In what ways do you want to make a difference in your life, especially in the United States?
2) How do you feel when someone comes up to you to thank you for helping them let go of a grudge because they read your book?
3) What is it like when you feel God's presence?
Immaculee's responses:
Thank you for your kind email. Here some thoughts to your questions:
1) I am trying to be a good citizen of the world. I live in United States now and I know we are all the same at heart. I feel bad when people hurt, when people don't care for each other and in my heart I know people are capable of loving especially when we learn to forgive. So to see individuals, one by one happy is a great joy and something tells me that we all need to learn how to! People are not just mean, they learn to be mean and after a while they become insensitive to other people's pain. My goal maybe is to be in a small way, an instrument to peace and love among men, to love God and recognize that He showed us the way.
2) I thank God when people come to me and tell me that they were able to let go anger, it reassures me that yes peace is possible. We can't hope a good, long relationships, if people can't learn to forgive, we all hurt one another willingly, or unwillingly, out of bad habits or out of the wounds we previously carry in our hearts. We must learn to forgive for Hope in this life. True forgiveness is not different to love, to trust in God. But this is only possible when we love God above and we do all for His sake. He is the only worth loving, we crave to love so intensely and we must love first the one who will never wound us and then we can be able to love others with willingness to forgive.
3) Feeling God's presence is like you have reached, even though there is pain, you know you are taken care off, and nothing else matters anymore than, only the need to love, being grateful for all around you, and feeling sad for your sins. How can we hurt the one who loves us so much? That is the question I ask myself when I remember I didn't obey Him.
I hope your report is a success, and Our Father God be with you and breath His love in your soul!
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
walking on This Side of Heaven
Well it's been a while since I last blocked and tons of amazing stuff has happened...Just for the record, the website is moving right along and it appears to be on track for launching by Easter!
Ever have a moment where you just feel down, not sure where it comes from or why, just want to sit in bed all day with the covers over your head. I was having a few of those days in a row a couple weeks ago and I just couldn't seem to get out of my funk until I got out of my own way! Yes, feeling blue on my way to work and then I got a series of phone calls asking for help, one from my kid's school, then one from a hospital that I volunteer for, and another for a charitable group. All three requests came at me in less then 1 hour. I buckled down, did my work, ran around to help out the calls, and by the end of the day I felt great! Who knows whether it was doing for others or just doing so much that my head couldn't think about anything... whatever it was it worked, and I felt like a new person! I am convinced that at times we need to get out of our own way and let God drive for a while!
Personally, times seem to be changing for me and the things that I used to be able to do everyday in habit don't have any meaning anymore. I am aware of my motions and then I am aware of my true purpose and if they do not match up, I just can't do it! The times of going through the motions are over, every moment matters and every moment I want to feel and be awakened by the miracles of life around me! I sit in quite prayer and feel the hope for the future balanced by the devastation of today... I wonder every moment what is my purpose here on "this side of heaven". Abortion is the new birth control, children are watching R rated movies on their TVs in their rooms, kids are playing shoot em up video games, and we are all going through the motions hoping that someone else will step in, someone or something else will teach them. We just keep on moving ahead, making more money and buying more toys, hoping that one day our children will just "get it". The faster we move, the farther we get from our true core connection... that scares me! Will I have the courage to stand up, speak up, and change? This life is easy... too easy. I feel as though I have been tempted and I have fallen into the trap and now, suddenly I am awake looking around and recognizing where I am! Thank God, I am awake, however how do I stay awake? How do I make a difference, and how do I show my conviction without falling into the trap of temptation?
Discernment, Peace, Truth, God's unwavering Love, Forgiveness... these are gifts, we are each given by God. I am opening these gifts right now, cherishing them and living with them close to my heart! We are human, we do have choices, we do fail however it is our responsibility to stand up in God's presence, claim who we are and walk forward in His image... this is my challenge and I stand tall in it right now and hold you in His Light!
May God Bless us and Guide us,
amy
Ever have a moment where you just feel down, not sure where it comes from or why, just want to sit in bed all day with the covers over your head. I was having a few of those days in a row a couple weeks ago and I just couldn't seem to get out of my funk until I got out of my own way! Yes, feeling blue on my way to work and then I got a series of phone calls asking for help, one from my kid's school, then one from a hospital that I volunteer for, and another for a charitable group. All three requests came at me in less then 1 hour. I buckled down, did my work, ran around to help out the calls, and by the end of the day I felt great! Who knows whether it was doing for others or just doing so much that my head couldn't think about anything... whatever it was it worked, and I felt like a new person! I am convinced that at times we need to get out of our own way and let God drive for a while!
Personally, times seem to be changing for me and the things that I used to be able to do everyday in habit don't have any meaning anymore. I am aware of my motions and then I am aware of my true purpose and if they do not match up, I just can't do it! The times of going through the motions are over, every moment matters and every moment I want to feel and be awakened by the miracles of life around me! I sit in quite prayer and feel the hope for the future balanced by the devastation of today... I wonder every moment what is my purpose here on "this side of heaven". Abortion is the new birth control, children are watching R rated movies on their TVs in their rooms, kids are playing shoot em up video games, and we are all going through the motions hoping that someone else will step in, someone or something else will teach them. We just keep on moving ahead, making more money and buying more toys, hoping that one day our children will just "get it". The faster we move, the farther we get from our true core connection... that scares me! Will I have the courage to stand up, speak up, and change? This life is easy... too easy. I feel as though I have been tempted and I have fallen into the trap and now, suddenly I am awake looking around and recognizing where I am! Thank God, I am awake, however how do I stay awake? How do I make a difference, and how do I show my conviction without falling into the trap of temptation?
Discernment, Peace, Truth, God's unwavering Love, Forgiveness... these are gifts, we are each given by God. I am opening these gifts right now, cherishing them and living with them close to my heart! We are human, we do have choices, we do fail however it is our responsibility to stand up in God's presence, claim who we are and walk forward in His image... this is my challenge and I stand tall in it right now and hold you in His Light!
May God Bless us and Guide us,
amy
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