ordinary person with an extraordinary soul

"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

Inspiration to begin today

Friends that say yes to starting a business together and really say yes to walking down a spiritual journey...this is me, one of the 3 friends that started a business last year with tons of passion, excitement and faith... little did I know what a ride I was getting on! Since February of 2009 we have been praying together, doing a zillion novena's and experimenting with the miracles of the Rosary. I decided to trust and go for it and since that time miracles have REALLY happened...REALLY... - in fact part of me feels that it is too late to blog now... maybe all the fun miracles have already happened and nothing exciting will occur to write about. YIKES... however during my run last night (yes at the age of 42 I also agreed to run a half marathon with my grade school pal - crazy but I am doing it! I will let you know how that goes:) - anyway on my run it was as if someone was talking to me... start your blog NOW. OK do I review all the amazing things that have happened up till now? No just start today and let the miracles begin. BLOG how... I don't have a facebook, I don't know how to Twit or Twitter - whatever, how will I blog... well here I am and I am a little scared... I feel very exposed. However, last night after my run, as I was glancing over the "Tidings" (catholic newsletter) right smack in the middle was a picture of Pope Benedict with a caption stating "I am asking you all to Blog, Twit and use the internet to share the wonders of God" - WOW OK - Here I am... TODAY my prayer request is to complete our company website www.mysaintmyhero.com before EASTER! We (my friends and work partners) are all saying our Seven Sorrows Rosary everyday with that intention... lets see if we can make it happen! Our original target date was October 2009... oops we missed that... let's see what happens next. You might notice that my signature at the bottom is Amy and Christine... Well I am Amy and Christine is one of my work partners... she will post at times as well. I will share a few of our dreams with you now so that we can track our progress: 1. To Get our Website up and running!, 2. To become the #1 hip, cool, and inspirational place for people to go when they are looking for faith-filled gifts and wearable blessings, 3. To bring the Story of Our Lady of Kibeho to the US in a big way! 4. To host Immaculee Ilibigiza for a weekend retreat in Los Angeles, 5. To share the miracles of the SAINTS in a 2 day Lifeteen retreat. 6. To write a book on the Saints... 7. To get some press:) - a story about us on TV or have a celeb love our stuff and begin to wear it and show it off:) YEAH, I think that is it for now... until tomorrow - I thank you for reading and May God Bless Us and Guide Us always.