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Tuesday, 01 July 2008

  • A Woman's Heart

    "A woman's heart should be so lost in God, that a man needs to seek Him in order to find her."

    I don't know who wrote it, nor where it comes from (other than a friend's myspace, lol).

    But I think it's absolutely true.


    All women are called to be like Mary.

    Now, I'm not a mother, and I never will be.

    But what I can do, is relate to you what I've seen in my own mother.


    Once my brother and I were born, we essentially became her world. All she was concerned about was our well-being. Everything else, essentially, became superfluous. Her heart belonged (and still belongs) to us. As ours belongs to her. She taxied us around wherever we needed to go (and still does for my brother, lol). But it would be safe to say, that to find my mother, you'd have to search for me and my brother.



    Now lets look at Mary in the same way. Once Christ was born, He became her only concern. Her heart was completely given to him. In the same sense we must look for Jesus to find Mary. And to this extent, "a woman's heart should be so lost in God, that a man needs to seek Him in order to find her."

Wednesday, 11 June 2008

  • Elections

    So the elections are approaching in the near future, and I've noticed a tremendous amount of people posting about who they're going to vote for.

    Some based it on the color of their skin, which is absolutely the wrong thing to do.
    Some based it on their gender, which again is the wrong thing to do.

    Others also based it on menial issues that the candidate took a stance on.

    I'm not going to tell you who to vote for, thats up to you. But I would like to put forth a way to look at the issues and make an informed moral decision.

    There are many different issues people should look at when deciding who to vote for. A few months ago I attended a presentation put on by the Newman Club at CSUSB. It was given by some one with a position in the diocese.

    As usual, I disagreed with what was presented. But I failed to state my objections.

    Anyways, this is how I look at it.

    There are a lot of issues, but not all issues carry the same weight. Almost like there is this hierarchy of issues that must be addressed properly in good conscience.

    For instance, I cannot, in good conscience, vote for a candidate who is pro-abortion.
    (Abortion happens to be number one on my hierarchy of issues)

    Assume a candidate wanted to allow free entry and citizenship into the US, which I'm against; however, he was also pro-life, then I would still be inclined to vote for this candidate as opposed to a candidate who is pro-abortion and against allowing free entry/citizenship into the US.

    I have to look at it this way: what is really more important? Immigrants who have already been delivered from the womb, or pre-born children that have yet to take their first breath? I'm inclined to do all I can to save the life of that unborn child first, and secondly worry about immigration.

Monday, 09 June 2008



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Friday, 16 May 2008

Tuesday, 13 May 2008

  • Disjunction: Daily vs. Sunday Lives

    When we examine our lives, not just superficially, we notice something; a disjunction.

    What's a disjunction you ask? Well, simply put, a gap.

    We have a gap between our daily lives and our "Sunday" lives.
    And we shouldn't.

    We need to be consistent with who we are.
    We need to be consistent in everything we do.
    We need to be consistent about being consistent!

    In our daily lives some of us may cuss, and then when we get in side church, we accidentally slip a word or two out. And then we go, "Dang it, I cussed in Church."

    Ask yourself, what makes it any different inside of Church as opposed to outside?

    "Well, Andrew, you're stupid, cause Church is a holy place."

    You're right, Church is a holy place, but are we not temples of the Holy Spirit? Are not our bodies holy places also?

    We need to take the way we act in Church, our "Sunday" lives, and make it our daily lives.
    Get rid of this disjunction we tend to have.

    We can't say yes to God on Sunday, and no to Him the rest of the week.
    This isn't what God wants.

    We must always strive for holiness.
    "For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life." (1 Thess. 4:7)

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    heyy mann, hope summer is treatin you well! <3 stay awesome, maybe we'll chill sometime. i'm driving now, lol. :)