Transition

Transition point. Have you ever been in that point in your live? I think I am in that point right now. What is a transition point for me? It is like a point where you just staying there without moving just learning, observing, listening, receiving information, growing, and being still. It is like being standing in a 4 ways stop thinking which is the right way to go, analyzing which is the more convenient for you.

At this point is when it is really important to try to listen to God, try to understand who God is, try to look for Him, because our thinking might be kind of different of what God wants for us and at that point where we have so many roads to choose, we might be choosing the wrong one, or the most difficult, because we do not make the time to listen to God, because we ignore the signs that God is sending to us to choose the right path to follow, because we refuse to belief, because our pride is bigger than our faith, or simple because we do not care about what God wants for us.

God have a goal for each of us, but He gives us the option to choose how we want to get there, He gives us the right to decide if we want to reach the goal that he have prepared for us. I believe that His path to reach that goal it is not easy, but if we choose to follow Him I think His path will be easier even thought can be look scary at times.

Jeremiah 1:4-5

⁴ Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ⁵ “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Big Hug,
MRM 

Help

Just a while ago, I was taking with my older son about one bad grade that he obtains in one science project at school. I was explaining him that those type of projects are for help students improve their grades not to affect them how was in his case. I was mad, because he could have an A in his final grade for that class, but because that project, he end up with a B. I was asking him why he did not ask me for help, and he responds me that he did not need help. I tell him that if he did not need my help, he would not end up with the bad grade. I explain him that my background is in science that I could be a good help for him to have a good grade. I also explain him that even though I am in college, I always look for help for my projects, even though sometimes I think I don’t need it. Two or three heads think better than just one. I ask him that next time he have a project for school no matter if he knows what he have to do or not, he have to ask me for help even if is just too see how looks.

In the same week a friend of mine was having a surgery, and I was telling her about cooking and helping out with other mutual friends to help her around the house. She just says that she doesn’t want bother other people and that she does not need help, Really??? I told her that I do believe that she really needs all the help she can get.

We constantly are praying to God for help, and when He sends us the Help, we refuse it, contradictory right? Later on I was reading a devotional book about Jesus calling, and one of the days of that week it say “let me bless you with My grace and Peace” God is telling us let Him be with us let Him help us, and still we struggle to let Him work in our lives. Before my divorce, I never ask for help, because shame, pride, or what ever excuse I had. Today, if I need help, I reach out for help and ask God to help me to overcome whatever struggle I am going trough. The important thing here is recognized and chooses the right help, the one that would not harm us or to the people around us.

Psalm 119:170-173

¹⁷⁰ Let my request for grace come before you; deliver me according to your promise!
¹⁷¹ Let my lips overflow with praise because you’ve taught me your statutes.
¹⁷² Let my tongue declare your word, because all your commandments are righteous.
¹⁷³ Let your power help me because I have chosen your precepts.

Big Hug,
MRM

Teaching

Happy New Year 2013 to everyone! It had been a productive, learning, with ups and down year, but we made it and even pass the 2012 “end of the world” I guess is time to reflection of what we need to improve, who we need to help, what new challenge we have to face, and what new thing we can learn. Time for new resolutions or rollover the one that we did not finish last year (lose weight!). Time to keep looking what is God purpose in this world for us, if we don’t know yet. Time to forgive and be forgiven. Is a really good time for start a lot of new and exited things in our lives, but don’t forget that everything will happened in God’s time we want it or not (I am learning really hard that lesson).

I do not get tired of telling my kids; treat others how you want to be treated. I try to understand why people are so mean with others, what is the point? Teach them a lesson? There is good ways of teach a lesson and bad ways too. I believe that the best way to teach a lesson is with examples, with love, and with compassion, perhaps that was not the way Jesus taught us?

It is easy to lose temper, it is easier ignore, make feel bad, call names, yell, and despise other. It is hard to take control of our emotions and feelings, it is hard to give our arm to turn in favor of others, but in reality that is our main task in this world. It is the main task that God ask us, love each other, and still it is so hard for parents teach their kids with love, friends, couples, siblings, coworkers, why it is so hard to teach and help each others with love?

I know that is hard to teach with love specially to the one that hurt us, but that is exactly the ones that God want us to teach and help. God knows that there will be times that we will fail this task, we are not perfect, but the most important thing is that we recognize it and try to make it better next time. I believe that this is a good time to set up a new goal and challenge for us this year, teach with love and patience specially to the one that hurt us. Let see what happen…

1 Peter 4:8-10

⁸ Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. ⁹ Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. ¹⁰ Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.

Big Hug,
MRM

Birthday

Usually, when we go to a birthday party we buy gift for the birthday person, we celebrate the birthday with family and friends. Today, in Jesus birthday, He is the one that give us the gifts, He is the one that filled our live with blessings and love. Today, a day to celebrate with family lets to give thanks to Jesus for all His gifts that He give us today and every day, even when is hard to see it.

Happy Birthday Jesus!

Isaiah 9:6

⁶ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Big Hug,

MRM

Just One

Well the sun comes out, that is a good signal! No end of the world… Last night, I was watching a movie with my kids. The movie was Arthur Christmas, an animated movie where Santa Clause has children, and when that Santa retired one of his kids take his position as Santa Clause. It is a clever and technological movie, literally very technological. Make you think how we life today with so much computers and technology something that is good and give us a lot of advantages and can even make easier our live up to certain point, but when we abuse it can be very dangerous for us.

I could not see the whole movie, because I fall asleep couple of times during the movie. In the movie the elves move very quickly through around the world with a time frame established, because the have to delivery all the gifts on time before kids wake up, and they have to be very diligent with the time since not every country have the same time. It was a really funny movie. They finish on time and delivery all the gifts and Santa Clause went to sleep. One of the elf realize that one kid left without a toy, that her toy was accidentally drop out of the line of delivery. The big deal here was that Santa has 2 sons. One of them wants to deliver the give and the other say “It is just one kids in millions of kids”

The rest of the movie move around all the difficulties of one of Santa’s boy to delivery that special toy for that “just one kid” That reminds me the parable of the lost sheep, it does not matter if is one kid or one person out of thousand of them, everybody need to receive their gifts, salvation. God want us to care of each other; make sure that nobody stay without a gift (gift = word of God, grace of God, salvation). I believe, that is the main reason that we are here in this world, to taking care for each other and help who is in need.

Today, it is a very sad day for me. My kids just left this morning with their dad for the holidays. Before they leave, I hug and kiss them and tell the how much I love them and say have fun. Driving to my work, I realize that the sun came out very shiny and bright that is when I realize that life will keep moving and that everything will be just fine.

Matthew 18:10-14

¹⁰ “Be careful that you don’t look down on one of these little ones. I say to you that their angels in heaven are always looking into the face of my Father who is in heaven. ¹² What do you think? If someone had one hundred sheep and one of them wandered off, wouldn’t he leave the ninety-nine on the hillsides and go in search for the one that wandered off? ¹³ If he finds it, I assure you that he is happier about having that one sheep than about the ninety-nine who didn’t wander off. ¹⁴ In the same way, my Father who is in heaven doesn’t want to lose one of these little ones.

Big Hug,

MRM