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Oct 29, 2007

Oct 29, 2007

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California

United States

Training

We have the POWER to make a better future for the world and our lifestyles. We can make it better for our children, our love one's, and those who are close to us! Let's start now. Let's change it. Let's do our best to stop being selfish. Let's teach the younger generations about the true meaning of SELFLESSNESS! If our children (or people) that we know are having a hard time in school, work, or in life, or maybe they droped out of school and/or unemployed, I think it's time to change our mentality and tell them, "It's alright. God has a plan for you and it will be a good one. Peace and salvation will come to you. Just be PATIENT! You will be saved! Just have faith! Everything will be alright"...Instead of the typical answer of: "You need to do well in school and get a good job so you can have a bright future and make alot of money. Have a high status and position in your life so people don't look down on you"...We need to help one another and be there for each other so that we may be united and fight together! They're are family members and friends out there that you might know who are probably sad or crying. They are filled with sorrow, despair and probably has the thought of suicide simply because no one is there for them. No one is there to comfort or give hope to them. No one is there for them to stop their tears that originates from the heart but comes out from their eyes. No one is there to open up that smile they hide deep inside that they cannot find alone. They need someone to give them the will to keep fighting! To keep on living! They need YOU to find that deep inside them and show them what they have that they had lost! Let us work with and through God so that we may work for the people! Just like the torch they keep lit and pass on in the U.S. Olympics for sports, we too have our own torch. It's a torch that represents HOPE, LOVE, COMPASSION, FAITH, SACRIFICE, and SELFLESSNESS. This torch started about 2000 years ago by a person named JESUS CHRIST! It has been burning ever since, but not as bright as the first time it was held and lit. I don't know who holds it now, but it's out there. Lets pass it on to the world and let it burn brighter than it ever has. Let it shine throughout the world, all the way up to the heavens so that we may make God/Jesus Christ proud! God didn't create us so we could be overrun by darkness. We are God's children. He is our most highest Father. He is our most highest Parent. For all you people out there that love making their parents proud, well it's time we start making our Holy Father proud. It's time we start making God proud! GOD BLESS!

I used to think I knew what happiness, forgiveness, friendship and trust meant, but as time goes on, I honestly have no clue what it REALLY means. I'm tired of battling my inner demons. I'm tired of fighting for change. Maybe I should change the way I fight? Sometimes I think God might be punishing me or trying to teach me a lesson. In this scenario, being alone seems inevitable. I don't know if I got what it takes to hold on for that long. I just don't want it anymore. Will there ever be peace? Am I cursed? Or is this a sign to show me "a path" I'm supposed to take in my life because the events before wasn't strong enough to make me realize? Kinda like "tough love," I guess. If there is such a thing called "forgiveness" then why am I still in pain? How does someone forgive if someone does not know what it means to forgive? It's not that I don't want to forgive or be forgiven, but I genuinely do not know what forgiveness really means. Is there some things in life that we AREN'T meant to understand simply because it leads us to a much higher path? A path of FAITH? To have faith in something as to where "understanding" has no meaning? To believe in something without question? Is the ability to NOT understand one of the many proofs as to why God exist? Life is truly hard when you have no ambition for success, but for peace. Is that how Jesus felt? Answers just leads to more questions. Maybe it's because it inevitably leads us to faith. Maybe we are too busy searching for answers that we failed to realize the answer is so simplistic as faith. I could kinda understand how people say, "What we don't understand scares us" because we go above and beyond to look for answers because maybe if we can understand something, we have the ability to CONTROL the situation. But without understanding, without "control," we are frightened! With faith, we give up our ability to control our ourselves and everything around us to Something much greater than ourselves. I have to admit, to not understand, to not know what I'm supposed to be doing, to not know the reason as to why I'm here on earth, scares me! It's as if life is just one big maze. I'm just so lost. In a desert with no compass. Every materialistic answer leads to a dead-end, but the path of faith leads you OUT of the maze! Is that why people of STRONG faith, "people of the church," like priests, bishops, nuns, popes, etc, etc, live in peace? Because they don't question. They have no ambition to understand. They are content with their life because God watches over them and takes care of them? There has got to be more to life than just to make money and be successful. I mean, if that's the case, it's as if we were born and ALREADY knew the answer to what life should be. That, in an odd sense, seems "too easy". Is an ambition for success, for money, or for our own selfish happiness the enemy of our true ability to be able to uncover the true understanding of life? Is that what blinds us? I don't know how to explain it. Time will tell. "I hope she/he is strong enough to make it. - Peace is not an easy thing to find." Will we ever be able to fathom: MATTHEW 19:21, MATTHEW 6:19-21, MATTHEW 6:24, MATTHEW 6:25-34

Someone that has a lot of money isn't considered rich to me. It's just someone who has the ability to obtain things others cannot. Someone who just makes things affordable. A rich person is someone who is willing to love and is loved in return. Who admires faith and looks up to integrity and dignity. That, to me, is being rich, because its something someone has and can NEVER run out no matter how much a part of that is given.. I don't believe a "successful" person should be based on how much that person makes from their job, or what they do. Unfortunately, society has "taught" us that. We have been seeing it that way for too long that it started to become the only way we do see it. I don't think someone should be judged on how much money they make. Whether it be a lot or a little. I'll tell you this much though, I do believe that there is someone that works in McDonald's right now or even a homeless person walking the streets at this very moment that is more successful than the riches people in the world - even richer then Bill Gates... If we can't find it in our hearts to understand why I think this is so, then maybe we are still living under the influence of what "society" considers successful. Maybe we lived in that mentality it's taught us for so long, we don't know any other way it's supposed to be. And therefore, we refuse to believe it any other way and that the fact of believing it in another way, in a much deeper sense than what it typically means, in a much more righteous sense, that we cannot even fathom the deeper meanings of what society has shaded over your/our eyes - our thoughts...And if we cannot see it in a much more deeper sense, we tend believe, anything that society has NOT taught us, is WRONG. Thus, any hope of gaining what is truth and righteous, with the curtains drawn open, will be LOST.... I don't believe a person's status (what job and how much money they make) should determine whether that makes them worthy of something. One general example is when parents tend to decide if their daughter's are worthy of going out with this man because of the job this person has. Especially if that man has no job or does, but that job isn't "respectable" in the parent's eyes and that the income isn't great. I mean, don't get me wrong, I truly understand and have nothing against the parent's just trying to "look out" for their kids. But maybe, just maybe, is it possible that it is the wrong way to approach it? I think we owe it to our selves to search, and not for it to search it for us simply just so we can accept without question. When we search, we usually find doubt, and with doubt comes questions, and that usually ends in fear in what we don't understand...Are you willing to risk it? Are you willing to stand up for what you believe? Going against all odds, and against all the people who will be against you, and maybe even hate/dislike you. Can you find the strength within you and say, "No, I don't believe what society taught us is right. There is another way"...Or will you hide in fear because you are afraid what the truth will show. It might be scary. It might be painful. But just because it is, doesn't mean its wrong.