e-mails from God?

I do not believe in coincidence to think such is to think God is not in control. It seems within the last year or so I have been getting emails from people I have never met and they always have a message about God contained within them. Now this happened well before the start of this blog, in addition the unsolicited emails from people unknown always seem to be appropriate to what I am doing in my life. Yesterday I received the youtube video, that I have posted, in regards to a man with only half a body and how he does public speaking about his condition. Inspiring others not to give up.

Today I received another video about a boy named Johnny at the end of this post I will submit the URL on this video. I think these emails are from God, in so much as he is inspiring the person who sends them to me. It means less words for you to read and another video to watch. Johnny is another one of those cases where God is hiding a "very special soul" in the body of a boy less then perfect. So thanks God for the email... and oh, yes... a very special thanks for Johnny...

http://simpletruths.com/simpletruths/a.aspx?af=219&mo=stsr

Oh I will add another email URL here... God? Maker of rainbows...

http://home.att.net/~hideaway_today/t083/fall.htm

Half a man: revisited

God is very merciful to me, to us all. Yet he knows there are times that I rethink things that I have written about on this blog. The one that has been lingering in my mind was entitled "half a man"... that is until today when I received an email from someone who knows nothing of this blog. She just randomly sent me a u-tube video. It was a story of a "half a man"... watch this video and see with your own eyes, just how God is hiding such special souls in people we look upon as being imperfect human beings... when they are really super stars among us. Not the kind of super stars that you read about in super market tabloids but they kind you will hear about in heaven.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=210DRk8dFjI

St. Joseph

I have been thinking of St. Joseph, what a good and honorable man. What must he thought, the first time he saw the infant Jesus and held him? As all new parents do, did he stare in amazement at this little baby? Was he frozen in fear, that this was the Messiah? Did he wonder how could he handle taking care of this infant? .... then I think when someone is sent such a great grace and responsibility a great grace is also sent. The grace to know that in the person of Jesus Christ is all of us.... In the act of God taking on flesh he showed such love and humility, that the only way to respond to this is to do its equal, by showing love and humility as accepting that which, is sent to us.
If you are sent the job of raising the Messiah as St. Joseph was, step up to the plate and do it as he did. Whatever you are sent in life, step up to the plate in love and humility, like St. Joseph did and do the job. Nothing is too great, or too small, or menial. If you are given a small job do it in love and humility, if you are given a great job do it the same way. We are all but workers here on earth. Even Jesus was a ,"worker", when he walked on earth, his work was Salvation.
No matter who you are or what you do, even if it is "nothing" to the world, you are of value. Your work is to love God... that is a "job" we are all called to do...

Pray...pray...pray

What ever Country you live in throughout the world... you need to pray for your leaders... no matter who they are. Even the most blessed leader needs prayer, as well as those who are not the best; remember God is waiting to bless us all. You seek change be change, start within your own heart, change hate to love, change judgement to prayer and fasting for the situation. All God wants is prayer, ask him to help, ask him to bless your leader. If the leader of your country is a great man he needs prayer, not so great he needs prayer... Take the high road always and pray for all people and remember what Jesus said in the Gospels, what merit is there in loving those who love you, the merit is in loving your enemies and praying for all. They will know you are a child of God by your ability to love, to love all, you might not like a person's behavior, but you are always to love them and pray for them.

There is no one on this planet that does not have power, the power of prayer and fasting. In the eyes of man you may seem powerless, but you are not. You are a mighty force, have faith in all things that God will see you through. Remember always that your true citizenship is not here but in heaven, so place the values of your homeland (heaven) here on earth.

Half a man... full warrior... powerful souls

Yesterday after my power walk I stopped at the local strip mall and there I saw a man in a wheelchair. A very good looking man, I was very attracted to him. His upper body was perfect from the waist down he was disfigured as if crippled from birth, very small limbs like a child. Yet, there I stood just looking at him. Then I realized what was going on, I was being allowed to "see" his soul, there in that wheelchair I "saw" half a man...yet in that wheelchair was an amazing soul, a bright and shiny one, strong, virile, very attractive. Then I remembered lessons I have been taught in the past spiritually. God is hiding many of the most perfect souls in the bodies of the totally imperfect bodies on earth.

I go back to when I was a Eucharist Minister at hospitals and the people I would visit there. One being a man totally paralyzed from the waist down. I loved going into his room, there he was flat out on his back, could not move an inch. Yet, to me he was one of the most handsome men I have ever seen, he shined. His smile lit up the room and my heart. This man called the Blessed Mother, his "girl". With that statement of his, one day I took off the scapular I was wearing, and hung it on the bar above his head so he could always look at her. He then said, I hope she will not be jealous for when I look at her scapular, I will think of her and you. So sweet, what a nice man, I am sure he is with Jesus now. I would like to dance with him one day in heaven, and with the "half a man" I saw today, who stood taller to me then many men I have known.

So the next time an "imperfect person" passes your way, the crippled, the mental ill, the diseased, the broken and beaten, the retarded, the outcast. Or if you see a person in a coma, (you know the ones they have the audacity to reduce to the status of a vegetable), please be aware that most probably the soul within that body is highly graced. More so then many perfect bodies here on earth. So do not look at them with disdain or feel superior, for we are not. No, such hidden souls are actually our saving grace here on earth. Treat these people with respect and the dignity they have. The power within them may be the difference between your dancing in heaven, or in the fires of hell, one day. Satan has many beautiful bodies in his domain. Remember in the end we all die, we all go into the grave and that is when all bodies look alike, decayed and dust they become. I have known a few pathologists who have done autopsies on perfect bodies, after a couple of days they all look the same, pretty gross. So while you are taking care of that body of yours, remember it is dying it was born to die, so start taking care of your soul. In addition to those deep knee bends you may be doing, try doing some kneeling before God as well. The soul was created to live eternally and even though, "some like it hot", no one will like the fires of hell, so choose wisely in this life.... Choose life... choose to respect all life... so you may have eternal life...

Woodstock

I do have the strangest thoughts enter my mind at times..while in the Chapel one morning thoughts of Woodstock entered into my mind... 1970 I think it was.. the great love in..free love... make love, not war.

So my thoughts are on Woodstock and free love,then I think of Jesus he gives us "free love", not the kind thought of when one thinks of Woodstock, but the kind of the heart, not the body..real love, not lust. Yet Jesus has passion for us he is totality in love with us all. Jesus had a "love in" as well not like Woodstock though,his was in Calvary, at that moment he made love to the world.... for the entire world to see. Some are shy about showing affection, not so with Jesus he always shows affection never more so then on that dark day called Good Friday... There on the Cross hung a man, a God/ man,yet when I look upon a crucifix I only see the heart, not the flesh of a man. Maybe that is what real love is, real passion for someone, not to see the flesh but the heart.

The theme at Woodstock was make love not war. That was the theme at Calvary as well with a twist. Back then they were speaking about the Vietnam War, on Calvary the war that is spoken about was the war man declared upon God ,(sin). I remember the Vietnam War. I remember seeing coffins come back to the States. These coffins and graves shouted all is lost, not so with the grave of the heart that hung upon the Cross, no his grave meant all is recovered, restored made new. In Vietnam there was no victory only death, on Calvary there is victory through death. Through the heart that hung on the Cross-at his "love in", for the world. His message was and is stop the war against God (sin), give God love instead.

I can clearly see Jesus is a love child a rebel in his own time... making love not war. Even when he had/has a right to defend himself he did/does not go to war against us, he gives us free love instead... He is the ultimate peace symbol.

Rewards

Today being the feast day of All Saints.. it made me think of of an earlier thought I had in regards to "rewards"....

These thoughts came to me after I received my current staples "rewards card"...

I thought about all the rewards cards we get, you know grocery shopping, drug cards, shoe cards, wherever you shop it seems now a days you get a "rewards card". Now this is a "hook" to get you to shop at their store, it is an enticement to get you there.

I admit there are times when I shop at these stores because of the reward offered.... All of this made me think of God... yes, I thought of God when thinking of these rewards cards.

Did Jesus not say, "your reward in heaven is great"... was Jesus saying, heaven is like a "rewards card" for good behavior here on earth???... I thought about this further, I even took it to prayer... thinking, man oh man, am I that cheap and shallow... so much so that the Savior of the World, has to offer me a "rewards card", just to do good here on earth! Dang, I do not want to do good because of a reward... I want to do good because it is the right thing to do, and because that is the only way I can show our God that I get it....

So you know how you have to sign up for a rewards card... fill out an application, or in some stores you have to sign off on one as not to be part of their program... so I decided to do the same for my heavenly "rewards card"... and I now put it on paper as an affidavit..

Heaven rewards card refusal waiver:

I, hereby, state that I am refusing any and all compensation, or "rewards" that may be due me in heaven... These rewards, as per the King of Heaven's statement, within the Gospel... are awarded to those who are faithful to him and his spoken word. Please be advised that I being of sound mind, (?), state that I unconditionally do not want to be rewarded for any good deed, work of charity, compassion or work of mercy and/or any act of love that I may perform here on earth.

In doing so I release, any and all words spoken by the King of Heaven, in regards to this soul and its doing good for the sake of said rewards. Please be advised, that this soul will continue to do such acts of love, mercy, compassion, etc... As per their being the correct thing to do and in so recognizing this fact, this soul refuses to take any and all compensation for said.... whereas, in doing so, would be to undermine the intent of this soul, as per doing these deeds in the first place..

Signed, .................... ....................Witnessed by,

______________............ ............ _____________

My Soul ...................... .................My Guardian angel

Dated for all eternity_________

I want to do the right thing, because they are the right things to do... I take a pass on the reward... I do not need a palace in heaven to motivate me to do good, I seek to so because I want to, I would rather be an act of love for loves sake, then to get a gift... I never wanted a gift giver in my life, I always just wanted to love...

Anyway I do not like big places... fancy houses... I am more of a stable and straw type person...