Hug for my sister

One day...
I gave a hug to my sister... yep... you read it right...
I did give a hug to my sister...
and the feeling was good just to hug my true little sister :D

This was our script that time...

Ning: "Yak kuya..."
Me: "O I just want to give you a hug"
Ning: "Yak :P"
Me: "O you like it..."
Ning: "No I don't..."
Me: "O come on you like it :D"
Ning: "No I don't :P"
Me: "O you just like it..."

It's like a rip-off from Happy Feet when one penguin hugs another penguin :D

and I like hugging my mommy... and squeezing her... and maybe next time... i hug my daddy... O I'm in a hugging mode today :D and I want this "on" for the rest of my life :D

I want to hug because I want to love :D
"to survive we need 4 hugs a day... and to really be nourished we need 7 hugs a day..."

Yes you read it right... not 7 hugs a week... but 7 hugs a day!!

It means we people are hungry for love. And we have been searching it at the wrong places like sex, smoke, drugs and beer. And just to suffice and even nourish us everyday we just only need a hug?!!! What is sex, a stick of cigarrete, a kilo of drugs and a case of beer compared to one free hug?

Mushy? Come on... You just need a hug. Saying this is mushy means you like it... and you don't admit that you like it... that you need it... that you are hungry of that love :D

come on... I dare you... hug the persons in your family... and hug the persons that you love :D
and see what you sow... you will reap :D

Filters

I was watching, again, Bo's Preacher in Blue Jeans...
and what brother Hermie told in his sharing before their worship was a good one...

Just a background in his story,
He has this fish that died... but he thinks he had done his part by changing the water always... feeding this special fish with special and expensive food... but still it died...

Do you know why?

It is because he didn't cleaned the filter of the aquarium. It is mandatory... just like the changing of water... the feeding of special food. It died because of the unclean filter.

and he reflected about it. And it sinked in me his reflection.

That we also have filters... we also have to change our water... and we also have to be fed with special food.

The special food is the Word of God and Eucharist.
The changing of water is the grace of confession or reconcillation.
and lastly, our filters is our eyes... our mind... our senses...

We can still die... die from sin.
Even if we go to mass and hear the Word of God or eat the Eucharist...
Even if we constantly go to confession to confess our sins...
We can still die if our filters are not cleaned... if our filters failed to "seperate" the wrong from right... the bad from good... which goes in and which should be filtered.

Brother Hermie's sharing really struck me. He shared about him just browsing to a set of books like Didache, Sabbath... when he saw on the other side a full blown shot of Iwa Motto's pose in the FHM's front cover of its magazine. He was tempted to look... but he turned away...

Why? Because he knows that it is bad... he had quickly filtered the bad. And also he had trained himself that he will just look at his wife... and he need not look at that because his wife is sufficient for his love.

I too can relate... I have been in many stores where you can find vcds or vid games of hentai and/or pornography and I am still tempted to look... to read the captions... to buy the cd. I have been in many places where there are FHM and UNO magazines racked up in the shelves waiting for me to pick them up and read and look at photos inside. I've watched TV episodes or movies in our cable that promotes sex and pre-marital sex for the sake of "love” or pleasure of it. I've been in situations that my mind just starts to think about lustful things and I don't stop myself from imagining it...

My filter is not yet that clean. And even if I go to mass and participate in the Eucharist or confess my sins... I'm still gonna sin and die.

Thus, I have to clean my filter also lest I die of sin. I have to fight my temptations. I have to run away from these temptations... I have to have the graces from God to keep on struggling and cleaning my eyes... my mind... my thoughts...

Lord God I ask for your graces to help me clean my filter. I still struggle not to fall into temptation. Lord God help me. In Jesus might name... Amen

God's Iron Rods

Look at an iron rod... or anything metal.

Apply a magnet to that iron rod and it sticks to the magnet.
Apply a powerful magnet and the iron rod will also stick to that magnet.
But also look at the iron rod when touches another iron rod... it also sticks either to the magnet or to the iron rod.

And if the magnet is really powerful, you could create a "string" of iron rods where all rods are "holding-each-other" or "close-together" and they "hang-on" or "hold-on" to the magnet.

But there is also a downside to this... if iron rod is rusty, it will not stick to the magnet. Well, it can stick but not as powerful when the iron rod is clean ... it is because of the molecular arrangement of the rusty iron rod that diminishes its magnetic response to a magnet. Thus, it cannot be magnetized and it will not also pull other iron rods... even if the other iron rods are clean or rusty...

We are also like that... God is an all powerful God. And He is also a Magnet when I passed St. Therese one night. And the iron rods are the Pastoral Youth Ministry (PYM) where I saw them for the first time worshiping as a whole inside the chapel... What a sight... and I could see my God smiling :D

I was going home when I saw it... I immediately turned my car and drove it inside the chapel and immediately "cling" to those people and started worshiping. I "hanged-on" to other iron rods... and felt the Power and Glory ni God... it feels so good... because I decided to "stick" with them...

If I decided to go home and just put it aside, I'll be a "rusty" iron rod... Low "magnetic response" to the Lord... I will not be responsive to His calling...

I do hope that we stick together like iron rods... be an iron rod and let yourself stick to other clean iron rods... stick together with the power of Christ.

And be careful not to get yourself "rusty"... because I would not feel his power over me if I am under the "rustiness" of SIN.. I would be just another rusty iron that will be thrown away because it is useless... and I could not make myself be a channel of God's power over other "iron rods"...

Well... that's all...
Lord God... Let us feel your "magnetic presence"... Let us always feel your Love. Let us be clean iron rods and make us your instruments to also bless others with your "magnetic presence" and love :D Let us not be rusty ones :D In Jesus' name I pray... amen and amen and amen :D