Author: Theresa

Don’t we all want this, need this. We all face our share of painful challenges in our lives. And sometimes what we face is so bad, our hearts pound, we hyperventilate, we break out in hives…In other words, even our bodies can suffer from our panic. We need Peace. And God can give us that Peace if we ask for it.

But sometimes, in the midst of our troubles, we forget to ask. We need to shift our focus from the challenge that lies in front of us to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Because it is Jesus who can give us the Peace we so desperately need. The Peace that will calm our hearts and enable us to help others.

The Peace that only God can give 🙂

God’s Got us 🙂

My Dad taught me a very important lesson. “Keep talking to God”. There are times when we are hurt and angry, even times when we struggle to believe. The important thing is that we not stop talking with God. We can shout, we can tell God how frustrated we are. We can even tell Him that we are not sure if He is really there. He’s a big God; He can take it 🙂

Because it’s when we stop talking to God that problems occur. It seems so often that when hard times come, people either turn towards God or turn away. It’s when people turn away that they get lost. Sometimes permently. Don’t risk it!

Share your anger and your doubts, but don’t ever turn away. Trust God 🙂

Sometimes we meet someone who is so sick and we know that their time is limited on this earth. And yet, those are often the people who Follow Jesus the closest. They aren’t afraid to reach out to others, because they know that their time to do so is limited.

For those of us who are healthy, for those of us who have longer on this earth, shouldn’t we also be reaching out to others to share Christ’s Good News as well?

Reach out to someone today! Because you will be helping to Save someone’s life, not to mention our life on earth is much easier, when Jesus is by our side.

Remember when we first heard the message of the Gospel? Some of us answered Yes and Accepted Jesus as our Savior on that very day, but some of us did not. We always meant to, but we just didn’t quite get around to it. If that’s you, don’t wait any longer, Accept Jesus today! 🙂

Even among those who are Saved, what are we really doing to serve Jesus? Are we reaching out to others with His Good News? Are we helping the poor or contributing to missions that do? Do we stop to help the homeless? Do we even see them? Are we loving our neighbors, really loving them?

We really only have today and that is all we have. We need to realize that and meditate on it. What can we do to serve Jesus today? How can we be more loving today? This is what really matters-today!

For me at least, I have found that God acts AFTER I step out in faith and TRUST Him. In other words, if God Calls, we have to answer that Call, and then He provides for all of our needs.

There has never been a time yet, when I answered God’s Call, that God did not provide for me and provide for me completely. And whether it was housing, food, courage, strength, peace…

God always provided 🙂

Trusting God is a decision we make, not a feeling.

We hear that phrase often, “Trust God”. And we want to. We just don’t know how. And that is because we often confuse a Feeling of trust with the Decision to Trust.

Trust is not a Feeling; it’s a Decision. It’s holding onto Jesus’s Hand and walking Him, no matter what is going on in our lives. It’s deciding to place our hand in God’s, and walk with Jesus no matter what.

And we also need to not confuse Trusting God with getting our own way. Trusting God does not mean that we will always get what we want. It means that while sometimes our prayer will be answered yes, what Trust really means is knowing that our Lord will not leave our side no matter what. It means that Jesus loves us and will always love us and will walk with us, or even carry us if we need, always. And it is in that Trust, that we have Hope.

Trust Jesus, He will never let you down!

As we kneel in prayer, desperate at times. We add to our prayers words like, “now, in time, immediately… As we pray, we worry and wonder if God will answer on time. And sometimes, we allow our fears to consume us.

But God always answers on time. God is never late. But we also have to realize, sometimes God answers just on time. And sometimes God answers in a way that we don’t understand. And sometimes God’s answer is No.

And we cry why!?

But the truth is sometimes God’s answer is simply beyond our capability to understand. And it is then that we have to Trust in God’s Love for us. We have to accept that we may never fully understand God’s answer until we get to Heaven. But we will understand.

And we have to Trust that God loves us, and He loves the person we are praying for. God will never let us down. In fact, God is the one person who will never let us down.

So we need to put our hand in God’s once again and keep praying no matter what! Yell if you need. Be angry… But don’t stop talking to God. He’s a Big God; He can take it.

And know, that one day, we will come out on the other side of our suffering with our Faith even bigger and deeper than it was before.

“Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. For our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name. Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you.”-Psalm 33:20-22

What is hope? Hope is a Gift of God. It’s a knowledge in our soul that things will get better. It starts in our soul and spreads through our hearts and minds. Our hope is in the Lord.

Hope is something though that we need to hold onto, or we will lose it. And if we want to keep it, we must never let our souls grow hard or cold. Because if we do, our hearts will also. And our “hope in the Lord”, will die.

And we need hope. We can’t exist without it. If you need hope, call on Jesus today and ask for it. He will answer 🙂

While Praying the Rosary, I saw many people sitting in church pews in Ukraine. Many of them were children. Mary, our Blessed Mother, has a special place in Her Heart for Ukraine.

There has been much debate in our country as to whether we are helping or hurting by providing so much military aid to Ukraine. I don’t really have an answer to that question.

But the question I can answer is this: Should we send comfort aid to Ukraine?And here is the answer: It is never wrong to send blankets, medicine and food to those in need. Jesus meant it when He said we should “love our neighbors”.

And we can Pray for those in Ukraine. For the children, for the adults and for the soldiers. All of them. For soft hearts, for comfort and for strength. For courage and a faith that can not be dimished in such difficult times.

And for what they need so desperately: Hope. Hope In The Lord. Hope In The Future that awaits them. A future provided by the God that loves them so.

And Sometimes God comes just in time 🙂

^” Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Then the word of the Lord came to him:  “Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.”  So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, “Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?” As she was going to get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread.”

“As surely as the Lord your God lives,” she replied, “I don’t have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die.”

“Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.  For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land.’”

^” She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family.”-1 Kings 7:15