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My Life is a G-rated Soap Opera17 november Tuesday Nov 14OH MY GOODNESS!!!! Can you believe I actually met John Rzeznik????
I've been trying to get tickets for this concert for like almost three months..but alas..the good seats were gone and the ones that were left were still really expensive. Anyhow So i spent all of tuesday trying to win them of the radio....and as luck would have it, I managed to be caller number 4, caller number 11 ...but not the caller number 10 that was required to win them. :(
Lucky for me, my awesome sister got us some free tickets! YAY!!! and even luckier that she convinced me to follow some groupies to see if we could meet them! OH MY GOODNESS!!! What an awesome night and wicked concert!!!!
15 september The Triumph of the CrossOK Apparently I havent been on here in ages and I"m really not liking the changes to my space. But oh well...life goes on.
Summer was awesome! Lots of weddings to go to...so eventually after the first three, I kinda stopped taking pictures...but I did manage to recycle the same dress to all of them! Impressive eh? I thought so. :) Congrats to all of you who got married. I'm too sick at the moment to write down all your names. *Sigh* I can never seem to stay healthy! :S
Ok what I really wanted to write about was yesterday. Yesterday was awesome! I went to mass twice, and got adoration and benediction and praise and worship! Pretty neat considering it was the "Triumph of the Cross" yesterday. Anyhow sometime during mass (the second one) I started thinking about the passage from John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave up his life so that we could have eternal life". .... and i started thinking about why He'd want to do that for us. I mean He's God! He didn't really have to die in order to save us did He? Did He really have to suffer that kind of humiliating death? But then the passage i think it's in John 15 came to mind.."No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friend". And after reflecting on that I began to realize, that through sinning "Adam and Eve" breeched their complete trust in God's Love. They became ashamed of themselves and of what they did and they hid from God. Which makes me think that without Jesus' death on the cross, I don't think we would ever have realized how much God loves us, and how much He wants us to be with him. So in a wierd twisted way. Jesus had no choice but to die in the most humiliating way to show us, that God's love conquers all, even death. And THAT is the Triumph of the Cross. We have won eternal life in God, because He loves us and died for us.
Ok so it's not a big revelation...but it is making more sense to me anyway. I'm just glad God loves us that much. ... which also led me to start thinking about myself and how imperfectly i love. Because when I love, I think I tend to look for something in return. I love to feel the love returned but hey, who doesnt eh? and then on the times it isnt...of course i am crushed... U'd think i'd be used to it by now...but *sigh* cant help it.
Funny thing is, lately, i'm beginning to start loving people for their soul and heart; all the good qualities that God gave them. One person in particular comes to mind, who has a beautiful soul, but the most heartbreaking thing about this person, is that this person doesn't realize how beautiful their soul and heart is and how much they are loved. And that... really really makes me sad. But my prayer is that one day, this person will see themself through someone else's eyes and appreciate what God has given them. Unfortunately I think i'm beginning to see that I can never make that someone believe that about themself. Very very sad.... hmm now that i think of it, i know a few ppl like that.
Anyway...i think that's enough rambling for today. Gotta love cold meds that make ur head feel heavy.
God Bless
M 22 mei The eyes of loveMany people commonly say that "love is blind". This is one statement on which I beg to differ. Love isn't blind and it doesn't make one blind either. God's love for example, is definitely not blind. He sees everything we do, knows us in our weaknesses and strengths, yet He loves us through it. He is never blind to our faults, He just loves us depsite of them. No matter what we do, or how badly we fail, God loves us unconditionally. This is not to say that we can do whatever we want to do and not expect consequences. God is JUST as well as He is loving...and that is the reason why I say His love isn't blind.
As for us,... I believe we too see the things in others we "don't" want to see, but we also make a choice on some level of conscientiousness to pay attention to those things or to ignore it. Often when we are "in love" we tend to ignore those traits...just because we don't want our image of "perfect love" to be destroyed. Once we are able to see the person we love in light of their faults and successes, and still love them.... that's when we achieve "real love"! It's the kind of love that mirror's God's unconditional love and will/can only be perfected through Him.
18 mei Caller #2?? Well this morning, I nearly gave a few teachers a heart attack.... not to mention I almost gave myself one as well! The whole week I've been trying desperately to win tickets to see the dolls in concert on July 24th. So every morning I'd be glued to my cell and the radio...calling every time I thought they were going to give away tickets. Yesterday I could have sworn I was going to win those tickets...I was waiting all ready to dial and then ...alas...the school bell rang and we had our school mass first thing in the morning. So there went my hopes for that day as I knew i couldn't possibly skip mass.
Today I fared a little better! I got to school as usual, borrowed a radio from one of my colleagues (since mine hasn't been replaced from our break in yet) and was glued to my phone once more. Well...after about a 1/2 hour of panicking i decided to call and find out what time they'd be given away. ...Well, I dialed the radio station and actually got through! But I put on hold for a little while, only to find out they'd be giving the tickets away at any second and to call back. AHHHHHHHHHH the adrenaline really kicked in, and I redialed as quick as i could. So I guess in all the excitement I got too trigger happy and dialed a little to fast for alas, I was caller Number 2 instead of 10. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
SOOOOOOOO NOT FAIR!!!!!!! and the lady who won those tickets...didnt really sound excited either. hmmmm....what a morning. Well...I guess in all the excitement I must have really been loud for a supply teacher came running in cause he thought someone was dying. hahahaha
OK so maybe I'm a complete spazz sometimes...but it was so funny! Disappointing, but very funny!!!
Anyhow.... I ended up buying tickets and getting pretty good seats considering the price. But It was my first time getting through on a contest...and at the end of the experience....i must say....I really feel bad for the poor person who was Caller 9!!!! Imagine how badly that must suck!!! It's like coming in second at the olympics! In third place you are really happy to even make the medals...but in second? ...all you could think of ...is "if only i'd been faster" .... and in the phone- radio contest case..."if only i dialed a litte slower!
hahaha oh well. I got my tickets and I'm happy!!!!!! 14 mei Erin's WeddingI posted a few pics from the wedding. I don't have all of them yet and I apologize that my camera doesn't take very good pics in dark. Hopefully by the end of the month i should have some good ones of the bride and groom. It was an awesome wedding!!!
Congratulations Erin and Chris!!!! 30 april The Best Story Ever!I was thinking today of how each one of us,
Is the greatest author that ever existed.
And the best story we'd ever write,
Is actually the one we're living,
Inscribing every moment into "life's journal".
The story that unfolds is full
Of beauty, laughter, humor, sorrow, pain, drama, etc.
All the elements that a good soap opera strives to embrace,
But never attains because it lacks the realism that we embody.
And just think, if one day you were to see your epic novel published,
Would you be pleased with the outcome? 26 april A question of vocations???Last sunday, although it was Divine Mercy Sunday, must have also been a "vocation sunday" as well (not sure)...for the vocation director of the diocese was invited to speak at our church. Anyhow, it was quite entertaining. He made a few jokes and really got a lot of audience participation throughout his homily. And although I kinda knew what he was trying to say,.... a huge question entered my mind. No I'm haven't gotten any revelations about my vocation yet....but I began to wonder... Do we really have a free choice in the matter of vocations? I understand that we are born with a free will and there are people who tell you, you can become whatever you want to be. But in the case of vocations....I honestly don't think that statement holds true.
There are 3 types of vocations; the call to married life, single life and religious life/priesthood. It seems to me that everyone has a choice in choosing the between the call to religious life or single life. But does the call to married life exist for everyone? or only a select number whom God so chooses? well...i guess it wouldn't be a call to married life if there was a choice in it as the calling is done by God.... and maybe i could say the same about religious life,....if the call really exists for everyone (but for some reason I think it'd be a lot easier for someone to enter the religious life than the married life).....ok i'm digressing.
Anyhow, so if an individual is not presented with the option of married life because they've never encountered a special someone, do they really have a true choice on which vocation they choose? or is it predetermined? So what if their life aspiration is to be married and they don't meet that someone. Well looks like they can't be whatever they want to be. But then again, a person born without arms will never be able to be a neurosurgeon, even if that's what they truely wanted.
Hmm..I guess the free choice then resides in what you do with the curve balls life throws at you and what God gives you.
I'm thinking the real freedom of choice lies in how you approach what's given to you. I mean for the armless person who wanted to be a neurosurgeon, they can either be bitter at God for not being able to live their life the way they want to,....or they can work with their limitaions, praise God and discern what God's plan is for them.
I guess the hardest thing about Vocations (no matter which choice it is) is the discernment process and acceptance.
Anyhow enough of my rambling....Guess what? I got to go back to work today! YAY!!!! But only for 1/2 a day... :S
And i realized that for the 2 months that i was away, my students really took advantage of their supply teacher. ....*Sigh*...... well hopefully it won't take them long to get back on the routine. 22 april pics of parisI finally got the pics of Paris up from last summer's World Youth Day trip! It was awesome! As for this summer, still don't know what I'm doing yet. But hopefully it'll involve traveling again......... 21 april .... hmm...I think I hit a writer's blog block.... it's kinda funny cause usually i have tons of weird adventures and stories to share...but now that i've been stuck at home for 2 months... my stories seem to have gone back to being normal. Nothing really outta the ordinary except for maybe me getting a stomach infection, tripping up the altar steps and reinjuring my "newly repaired" elbow, having a door whack into it 2 days later.. uh...getting the flu after i just cleared the stomach infection.... umm still waiting for the board to find a supply teacher to cover 1/2 days till the end of june, so i can return to work for 1/2 a day... u know the usual boring stuff.
And yes i realize i'm very accident prone. I guess my decision to not work for the CDC in Atlanta with Ebola in the 4th level biocontainment center, was a pretty good decision eh? ...yup That was pretty much decided after I accidentally injected myself with mice guts in the university lab and then burnt myself on the dry ice freezer. lol oops!
Oh goodness...you think i'll be this accident prone in heaven? ;)
07 april "Oh what a tangled web we weave"...Can you imagine what life would be like if no one lied
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