Thought of the week

Back ground:
A.1
 Last few sundays we focused the basic actions that we should follow to lead our life with Catholicism
(1) Keep your soul calm, not filled with ANGER,GREEDINESS,JEALOUSY!
(2)Develop your talents with God!, so that your talents will be converted to energy!

A.2 Transfiguration

Last wensday(6/8), we focused, about how to transfigure ourselves to know christianity in easy way! Know basics of what Moses & Elijah shown us, but keep in mind what pope Francis says!.

A.3. Old teasterment Vs Gospel!

 Pope Francis in His "The Light of Faith" para 15(part) says " CHRISTIAN FAITH IS CENTERED ON CHRIST; IT IS THE CONFESSION THAT JESUS IS LORD AND THAT GOD HAS RAISED HIM FROM THE DEATH(cf.Rm10:9). ALL THE THREADS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT CONVERGE ON CHRIST; HE BECOME THE DEFINITIVE "YES" TO ALL THE PROMISES, THE ULTIMATE BASIS OF OUR "AMEN" TO GOD(cf.2Co 1:20).

A.4.Transfiguration and catholic sacraments!

God has revealed about Jesus 2 times. One is at Baptism and other is at transfiguration!
So God tell us that you are "His beloved Child" at your baptism!. You are at ground level in a river!(On behalf of you, your parents+god parents witness). The second time HE tell the same, when you receive confirmation. You are at a higher elevation, on top of the mountain, with full knowledge of Catholicism!
As a catholic, others will see that you are shining, if you practice what Jesus said(10 commandments with no enemies+charity+keep your mind peacefull+follow God's will). Every sunday, you will be avail of His teachings!



B. Today,
We focus as about our blocks in our life!. Stones+mud developing in your water flow of the river!


B.1 Fear,sorrow & Disagreement:

God created you to lead a happy life. He created the world and saw it is good!. The original sin resulted to lead, unhappy life with fear, sorrow and disagreements. Jesus new method of teaching gives us how to mange these fears to reach HAPPINESS in this life too!.
Fear and sorrow can come to you from 3 sources!
(1) From your body
(2) From outside(society)
(3) From natural disaster

We are not aware what is happening inside our body, the intake to our body is from mouth(food) and nose(air), while the waste will be out putted from our back side and de breath from our nose!. Our cells in the body changes everyday!. When we are sick, the doctor will treat us. We trust him and take the medicine. Similarly when the soul is sick(specially mind) we need a divine doctor to clear our fear!
Today's world, Number of varieties for us to choose is ever increasing, due to advancement of science, challenging ability to choose!. Hence disagreements between one person to another is ever increasing under the present paradigm!.

B.2.  I am correct, He is wrong:

In our personal freedom, disagreement increases due to (1) many choices(2)personal conditioning(3)difficulty to judge which is correct!
If we are not train to ignore the disagreement at the very minute level,(try to drop like water drop, slip from a lotus leave), it will add up(like a sponge absorbing all water) make your disagreements similar to a pyramid upside down!. Your mind will be burning like a bush fire causing to have  anger. A minor disagreement become a major mountain!

HENCE OTHER THAN PHYSICAL DISEASE, ONE SHOULD TRAIN HOW TO QUENCH ANGER FROM THE FIRST STEP ITSELF. Pardon not only 7 not 77 but 777!.
At the same time, if other person is causing disagreement, catholism allow us to get the support of Mary & saints to resolve that. Gospel says if anybody ask you to carry 1 mile, carry 2 miles happily. How? By handing over your fear/unhappiness to Mary and saints, and carrying out the action happily(THIS IS APPLICABLE ONLY TO YOUR PERSONAL FREEDOM)

B.3. Blockage of the flow of water of your river!
Last few sundays we focused how to develop the 2 banks of your river and how to increase the water flow of the river by taking the starting point of the river to a higher location!.
Bank 1 health:
do enough physical exercises with drinking more water
Bank 2:
worldly attraction: balance your money, power and worldly desires with Jesus teaching. Don't get anger(no enemies)/don't judge others(no greediness)/
Develop spiritual friendliness with Mary, Joseph and saints similar to worldly friends!.

IF YOU DON'T DEVELOP BANK 1 AND 2, YOUR RIVER WILL BECOME LIKE A LAKE WITH MUD AND UNPLEASANT SMELL.

Once you develop two banks, now think  about taking the river start with a mountain, by converting your talents to energy, which we analyze last sunday!. IF YOU ARE LAZY YOU CANNOT DO THIS!. Jesus warn us with the story of cursing pig tree!.

When there is good water flow, with good two banks, water will flow to sea if there are no obstruction in the path of the water flow. Normally there are obstructions to reduce the water flow! This is coming from original Sin!. We have to face for these obstruction. We should not loose our faith!. There are many examples in our christian history, where people have face blocks, but their perseverance help them to clear the blocks and face HAPPINESS. One such example is conversion of Augustine:


St monica(331-387)(mother of Augustine) prayed around 20 years to correct her son St Augustin(354-430). Finally she achieved, God removed her fear & sorrow, after 20 years!

C. Today's reading:

Paul says"..my sorrow is so great. My mental anguish is so endless....,Christ is above all"reminds fear,sorrow & disagreements are ever present in your life deriving from original sin!.

Mt14:22-23 says"COURAGE!IT IS I!DO NOT BE AFRAID "reminds that God is with you,specially at your difficult times,provided you don't loose faith!.your life is similar to a river.2 banks represent your health & Happiness(by controlling worldly desires).Water flow is how U develop your soul. By converting your talents to energy,you will start your river from a mountain,to have a good water flow,to sea(heaven).There can be stones, blocking on the path of water flow, representing fear &sorrow in your life. You can remove these blocks,handing over such to God thru' Mary/saints!.
Book of kings says"STAND ON MOUNTAIN BEFORE  LORD". Reminds If you have not tested by fire U don't know who you are!

D. Conclusions:
Our life river has to be maintained to have a good water flow. The 2 banks are related to our life in this world. Water flow is related to this world as well as "life after death" eternal period. Water flow is analogous to  SOUL(mind + free will). There are 3 major aspects to consider in maintaining our river.
(1) Maintaining the 2 river banks properly. In order to do this, it is important to develop a peace full mind(without anger,greediness) in our life
(2) To have a good water flow. The river should start from a higher elevation, like a mountain. We should not be lazy and always try to convert our talents to energy.
(3) We should know how to be remove the blocks in the water flow!. To day Jesus says"DON'T BE AFRAID". Always we know that God will look after us!. If God is with us do we want Mary, Joseph and other saints to intercede on behalf of us!. What does Jesus has shown us to do? What God wanted us to do?. We will discuss this on next reflection of august 15th- Assumption of Mary

GBU

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Moses(1526-1406 B.C) and Elijah (875-848B.C) adoring Jesus,has shown to his. Favorite disciples PETER, JAMES and JOHN (in32AD)at mount TABORE. Jesus face shown like Sun & His garment became white as snow. Voice of God once again declared Jesus as His only Son!.

Moses on sinai,has received OLD COVENANT,while JESUS received NEW!. Elijah too have received many special signs of intimate confidence of God!.
These 2 prophets,similar to Jesus has ended their earthly life,without their bones in the world.
There was a strong resemblance between miracles of Jesus to Elijah, people thought that Jesus is Elijah himself returning to earth. Jews believed that Jesus called on Elijah for assistance at the cross!.
LAW & PROPHETS were represented by these 2 prophets. If you want to Quickly understand Catholicism,learn about their lives,with 4 Gospels!.Then you will transfigured to lead your life HAPPILY,as anticipated by God in creating you!.
Are you transfigured?

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Back ground:

A.1 YOUR LIFE AND A RIVER!

Christianity leads us for a HAPPY life. Your life is like a river. Flow of water depends upon how you develop your mind+ how you develop ability to chose(how you develop your soul). Flow of water has to go to sea, without any leakage(sea is similar to heaven,hence your soul will go to heaven!or hell like lagoon!). 2 banks of the river are the discipline you maintained (from breathing) your physical body & how to balance worldly requirements(from gravitational force) of Money, Power & desires.
Last month(July) we focus as how to build bank of a river in managing worldly desires!. Main leak of this bank is stemming from how you control anger, how you control judging others, how to maintain a cool mind!.

Last sunday gospel(Mt13:44-52), the concept of river further elaborated. Why jesus gave 3 examples about heaven?
"Kingdom of heaven like treasure in the field..." - CONCEPT OF WATER FLOW
"Kingdom of heaven like merchant looking for fine pearls..."- CONCEPT OF HEALTH BANK
Kingdom of heaven like dragnet cast into the sea that brings haul of all kinds.."
-CONCEPT OF BALANCING EARTHLY GRAVITATION.

To go to heaven one should clearly understand, the concept of river,banks & sea.
This is commonly applicable to ANY RELIGION!
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A.2 THIS MONTH SUNDAY READINGS FOCUS!

This month-August, your focus is drawn to concentrate how to have a rich water floor from your life river!.
To have a rich water flow, the river should start from a high elevation or from a good mountain!. Today it is focused how to take your river, to start from top of a highly elevated mountain.

A.3 MORE YOU DEVELOP YOUR TALENTS, YOUR RIVER WILL START FROM A HIGHER ELEVATION, TO HAVE FASTER WATER FLOW

HOW TO DEVELOP YOUR TALENTS?

Everybody in this world is born with talents!. So talents has to be converted to energy. The christian principle for this is given from this sunday reading!

"HELL IS FULL OF TALENTED PEOPLE WHILE HEAVEN IS FULL OF ENERGETIC PEOPLE"

St Jane de Chantal (1572-1641)

HOW TO CONVERT TALENTS TO ENERGY
3 things are essential to convert your talents to energy. You should be
(1)Happy
(2)Healthy
(3)Efficient

To achieve happiness, you should follow 10 commandments with no enemies/follow God's Will
To achieve healthy- you should maintain your physical body
To be efficient- you should use the latest technologies!

B. PREAMBLE FOR TODAYS READING!

B.1 You & God concept!

Practical west believe that man does everything and God does nothing!. Impractical contemplative east,believed that God does everything and man does nothing!,
This miracle clearly shows that God will not give Manna now & that man can do all things in the God who strengthen him!
Your born talents can be converted to energy with God,if your not lazy!. lazyness/idleness leads to easyness then leads to PEACELESS MIND!, de baring to develop your talents!, resulting the introduction of fear & sorrow in to your life!.

B.2 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUMAN, ANIMAL AND COMPUTER

We are now living in a computer age!. We love animals. Hence it is important to analyze the basic difference between these 3, for our own happiness! Here we will analyze the basic elements that we need to live. BASIC ELEMENT MEANS WITHOUT THAT YOU WILL DIE!

(1)There are 3 living beings in this world. Human,animal & trees. All these 3 needs 5 basic elements earth, water,air, sunlight & food. Human needs one more element- fire. NOT love,shelter etc

(2)Equivalent to FIRE, human is having a MIND. Similar to FIRE, the human Mind can be used for good or bad purposes.
Similarly,the computers having Soft ware. Hence computer is more powerful than ANIMAL.

(3) The obvious difference between human & animal is, that Human is doing work for a purpose, while an Animal is doing work without any purpose.

(4) The obvious difference between HUMAN & COMPUTOR: Human is having a FREE WILL(the ability to choose) where HE can laugh,cry, dance.... Many things
Where computer cannot!

(5)ANIMALS work to instincts, Computers work to programming where as HUMANS work to FREEDOM.

(6)A human can behave easily like an ANIMAL. If he carry work for Bad purposes.

(7)HUMAN CAN BEHAVE LIKE AN ANIMAL BUT ANIMAL CANNOT BEHAVE LIKE A HUMAN

B.3 Live person

Energetic person is a live person, who enjoyed his life and lead others to enjoy their life.
How to convert talents to energy?
You are build with form and matter. Matter is your body, while the form is your mind and free will. Your mind and free will is called as soul. Hence to enjoy your life it is important to keep your body and soul healthy.

How to keep the body healthy?
We know 75% our body contains water and it depletes when you work. Always drink water(not fruit juice). At least 2 liters/ day, of water if you drink, the depleted water can be supplemented. Your body is made out of bones and joints, if you don't do exercise these joints will not work properly. Hence at least 20 minutes/ day stretching exercises is needed to allow these joints work properly. A least 210 minutes cumulative  exercise per week is needed for your body to work properly.
If your body is not working properly, how can you enjoy your life? How can you become energetic? If you have pain in your body, de bar for you to enjoy your life.

B.4 IS MULTIFICATION OF LOAVES HAPPENINIG IN OUR SOCIETY?

Mostly we cannot understand how jesus fed so much of crowd with little food. HE NEVER ASKED GOD TO DROP"MANNA" RATHER HE SEARCHED FOR AVAILABLE RESOURCES! Under normal circumstances we cannot think about!. But when we go thru' history we find this is possible & even this is normal with the assistance of God!.

An example:

MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING!(MADD)
CANDY LEITNER, complained to legislators that a convicted drunk driver with a prior history of DUIs killed her teenage daughter and walked away un scratched
She doesn't just take her grief home and
Cover it up, She organized the group of mothers called MADD and set the media fields on fire!. She held press conferences. she passed out red ribbons. she formed support groups. she gathered statistics and make changes to legislation's to punish the DRUNK DRIVERS!. This change came not from politicians but from one women!

SIMILAR CASES YOU CAN WITNESS FROM NELSON MANDELA,EBRAHAM LINKOM OR MOTHER THERESA..many

SO LAZINESS WILL HAMPER TO ACHIEVE GOOD HEALTH. YOU SHOULD CLIMB THE HILL TO START THE RIVER!

C. TODAY's READING

Mt14:13-21 says"...All we have with us is 5loves and 2 fish..., Bring them here to me.....They all ate as much as they wanted,and they collected scrap remaining 12 basket full. Those who ate numbered about 5000 men,to say nothing of women and men.

This miracle clearly shows that God will not give Manna now & that man can do all things in the God who strengthen him!

Paul reminds Nothing can come between us and the Love of Christ!.
Issaiah remind us with Jesus we have path to Eternal Happiness.

D. CONCLUSIONs!

You can get practical teachings to manage YOUR FREEDOM as well as YOUR LIFE which is analogous to a river!.

Always freedom means what you ought to do and always subject to law!. Hence your freedom will consist of 3 parts(1) EXTERNAL(2)INTERNAL(3)PERSONAL. Government law will be your external freedom, while as catholic your internal freedom, will be practicing 10 commandments with no enemies. Your personal freedom has to be surrended in search of God's Will.

Your River has to have good banks(no leaks) with good water flow to sea. This sunday we focused how to increase the water floor by taking your river to start with a higher elevation. That means your inborn talents to be converted to enery to serve the society. When you climb up you always go against the gravitation. A LAZY PERSON CANNOT DO THIS. When you climb like this ihe society will see MIRACLES while you enjoy HAPPINESS!
NEXT SUNDAY WE WILL FOCUS, HOW TO REMOVE THE BLOCKS IN YOUR WATER FLOW. This is very unique only to CATHOLICS!

Great sayings to keep it in heart

WHEN YOU FOLLOW GODS WILL YOUR TALENTS BECOME ENERGY;

WHAT I SAY AND ASK FOR IS ACCOMPLISHED TO ME IN AMAZING WAYS AND WITH AMAZING SPEED!