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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

WOYWW: You are My Treasure

 
My working space is getting smaller and smaller!
On the right you see a pile of 
Vitamin syrup boxes
that I was working on for a livelihood project.

 
Here is the finished product.
So easy to do!
My sister Peggy's idea really,
which I documented on our 
papemelroti blog.
Clearing up my desk a bit,
I was able to make space 
for my daily painting of scripture.


 
I was reading Matthew 13:44-46,
about how the Kingdom of Heaven 
is like a treasure buried in a field,
or a pearl of great price.


 
In the Word Among Us, I read,
"Would you ever sell everything you own
to buy the calcified secretion of
an irritated mollusk?"
That really is what a pearl is!


 
But we follow Jesus for who He is,
not for what He looks like!


 
He is our treasure,
and if we spend our whole lifetime
getting to know Him,
we will always find something to
captivate us!


 
But like the man who sold
 everything he owned to 
buy the pearl of great price,
Jesus gave His very life to ransom us.
(Matthew 13:44-46)

How good it is to know that
WE are His treasure too!
The apple of His eye!


 
Why else would He have been 
willing to sacrifice His life for us?


 
Yes, from the time of Moses
up to the present time,
we are a people filled
with doubt, insecurity, weakness,
sin, pride, etc.,
and yet God receives us as His own!


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I know it takes so much time and effort
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and I appreciate it soooo much!

This week,
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Monday, July 29, 2013

Ask the Impossible!

I have to confess that
after I am Mary in the morning,
after I read the Word,
go to Mass, and pray,
I am Martha  all the way through
to when I close my eyes and rest at night.
I am so preoccupied with
the so many things I need to do in a day!
Like today, after I come home from Mass,
I need to eat breakfast, 
brush my teeth, practice my talk
on Green Marketing.
Then I leave for Miriam College to give my talk.
After my talk, I will visit some 
of our papemelroti stores,
to talk to the staff, check on how
everything is.
OR I may have to go to a branch 
that is being renovated, etc etc.

I like the story in John 11:19-27,
because even if Martha has gone down
in Biblical history as a woman
so preoccupied with "work",
she is also the woman who 
gave one of the clearest confessions of faith.
"Yes, Lord. I have come to believe
that you are the Messiah,
the Son of God,
the One who is coming into the world."
John 11:27

Martha is the woman who
had the temerity to approach Jesus,
and say reproachfully, 
"Lord, if you had been here,
my brother would not have died.
But even now I know that whatever you
ask of God, God will give you."

Martha was the woman who 
asked the impossible,
and received the impossible.
Lazarus, her brother, rose from the dead!

So let us be BOTH
Martha and Mary,
and see miracles happen in our life!




Every week I choose one wonderful visitor
who leaves a comment
to receive an ATC from me.
I know it takes so much time and effort
to leave a comment
and I appreciate it soooo much!

This week,
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 #47, Julie of More of Him,
 a precious child of God 
who loves to count her blessings!!

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