Reflex!

February 6th, 2010 § 0

annnd silence.

God is Good? All the Time!!!

And the crowd goes wild. It’s a change for me being at a dis­cov­ery camp, being so old that I don’t know how to relate to the kids. But even with all the years of dif­fer­ence. The one thing, gen­er­a­tion after gen­er­a­tion, that remains the com­mon denom­i­na­tor: God is revered, God
is sought, God is Love.

Los Cabos

February 5th, 2010 § 1

i must admit i wasn’t really excited to go to cabos apart from being there for char­lie and melita’s wed­ding. but as it turns out, it wasn’t half bad + noth­ing short of amaz­ing. the peso to dol­lar ratio was only 12:1, and it doesnt help that most every­thing in tourist-infested cabos was expen­sive to begin with. but man, you cant beat the view, the food, or the com­pany. top 10 high­lights from the trip:

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complete.

February 4th, 2010 § 1

no more. fin­ished. compleanos.

my web­site edit­ing is com­plete. enough time wasted in front of the com­puter try­ing to make my blog who only one per­son reads any­way (hi kim =).

GO GATORS! stay­ing true to annual tra­di­tions. a post of con­grat­ul­tions to my Florida Gators. (im an hon­orary mem­ber since my girl­friend goes there). an insanely great class com­ing in. the next 4 years looks good urban. well done.
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friendster.

February 2nd, 2010 § 0

you would think i JUST wrote this. but you couldnt be more wrong. you could try, but you’d be wrong.

I want to meet a girl that watches the his­tory chan­nel, has a hard time choos­ing between foot­ball and bas­ket­ball as her favorite. can play gui­tar and sing, but doesnt have to sing well, but sounds cute when she does. bonus points for snorts dur­ing laugh­ter and love for sugared-spam with rice. Answers my weird sce­nario ques­tions with thought, asks what about you;. some­one funny mean and nice all at once. Fam­ily ori­ented with a Pas­sion for God.

Friend­ster — Fer­nan Caparas… 2003

i would have to agree.

February 2nd, 2010 § 0


In Depth: World’s Most Beau­ti­ful Cities — City: San Fran­cisco — Forbes.com

heaven.

December 29th, 2009 § 1

there is noth­ing quite like a home cooked meal after a 13 hour shift at the hos­pi­tal. there are a hand­ful of foods that come to mind that take me to heaven when placed in front of me in the face of fatigue, hun­gry­ness, and hypoglycemia.

  • sour sini­gang
  • gar­lic shrimp
  • in & out
  • L&L
  • spam & eggs

i love food.

the power we hold.

December 28th, 2009 § 0

its easy to over­look the influ­ence that we have on peo­ple. the abil­ity to make someone’s day with a smile, or ruin­ing another’s with a smart remark. these lit­tle things in life help make the big pic­ture. our character. its easy to recall the quote we all know by mother Teresa.

we can do no great things, just small things with great Love.

these lit­tle influ­ences, or pow­ers, hold so much weight on those we inter­act with. and 100 X’s more, to the ones we love. to be able to for­give some­one, or to ask for for­give­ness. brings the abil­ity to free some­one from the shack­les of guilt or bit­ter­ness. to be able to Love in times when lov­ing is most dif­fi­cult. to Love, in all things, and in everyone.

there are some reli­gions out there. where for­give­ness can only first come from the per­son who is to for­give, before it can be given by God. although you may not share the same take on for­give­ness or sal­va­tion. the abil­ity to be able to bring the per­son peace, with a sim­ple act of kind­ness; is just enough to deliver that per­son to God.

i guess what im try­ing to say is. we have power. USE IT.

messages.

December 26th, 2009 § 0

i’ve been watch­ing a lot of movies. no, i’ve been watch­ing movies like no human should be. but its okay, its Christ­mas day. and you’re allowed to do that on Christ­mas day. even if it means 4 home movies. and 1 the­atre movie.

in another attempt to jus­tify the sloth. i’ve been receiv­ing mes­sages through these movies. an affir­ma­tion of how God talks to us through any, and every­thing. tonight i watched the movie “Up in the sky”.

a movie about a man who trav­els 350 days a year, to fire peo­ple; for a liv­ing. first thought that ran through your mind? A) sucks B) geez C) both A & B. but a day in his shoes, you wouldn’t even get the scent that he had a prob­lem with it. to be so far from home, to the point where home is the ‘com­mer­cial’ if you will, of your real life. a life he led with goals and pas­sions set on earthly attain­able real­i­ties. this man was per­fectly fine, and happy*.

*until he saw the other side of life. love.

not just the corny mushy roman­tic love either. im talk­ing father, mother, brother, sis­ter, cousin, friend, and yes, honey’s too. but at the end of the day what we invest our heart in, is what defines what we live for. goals set in stone will always pale in com­par­i­son to flesh. when all is said and done, mem­o­ries, not cam­eras. is what we take with us. this Christ­mas i took zero pic­tures that i will keep. but a mem­ory of a day spent watch­ing 5 movies. with a whole lotta fam­ily in between.

Merry Christ­mas.

blessed.

December 23rd, 2009 § 0

wel­come again advent. this time last year, i was on a road trip on my way to north car­olina. this year, more of the same. spend some great qual­ity time with family.

the biggest dif­fer­ence. i have a girlfriend =)

i love this time of year. i love that Advent brings out the catholic in chris­tians. i love  that Love is felt through the skin in the cold weather. and i love that Love, is the rea­son for the season.

what makes this year spe­cial though, is what i said in my sec­ond para­graph. with­out a doubt the past 2 years of life have been pretty chal­leng­ing. from the move to miami for nurs­ing school, to deaths in the fam­ily, stress­ful nclex prepa­ra­tion, to 3 month job searches and count­less mini chal­lenges along the way. but none, and i say none chal­lenged me in the way God has, through my heart.

ive learned a man can have the biggest and great­est aspi­ra­tions. but if he cant find a rea­son to sus­tain the pas­sion, then all of the hop­ing around even­tu­ally finds a way to siz­zle out. God, is the only sat­is­fac­tion. God is the only sus­tainer. God should be the only Lord.

mini-epiphanys like these have been nor­mal occur­rences, with more and more  hap­pen­ing each day since ive met my girl­friend. i can say with­out hes­i­ta­tion, that she showed me how to allow my heart to be sen­si­tive to the Lord.

i love that the past cou­ple of years, and all its chal­lenges, brought me to where i am now. that the girl who inspires me so, is my girl­friend. i know no greater bless­ing than to share the Love of Christ with another. and one of the great­est Jesus mag­nets that i know, is my girlfriend.

i can only hope and pray that each and every rela­tion­ship may one day find them­selves being able to bring Jesus into both the rela­tion­ship, and each other. as i try to do the same in my rela­tion­ship. thanks God. youre awesome.

Ave Maria

December 8th, 2009 § 1

I LOVE you, mama Mary. There are only a few pro­duc­tive days in my cal­en­dar year, and today just hap­pened to be one of them.

Work has been good. No. Work has been blessed. Today was the first day I took care of 3 patients on my own com­pletely. Although tir­ing and at times stress­ful, I can hon­estly say I’m start­ing to get the hang of this nurs­ing thing. But what was so spe­cial about today was not the real­iza­tion that I can do this job, or the grat­i­fi­ca­tion from a patient call­ing me a ‘brother’.. But it was because I was able to share a lit­tle bit about my faith to some of my coworkers.

Do you agree with me when I say, that there is noth­ing bet­ter we can do here on earth, than to share the LOVE of Christ with another per­son? Or to have faith talks with peo­ple? Or how about, to try to explain to some­one why it is you love that you’re Catholic??

Mama Mary you are one of my biggest rea­sons that I love being catholic.

As I go the rest of my time at Lucerne. I really hope I can shed some light, to the beauty and rea­son, of our blessed Mother. Heaven use me.

God bless you all.. And happy feast of the con­cep­tion. :)

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