Observations and ramblings

On my way back from vacation recently I was observing a young woman in the seat ahead of me voraciously reading US magazine as well as Self magazine.  This young woman was reading it with such intensity that I wondered if she obtained her 'self image' from publications such as that.  After I thought about it I imagined she probably did...how very sad..really.  Most of the magazines like that reveal the human body top the extent of promiscuity and never show anything but 'perfection' which none of us can attain anyways, and really, who would want to?  I can;t help but think how much happier and intentional our society would be if we realized a few beliefs..our bodies are not ours but rather are 'on loan' to us from God.  Our bodies are not to be used for evil but rather for good and for Him and for His good.  I wish I would have known that years ago.    My life would have been so different.

We wander around this crazy world looking for peace and happiness only He can offer.  When will we realize we can never attain what He can offer.  he doesn;t deny us happiness or beauty or pleasure but NOT to the obscene extent we have taken it.  We think breast augmentations make us more beautiful and if we think that surely our husbands/boyfriends will be more content.  Men & women still leave each other for another, seeking even more happiness and pleasure and never attaining it.  We have become a society of gluttons..eating and drinking in excess and our answer to be more acceptable towards this 'perfect' look in society is weight loss surgery...a surgery being performed at record numbers and seen as a very common procedure.  We think it is OK to abort our children if the time is not right to have a child or if we are faced with an 'unplanned' pregnancy...no such thing as an unplanned pregnancy...God creates life and plans the pregnancies...not us.  Nothing is by accident with God.  We all know abortion i inherently wrong but because it is legal we can justify it.  When ill we see the truth of God?

After much pain and suffering in my own life and in my own bad decisions , through my own free will,  I now get it.  I now know there is nothing more important than doing it all for Him...as Mother Teresa said....if it is not of God it is not worth doing.  Amen.  I have an amazing relationship with Jesus...with Mary, the Mother of God, our Mother, and it continues to grow in my journey.  My husband John encouraged us to pray the rosary daily three years ago and I fought the repetitious prayer of the rosary but I now love it and can't imagine not saying a daily rosary.  I used to give my testimony to anyone who would listen but then I realized t was no more than a testimony.  Another sad abortion story.  A priest challenged me to develop my story as more than just a story but to emphasize what it was which brought me to this point.  It was truly His mercy and forgiveness.  That is what I have to share with people and in doing so bring them to Jesus...bring Jesus to others.  We are all called to do it.