SIGNS, WONDERS AND MIRACLES

   This story of  Sodom  &  Gomorrah  in today's 1st reading tells us that we have a merciful but just God. Since this is the case, it is very easy to explain why bad things happen to bad people but for good people it's another story. Nobody could really give the perfect explanation for this. We should just hold on and believe that even if bad things happen to good people, God can always make things turn out not just for good but for the best. God is always just in all His ways and will never will for anything bad to happen to us. We are still part of this sinful and imperfect world and could fall prey to the manipulation, lies and deceit it offers. It is always a consolation to know that God is up and about in looking after our welfare. Whatever happens, He can always turn it around for the sake of the righteous. This is because God just doesn't look on and does nothing. God surely finds and makes a way.  Amen. Hallelujah! Genesis 18:16-33 ...Then...

     I was reminded of the time when I suddenly felt like I am going to pass out. I could not breathe and was having cold perspiration since I did not eat breakfast and missed dinner too. I was still in Church and almost in a panic when I found myself unable to recite the remaining 2 decades of the Divine Mercy prayer although I was still able to stay until the end of the prayers I barely managed to get myself up to walk to the door. And just right on time and what I needed, a sudden gush of strong wind blew my way as if fanning my whole body. It totally refreshed me and felt better. A lady whom I don’t even know offered to bring me home. Though, I declined and told her I’d be fine since I was already feeling better, I was overwhelmed by her gesture of kindness. Whenever I look at the circumstances that surround it, I must say that God wants to show me how He keeps us safe and sound and never runs out of angels whether in disguise or real people. This is why I am reminded...

     In today’s 1 st  reading, Abraham was visited by 3 men whom he showed hospitality despite the fact that he had never met them before. There are times when we think negatively and consider some of the good things we have done as lost and gone. Especially if we do it to people whom we barely know, could not return the favor and could not    benefit in us in some ways. Such as these would never be the case if we consider everything we do as a form of service to God. It makes a whole lot of difference when the people we’re doing a great favor are dear and close to us. To extend hospitality to someone who is almost a stranger and could not return the favor nor expect anything from them is truly noble. Abraham was rewarded for his good deeds by God Himself who never lets anything go unnoticed especially those we offer in service to God. Since I arrived in the  US  in May 19, 2007 I did not get a hair cut until December 16, 2016. It took me almost 1...

  There are times when we may not be able to give a logical explanation for everything that happens to us but the truth remains that what the Lord said in today's 1st reading is true. No matter what our situations are we can always be assured that God looks after our welfare more than we ever know. There should be an abounding joy in our heart in the knowledge that God can never be wrong. We can always rely on His instincts and judgment to do the right thing for us. Somewhere along the way we've experienced the feeling of being lost and not knowing what to do and where to go but the 1st reading today gives us renewed hope in the God who is the Good Shepherd. Amen. Hallelujah! Ezekiel 34:11-12, 15-17 Thus says the Lord GOD: I myself will look after and tend my sheep 12 As a shepherd tends his flock when he finds himself among his scattered sheep, so will I tend my sheep. ...I myself will pasture my sheep; I myself will give them rest, says the Lord GOD. 16 The lost I will seek o...

If we sometimes feel like nothing good is ever going to happen with our situation to the point of wanting to give up and run away from it all then we should stop awhile and look at today's 1st reading. Hagar was so desperate then but God did not abandon her by sending an angel to her who told her that God has heard and answered her. We, too may feel so oppressed at times just like Hagar but we can always be assured that God hears and answers all our prayers. Amen. Hallelujah! Reading  1 Gn 16:1-12, 15-16 or Gn 16:6b-12, 15-16 ...Sarai then abused her so much that Hagar ran away from her. The LORD's messenger found her by a spring in the wilderness, the spring on the road to Shur, and he asked, "Hagar, maid of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She answered, "I am running away from my mistress, Sarai." But the LORD's messenger told her: "Go back to your mistress and submit to her abusive treatment. I will make your descendants ...

    Judging from what is happening in our lives right now and if we will just look very closely, I guess, we can find ourselves saying that there is a time in our life too, when just like Abram we experienced a deep terrifying darkness which enveloped our whole being and felt very afraid. I did and it was the time when I had to make this life changing decision of mine to come and stay in the  US . It has always been God's reassuring words and promises in the scriptures and the perfectly fitted situations that go with it which helped me remain steadfast in the Lord. I have shared several times already about how the Sea of Galilee has impacted my life in a very special way while I was still in the  Philippines  and in the planning stage of coming here to the  US . Not to forget the several occasions and circumstances which I encountered and further built my confidence in the decision that I made to stay here in the  US . One of the most extraordinary sit...