Congress 2018

What did I see?

I saw a lot of things, let's start with the obvious.
-People
-more people. there was a lot of people.
-Friends
-I saw a community of Catholic people gathered.

A bit more in-depth:
- Happiness
- Joy
- Family
- Love
- Belonging

I saw so much more, I saw how we belong and how different the church truly is but at the same time how alike we are.

Wedding Season???

Who said wedding season was in the Summer? Because let me tell you, some people didn't get the memo.
This past week a good friend of mine got married. I've known him for a really long time, over 10 years, and let me tell you I never thought he would have gotten married. He was never a person that saw himself married or having a family. He always talked about not needing a piece of paper to prove his love for anyone. SO I was very surprised when I got his invite for his wedding.  I was also very happy and excited for him and his, now, wife. They had also just welcomed their baby girl in July. 

And this upcoming week my Godmother is getting married! We are all so excited and happy for her family. She and her fiance have been together for over 5 years, they have a child together. This day is also a bittersweet time for the family, since my uncle, her father, is no longer with us, it's always sad to celebrate such an important time without him. It's like when big life-changing things happen we are happy but a bit sad that he is not here with us to celebrate and bring more joy to the celebration as only he could. All the family gets together, we are a small but close family, so my cousin comes from Chicago, my other cousins all come support.   

But like I said this two happy couples didn't get the memo that weddings are on Summers, but oh well.

Friendship and love

February the month of love and friendship. We celebrate the people that are important to us; wives, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend, and friends. I spend this San Valentine's day with my best friend since at the moment we are both singles. But where is God in this celebration? Do we ever stop and thank God for His friendship or His love towards us? WE forget about the most important relationship, the one with God. And I am not saying that I don't. I do.

2017!!! I am still in Process?

I know that the first month of January is almost over and that the blogs about New Year are done with, but not me.  I wanted to wait to see how it would go. I have a lot of expectations for this year. And this year has started very differently than any other.

This was the first year I spend New Year away from my family. I spend New Year's eve at a friend's party. It felt weird but at the same time, it felt good. I am 25 years old, and it was time for me to have a little fun and spread my wings away from home.

In the first week of January, I went to San Antonio, Texas with my best friend. It was such an amazing time. We walked the river walk, had Whataburger, went to the natural bridge caverns, and saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Again this was something new to me. I have travel don't get me wrong but it has always been with family or to be with family, it had never been just because.

But just like there has been a lot of good things there has also been some not so good things. But that's just life. We always have to take the good and bad together.  Old relationships have ended, new ones have started, friendships have become more than just friendships. And we are starting to let go of the bad and move on.

So yes, this is why I hadn't written a new year blog, I was still trying to figure things out, and I am still am. So at this time, I am in process of many things, but that's what every year should be like. We should never want to be exactly the same as the year before because that would mean we didn't learn anything from the past year.

Something called Spiritual Direction...

First, what is a Spiritual Director, it's in the lines of going to therapy but you discuss your relationship with God or the higher person you believe in. It is a nice way to see why God lead you to where you are at. And to also see why a person had to go through a hard time in their lives.  We try to see the plan that God has for us, for that person.

It's been some time now that I have been meeting with a Spiritual Director, and boy has it been a journey. And so far, I feel more separated, more distant from God than I have ever been. Wich is not a bad thing, it is a good thing, a great thing. Questions have come up that I haven't thought of, questions that I don't have answers for. I started taking classes on different topics of religion and in one session with my spiritual director, I was brought aware that I have God in my head, all this knowledge I have acquired is in my head, now I have to find a way to bring it to my heart. To feel more connected to GOD. This is a new process a new way of looking at things. I have been trying meditation and keeping a journey, although I must confess I have not succeed in journaling nor meditation, but I am trying.

Wait can this count as my journal for the day???

Understanding Why God has a Strange Sense of humor.

"If you want to make God laugh tell him your plans" have you ever heard this quote? If you say no, where have you been at? Or maybe it's just that you might not be religious in which case kudos.

For does of us that have heard that saying, have you stopped and thought why it is actually saying? Google the phrase God and his sense of humor and all these quotes will come out, quotes from famous people.

Is it a bad thing that God has a sense of humor? No. I don't believe so. We need something to keep us on our toes and to search for God, in does times. Plus, if God had no sense of humor, how boring would that be.

What to write as my first blog???

Let's start by saying that life is a funny thing. You never know what's going to happen.
My brother, who is younger than me by a year, is having a baby on September. This was a surprise to all of us. But at the end of the day, we are family and we are there to support each other no matter what.

I became a youth minister on October of last year. It's been a journey learning and putting all the classes I ones took in practice. But none the least its been great, I love it. I've gotten the chance to meet so many loving youths.

Even though I have always wanted to be a youth minister it was crazy who things played out. I was at a job interview at another parish, and I got there early so I had some time to go into the church and pray. I prayed to Jesus Christ to put me in the right place. To help me see where it was that he wanted me to be at; I had other interviews at other places as well, and I was having trouble deciding where was the place for me. Well, that same day I went back to work and found out that the youth minister at our parish was leaving and I was offer the job. It was like Jesus was answering my prayer, super fast.