It’s 2026!

 

It’s 2026! The world is a wonderful place. There’s beautiful people everywhere. We are exactly where God wants us to be. Success is inevitable. God still heals and performs miracles. This is the best season of our life, again. We are experiencing some of the prayers that we once prayed for. Imagine waking up every day feeling lucky and grateful for the life we are currently living. May Heavenly things constantly interrupt Earthly things for us. May God guide every single step we take this year. 

You want it (championship). It (championship) needs you. If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. I’m back on the starting lineup, but as the superstar. Put me in Coach! Non-restrictive minutes, I’ll play the whole game, every game, including Playoffs and championship. Whatever it takes to win! Win the right way. Win with the Lord. Surprise me again, Lord. May I have the grace for the yes and the no. The ability to play offense and defense. Specially defense, to shut down the opposing team, because defense wins championships.

If you want peace, prepare for war. In Latin: “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum.” The war is over. There’s roars, but mostly cheers. Peace was restored. It’s 2026! 

What a Heaven of a year 2025 has been. 

Lessons of 2025:

Nothing beats a jet2 holiday

Small progress is better than no progress

Go for it. The new assignment, championship, relationship, etc.

Surround yourself with uplifting people

All the glory belongs to God

You’re a bad@ss! A king with unlimited aura

Holy distance from near occasions of sin 

Holy proximity from near occasions of grace

So many grateful moments to list, but here’s a few: 

Great mentor in Fr Francis

New Mustang

Chosen as School Board Rep

Graduating Class of 2025 with royalty

Cross Country Championship 

First time ever Podium in Spartan

Positivity movement destroyed pessimism and toxicity

Competed in 24 races (23 Spartans) 

Holy healthy friendships

Great conditioning as a hybrid athlete

Retreats, conferences, prayer services, liturgies…

God is on the move! 

It’s 2026! 

Remember how rich you are. People associate blessings and wealth with money. We’re blessed financially, but more grateful to be rich in health, faith, love, freedom, location, peace, etc. 

Just when you think it cannot get any better. It gets better! 

2026, the year of the horse. Howdy!

Surprises are coming. Vision board is set. 

Itz On 

Core

Prep

Zz

Tid 

Pacific

Hour

GOAT

Sum

B2B

FF

Cert 

Bic

Tri

Aroo 

NYTS

JMJ

It’s 2026! Watch how God works and be dazzled by His glory. 

Made For More

Daily martyrdom continues in December, but I’m on a different wavelength. When I find something worth pursuing, I get excited. I succeed even when I don’t see the entire path. I’ll create the path! God illuminates the path! Every now and then I step onto a podium for recognition. I didn’t know it was going to be difficult yet so worth the adventure. 

If I don’t get invited, congratulated, or accepted, then that’s okay. I packed all of my belongings to come all the way from Texas to live in California (my home) because I wanted to follow the will of God, the call, maybe even the call within the call. I wanted to win championships here also. I wanted the beach nearby. Go to Lakers games anytime I wanted. I didn’t think it would include suite seats in all. I didn’t think it was going to be so difficult yet so worth the adventure. 

At the end of the day, the students are excited as always. I bring value, aura, and maybe just a little bit of God’s love. I am who I am. I don’t claim the most valuable player award, somebody else can have that. I like sharing the wealth. All I know that when the Holy Spirit takes over, the school is magnified tenfold. Championships will continue. Blessings will pour like confetti! I may be serving here for another 20 years, but if God wants me somewhere else, He will let me know. Here or there, I think it is going to be so difficult yet so worth the adventure.

Christmas was born on that day and this Christmas season I am looking forward to: Hosting. Takings risks. Shooting my shot. Falling flat on my face. Looking foolish. Calling  out bad behaviors, kindly. Ignoring the doubters. Climbing the highest mountain. In all of those experiences, finding God there because I was made for more. To the heights (verso l’alto). So difficult yet so worth it!!

What a Heaven of a year it has been! 

Thank you Great King! 

Superhero Business

If you’re waiting on God, do what waiters do. Serve! In light of Advent Season beginning today, a season of waiting, we await the arrival of the Newborn King. We wait for Christmas!!!

Waiting and serving are superpowers.

Isn’t that what we see from superheroes or Saints? Friendly neighborhood laborers making the world a better place, more bearable, and safe from evil doers. Serving while they have their own goals. Focused on a mission while awaiting their destiny. 

Waiting is part of the Christian pilgrimage toward Heaven

In the meantime, we are out here completing side quests like a video game. Another problem to solve. This is starting to be the new entertainment with WWE-like theatrics. When talent, charisma, and creative story lines create the most interesting episodes. We will be pitching sponsorship for the next season soon.

You have to create your own paradise. Build your own sanctuary, so that when you return from the rodeo, you have a place to be inspired. Plow your field so that when the next rain storm arrives, you reap the abundant harvest. Condition your body so that when the next competition is set, you will have superpowers that only superheroes possess. In order words suffer now, embrace the resistance and turbulence now, because when things get smooth it becomes even more glorious. That’s how a superhero learns to flyyyyy! 

If you have acquired certain skills: If you are calm, know how to regulate your emotions, have super human strength and stamina, have wisdom, championship experience, strive for virtue (ultimate superpower), and have people that cheer for you and look up to you, then are you even human? If you win all the time, are you God’s favorite? Being a superhero is a calling. God equips the called with super human powers. 

I heard the other day, “When you are full of love (superpower), it confuses people who are full of sh!t.” Get your sh!t together! Because the next superhero story could be someone that overcame their past, made a turning point, had a conversion and sought Christ. Quit trying to find happiness or superpowers outside of Christ. 

“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.

It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.”

-Pope John Paul II

Saint John Paul II was a Marvel Comic Book Hero in the 80’s.  

If you’re waiting on God, do what waiters/superheroes do. Serve! This looks like a job for…🦸‍♂️ because like Fr. Mike Schmitz mentioned, while we are waiting this Advent season or any other season of our lives, the question we must ask, are we waiting well? The destination matters, but so does how we get there. How can we wait well? 

<Power Rangers ringer goes off>

I’ll be back!! I have a community to serve, workouts to conquer, and a beauty to date.

The Best Season of Your Life

 

For the first time in my life, I feel like I’m free. 

Free of worrying about what others think

Free to move about the cabin (Southwest)

Free to fall in love

Free to make mistakes and fail

Free to hoist up another trophy

Free to trust in the Good Lord

Free to fly! 

My life is a video game. A movie. God said: There’s so much I wanna show you. Pure cinema. 

What may seem dreadful, is about to blow your mind. It’s going to be the best experience. Regardless of the unpleasantness or lack of support. God works through you. Even 20 years later. Has there ever been a year where God didn’t show you justice? They will see why you’ve been chosen. Anointed. For His Glory. The deeper they look, the less they will see you. They will see more of Him. His work, love and mercy. 

“I looked at my deepest wound and was dazzled by Your glory.” -St. Augustine 

Imposter Syndrome? Nope. Merit!

Some people have inspired me to be nothing like them. Others, inspire me to replicate their virtue. Meanwhile the inspiration continues. The mission continues. The championships continue.

Dude, you’d never operated at this high level before. This is peak. You’re breaking records. This is the best season of your life. What you wished for is finally happening before your eyes. Just in time. At your prime. 

All of a sudden, there’s peace in the Middle East! At least that is what it feels like. There has been a seismic shift in the environment. Positivity is a new currency and antidote to fight the infectious disease of pessimism. 

Howdy, Year 20! One thing I am very proud about for the past 20 years, one of my biggest accomplishments, is that I never complained about anything or anyone. You know how difficult that is, especially in Education. It’s easy to road rage, but when you figure out what’s important and the root of the rage. You don’t road rage. I don’t road rage my way through my career, the wonderful world of Education, and I certainly don’t road rage my way through life. 

“Title for the devil - fermenter of discord.

Focus on these things, and we lose focus of Christ.”

You reap what you sow. 

“Rude people and are not confident, and confident people are not rude. I’ve never met a confident and secure person who is nasty to others for no reason.”

“The crow sits on the eagles back and bites its neck. The eagle does not fight back. It just flies at a high altitude until the crow falls off due to lack of oxygen. Like eagles, we must keep ascending.”

If you stop and acknowledge every barking dog, you’ll never get to your destination. This is what the great mentors and spiritual directors will advise. Every day we are faced with barking dogs. It’s usually the same people. The perpetual complainers that never seem happy. 

Rule number one to living out a healthy and fulfilling life is: don’t succumb to the rage bait. No road raging through life.

“If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.” 

Walk in smoothly, clock in, then walk out, clock out. Laughing our butts off. You have to enjoy the day to day. You have to laugh at yourself. There’s days that you will be exhausted, but you have to look at the silver lining, and look forward to tomorrow, and still smile at the end of every shift. 

Life is lifing, alright. When life is not lifing, it’s what you do in those moments, that makes it worthwhile. 

If you look around there’s madness all over the world, but if you look really closely there’s beauty everywhere. Surround yourself with beauty. Beauty will save the world. 

Hang in there. Chilling with legs crossed (confidently, peacefully, faithfully, nonchalantly). Time will reveal the nonsense. THESE ARE THE TIMES WHEN SAINTS ARE MADE.

God sends those laughing memories as blessings. 

I’m a blessed man. Abundantly blessed! I could hit rock bottom and build back in no time. I could lose aura and regain an even larger surplus in a haste. Effortlessly! Nevertheless, blessed the circumstances that made you draw closer to God. A prayer you can do is “Lord, if this draws me closer to you, keep it going.” 

Somebody has been praying for me. God’s got me, no weapon formed against me shall prosper. It’s been proven not just for the last twenty years but for the last 40+ years. 

What a privilege to be able to experience what you prayed for. To be living what you dreamt about. 

I live my life to bring Glory to God.

However, I fail at most things in life, but I still get excited to grind. That’s the separation.

This is a calling. Nobody or nothing can’t stop the calling, the anointing. 

What if all the gaslighting, all the bad things happening, are actually leading me to the direction the Lord is taking me? What if God is really on my side? If it brings me closer to Him, the Almighty, then it’s all worth it. 

Inspiring people in a way no one else could. 

All those goons that were assembled were no match for the 24 inch pythons. Hulkamania forever. The great Kobe Bryant once said, “Something small to a giant.” 

Lord, have mercy, for they not know what they do. 

Heal from the road rage. Don’t envy others, there’s plenty of wealth to go around. It’s based on merit not equity. I didn’t make the rules. God sees the heart. My reward is in Heaven. There’s rankings based on merit, but primarily God’s grace. 

These are the best of times, these are the worst of times.

It is great to be Catholic, a Christian, during these times. It’s worth saying again in the year 2025: THESE ARE THE TIMES WHEN SAINTS ARE MADE. 

There’s an uprising, revival, happening. Christianity is back. Catholicism is back! As ancient and as beautiful as ever. It has lasted the test of time. Like a lion, that doesn’t need defending, it defends itself. When I say beauty will save the world. The Catholic Church, the Bride of Christ, will save the world. 

A little positivity, some electrolytes, and whole lotta Christ. 

God puts us in the dark, so that our light means something. I know I say this every year, but this is the best season of my life. 

Getting older is the best. 42, but “feeling 22!” Aging, if done right, is sweet and precious. 

Saint Carlo Acutis, pray for us.

Saint Pier Georgio Frassati, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, Most Chaste Spouse, Terror of Demons, pray for us. 

Our Lady Queen of Angels, pray for us.