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, antidote to fight the infectious disease if 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.
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.
