He redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Psalm 103: 4-5

In my own personal observation, women really love to look them younger and try to pretend that they are still young, even though they are not. While men always showed up a “machete” outlook regardless of age.  My older sister, she is at the senior age but she pinned down her age at 40’s, hahahahaha hope my sister will forgive me to this truth revelation.

Outside appearance and strength are seems to be both essential in our present society.  We have so many products in the market today for anti aging, for flawless skin, and other beauty and rejuvenating products available for one reason is to look younger and revitalize.  I am not saying, those products are bad or no good at all, in fact, I used also some beauty products to maintain my mestizo looks, ehemm but I want you  to know, that all of those products are all superficial and it has expiration date. If you cannot maintain using those products, you see yourself in the mirror older than your actual age.

The natural way of regaining our youthful appearance and strength is to draw ourselves closer to God.  The bible says that after God redeem us, He crowns us with love and compassion. To crown means to complete, perfect and to be on top, like a king.  God is telling us that it is His love and compassion to complete and make us perfect to be on top of our entire life.   Can you imagine the greatness of the love of God to complete us, or literally putting us on top with His love?  I can say OMG!!! When you are the crown of the love and compassion from God, He will satisfy you the desires of your heart.  It is easy for you to love and have compassion to others. It is easy for you to help others and forgive those who hurt you.  It is easy for you to do good things and do well to others for the kingdom of God’s sake.  Your life will be at peace even in the middle of your trials and problems because you know that you are covered and crowned of God’s love.  That makes you beautiful like your youthful days and your strength renewed like an eagle.  The eagle’s normal attitude is to fly high against the wind.  That is how strong the eagle is? That is you and I. . . .

God is inviting us to regain our strength from Him, to have unexpired beauty from His goodness and love.  What a beautiful world to live, if we are going to fill the world with love and compassion from God.   Let His word and promises spoken to us will give us more understanding that the source of renewed strength and appearance is coming from God.

The Lord is with you when you are with him.  If you seek him, he will be found by you.   1 Chronicles 15:2

Did you know that the very first second of birth conception and on the first heartbeat that felt by the mother in her womb, God is already manifesting His presence on it.  God is there assembling all our body systems and components to form a wonderful creation of a human being and it is carefully done by God for 9 months in our mother’s womb.  God continued his presence from the first second we come out and in our first cry and until now that we are still alive, God is present in our life. Do you believe that?  In addition, even during the times we committed sin, God is still present, maybe He just cover his eyes. Sounds funny and awkward right? . . .  The beauty of our catholic faith is that our catechism teaches us that God is omnipresence, meaning He is present anywhere and everywhere at all times.  It did not mention that he is present only when we do well. We call him Emmanuel, literally the meaning is God with us.

There is a point in our life that we feel there is longing in our heart and we start looking and searching to fill in that longing and seek the truth about God. My older brother told me that for the first time he prayed the rosary, and he said it is effective.  My other older brother sing with the choir in two different churches in every single Sunday, and he said he got peace in his heart.  God is just around the corner.

I failed God so many times that I cannot count in my own fingers including my toes. However, God did not give up for me. He is not tired of reaching me out and reminding me how much He loves me. With all my failures and disappointments, God used it to tell me saying,” It is OK, no worries keep going.” God cannot afford to leave us and run away from us.  We do the run away from God. One of much known story in the New Testament is about the Prodigal son, who takes all his inheritance while his parents are still alive and squandered all his money.  The story focuses only about the prodigal son, but we forgot that the father allows it to happen which should not be done.  It was the son who went away but the father is waiting for him from day 1 and keep on looking from afar and  expecting that one day his son will go back home.  In addition, it happens as the story goes.

God is not far away, neither God is just seating down in Heaven doing nothing.  I teach before a bible study for children in one Sunday school and I was a values education teacher in a Montessori school, when I asked the children and pupils where is God, most or all of them pointing in the sky. I told them now God is in our heart.  Hence, God is present from the time of our first heartbeat and until now, He is working with us, He will not give up and He is not yet finish to us, then we take this opportunity to call upon him and humbly sorry for all the sins we committed.

The Lord is with you when you are with him.  If you seek him, he will be found by you. God is just around the corner waiting for you,