Jun 1st

TVmaria

By sunil balani
I had been enjoying the shows of bro. Bo Sanchez on channel 65 here in misamis occidental and lately the screen is blank .... I am sad and hope it goes back on air soon.
Jun 1st

Psalm 138

By Francesca Garde
A Psalm of David

I will praise thee with my whole heart
before the gods will I sing praise unto thee
I will worship toward thy holy temple and praise
thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy truth
for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name
In the day when I cried thou answeredst me and
strenthenedst me with strength o my soul
All the kings of earth shall praise theee O lord
when they hear the words of thy mout
Yea they shall sing in the ways of the Lord
for great is the glory of the Lord
Though the Lord be high yet hath e respect
unto the lowly but the proud he knoweth afar off
Though I walk in the midst of trouble
though wilt revive me thou shalt stretch forth thine
hand against the wrath of thine enemies
and thy right hand shall save me
The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me
thy mercy O Lord endureth for ever
forsake not the works of thine own hands =)
May 25th

GOD LOOKS FOR CLAY

By erika alfon
GOD looks for CLAY....

CLAY does'nt mold or shape itself, instead it is molded according to its master's will.
Be a CLAY, and let God shape you as what he plans for you to be.
May 19th

SAY YES TO OPPORTUNITY !

By Jelly Lampa
“You don't have to love opportunity, you just have to learn to appreciate opportunity and appreciate the person who brought you the good news; that found you.” – Jim Rohn

I usually ask every guest in Wealth Course and Cashflow Game of how they came to know CA2020 or how they were invited to our events. I found it interesting to know different stories of how they said Yes to a BIG opportunity to learn more and be more.

A lot of them had negative assumptions and hesitations in attending the course. Some said they were skeptical and just curious of what CA2020 is. I then expressed how lucky they are for saying yes to an invitation such as this considering that not all people are business minded. I told them they don’t have to love the opportunity given to them instead they need to look forward what’s behind the opportunity. They will never know what’s in store for them until they say Yes and experience it.

I believe that saying Yes to an Opportunity:
1.  Can definitely lead to an open door or enlightenment. It can be the missing link that you’ve been looking for. It can be a realization or a discovery of oneself to growth or success.

2. Also saying Yes may mean a lot like granting a favor. You get to help a person or a friend to finish a requirement or a task given to them. You become a solution to their problem.

3. And at the same time you’re doing yourself a favor. You give yourself a chance to....continue click http://www.ca2020.net/profiles/blogs/dont-love-the-opportunity-just

This is an original composition, no one can use or post it without my permission.

Coach Jelly Lampa
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Financial Literacy Advocate/Entrepreneur
http://financialfreedom-abundance.blogspot.com/
May 15th

I Envy You

By Jelly Lampa
“I envy you Jelly”

Those were the very words of my Team Leader when I told him that after my resignation I will not transfer to another company to go to work because I’m going full time as an Entrepreneur.

He always knew that I’ve been attending events about business and investing because he’s the one who approves my vacation leaves especially when we have a special event in CA2020. And I always get a Yes approval because he’s also into reading Kiyosaki’s books including Rich Dad Poor Dad and Before You Quit your Job.

After every events, experience and opportunity I always share it to him and also to my colleagues so that they can do other productive things aside from employment. In fact I invited him several times since last year to play the Cashflow Game but until now he never had time to attend it. I also encouraged him to attend seminars and trainings including Business Expo and Forums for him to be exposed on business since he wanted to have a T-shirt printing business in the future.

Last night he also expressed  that he wanted to get out of the Rat Race. There’s sadness in his tone but I managed to empower him.

I emphasized to him the power of taking action (enough of reading books) on what he really wants in life plus to take every opportunity to learn. I told him the importance of having a mentor and a team to have a successful business. He then started asking about CA2020 so I invited him to login to the website and be an empty cup for his financial and personal growth.

The things I’ve learned after our conversation:
$ That if you want to something, TIME and ONLY YOU can make it happen
$ Opportunities are everywhere you just need to grow yourself, take action and attract it
$ That there are a lot of people like him who are still stuck in employment who wants to break free and start anew.

The incident showed me that I really made the right decision to move out of the Rat Race. I realized that I have a lot to do in my life and to other people than be stuck forever in employment. I felt the need to live the mission of CA2020 especially now that I’m full time to make people aware, educate them financially and lead them to abundance....to continue reading click http://www.ca2020.net/profiles/blogs/i-envy-you

This is an original composition. No part may be reposted, published or reproduced without explicit written permission of the author.
May 13th

The Meaning of our Bodies and the Meaning of Marriage

By Vir Chicano
The Meaning of our Bodies and the Meaning of Marriage
 Retreat Talk for Teens Monica Ashour MTS; M Hum ©2008 I.

Introduction—True story—Pushing blazer out of the snow bank. There are 3 things I am hoping you will take from this talk: 1. Matter matters (The brilliant way God decided to make us humans…our bodies mattering and “speaking” to us about who we are). 2. Holy Moly Marriage!! (The sacredness of marriage) 3. Pro-life=happiness; anti-life=sadness (The opposite of living the language of the body will bring sadness, living in a pro-life way brings joy).

II. Matter Matters
 A. The body “speaks” a language…can we say, sings, a language. (Get a sanguine boy and a sanguine girl to come forward and sing hi (boy) low (girl) then the opposite.) There is a difference. God even put it in our vocal chords.
B. Guys are rough, tough, and buff! (Get a man with a beard who does not mind being made fun of). Wouldn’t you say that he is rough, tough, and buff??!! Describe men. (Get a boy to arm-wrestle me). What does this say about guys? Your body is letting you know some of what you are supposed to do: protect and provide, especially for women and children. (Examples of moving big boxes—call my 3 brothers, not my 2 sisters. Got stuck on this big rock once in Minnesota—a man carried me down, not the 2 other women with me). (Caveat—we women are not wimps. “We women not wimpy!” My story of the snow bank!) Story of Fernando. Flesh and blood. Guys, you can start living this right now—sticking up for those who are not as cool, especially girls in your class. Serving your mama. Helping your sister. Etc. Think about the opposite of protecting and providing for girls: using them. I am not only talking about boys who say, “Come here baby, let’s do this.” Let me tell you. Some of my female students share such mistakes and are so hurt; they are not protected; they are damaged. Guys. Live according to your rough, tough, and buff body. Don’t listen to society’s idea of inter-relating with girls. Those are lies. Lies too are prominent at the abortion mill too. When I have gone to talk to guys walking up with girls, one thing I try to convince them is that they think they are helping their girlfriend/wife, but in fact, they are doing the opposite. This I realized from 7th grade boys about 5 years ago when I was teaching them rough, tough, and buff. They said, “Miss Ashour, guys who let a girl have an abortion are not protecting. They are afraid of a baby…the tiniest human. They are not reading the “language of their body.”
 C. Girls are hiding and inviting. (Even the description of us is so much prettier!) We can’t be like our brothers—growing up, didn’t you think before you knew/understood modesty, “Well, Johnny gets to take off his shirt when digging in the garden. Why can’t I?” So, even then our mothers were teaching us to be female is to be hiding. Our attire should not be too revealing nor too frumpy but flattering. (Be funny about guys closing your ears…you may not know this about women). Every female here has a womb! It’s true. We invite the unborn baby to live in his first home, inside the woman’s body. We are inviting. And after the baby is born, we can nourish the baby with our own bodies. Amazing. So, what is God saying to us women, just by us understanding our bodies more? We are to welcome and nurture others. Not many of us in this room have had babies. I have never been married and so have not had a baby, but I know that by virtue of being a woman, by understanding my body, that I am meant to welcome and nurture others. I do that by giving talks, being a good teacher, being a loving aunt, etc. You, too, girls can be more and more attuned to your body but welcoming those friends who need your shoulder to cry on, by welcoming those classmates who others treat poorly, by going up to those who don’t have many friends and trying to let them know someone cares. And know, girls, that you and I, too, can go against the language of the body. Do you only talk to people for what they can give to you? (wii, i-pod, cool car?) And think about the poor women who violate their femininity when they have abortions. The womb should be the safest place on earth, but it becomes a Dachae, a concentration camp with bloodshed. Instead of welcoming and nurturing, she does the opposite of her language of the body. (Caveat: The college student who told me she had an abortion and I was privileged to walk with her as she became Catholic, crying with her after she finally got to go to Confession.)

III. Holy Moly Marriage: The Meaning of Marriage
 A. Marriage as the Best Natural Sign of Who God Is. Now that we have considered that our bodies, male and female, are “messages” to us of how to live, think about them both together. Pope John Paul in his Theology of the Body says that marriage is the best natural sign of who God is in his very essence. Remember, we spoke of that before. We are not orc with horns; we have arms, legs, ears to help us love, to be a gift of self which makes us like God. Similarly, Pope John Paul saw that men and women were made for each other. We don’t need sex education here! Male and female bodies go together. God wants men and women to fall in love, get married, and have babies! He wants families! And guess what, John Paul said that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit form the first family. Again, families are to bring life and love to others…the reason that is the case is because all families can love and give life because they rely on the Blessed Trinity. (Remember, too, that you and I who are not married also live out that life by loving all those in our lives.) This is why abortion is so wrong. It rejects the fruit of love, the life of love, and so is the total opposite of the Blessed Trinity. (Here, I do not mean to be mean-spirited…I am sure people who go into an abortion mill don’t think, “I am about to be an anti-image of the Blessed Trinity.” But I want to tell you so that you can help others, even before they get into trouble and consider hurting themselves and their baby.)
 B. The Sacredness of Marriage (Holy Moly Marriage) I need to wrap up this talk, but before I do, I want to make one more comparison. Just as the Eucharist is a sacrament, so too is marriage a sacrament. You would never dream of going to a “fake” Mass---like someone who pretends to be a priest but is not. (Not talking about “playing Mass when you were little). That would be a desecration. Then, why would you “fake” marriage…by engaging in acts that God made for a married couple. And think about this. When we receive the Eucharist, we are renewing our baptismal vows…it is a sacred act. You would never dream of taking the Eucharist and desecrating it. Never. Then, why, when the marital embrace is a renewing of vows that the couple made on the altar, would you participate in an act which desecrates the body and marriage.

Instead, live your life being pro-life, waiting until the sacredness of marriage. I will end with a true story of Zack and Erin. I was Erin’s spiritual director and was hesitant in affirming that she should marry Zack, even though he was a fabulous guy. The reason: he had Cystic Fibrosis…Erin would be a widow in only a short amount of time. They were happily married…so very happy. Sure enough, his disease began to wear him down. Finally, he was in the hospital dying. I remember going often to St. Paul’s Hospital in Dallas to be with Erin and Zack. He witnessed to me what it meant to be a man. Even though his rough, tough, and buff body was failing, he provided for his wife…the most important thing he provided was his faith until the bitter end. He would tell us we needed to pray by turning his palm over, even when he could hardly move and could not speak. We would then pray..he led to the end. Finally, on June 20th, the same day Fernando shed his flesh and blood for his sister a year previous, Zack died…that was on the 4th anniversary of his and Erin’s wedding. He died, I witnessed it, as Erin gently kissed him for the last time as he took his final breath. That is marriage. That is living according to the language of the body. You too can do the same.
Apr 27th

Thank You Lord Jesus (Happy birthday dearest cousins)!

By Kristina Godinez
Heavenly Father, I thank you for the gifts you have showered upon me and I will celebrate each one. They are miracles, each one of them,  and I will forever be grateful.

I am grateful for your boundless LOVE for me, for the gift of salvation, guidance and direction, for enlightenment, for my loving and super patient family, my uncle and aunt who are always there for me, for my dearest cousins, who are celebrating their birthdays today (please give them extra blessings, Lord God), for my grandma and uncle who keep me company, for my precious bunch of friends who are always there for me, for my present work which I thoroughly enjoy, for the file that I finished today for which I am so happy and grateful, for my chiefs and co-workers who inspire me to always do better, for the files that I have finished and for those that I have yet to finish, for the inspiring words You've sent my way, for Your Light and Presence, which never fades, for the presence of the Blessed Virgin, Your mother and ours who is always there protect me, for Your instruments who never cease to amaze me, for all the Blessings and Graces that you pour out upon me, day after day, for the trials and minor aches and pains, for bringing me out of the dark and pulling me back when I tend to wander off the right path, for the gifts of faith, hope, love, joy, peace, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit, thank You so much Lord Jesus for healing my wounded soul and broken spirit, for melting my hardened heart, for the tears and emotions that You have released. I praise you Lord Jesus and I thank You. May your Love reign in my heart, in my family and in those who seek you and those who have turned away. Thank you Lord Jesus for wiping away my tears and my confusion. Thank you for simply being there, guiding me, calling me, healing me constantly. Your presence is precious Lord Jesus. May you always be with us Lord God, now and always. This I ask, in Jesus' name. Amen.