The message of Hope, Love & Compassion

Wow!!! what a weekend is was for me. Coming back from the Cursillo women's retreat I realized so much more of the plan that God has for me. I witnessed God in his fullness these past four days from Thursday to Sunday. As I am not allowed to go into full detail of what took place this weekend, I can just really say that "God is Love" and "Love is what I saw this weekend, an enormous amount of Love.

Love among people I know and love among complete strangers. You may ask yourselves how can you love a person that you have never met. Well, as I can't really put it into words because it is and continues to be very overwhelming for me to explain, I saw it this weekend. I witness the true message of the Gospel, "God is Love" and you can truly love someone you've never met. I firmly believe that he allowed me to see this very love because it will be the same love that I will feel the moment that chinese Ayi hands over our daughter and they say to her here is your mama and baba. I can't wait to hold you in my arms, my precious one and I promise to show you the very same love that God our Father has shown me. Until then I continue to pray my baby, that you are loved and that you know how to love back.

On this note, I want to take this time to thank each and everyone one of you that send me a palanca letter. Thank you for your kind, encouraging words and for your special prayers and offerings that you did for me while I was on retreat. The prayers were heard LOUD AND CLEAR and I felt them as well. Below I will give you a brief description of what Palanca means: let me explain.

Palanca: The prayers and sacrifices which our offered to God to obtain something. The word Palanca is a Spanish word meaning "lever". Just as a lever allows a person to move things which are beyond his / her strength, prayer and sacrifices allow an apostle to accomplish more than he/she would be capable of achieving.

God Bless and may the peace of the Lord bless you today and always.