God is Love

Fruits of the Holy Spirit:
LOVE*JOY*PEACE*PATIENCE*KINDNESS*GENEROSITY*FAITHFULNESS*GENTLENESS*SELF-CONTROL.

Good choices lead to good consequences.

How we spend our time indicates what we value and what we think is important.

In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die. Where you invest your love, you invest your life. (Lyrics from a great song by Mumford and Sons)

Always try to become better than you were before. When that happens, everything around us becomes better too.

Every person on earth plays a role in the history of the world.

"If anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, than everything is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes. Every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes. With every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will ever be the same again." -God (from the book The Shack)

Romans 8:28
“We know that all things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.”

Our day’s work isn’t done until we build up someone!!

Humility, poverty and happiness are better than pride, ambition and pursuing wealth.

Those who know God will be humble; those who know themselves cannot be proud.

Forgiveness is key to Christianity.

Willingness to learn is a mark of those who are truly wise.

Our lives are not small and significant. We are not isolated or alone.

Do to no one what you would not want done to you. Simple as that.

Prayer is faith+love

Your eyes show the strength of your soul.

From Prayer of Francis of Assisi: “Lord, make me a instrument of your peace.”

Love without conditions or motivations. It chooses to serve without expectation or service of return. Love without counting the costs.

Philippians 1:9-11
“And this is my prayer: that your love may increase ever more and more in knowledge and every kind of perception to discern what is of value, so that you may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.”

Baptism is the first time we receive the Holy Spirit in our lives and all our previous sins are wiped clean.

As God becomes a regular part of our daily lives, our worries begin to disappear.

As we study God’s word and honor God with our lives, we experience his joy in our lives.

The Holy Spirit helps us to be the people we are called to be.

Trust God.

When you do wrong, blame yourself, not others.

Do all you can do to make the world better with your own life.

Hebrew 10:24
“We must consider how to rouse one another to love and do good works.”

Prayer of St. Patrick:
Christ be with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ were I lie, Christ where I arise, Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me. In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

The secret to happiness according to Gianna Molla: live each moment to moment and thank God for everything He gives us day after day.

Whatever is done; is done in the glory of God.

Awareness of God’s presence beside and within us will shape how we approach each person and situation. God dwells in everyone!

Jesus is in the people we meet, when we pray together and in the Eucharist.

“To care for a sick person is to pray.” - Vincent De Paul

Turn away from things that take away from a Godly life.

Continue to exam your conscience about the priorities in life.

Our sins can be forgiven if we seek forgiveness.

1 Peter 1:6-9
“… without seeing him you are already filled with joy so glorious that it cannot be described…because you believe.”

The purpose of prayer is not getting what we want, but to become what God wants.

Our life is God’s gift.

With God’s love, love one another.

Phillipians 1:20
“To live in Christ and die is gain.”

Pray to God by opening your heart and acting on what we hear inside ourselves as God’s voice.

1 John:
3:17-18 “If someone who has worldly means sees a brother in need and refuses him compassion, how can the love of God remain in him? Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.”
4:8 “Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.”
4:12 “No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us.”
4:16 “…God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him. “
4:19 “We love because He first loved us.”


The heart of the Law is love; our love for God and God’s love for us. We express that love in the values we live out. Conflicts occur when the way we rank our values comes into conflict with the way others rank their values.

Stay focused no matter what obstacles try to keep us from doing the right thing.

Encourage and thank those people who sacrifice but also look for what you can do too.

Pray before you act.

James 2:24
“See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.”

Use the gifts God gave you. If you don’t know what they are, ask God to tell you what they are and how to use them.

Knowing God gives meaning to life; obeying God gives purpose to life.

When you see God’s goodness, thank him!

Do you talk to God in prayer? Study scripture and devote? Do you minister to others and spread the Good Word?

Time is short; ask God to help you spend time on things that count.

Thanks be to God.

~I pray that this post, along with the rest of the blog, exposes and expresses God’s love to all those who read it. Perhaps some of the things I wrote bring up questions within you, and I pray that you do not let them go unanswered!