Note to God

 that there are three things that fill us with gladness in this life and that will bring us the eternal happiness of Heaven: a firm, refined, joyful and unquestioning fidelity to the faith, to the vocation that each of us has received, and to purity.

We need to bring things to the mass. Our sacrifice. Our offering. To the mass.then mass is more meaningful, united to sacrifice of chist. 

Remember Augustine, Francis, men of failures but who conquered and with the desire to fulfill the will of God, became saints  It's a test of rectitude of intention - not to glorify ourselves but God. It's important to be detached, success or failure.  Most important is charity, not success nor failure.  One dad keep checking in with children: Instead of "how did you feel, ask: How did you fail?" Failure is a little death. But faith doesn't make us scared of death. For death brings us eternal life. Same as failure. It's a little life. We become wiser, we know more through failure  When we experience failure, we know what not to do. We need objectivity and humility to confront failure. Don't fear failure. We become afraid of trying new things. 

Need order. Time to start work. Time to end work. Rest with others instead of just yourself.

Charity and friendship is the same thing For some, friendship is natural. For others, it takes effort. But friendship isn't dependent on personality, but identity - our identity in Christ. Our identity is Christ, who love others as Christ did. We have to... no.. We get to,  yes Be someone who cares, like how Christ would care In our chat - ask: Do we care of least of our friends? Invite them to kopi, to lunch, to dinner. Show affection: - to have real affection for others - to show the affection like how Christ did, very naturally Friendship means taking risk - to care, which may entail rejection. But it's ok, jesus was rejected by ppl too.. the rich man

To give thanks To say sorry What we can do things better

Full of people? Full of materials? Full of yourself?

Work not for perfection, but for love.  - Isodoro That's why we work. How should we work? For whom am i working? Sanctify myself - through how we do things. With humility, care in the words we use. Not just being efficient, but with consideration of others in the words we use.  My boss says- draft an email such there all questions are answered. And your boss can only say ok. 

Poverty is a state that brings good and man closer together. It's the poor that's elevated in the bible. God is poor and he loves poor people. God is poor because God is love and love is poor. God is absolute poverty, in him, no trace of possessiveness.  Poverty is a test of love and fidelity to his commandments.  It unburdens us of all that is heavy and that weighs down our progress towards what is essential. If helps us rediscover the true values of life.  That man does not live on bread alone, but from every word that comes from the mouth of God

Sometimes, we want to get things done.  And as a result, we don't put enough thought. We don't study the matter well enough. So maybe it's good to say noted, allow me to study the matter before getting back to u. 

In the Work all this comes true if the Mass is the centre and root of our interior life ... so that for us our whole day is a continual act of worship, a prolongation of one Mass and a preparation for the next one. This overflows into aspirations, visits to the Blessed Sacrament, and the offering of our work, and into all the Norms of piety and Customs with which our life is interwoven.

It is easy to get bogged down trying to find the optimal plan for change: the fastest way to lose weight, the best program to build muscle, the perfect idea for a side hustle. We are so focused on figuring out the best approach that we never get around to taking action. As Voltaire once wrote, “The best is the enemy of the good.”

St Josemaria  Serviam  Crossing forehead, lips and heart All my thoughts, all my words, all my works are given to you O Lord. Allow me to give them out of love. 

Mindset shifting - transition feeling of burden into moments of opportunities I have to pray I get to pray The key point is that both versions of reality are true. You have to do those things, and you also get to do them. We can find evidence for whatever mind-set we choose. I once heard a story about a man who uses a wheelchair. When asked if it was difficult being confined, he responded, “I’m not confined to my wheelchair—I am liberated by it. If it wasn’t for my wheelchair, I would be bed-bound and never able to leave my house.” This shift in perspective completely transformed how he lived each day. Reframing your habits to highlight their benefits rather than their drawbacks is a fast and lightweight way to reprogram your mind and make a habit seem more attractive.

Let us strive resolutely, in both great and small things, to prevent a materialistic culture from smothering the good soil of our heart and of the places where we live (cf. Mt 13:22). When poverty is neglected, the desire to help God’s love take root in other souls inevitably fades. In this regard, St. Josemaría linked this virtue very directly with apostolic zeal: “Detach yourself from the goods of the world. Love and practice poverty of spirit: be content with what enables you to live a simple and sober life. Otherwise, you will never be an apostle” (The Way, no. 631). A lack of apostolic zeal often reflects a life softened by material compensations that dull the soul

Daily we pray “let them look up and see only Jesus,” but how often we look in and see only Jesus in us? Do we see Him in using our eyes, mind, & heart, as His own? Are we so given to Him—that we find His eyes look through ours, his tongue speaking, His Hands working, His feet walking, His Heart loving? Do we really see only Jesus in us? You have to be in the world and yet not of the world.46 The light you give must be so pure, the love you love with must be so burning—the faith you believe with must be so convincing—that in seeing you they really see only Jesus. Your apostolate is so beautiful to give Jesus. You can give Him—only if you have surrendered yourself totally to Him.—Often, very often, I pray for you—that you may be the fruit of Christ’s love in the world—That you may grow in holiness—so that in you Christ’s joy may be fulfilled

We must, then, avoid the “Babel syndrome,” namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance. The risk of dehumanization — of building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means — is an ancient and ever-new temptation that today takes on a technical guise. Instead, let us choose the “way of Nehemiah,” which highlights the importance of working together to make the City of God a safe place for returning exiles. Rebuilding today means recognizing that, precisely from the plurality of voices and visions which, even though they sometimes remind us of the confusion caused by the diversity of spoken languages, a bright possibility emerges. Indeed, this is the possibility of building together, of transforming diversity into a resource and of making listening and dialogue the com...