"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have:

Love
prayer
and forgiveness

(Photo: Jalal from IRAN)
What to do when prayer doesn't work?
Once Jesus said "why you say 'Lord', 'Lord' and doesn't do what I ask you for? That's a real huge problem related to our postmodern (or whatever other term to define this indefinition) times. People want spirituality, people simply found out that reason was not enough to fill in their lack of meaning. That happened just after the Second World War, an era that looked like a terrible marenight. However, that religious sense the most of the time is not connected to a sense obedience that it must have. Sometimes an utilitarian faith, sometimes a weak faith that only knows about empty practices or discourses or even prayers. The problem is that we cannot have the gift without the giver, it would be in vain. The issue is that we must be ready to change our way for a real repentence. You don't need to lament your sins all the time, but just feel it to the point you can realize how it's important to change. We must understand that our religious practice are useless if we are not ready to "deny ourselves everyday and take up our cross until the end". Otherwise our deeds are going to be in vain. A devoted heart is want God really wants. Nothing more, nothing less, He just wants us in his altar. Then, the peace will overwhelm our hearts and all we do will succeed, just as told in Salm 23. Just like the ants obey their masters without order and silently, we will serve God with a willing and glad heart. Thus, He will be our strength... and there's nothing better than count on 'The Lord of the Armies'.

GO BACK HOME!

(Photo by Jalal, Iran)

GO BACK HOME, it was the title of a letter I received from a magazine publishing house. Not a big deal, if I would not consider it also a message from God. Ok, I can be crazy for many people (including christians) to believe God talk to us by many ways during our lives, it's only necessary to open our hearts. The fact is that I needed to go back to Him, to give Him my burdens of sin, worries and weaknesses. I needed more than anything else in life God's healing presence. So, I went in search of Him, he's always prepared to receive us. Some people simply believe that weak people need the idea of God to deal with their existence crisis. In fact, it's true. Weak people need God because they don't have other means to survive unless by his presence. Other people can live well without the idea of God as far as they believe in themselves. But there are some who are "poor spirited" and need His presence. However, this apparently weakness can be so improving since we can have somebody so real in our daily life. Someone that can show us the way back home, the right path to walk, in whom we can rest and wait. Our weakness becomes strength since we can count on Him as our strong rock, something really solid when all the world seems slippery. What to do then? Go back to God Father's arms. It's impossible to live whithout Him after realizing who He is. He becomes the source of happiness of our lives. A healthy fountain where we can always drink. In this way you become strong, because you are not anymore subdued by the passions in the world that can be horribly decaying. You can find your way back to life, back to God, back to whom you really are.