Wow! How can another human being do something in five minutes that can bless you for the rest of your life... it happened to me the other day! Five minutes or less of typing on the computer and...  that which seemed almost impossible become reality... i am going home to be with my mother for Christmas.

In five minutes the care of a couple people, let's call them Q and Jeff, have blessed my life permanently... and i am not using words gratuitiously becuase this Christmas is more special than probably most others... this may be my last Christmas with my mom and i want to make the best of it... it may not be my last, Father knows that but to have to opportunity to spend this time with her it is priceless. Somebody in my life, these people Q and Jeff and others have understood that and were ready to pay the price of a ticket to Romania

Thank you friends for marking with the miracle of giving my story,  my mother's and our family's journey as a whole!

Thank you
Props to you Q and Jeff!

21st century kids, we are FAST lossing an essential mode of existance: Patience. We want instant gratification: from being able to buy cars in the cyber space to getting our food in 5 minutes or less. The book One Minute Manager is only a normal product of an instant gratification culture. We have forgotten what it means to wait, if we ever knew, in this generation. Waiting is not something taught anymore becuase very few seem to know how to do it these days. But we do need Patience - as a follower of the Master patience is a mode of existance - things are messed up around here, injustice prevails and patience or endurance tells me i need to put my foot in front of the other and continue towards "the better" of a victorious day, mocked by most today.

well I don't know why I try to sound all philosophical.. the turth is that i am battling this... i don't know how to be patient... so i need the Master to initiate me in the misteries of what it means to wait trstfully and enjoy today... it's funny that the fruit of the Spirit follows like this: love. peace, joy, patience ... teach me Master better yet help me cultivate these in my life: patience and joy in one!

Peace and Grace

I truly think this is the greatest greeting ever. Tranquility of mind and heart, many times in spite of dire circumstances, tranquility that has to do with trust in the Presence and Promises of a Person: jesus Christ! Now not only peace but also grace - the gift meting our greatest need for love coming to us inspite of our undeservingness (if that is even a word) as a matter of fact also because of our lostness! Who is this Jesus Christ?

today in America people celebrate a forgotten, even rare attitude of life:thanksgiving. truth is that i am deeply thankful to the Master from Nazareth, to the Incarnate God for the life of today and for the grace enabling everything around and inside me! evertheless i have to say that i have found myself to fit dostoevsky's description of man "if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. in fact i believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped" - shamed... really, the more so as i am a follower of the Master. So easy to forget and focus on the trivial pursuits of worries and roads that lead nowhere. My sense of ownership and leadership over my own life does betray me times and again as i turn ungrateful, bitter and complaining. I forget that I have a Master which means i truly do not own nor can lead anything. As such everthing in life, whether acknoledged by me or not, everything does belong to HIm. Add to that the truth that He is the only Good One! The only Good One who gives good gifts from the patience of a grace which gives yet another rain over the undeserving to that grace that shatters all other widows to the world, the grace of the sacrificed Self for me and you, out there!

gratitude is becoming the only mode of living - I praise Jesus CHrist, the Master Man and Divine King for breath and bread, for adoption and acceptance, for presence and promise...