Japan needs your prayers

Another aftershock with 7.4m hit Japan.
The Japanese has so much things on their plate now.
Another leak has just occured.
My heart goes out to them.
I wish I can do more than praying.
What devastation they are in right now?!!
Please continue to pray and fast for Japan.
Japan needs your prayers!!

God bless you.
Arigato.

Continue to pray for Japan and the world

I have just heard from a friend that he is safe in Japan.
It is a joy to know he and his family is doing well but at the same time,
I am filled with sadness to know he and his entire country is still grieving and mourning.
News of devastation is everywhere and the Japanese still have a lot of problems.
Let us continue to pray for Japan.
May God send his angels to bring peace and joy to Japan.

If you turn on the news channel, you will see news of chaos, terror, protests everywhere from Libya to Ivory Coast.
People are hurting everywhere and more than ever, people need prayers.
Please pray for peace, not only in war-stricken countries but peace in our hearts.
If we do not have peace in our hearts, we will never have peace in the world.

I urge you to continue to pray
May God bless you and His peace be upon you.
Shalom!

Prayer for the Unborn Child

Almighty God, our Father,
you who have given us life
and intended us to have it forever,
grant us your blessings.
Enlighten our minds to an awareness
and to a renewed conviction
that all human life is sacred
because it is created
in your image and likeness.
Help us to teach by word
and the example of our lives
that life occupies the first place,
that human life is precious
because it is the gift of God
whose love is infinite.
Give us the strength to defend human life
against every influence
or action that threatens or weakens it,
as well as the strength
to make every life more human
in all its aspects.

Give us the grace...
When the sacredness of life
before birth is attacked,
to stand up and proclaim
that no one ever has the authority
to destroy unborn life.

When a child is described as a burden
or is looked upon only as a means
to satisfy an emotional need,
to stand up
and insist that every child is a unique
and unrepeatable gift of God,
a gift of God
with a right to a loving
and united family.

When the institution of marriage
is abandoned to human selfishness
or reduced to a temporary conditional arrangement
that can easily be terminated,
to stand up and affirm
the indissolubility of the marriage bond.

When the value of the family is threatened
because of social and economic pressure,
to stand up and reaffirm
that the family is necessary
not only for the private good of every person,
but also for the common good of every society,
nation and state.

When freedom is used to dominate the weak,
to squander natural resources and energy,
to deny basic necessities to people,
to stand up and affirm
the demands of justice and social love.

Almighty Father,
give us courage to proclaim the supreme dignity
of all human life and to demand
that society itself give its protection.
We ask this in your name,
through the redemptive act
of your Son and in the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

I found this beautiful prayer from the link below
http://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=1125

If you, yes you, whoever you are and if you're contemplating
An abortion, please don't do it. Every life is precious and no matter
What your reasons are, that child in your womb has been created by God to live
Please don't do it.
That child of yours has a soul.
He or she deserves to live.
God bless you.

Blessed Am I, 2 April 2011

My birthday has just passed..
2 April marked the day I was born into this world
It was probably one of my quietest birthday but at the same time,
It was one of my most special birthday.
Sr. Emmanuel was here in my hometown giving a talk/retreat and I was indeed very, very blessed with what I hear on my birthday.I have always wanted to meet her after being so enlightened by her books.
She's a great messenger :)
What a great gift to be touched by God's words through her on my special day.
2 April is also a special day as I remember a few who are born on this date esp St. Dominic Savio.
His life story inspired me so much especially his courage to stand up to the truth at such a young age.
He died at a tender age of 12.
2 April is also special to me as it is the memorial of St. Francis of Paola but more so because it was the death anniversary of Blessed Pope John Paul II..his love and charisma always touched me.
What a blessing to be able to share the same special day with so many others.
I thank God from the bottom of my heart for the blessings, wishes, gifts and kind thoughts from each and every person
Who remembered my beautiful day. I pray God will shower His blessings upon you all!!
Thank you for loving me and being there for me!!
Blessed am I for all of your blessings!
I love you and I thank you.

God bless ya.

A Message from Heaven

Latest Special Medjugorje Message, April 2, 2011  - Our Lady's apparitions to Mirjana⁠

“D⁠ear children; With motherly love I desire to open the heart of each of you and to teach you personal unity with The Father. To accept this, you must comprehend that you are important to God and that He is calling you individually. You must comprehend that your prayer is a conversion of a child with The Father; that love is the way by which you must set out - love for God and for your neighbour. That is, my children, the love that has no boundaries, that is the love that emanates from truth and goes to the end. Follow me, my children, so that also others, in recognizing the truth and love in you, may follow you. Thank you. ”





Once again Our Lady called us to pray for our shepherds and said: They have a special place in my heart. They represent my Son.



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Love the Children around you!!

I am waiting in the clinic for my mum's turn to do a follow up with a doctor.
There is nothing much to do so I picked up some mags to read and saw some inspiring interviews.
Here are some words of Lucy Liu that I want to post here.
It's about a very moving experience on her travels with UNICEF:

"I met this young girl who had been raped. Somebody shoved a gun in her vagina and basically tore up all of her insides. She was incontinent and her vaginal wall, urinary wall and intestines were all one unit and so she had no control over her faeces or urine. Because she was raped, she was ostracised from her village, and of course this was nothing that she did on her own. There's a surgery that you can get to try and fix the problem, but it's not something that you can get unless you are old enough because your organs and your body have to actually develop. So if you're five and you get raped, which is not unusual in a lot of countries, you have to wait until you're at least 17 or 18 to have the surgery. A lot of times children will starve to death because they don't want to eat so that they won't have to go to the bathroom. She was actually having her fifth surgery but the other four had been un successful."

"I really think children are such unique, wonderful gifts who we don't always have the opportunity to reach out to....I think if you can impact children at a very young age, you can connect all the dots....itks incredible how every culture is different, every language is obviously different, but universally they all need the same thing: love, attention, education, health - very basic things."

These words of Lucy LIu is ringing in my ears and I decided to pass it on through my blog. It's devastating what people can do to children and imagine the traumas they will have to carry all their life.
Children are truly gifts for the world and these are people who will be leading the next generation.
You don't have to go far to be a light to these children.
Look around you...
Perhaps your own kids, nieces, grandchildren..
Children of your neighbours, children of your local orphanage..
Reach out to them, take care of them, protect them and love them...
Who knows you might just be nurturing the next Abraham Lincoln or Mother Teresa?
Even the little you do will make a huge difference...
a small seed that you sow may grow into a big tree.
I will always remember the nun who read Joan of Arc's story to me when I was five or six.
Her story is embedded deep in my heart.

Love the children around you!

God bless you.

Appreciate the Moment

Listening to the chirpy tunes of Jack Johnson and drawing shapes and lines on an artwork for my friend, I am just enjoying the moment..
God truly blesses me with beautiful moments..
Today is one of those days that I'm truly relaxed and just contented..
There are many moments like this if you will appreciate it. We wake up to the sound of birds and passes by lushful greens or magnificient architecture but more often than not, we fail to see all this beauty.
We might fall tomorrow and never walk again or we might lose our eyes and never see again..
Like Jack Johnson says, "Never Know". True enough. We will never know of what's gonna happen next.
SO..appreciate this moment..
Ahhh...Angelina Bong wants to thank God for creating today.
I love you! God loves you!