For God is in my Heart by Sallu Mac

Dear friends in Christ Jesus,
It is the experience of My friend who I think is the real christian,living as a true christian. It happened in his work place.He used to begin his day by keeping the picture of Jesus on the top of his computer.It was noticed by many people of his company.His boss was a RSS Hindu & he did not like christians for some personal reason.There were Hindus who did the same thing (placing picture of their God) before they began their work.One day his Boss came to him & told him that you are not allowed to keep the picture of your God in your work place.He was really upset & in heart he prayed for his Boss,that God may touch his heart.He was allowing any other God's picture to be in his office but not of Jesus.One day his boss came to him meet him and he saw the picture of Jesus & he took it and through it out.But he bent down & took the picture & told his Boss " DEAR SIR,I WILL NOT KEEP THE PICTURE HERE FROM TODAY& IT IS NOT NECESSARY FOR ME TO KEEP THE PICTURE HERE,FOR MY GOD IS IN MY HEART & YOU CAN NEVER DESTROY IT"
His boss was moved by his words and the calmness.He changed his attitude towards christanity and began to learn more about Christ. It was a situation where the appropriate words & calmness changed a person's whole attitude.I asked my friend what made you say that & how did you get the courage & calmness.He told me that it was the strength of going for daily HolyMass & reading books on saints.This remainted me about the fameous incident in Mother Teresa's life." when she went to ask money to a rich man,he spat in to her hands,but she willingly received that & showed the other hand & told him this is enough for me but give me something for my children" I believe this is the real life we are called to be..............are we able to do this.....If not where we lack..............the strength is missing?.....this experience of my friend turned my life.......to go to church every day........& made me raed more books on saints & their lives.........Should we all need a push to do it........or.......?.Are we committed to the Lord........Think for a while....... if this helped me it will help some one for sure.
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Grace through the passion of my lord by sallu mac

Dear Friends in the Lord,
I was reading many books on the passion of Our Lord & He blessed me & gave me the grace to really feel with the sufferings He had obediently undergone.And one which touched me was..... It is related in the annals of Clairvaux that St.Bernard asked our Lord which was His greatest uncovered suffering and Our Lord answered:" I HAD ON MY SHOULDER,WHILE I BORE MY CROSS ON THE WAY OF SORROWS. a grievous wound,which was more painful than the others and which is not recorded by people. I really want all of u to just feel with the Lord, when you see this mail,..........just imagine!.......you carrying something in your shoulder...........the pain......... how much can we bear.........wasn't His above our's..............What do you feel.............do you really, really love Him ...........for His sufferings?..... just tell the Lord with your all your heart,mind &soul............LORD,I LOVE YOU LORD ........WHAT A STRUGGLE YOU DID TO SAVE ME....... NB:If anyone has missed any "way of the cross" up to no now make a promise to do it with real feeling & ask Him to have mercy on whole world. "Lord wants us to be faithfulful in simple things in a simple way".
Salesh.Chacko. Mumbai.
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Trust in the Lord.....its all in the FAITH! by Rateep Jose

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ!
It is faith ,that is all you need.....and you have everything! Let me quote you a small incident that happend to me today evening..... Like most of us,being the season of lent,myself and stephen try and make it for the Holy Mass everyday. We usually go to the St. Josephs Church(which is closer to Technopark) at 5:30 or the Assisi Church(which is a little more farther) at 5:45. Anyways, That day Stephen informed me that the St Joseph Church had the Holy Mass in the morning and so there would be no mass in the evening,so we planned to go to Assisi Church. Since Assisi church is a little farther than St Josephs Church,we would have to leave from Technopark at 5:35 to make it there at sharp 5:45 in a nomial speed of 40-50km/h. My timing in my workplace winds up at 5:30 but at that time i was in a discussion with my Project Lead(PL). The talk had gone for about 10 mins. After that i was just rushing out to meet Stephen who was apparently waiting for me near his office. It so happend that Stephen's PL had seen him and enquired why he was waiting outside. Being in a tight project and with time constraints and also not seeing me there he left for his workplace. By the time i got there it was 5:45(and he wasnt there....obviously). When i called him up ,he said his PL is with him so he has no chances of making it to church. Seeing that i was already late ,a thought ran over my head "should i go or get back to my workplace?wouldnt i be late before the Gospel reading".....but dunno,something told me that i will be there in time.....and there i left speeding on my bike. Speed went over 70km/h and the next thing i know was passing by a place where there was checking going on by the Highway Police. Even before they could show me their hand was i had passed by them.I am pretty sure thay had noted me .Definitely i was speeding and would have ended up with a fine!..... Anyway I reached the Church.....boy was i late!.....the Gospel reading was going on....I just closed my eyes and pondered on what the Father was reading.....since i had missed the first little part of the reading, i just said to the Lord "God.....i really wanted to hear the part of the reading that i had missed(Funny though deep down i knew that was impossible)..... Being a weekday mass the Gospel readings are not explained by the Priest.....and there!!!!! the next thing i knew he was giving his thought abt that reading.....the whole reading(can u imagine that!!!!...it never has happend before!!).....I was Elated!!!!! It was like an instantenous response from God!....hehehe..... Soon after the mass was over,i left for my workplace,i had to get a lot of things done with...there was loads of documentation to be completed by this weekend. And on top of all that, a rehersal for a western group song for the Tech-a-break(Technopark cultural fest) was scheduled at 6:00 that day.....the time already being half past 6 , i again raced my bike off to the workplace......and There i meet the same Highway police who had noted me on my way to church!......two police again noted me and from far signalled me to pull over!one of the constables obviously sneering which seemed to me like "u wont get away this time"..... boy!!! was i in trouble! Put it this way to you,the Officer in charge was in a pretty bad mood!...he was having an altercation with one of the drivers who had pulled over..... My luck seemed running over,i had oversped twice and worse..... i had forgot to get my papers(insurance papers).....yeah!....big trouble.....all i knew i did be loosing atleast 500 bucks.....to make matters worse,i didnt take my wallet that day!.....sob!....that would mean that i would have to WALK back home and collect the bike from the police station the next day..... One thing just went over me when i was there waiting for my turn......i said to the Lord.....Lord i took all that pain to reach here to see u ....to recieve u.....HELP ME! Being te hnext personin the queue,the officer called me and he asked for the papers....BINGO....i didnt have em......so i told him that i had forgotten to get the papers.....and u know what!!!!....he said : u can go!!!!! Shocked !!!yeah i was shocked!!!!so were the other drivers waiting in the queue!!!!everyone there was clueless,some had a look at me as though i was some very influential person or something!!!!!..... God delivered me! Call up the lord!..... yeah i am reminded abt the song: I will call upon the Lord, Who is worthy to be praised, So shall i be saved from my enemies, I will call upon the Lord Faith!!!!.....u have the Faith that God will deliver u.....even the mountains would move!!!!........ God Bless...... rateep"Falling down does not make you a failure,but staying down does"
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