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A chassid once asked Rebbe Elimelech, "How is it possible to bless God for bad news with equal fervor as for good news?" "Go to the study hall"replied the Rebbe" and ask your questions to my brother, the saintly Reb Zusia". When the chasid saw Reb Zusia, he could easily discern the suffering this man must have experienced during his life time. The pain of illness, tsuris and poverty were all etched indelibly on his face. The chassid then asked Reb Zusia," How is it possible to bless God for bad news with equal fervor as for good news?" Reb Zusia replied "but why are you asking me? How would I know the answer? Nothing bad has ever happened to me"
My students here on Kenya are graduating this next Saturday, prayers please, after a month intake rehab program they going home, a lot of them are going to home with out job, their wives still drink(some of them) so please pray for them!!!! Here you can see pictures of us. Thank you and God bless. http://alejandrocervantes.blogspot.com/
Hi everyone, hope everyone here is having a great day if not prayers are in your way in every meeting in the whole world are praying for you, for the addict that still suffers.
For those who know me I need prayers for the guys in the recovery center, we have 15 recovering alcoholics, God is doing wonders, my access to the net is very limited, we have satelite internet slower than dial up, thas why I haven't aswered some of your kinds comments, any way kenya is great kenyas have a wonderful heart, since the moment I arrived nothing but good thins have happened, know we are praying for you here in the group, and lots of love to all my friends here. is easy for me if we keep contact by email so a_cervantess@msn.com, SS, JJ and Shannon love you guys
If he get his will, I am afraid that I should not get mine, if the God who I'm so found to speak and love, I cannot trust, I know for a fact that my recovery will fail. Somebody ask me if I can define God, 1st I have to know what a definition means To define,is simply to bound, to separate, or distinguish; so that the thing defined may be discriminated from all other things. This may be done by stating its characteristics and his specific difference, by explaining the idea as it lies in our minds, and by explaining the term which is denoted. When we say we can define God, all that is meant is, that we can analyze the idea of God as it lies in our mind. NO, I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT THE GOD OF MY UNDESTANDIG, I am NOT talking about making a god out of my mind, but the characteristics of God that my mind can understand. He is distinguished from all other beings. Is the simples definition. Hence God is perfect, (no other being like him), Him as a being, not an idea, but as that which has real, objective existence; and absolute perfection distinguishes Him from all other beings. Which take us to the Westminster Statement of faith, I don't what to loose you here, give it a chance, God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, and it what sense, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth. What is meant by the words “being,†and “perfections,†or “attributes†of God? By being I meant that which has a real, substantive existence. It is equivalent to substance, or essence. It is opposed to what is merely thought, and to a mere force or power. I know what you thinking, what about antimatter, well antimatter, is not infinite, another characteristic of God. When, therefore, we say there is a God, we do not assert merely that there is in our minds the idea of an infinite Spirit; but that, entirely independent of our idea of Him, such a Being really exists. (remember, I am not trying to prove the existence of God, but just a definition of him, and NO that not apply to Pantheism, that affirms that the subjective alone is real, hence not being but the being) Now to the attributes of God, in attempting to explain the relation in which the attributes of God stand to his essence and to each other, there are two extremes to be avoided. First, we must not represent God as a composite being, composed of different elements; and, secondly, we must not confound the attributes, making them all mean the same thing, which is equivalent to denying them all together. It will take me a lot of time to define each one of this: infinity, eternity, immutability, knowledge, justice, goodness, truth and sovereignty his will and his power. I know when me and her sit to discuss this matter over coffee, I can hear her saying “God is Love, and thats all I need to know, that's the God of my understandingâ€, How, how can you understand a God, if you don't look for him, or you only want to see what you want to see or don't. I think getting to know this being with such marvelous characteristics, it will be a good investment of time. For more you can look for the work of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Charles Hodge, the Westminster confession of faith. Thanks for letting me share
Today was an awesome day, I had a conversation with a friend of mine entirely in Swahili, the conversation was about an hour long, my Kenyan friend told me that he could understood must of the conversation, I am proud for several reasons, I started learning Swahili over a year ago, and it's kind of easy because is in some way is similar to Spanish my first language, the other reason was the topic, it wasn't an easy topic, it was about recovery and systematic theology, so I had some problems with some words but for the must part I think was OK. I feel ready for my trip, it's been over 18 month of preparation for a two month trip to Kenya, but I'm exited, the purpose of my trip is to encourage a program for recovery alcoholics on rural Kenya, we are going to work with brewers, with the intake program, with homeless, and churches to create a healthy environment for the graduates of the program. Mzungu is how they call white people, not in a racist way, but the color of my skin is light brown, so I guess they will call me kikahawia kikavu, dang that's easy!. Can't wait to land in African soil, and if that wasn't good enough I was invited to bring the same program to Russia on December, unfortunately I had to decline but just the invitation is a great honor. I feel good about the changes in my life, I feel close to God, all the glory to Him, love you papa, and thanks.
Today it’s a great day, I was given the gift of life, and I am able to enjoy it, I didn’t used today, I got a roof over my head, food on the fridge, I am healthy, and ready to take a nap.
Wow!!! I am so lucky.
I realize I didn't had a effective role model for loving relationships. I have had to make it all up, created a fantasy about how relationships must look like, a sick blend of my imagination, of what I saw at a distance, TV or movies. The reference of my parents, and how they interacted with each other, it's not what u can say a healthy role model. I read that ACA, we assume that the bad times are transitory, and the good one permanent. Talking about not being realistic. Funny that I had to look for a definition of friendship, and what is healthy, based in a number of things, mutual trust and honesty, in the ability to communicate openly. It's based on a sense of understanding and being understood. Why all this, well I care for somebody, and and I feel like “ I like you, now go awayâ€, she understands the concept of recovery, and I feel very close to her. My sponsor mention sometimes we repeat the behavior we learned as child, a parent told you that you were loved, he or she was so often so absorbed with worry, and so irritable that you rarely felt loved. There was no consistency. This is how I see love, the only consistency I knew was inconsistency. Even though she is involved in recovery, this is hard... it's paradoxical that a healthy relationship frees me to be myself and yet I don't know who I am. I don't want to be carried emotionally through life. I like her, and it would be nice to have a good and healthy relationship.
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