Are God the father and Jesus one?

If some one tells me again and again that Christ is not God. That we "Christians" made the mistake to put Christ in the place of God and that is dangerous. What will I do?

Ponder and Pray and fast to try and make that some one see that I DO have the true.

But one day among all the other scriptures this one pops up just for me 1 John 1:7

 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

So if we walk in the light, as he is in the light.... Who is the light here? God is the light and who walks in the light? Jesus walks in the light, right? But, wait a second... didn't Jesus say he was the light?
Then if God is the light and Christ is the light, are my believes still wrong?

I love going to the full chapter and reading all the details that bring me down to this light.

1 John 1

1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched —this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. ² The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. ³ We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. ⁴ We write this to make our^[a] joy complete.

The book of Genesis tells us how God created everything, by the sound of his voice and a simple command, LET THERE BE...  however it doesn't mentions any one else there next to God, or behind him or bellow him.  The book of John tells us that in the beginning there was the word and that the word was with God and that the word IS God. And that which was from the beginning, which we have heard and seen with our eyes (says John who has seen Christ and heard him)... and they heard HIM Christ who was in the beginning and through him all things were made...

But still some one might, AND WILL, tell me that Christ is just a great prophet of God or an Angel or just representing the father in earth.  The spirit is not as the things we see, things we see can only be one thing or the other, can only be in one place or move to another, God the father, Son and Holly Spirit  don't operate in the LIMITED way our human nature works.

For me having The father AND the Son AND the Holly Spirit in my heart gives ME complete joy.

The Spiritual Wars ((against my faith))

I will be posting some scriptures that confirm to me that my believes are correct, just in case I forget them I'll have place of reference.


If some one came to me telling me that I need to follow all my the jew laws which goes against my believes, what would I do? 
And if that some one assures me that Christ is no one with God the father, what will I do?
I will pray and ask the Holly Spirit to guide me and this is what he will whisper to me "REDEMPTION"

When I search the word redemption at www.biblegateway.com my search will bring up this FIRST scripture Romans 3:24, which tell me that which if I try to search again won't be the first one. ((because that message was for me on that day)).

If I look to the next link what will I find? Isaiah 41:14 which tells me that the father is the redeemer.

So Christ came to REDEEM us and God in the old testament is the redeemer. Does that tell you that the father and the son are one? perhaps the same?

Not enough for some... more than enough for me.

Nick Hotel LOVE. A trip for the kids.

 We stayed at the nick hotel for two nights, another quick trip close to home.

But they kids LOVED it! they are still talking about it. We didn't expect much of it but it was actually quite nice, our room had two bedrooms, one bathroom and a kitchen/dinning/living room combination with a sleeper sofa. It fitted our needs perfectly.

The kids *mostly Angie* were specially happy about having their big brother Eddie come with us. He rode in his new bike from Miami to be with us for a couple of days.

Our first night we went our for dinner at the Rain Forest cafe. The food was delicious and quite pricey too.

Never the less it was nice treat for the family and we are glad to be blessed with such treat :) Thank you Lord!

 Handsome Gabriel. Gladly mom as nut as ever took some rain jackets for the kids, what do you know? it rain the whole night and the jackets came in very handy.

 

My nursing cover was a life saver! Daniel (2 years old) was too afraid of the Gorillas next to us, when I pull it our to breastfeed baby, who is in my matching AngelPack, he immediately hided under the cover too, he eventually fell a sleep on the booster chair and I found a way to make his head comfy with his fluffy Baby Star blanket. 

 

Here is daddy and baby after his long nap on daddy's chest.

What can I say, it was a really nice 3 days of fun and sharing. I was really nice that we went after school started again because the hotel wasn't crowded that way and we got to enjoy it more.

Making memories. Beach days.

While most kids started school on this day, we were blessed with a quick trip to the beach.

We took a not so short ride to Anna Maria Island and stayed there for a night. The kids loved the sand more than anything else. They loved the water too, but only if some one was holding on to them. The waves were a bit strong for us I guess. Never the less we really enjoyed our trip and love to do it again.

I enjoyed this beach a lot, I specially liked that it wasn't crowded and we didn't see much if any indecent exposure or show of affection. For me that is plus!

Here we are all ready to go out for dinner. I learned that tops will not look the same on empty breasts as they will on extremely full ones. the babies weren't eating much in the day, so I was looking like I just got a new set of implants. I didn't noticed that until I saw most of my pictures :(

This little guy was so cute and he even ate his first food, SAND! yep we found out he likes sand and had to keep a watchful eye on him to keep him from feasting on it.

My lovely Angie took this picture. Thank you mami!

I only wish we could have stayed longer, but we had to be back to feed our dogs the next day.

We hope to find a place that will let us bring them for our next trip.

Success at the restaurant today!

Around 5:00 pm I decided I rather take the kids out to eat and have a little family dinner date, it took about two hours to be ready but we managed getting us all out of the house at once. Went for Italian, at the restaurant we decided to go for a pizza, it was very good! Daniel (2) was quite calm, that is a rare case, I think the delicious toasted bread helped keep him in his booster seat quietly.
Baby Jeremiah was another story, he had fallen asleep at my breast before we left so he was determined to eat before we did, lol!  I managed to keep him calm until after I ate one slice of pizza after that there was no stopping him.
I realised I forgot my nursing cover at home, so I went into a small seating area to feed him, I had a high neck top so you could really see my breast if you walked by. After he nursed he was back to a happy baby and the kids and dad were almost done with dessert. wah! I managed to have a piece of a cannoli!

Angelica (7) and Gabriel (5) were very quiet and well seated. I think this was a very rewarding day! just being able to eat at a restaurant with four kids two of them being babies, feels like an acomplishment!

After that we hit target for some more school sales!

Thank you Lord for this wonderful day!

Today was wonderful!

We took our morning walk, without daddy this time, and so we had time to enjoy the trail.
We noticed the wild flowers and the magnolia trees full of flowers.
We saw a huge ant pile and a bunch of funny crazy ants that move really fast all over the place.
We saw a dead squirrel and armadillo that has been there for the last week.
We saw a peanut shell and we all stopped to take a closer look.
We saw the garbage truck and the recycling truck and a FedEx truck too.
We made it home took our showers ate breakfast and went on to school.

At school we started to use the drop box system again and we finished absolutely all of our work, hurray!

Today we harvest some goods from our garden and ate it for dinner.
We had zucchini, snow peas and green beans.
Daddy prepared them in a delicious way.

Today the kids went to bed on time and they didn’t fuss about it.
Not fussing about going to bed is a big deal around here.
Mom only had to read one book and give one massage so far.


And hoping that tomorrow school goes as well as today, this mommy is on her way to prepare each of the workbox.

Two hours later.

4:22 am
It's been two hours since the contractions started. I was able to take a 20-30 minutes nap, I think, and now I'm back to strong contractions.
I'm concentrating on seeing my baby drop down and my body opening up to receive him.

Trusting in the Lord that he will let this flow as his love flows through me.

This is the real deal.

Sunday 2:30 am.
Contractions keep coming. There is no way back now.
I'm trying to keep relax listening to some faith full messages online. I get stronger when I hear the word of God and I need to get stronger because I haven't done much metal preparation for this birth.
I'm so sleepy! yet I can't settle down and rest.

Oh Baby!

I'm still waiting for this baby, two days past his due date, which is nothing compared to my last two boys.
Tonight I have been feeling contractions come and go with no set pattern, yet more consistent than before, I lost my mucus plug last night and some more? tonight, still I will know is the real deal when the contractions actually move to my back... and I will be very surprised if this baby comes with no less than a week's delay, lol!

I can't wait to hold you in my arms my little one.

A new baby on the way!

Baby Jacob, or Jesus, or Emmanuel, or.... yeah we haven't even decided the name yet and we are already up on our due date.
Last night, or a few hours ago, I lost the mucus plug which should me that baby will be coming very soon, but because of my history with my boys I'm not holding my breath.
I still have much to do and do honestly wish for some extra time to get things done, but if is today I guess I'm manage without the perfectly organized house.

Waiting for you my little Angel.

Que no le has entregado al Senor.

Si no experimentas el poder de Dios en tu vida, examina donde NO estas cumpliendo con su volundad. El lo abarcarlo Todo y en perfecta union con El no falta NADA.

Cuando la tristeza o el dolor, el desempleo y las carencias diarias llegen a ti, a de ser el momento de examinar que es lo que no le has entregado al Senor y entregarselo a El, moverte dia con dia a una union mas profunda con el siguiendo sus ensenansa y cumpliendo con la voluntad de Dios. Solo asi podras vivir una vida al MAXIMO sin dolores ni tristesas porque podras vivir en plena confianza y union con El y al tenerlo a El nada falta, porque solo Dios vasta.

Dios te bendiga.

My new year resolution*** (Edited)

To please God with mind, body and soul.

Find 100 ways for a woman to be delight in God's presence.

1- By keeping him in my thoughts through the day.
2- Seeing him in my children.
3- Seeing him in my husband.
4- Thinking twice about my outfit before leaving the house. (So that I keep my body as his temple and not be the reason for temptation and luster to others)
5- To talk about him with my family everyday.
6- Take a momment everyday to talk with God in prayer exclusivily.
7- Help anyone God puts in our way to help.
8- Read his Holly Book.
9- Lead my family by example.
10-Be thankfull for the things he is doing that I don't know about.
11- Be patient in waiting to fruit
12- Fasting.

Thanksgiving message from Our Lady.

Message of November 25, 2009

On the 25th of every month, Our Lady gives the Medjugorje visionary Marija a message for the world.

This is today's message:

"Dear children! In this time of grace I call you all to renew prayer in your families. Prepare yourselves with joy for the coming of Jesus. Little children, may your hearts be pure and pleasing, so that love and warmth may flow through you into every heart that is far from His love. Little children, be my extended hands, hands of love for all those who have become lost, who have no more faith and hope. Thank you for having responded to my call."

Let's Lend a helping Hand!
Charito's Fund * Helping the ones in Need

Hello friends!

Today I want to post about a friend. A mother, a friend a servant of God, a widow.

Her name is Charito. Charito was left as a widow with two kids named Devin and Marneri, and no home in March of 2005. The only thing her husband was able to leave her was a little piece of land. She lives in the Dominican Republic where I grew up. The family has been staying in a house that was loaned to them for a definite amount of time. This time has passed and they haven't been able to finish their little home yet.
Charito has been told that she has to leave the borrowed house by January.

Since my earliest memories I can remember Charito. She is a great friend to many. I remember when I was very little she would work with her mother washing clothes. They both worked very hard to pay for the food for their big family of 7 girls (one of them adopted by the family) and a boy.
Charito has been a hard worker all her life. Later on when her mom was too sick and there was no work for her dad in the small town, she took on all the work all by herself to keep feeding her family. As they grew bigger and some of the sisters left the house Charito was able to work to put her younger sister through medical school (which really doesnt pay much in our country). Every day she continues to work hard to keep her two kids healthy and fed.

Devin & Marneri are the greatest kids. They both understand when mom can't afford to buy ice cream from the guy selling on the streets, much less new toys. They are very close and take care of each other and love sharing. Devin is quite the big brother, he can take an hour trip holding half of that bag of cheetos to take it home to his sister.

Below are some pictures of the project I want to ask for your help for. It is a construction project. As you can see by the pictures it is a very modest home. It is small, two rooms, one bathroom a kitchen and living-dining room combination. She was about to just build a little shack but many friends in the community offered to volunteer their time to help build her house. Someone gave her a gift of 1000 blocks, but the rest has been hard earned by this widow mom and borrowed to be paid back with interest.

She is in desperate need of the remaining materials to complete her project before she loses her temporary housing. I can think of no other person more deserving of a helping hand. She has spent her life pouring herself out for other people. Please help me bless her by sending a donation. Every penny will go straight into the cost of the materials required to complete this project.

Follow the link bellow and enter the ammount you want to donate, we will send the donations to Charito and her family.

Let's Lend a helping Hand!

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless and
a judge for the widows, Is God
in His holy habitation.


If you have come to this page, please read through this entry. Please!


Charito's Fund * Helping the ones in Need


Today I want to post about a friend, a mother, a server of God, a widow.
Her name is Charito, she is a mother of two children, a boy and a girl, Devin and Marneri. Charito's husband passed away in the year 2005, he left her and her two children without a house to make their home, the only thing they had was a piece of land in the remote little town they live in.


Because they don't own a home and can't afford to rent one, they have been leaving at a house that they have been maintaining for the owners who live outside the country. However this year Charito has been told that her family has to leave the house as soon as possible. This is a big boarder on this mother who works every day to make enough to get by with food and clothes.
Some people in the community are trying to help her build their little home.

The kids have been helping too. Devin got a little sick because he insisted in helping with the hard work of carrying dirt out of the lot, Marneri helped mom bring cold water to the workers.

Even though there have been volunteers and donors helping out there is still a lot to do to see the house finish and they have run out of funds, they had a person donate some blocks and some of the workers are working for free too.



The house is very modest, small, two rooms, one bathroom a kitchen and living-dining room combination, she was about to just build a little shack but many friends in the community offer to help and lend a helping hand.




Know Charito:


Ever since I have memory I can remember her, she is a great friend to many. A hard worker from her childhood, I remember her washing clothes since very little with her mom, both working hard to pay for the food for their big family 7 girls (one of them adopted) and a boy.

Charito has been a hard worker all her life, later on when her mom was too sick and there was no work for her dad in the small town, she took on the work all by herself all to keep feeding her brother and sisters. She has always done this and always has a watchfully eye for those in need with the little she can help.
Day by day she works hard to keep her two kids healthy and fed. You can find her visiting the sick or those in pain for the lost of a love one, you can find her in church with her two kids by her side.

Her kids:

Devin & Marneri.

These are the greatest kids, they both understand when mom can't afford to buy ice cream from the guy selling on the streets. They are very close and take care of each other and love sharing. Devin is quite the big brother, he can take an hour trip holding half of that bag of Cheetos to take it home to his sister.

Devin suffers from asthmas his father did. Marneri is just a sweet yet strong girl. They both go to the local public school and are on the top of the class.

If you have gotten to this point please, if you have any way to help make sure you do, God will recompense you tremendously.

I'm an honest Catholic Christian, I trust in God with all my heart that he will use you as the help to this family to supply their needs.

You can email me, if you need to talk to make sure this is not a lie we can talk, if you have any thing $10, $5 or what ever God puts in your heart please click the paypal button and make a donation.

If you can't donate anything please send the link to your friends, post it your blog, I would love to be able to make this happen for them for this Christmas gift... Won't you help me?!

I will be making some goods to sell and gather funds for this cause too, please keep a check on my etsy shop

Follow the link bellow and enter the ammount you want to donate, I will send the donations to Charito and her family.

Happy NOT Halloween Day celebration.

I have never been interested in Halloween. Growing up in the Dominican Republic this was not a tradition we had, instead we had the mass celebration on the day after halloween "Dia de los muertos" or "Dia de los Santos" <== My mother was born this day!


This year after hearing so many reasons to N.ot celebrate Halloween, I exposed my find to my daughter, I also told her that she could celebrate if she wanted to, but I was not going to dress up and participate. She wasn't convinced at first, but then we did some research on the net about the origins of Halloween and she was convinced she didn't want to do it anymore. <== or at least for now.
So we had a family dinner and a yummy cake after.

We made rules like every one needed to help someone, every one needed to say grace individually and Angie came up with a funny song about it.

What I liked the most is being able to share this information and letting her think it over and decide.
I love being honest about the truth... we did the Santa talk too. I never wanted to even mention it in our family, but my husband thought it was something very important. This year she had been asking and asking "Is Santa Real?" I could not say yes or no, because I don't want to brake her heart or lie, I gave my husband the task of talking it over with her, since he was the one to introduce the Santa man to her little life, my husband kept putting it off and not giving me a straight answer of weather I should answer to her question or not...
Well On night she asked me about it and I just couldn't put it off anymore, we had a big talk about it, she was sad! very sad! She felt terrible that we had lied to her, she felt bad that her older friends knew about this and she didn't and she acted like a full affirming them they were wrong.

I felt horrible for letting us get to this point. It's very important to me too honest with my children and teach them to do the same. I do feel relief that at least now we all know the truth. This year they know that the gifts are coming from mommy and daddy! And that's a big deal to me.

Daniel's Birth.

<=== Just born. Little Daniel was born at H.ome on August the 16th (14 days late!) he was 10.04 pounds. Born in me and my dear husband's lap.

It's been almost three months since my last post and the birth of Daniel, I have almost forgotten the intense feelings of that night, I can remember them but from a painless place lol!

I remember that Saturday August 15th, I had just one more day to have him, he was already 2 weeks and 2 days late!!! and on Monday I would have to go see the dr. at the hospital, I wasn't happy about that because I wanted my home birth for so long. It took me some time, energy and watching "the business of being born" to make my husband agree to the home birth. I'm so glad!

***I always knew I didn't want another hospital birth. With my first I went in with all my hopes of a natural non invasive birth and that did not happen, everything started with one simple drug to lower my "high blood pressure" and ended in epidural. With my second we had a home center birth, all though I wanted to have a home birth my husband didn't feel safe with it and so we did a birthing center, while it topped the experience at the hospital by L.ike a M.illion I wasn't able to relax and O.wen the birth like I did at home.***

Our home birth: It was an empowering and wonderful experience, I feel stronger after this baby :).
At around 1:00 am I got up to go P.otty and I felt a discharge (something pinkish) right then I knew this was the time. I didn't go back to bed (wish I did lol) instead I decided to pick up the house a bit, I organize around the house and swept the floors (we have to do this a few times a day) and organized the kitchen.
When I was done picking up I came to my room to hear some nice christian music, my computer won't let me hear radiopaz anymore (boohoo) so I went to another spanish radio station (I think radio clamor) ahhhhh it was beautiful I sat on the floor stretching my legs and while I sat on my Buddha position I prayed and praised the lord for a while, a couple of hours I would think.

By 4:00 am (guestimate time) I started to get reall strong contraction so I woke my husband up to make me company. He got up and set everything up for the home birth while helping me go through the contractions. I L.O.V.E this man!

Another hour passed and around 5:00 am I asked him to call the Mary Ann, our midwife. By this time this was getting very intense. My husband wanted to go get some groceries at Wal-Mart (non organic!) but you know at that point I didn't care to not be prepare with snacks. We had some healthy bars and gatorade juice so that's what we put on the table for snacks.

I did some stretches on my birth ball and on the floor and walk around and on and on lol! Then I just naturally felt like hiding in our room. My husband had set up his massage table to keep massaging my back in the living room and I was totally opposed to staying there, he insisted and I hided in our room lol!
I was so in tune with my body! I found a comfortable place to pass the contractions in front of our dresser where I could bend my back easy, this worked for some time.

At 6:00 am our midwife got here and by this time I was so R.E.A.D.Y for this baby! My contractions were so strong! I lost everything I was wearing! And I didn't care! Mary Ann was wonderful she moved everything and got our room ready for birthing all around taking care of my needs (which I didn't know I had lol) keeping my hydrated and comfortable, turning down the lights etc.

Now an hour or two of these intense laboring pain Oh that can be a big thing, by 7:00am I just couldn't take it anymore, there was no place, no position I could change to that could make this pain disappear, NOTHING was working anymore! I remember I exclaimed "Nothing Works Anymore" to which my midwife calmly replied "You know, that means we are almost there" this was all I needed to hear at that moment! I was ready to take it to the next step. She sent me to the toilet to empty my blather, which BTW I had been doing all morning long but I seem to have forgotten how important this was to relieve the pain... well my body just shot that! I couldn't empty my blather until around noon time that day!

I'll tell you that with all this pain, I totally had forgotten my moments of prayer and praise at the early stage of labor... and while I was feeling terribly uncomfortable seating at the toile I just remember My L.ord, I repeated Jesus names a few times and remember how he D.oes answers my prayers, then I asked him to let the birth happen N.O.W and I didn't demand it lol!

At this time I felt the urge to go into the shower and with him giving me the strength I went to the shower, which did make my pains bearable. While in the shower I felt the need to push and I pushed a little, but then my body got tired of the shower so I got out to go to bed and get a comfortable position. By the time I took those 8-10steps to bed I was already getting another S.trong contraction I got on bed on my hands and knees and just then my water broke! ( I had N.E.V.E.R experience this before) It was a happy moment for me, I was admired that I got to see how that happens this time and I already know that after this The Baby was C.oming!

After my water broke at 8:00 am I had to get up, so I did I was going to do my dresser dance again (lol) but that wasn't doing it for me, to all this my husband has been walking around behind me to massage my back and relieve some pressure... and right then between our dresser and our bed, I asked him to seat on the bed so I could lean on him and he could massage my back, he did... it felt good and the contractions were Strong, I felt the need to seat on his lap facing him and I did, while I was on his lap (his legs open) I felt a H.uge urge to push. I gave it all my might! I pushed a long strong push and Daniel's head was out. Mary Ann let us know that the baby's head was out! With the next push he was almost all out and by the third he was Born! our beautiful Daniel was born between both of us, I got up and grabbed the baby, and then I went to bed and laid down with my boy on me while they tended to me.

I tried to breastfeed Daniel before the cord was cut, but apparently he was too full! He poop tons right at birth and much more trough the day. Daddy cut the cord after the placenta was out and got to examine the placenta after. During all this time after the baby was born a wonderful thing that doesn't happen at hospitals was going on on our bed, we were all sharing the bed for the first time, my kids came to see the new baby and my husband was right by my side too.


A funny thing: Our three years old Gabriel recorder a couple of swift videos of Daniel while being born. (My 5 years old daughter hided in the other room)


If I had to do it all again, I wouldn't change a thing. I feel blessed to have experience birth to the fullest and I'm glad to have had my wonderful husband helping me through it. I'm most grateful that God was with me the whole time and when I accepted that fact the baby was born.

Crazy fact: I was fantasizing ('cause that's what pregnant women do) about having a birth during a rainy day, early in the day. This was the exact thing that happened that day and you know what? I couldn't care less for a day birth, or a night birth or rainy or sunny, in the end that was so N.oT important.

Stronger and Closer contractions.

Boy this is moving fast. I just finished sweeping the house and picking up some mess, out of all the days in the past month, we've picked this one to not do any picking up... I had to stop every couple of minutes to let a contraction pass while picking up. There still a big mess!! and groceries? forget it, yesterday I didn't feel like doing anything, so I guess DH will have to do it very early in the morning, wouldn't want to starve our midwife.

What do women normally do while laboring?

Me? I'm picking up a load of train tracks, trucks and trains... crawling on the floor to have this time pass while allowing my baby to make it's way down the birth canal.

I'm not calling my midwife so early! will wait until we are closer to delivering.

Thank you Lord for this day!!! :).

Starting to Labor?

I think I'm starting to go into labor. Finally! after two weeks and two days I'm ready to get started and see my little guy.
I woke up about 30 minutes ago, after thinking about getting up for a few minutes, I realised my body doesn't feel as painfull as normally when I wake up... I thanked God, I thought to myself, this might mean that we are doing this today!!
Got out of bed to empty my bladder and ect... I felt a lot of pressure on my lower abdomen and inside vagina, walked in an almost squating position because it was so uncomfortable... at this point I felt some discharge, a pinkish liquid.
I empty my bladder and got up to do some squating exercises, walked to dh and let him know... now with a new change of undies, I should get back to sleep to make sure I'm rested for active labor.