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Category: March 2025

  • 9th March, 2025

    I can do all this through him, who gives me strength.

    Philippians 4:13

    God really gives incredible strength through faith and prayer. I’ve talked about my personal experiences with this when He gave me strength after a hard day at work to spend the rest of the day playing with my wife and daughter. You can find that here.

    When you think you’ve hit rock bottom, it can feel like there is no way out and that everything is hopeless; however, in those moments of despair, it’s essential to pause and ask God to guide you out, seeking His wisdom and strength. Trust that divine guidance can illuminate unexpected paths and provide you with the courage to rise above your struggles, reminding you that even in the darkest times you can find light through God.

  • 8th March, 2025

    You often can’t choose emotions, but you must control them.

    Some guy

    The title says it all. There is nothing wrong with feeling unavoidable emotions, even the bad ones like anger, sadness and fear, but those emotions have to be controlled. For example, being angry doesn’t mean you can punch someone.

    If you don’t control them, they will control you, or even worse, they will destroy you. Another thing is that you can blame your hormones for causing certain emotions, but you can’t blame them for a lack of control over them. Women quite often fall into this trap by blaming their cycle for their behavior. I understand why, it’s just what they’ve been taught, especially through movies and TV series. However, I believe that women should try to challenge that belief instilled into them through all those media.

    Likewise, men must control their aggressiveness(I’m not saying all men do it, I am saying they must do it) and can’t blame high testosterone levels for it. Imagine if it was normal for men to be aggressive and angry most of the time by just saying “Oh, it’s just his hormones”. It’s not normal and shouldn’t be.

    None of this is in any way negative speech about any of the two genders, just an appeal to both genders so that we can live in a healthier civilization.

  • 7th March, 2025

    I have fought a good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

    2 Timothy 4:7

    In his second epistle to Timothy, Paul the apostle is imprisoned and sad because many people have deserted him. He senses that he will soon die a martyr death. In the next verse, he says:

    Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day— and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

    He trusts in the righteousness of God’s judgment and forgiveness of his previous sins. As you probably know, Paul used to prosecute early Christians but later became the biggest apostle, probably the most responsible apostle for the early spread of Christianity.

    How nice would it be if we too could, in the face of death, say that we have fought a good fight, finished the race and kept our faith. What a peaceful way to die knowing you have served the Lord and are about to meet him.

  • 6th March, 2025

    Rosary is the scourge1 of the devil.

    Pope Adrian VI

    Personal story

    Recently my wife and I started learning the rosary prayer. We are decided to pray once a week with long term goal of eventually praying it every day. The night before last we got into bed and prepared to pray it together, when suddenly my wife became irritated with everything (myself included). She was uncomfortable and didn’t like anything I said, immediately raising her voice in anger.

    She was trying to relax before we start with prayer and I suggested that she should just start anyways and that will bring her peace. She raised her tone telling me to stop talking and that she needs to cool off. After letting her cool off for a couple of minutes I told her that it seems like the evil forces are trying really hard to stop us from praying the rosary. She then replied: “You know… that’s exactly what I’ve been thinking a moment ago, but no evil force will stop me from praying right now.”

    So we started, not a minute passed by and we almost started fighting, but we just continued praying. By the end we were okay and not at all mad at each other. We won this fight against the devil, but I’m sure he’ll try to strike again soon.

    Conclusion

    Seems like the devil really doesn’t like couples that relentlessly pray the rosary together. It must drive him mad not being able to touch us as we are grounded in our faith and prayer.

    Remember this: Couples that pray together, stay together!

    1. the scourge = to cause a lot of trouble or suffering for (someone or something) ↩︎

  • 5th March, 2025

    What children take from us, they give… We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply and love more deeply.

    Sonia Taitz

    My wife sent me this quote recently and I really liked it.

    Children mirror our behavior, how you behave today, your baby will behave tomorrow. That being said, the most effective way to instill certain values to your children is by practicing them yourself in front of your children, but also when they are not around because those values should be normal to you and a habit.

    One of my favorite examples for this from my life is when I go to church with my wife and daughter. Every time we enter a church my wife and I would dip our fingers into holy water and crossed ourselves saying “In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen.” It didn’t take long for my 2 year old daughter to catch on what we were doing, now every time we enter a church she immediately asks to dip her hand into holy water and then she crosses herself and she does it very loudly, everyone can hear her and she sparks a lot of smiles around her when she does it. That always makes me proud.

    So to wrap up, if you want your child to grow up and be kind to people, you must be kind to people. If you want your child to be able to recognize what love is so that he/she can choose a right partner, YOU must show your child how to love your partner. The child must witness love their parents have for each other, no amount of TALK about what true love looks like can replace you SHOWING them that every day. If you don’t want your child to swear, YOU must be the one that controls the words you speak, especially in anger, to control your anger and refrain from swearing and other bad words. We could go on and on with examples, but it’s not necessary.

    I hope that you will apply this to your life either now if you have kids or one day you get them. Have a lovely Wednesday and come back again some other day.