God or men: Who to please?

We cannot please everybody, it's a fact. If some or most or all never believe what you do, what you say or anything about you and the destiny but instead often try to find an opportunity to have something to speak against you, don't bother yourselves trying to explain out to them. Your effort and time spent trying to break their rhetoric only wears you down, it's tiresome. If you have God Who sees your heart, is there a need to please men? None. But as they keep repeating the accusations they hurl at you and bringing up your past over and over again, know that, in actuality, you are glimpsing into their inner self, they are unknowingly speaking about themselves! Leave them behind but remember them in your prayers.

Divine defense - Seven

Reading 22 PT 1:16-19

Beloved:
We did not follow cleverly devised myths
when we made known to you
the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
but we had been eyewitnesses of his majesty.
For he received honor and glory from God the Father
when that unique declaration came to him from the majestic glory,
"This is my Son, my beloved, with whom I am well pleased."
We ourselves heard this voice come from heaven
while we were with him on the holy mountain.
Moreover, we possess the prophetic message that is altogether reliable.
You will do well to be attentive to it,
as to a lamp shining in a dark place,
until day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

source: usccb.org

Heart on the pavement

We know not what love is -- until Love Itself touches us.

When we realize we are loved, we begin the journey to share this Love that we, Its monstrance, are filled of.

But the road is not easy, the world is taught to hate what is lovely;

And question the motive behind those who try to love unconditionally.

We go on loving despite mockery and opposition.

It is full of thorns -- but thorns are part of loving.

Yet the fruits of love we begin to pick up, to love we never give up.

And the world will know the Love within us is but true.

Fallen in love

Leaf

loses grip,

falls on

the ground --

fallen

in love