Advent-ure towards E-Life — Inn-terested?

Advent-ure towards

E-Life — Inn-terested?

by Ian Mascarenhas

   Got big plans for Christmas?  How about this preparation time of Advent?  Don’t let it race by.  It is the foundation for how we truly prepare ourselves to remember and  celebrate Jesus’ coming 2000+ years ago and into our lives each day.

   Jesus came that we might get reconnected for E-Life (eternal life, the bigger picture).  Make room for Jesus in your Advent days and your Christmas celebrations.  Any inn-terest in Jesus’ Presence?  There wasn’t any room at the inn for them; will we have place at our gatherings?

   Your creativity helps to make it Advent-urous.  Don’t $pend Christmas with the wrong focus; keep Christ as the biggest part of Christmas.

Have a blessed & joy-filled Christmas!

If you’re thankful and you know it, Share your blessings

If you’re thankful

and you know it,

Share your blessings

by Ian Mascarenhas

   This isn’t the “Hokey Pokey.”  It is the season of Thanksgiving, and we Christians/Catholics should practice thanks-living.

   Do you appreciate what you have?  I heard a quote, “Happiness is not having what you want.  Rather it is wanting what you have.”

   Thanks-living is extending “Thanksgiving” into other parts of our lives.  When Jesus talks about “Feed the hungry, quench the thirsty, welcome strangers, etc.,” (in Matt. 25: 31-46) He calls and challenges us to care for others’ needs

   We do this by sharing our time, talents, efforts and resources.  Jesus added “when you do this for the least of my brothers (and sisters) you do it for me.”

   Giving thanks is important; living thankfully is an other-centered mindset (not self-centered).  Just Share it!