Imperfect And Wonderfully Made

  I hope everyone has a blessed day today on this Resurrection (Easter) Sunday. I woke up early, not as early as some of you who may have attended those Sunrise Services, but early enough to watch the 8:00AM Service offered by Harvest Christian Fellowship. Pastor Greg Laurie, the Senior Pastor of Harvest offered a wonderful message about second chances. God not only gives second chances, I think in my case, He has given me more than two. I thank Him for that!! Every Easter takes me back to my childhood and my own children’s memories of days past. One of my most beautiful Easters happened when I was about 4 years old. I remember all the cousins and I went to a park together to celebrate Easter. I come from a large Hispanic family and Easter was a day when most of us joined to go to Trinity Church in El Monte and have a family park gathering. I remember on this particular Easter, my Mom had bought me a beautiful Easter dress with a bonnet and gloves. I remember feeling pretty that da...

Whenever an opportunity comes for me to share a miracle, I can’t remain silent. The background of my story starts with me volunteering my time to clean up our Community Garden here in Mill Valley yesterday, starting at 7:30AM.  I helped greet all the members of the Community Garden, then I proceeded with weeding, writing our name on our trash cans we utilize in the garden, and then working on our Active Adult garden area, and watering. It was a wonderful event. I’m really enjoying the friendships I am making by being part of this group of gardeners — who by the way are very kind in every way. When I returned home after a frantic morning and made lunch for Tommy and I, I felt something different on my hands and realized that my emerald ring that Tommy had bought for me at the beginning of our relationship was missing. I immediately started looking all around the house — as I had started laundry, opened drawers — I started looking everywhere and praying that I would find my ring — no...

  Sometimes God wakes me up in the morning and a deep thought comes to my mind. Today I thought about my life and how as you are raising your children, you spend every single day with them until they are 18-25 years old, but independence happens, then if distance separates you, you see them 6-12 times a year (this has been my scenario). Some parents who live by their children get more time together. (Count your blessings!) So this was one of my first thoughts this morning. Then I woke up to my devotional with Pastor Greg Laurie this morning and read the following: “A Christian father who was terminally ill called his three sons to his bedside. To his two sons who were believers, he said, “Goodbye, my sons. I will see you in the morning.” Turning to his third son, he simply and sadly said, “Goodbye, my son.” The young man was deeply disturbed. He said, “Father, why is it you said to my brothers, ‘I will see you in the morning,’ and you only said to me, ‘Goodbye, my son’? Why didn’t ...

  Have you ever just been in a situation where you think there is no resolution? Or where you might need some guidance, but you don’t want to talk to anyone else about it, because you really don’t want to “hang out your laundry” for other people to know or see? You might be someone who has gotten yourself into the some financial troubles and often asking for help from someone else or sharing your dilemma might be too uncomfortable for you. Are you struggling with situations that you know you shouldn’t be involved, but you are trying to think of ways to get out of, but you don’t know who to talk to? Are you lonely? Are you just struggling with everyday things? I’ve struggled with many of the things described above. There were times when I got so consumed by my issues that I tried to solve myself. I sometimes felt alone and thought no one would be able to help me sort them out. My pride and my shame got in the way many times. I have shared with you in previous posts that I knew who G...

 So today we are running on one hour less of sleep. For some reason during the night, I kept waking up every hour. I think my subconscious knew that there was going to be a change in the hour and for some reason, my mind was set on seeing the change of time happen. So anyways at 4:10am, I wanted to make sure my clock was in fact in sync with the time change so I wouldn’t miss church. So prior to going to bed I had changed my analog clocks an hour ahead, so I got up to make sure that the 4:10am I was seeing on my phone was in fact the right time, because I didn’t want to miss waking up at 7:30am (iPhone alarm time) to find out I had in fact missed the first service that is live streamed at that time. I’ve always liked first service with Harvest Christian Fellowship, however I do know that if for some reason I don’t make it to the first service they actually offer alternative times as well. I’m glad to say, I woke up 25 minutes prior to my alarm going off and was able to enjoy first ...

Wow, I remember celebrating the beginning of the new year 2026 and already we are in March. How time sure does fly. Happy Sunday to all of you today. As is my practice, today I woke up and turned on my tv to internet to watch Harvest Fellowship Christian church service. I’m so impressed by the organization of this church and how it feeds my soul everyday. I say everyday, because they also offer a platform application that offers daily biblical resources on Discipleship, where you can read and study together with other members of the church who participate in the discussion and activities offered on this site. Well, in the process of listening to the message, of course it provided me more food for thought to write into my blog post today. Today’s message was about the Sower of Seeds found in Luke 8. It brought to my realization how in the four categories to how the seed fell and took root that in my Christian journey, I can say that it described different phases I went through while fin...