Bullseye Reflections

  Faith in Jesus Christ the Core Value of Christian Families Presentation by Sasa (Sara Fontana)  https://www.deepwatersacademy.org/ October 9, 2024 Who created the world?    (God) Who created men?   (God) Who created women? (God) So how many have heard of the story of Adam & Eve? Where can you read about this story? (in the Bible) How many of you have a Bible?   How many of you have been taught to read the Bible?   When we pray we talk to God.   Reading the Bible is like praying because it is listening to God’s Word to us.   So it’s important to take the time to read the Bible. Genesis 2:24 says: That is why man leaves his Father & Mother and is joined with his wife and the two become one flesh.   So God created marriage between man & woman. Genesis tells us that Adam & Eve had several children.   In Genesis 5: 1-5 “When God created man God made them in the likeness of God.   God created them ...

THE REAL PRESENCE welded art sculpture  by  RALPH GUIDROZ Sara Fontana's father What is that? What is that?" The child's voice broke the silence of the congregation that was focused on the Priest who was holding up the Host during the Eucharistic Prayer at Mass. After reverently placing the Host back on the altar and genuflecting, the priest stood up and looked out at the congregation. He said, "I have to stop a minute. I'm sure everyone heard the child just now. What you may not know is that in Hebrew the word MANNA means 'What is this?' That child yelling out just now was prophetic! This is Jesus, our Manna from heaven!" After he said these words to the congregation, the priest attempted to begin reading the Eucharistic Prayer once again. He started with so much emotion and at one point had to stop because he was holding back tears. At that moment, I began to truly hear the power of the words of the Eucharistic Prayer. These words, said...

REFLECTION ON PSALM 23 Born in the valley of the shadow of death Live in the valley of the shadow of death Walk in the valley of the shadow of death Always looming Always present Possibility and fact Consistent shadow I walk in this valley Placed in this valley To learn, to grow, to become To know, to love, to serve The Creator of this valley. The Creator of this valley and All that is beyond this valley  Calls me into relationship My Creator, God of the Universe, Bigger than the valley  Bigger than all the shadows Cares enough to enter into my l ife. Relationship with the Trinity, God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, God the Holy Spirit  Intense light shimmering in the shadows. Even though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for God is with me. Guiding me through the valley Anointing me with oil My cup overflows God dwells within me  as I walk through this valley  Moving towards dwelling within God for eternity.  Poem by Sara Font...

MY RELATIONSHIP WITH MY ADULT CHILDREN... "... in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." (Matthew 28:19) I believe in a loving God. A God who is parent, sibling and friend – Father, Son & Holy Spirit - rolled into one. In an imperfect way my relationship with my own adult children is a metaphor for my relationship with God.  GOD THE PARENT:  In my children’s life experience, I am the one who gave birth to them. When I held each one of them for the first time, I loved them completely. They did nothing to earn that love, my love was freely given to them. Like God, the parent, I rejoiced in their birth. I have been there holding them, caring for them, loving them, disciplining them, guiding them, listening to them, waiting for them to come home, delighting in time spent together. When they were children, my primary role was as mother. There were times when they were angry with me because, out of love, I disciplined them working to instill an interna...

  The funeral ripped my emotional interior apart. I felt shredded into pieces of different color cloth  all representing mixtures of anger, grief, fear of my own death, deep sadness, extreme loss, emptiness  and other unnamed feelings.  I wept and raged at God for taking this friend.    I was observed by others.  Later a young woman asked, "Do you believe you should cry out all your tears and all your grief at one time and get it over with?" I said, "No." You cry uncontrollably in the beginning. Then you cry at anniversaries and birthdays, holidays and special events. Then you cry when you hear a certain song, smell a certain smell, hear a word that reminds you this person you loved can no longer be seen with human eyes. You cry without apologizing.  You cry for what will never be again in this lifetime.  And    In the midst of          All your tears,               You kee...

My husband's and my morning routine includes pouring our preferred morning caffeine and then going to our respective morning spaces.  He brings coffee with him to a lounge chair in our bedroom and I bring tea to a lounge chair in the living room.  After about an hour of separate prayer and morning reading we get together to stretch and do light weight lifting while listening to the scripture reading for the day using Laudate app on our Iphones.   Thursday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time the first reading was from Genesis 2:18-25.  The day before we had heard in Genesis how God formed man out of the clay of the ground.  This day we heard about how God was concerned: "It is not good for the man to be alone.  I will make a suitable partner for him."  So God formed out of the ground various wild animals and various birds of the air and brought them to the man but none proved to be the suitable partner for the man.  So the Lord God cast a deep ...