Wise advice & simple prayer

You shouldn’t worry about your physical appearance, since you didn’t create or shape it. Your should worry about your behavior and temper, as it is up to each one of us to shape them with the help of the Holy Spirit. You can be spiritually beautiful/handsome because your spirituality is under you care. If you want to have the character and personality of the Lord Jesus Christ, it shall be a glorious triumph when you reach that goal. Give me that glorious triumph, O Papa-God. With ALL my heart I desire it, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

Today is a beautiful day; every day is beautiful. Each day is more beautiful than the day before (when you have Jesus in your heart), until we shall reach the most beautiful day of all: the day we meet Daddy-God, yes, Jesus up-close and personal, and see Him face-to-face, and behold his beauty.

If you do not have Jesus in your heart, pray this prayer with me to receive him,

        Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for me. Thank you for loving me so much as to do that. I accept you into my heart, O Savior. Lord, I’m sick and tired of my sin; I forsake my evil way and I turn towards you, towards the cross. Please forgive me as I forgive those who sin against me. Please cleanse me with your precious blood from all sin. Please change me and make me like you each day more. I love you, Daddy. Amen.

Cordially,

Jose J. Agudelo

April 1, 2006

My 83rd b-day

“Teach us to number our days

 So we may develop a heart of wisdom.”

-Psalm 90:12

Greetings dear family and friends, today I want to, in the joy of my 83^rd b-day, to share a message with y’all about how to treat elderly people.

Did y’all know that it is a privilege, a blessing from God, to be able to reach old age? Both my husband and I have had this great privilege because we love the Lord and follow in His footsteps. Never forget that time, life pass very quickly and that aging is the only way to live a long time. As you age, you stop thinking so much about yourself, and more about others. Many people don’t reach eighty because they waste time trying to hold on to forty. We all want to live a long time, but none of us wants to feel old.

Even if you can’t understand all these things about age and such, don’t fret, but this do: live your life well and with much wisdom. Now I want talk about good, reasonable advice from Ernest Cortazar’s book, How to Love Elderly People:

Let the elderly people speak because there is, in their past, a memory of truth, beauty, and good. Let them win in discussions (even if you’re right), because they need to feel sure of themselves. Let them visit their old friends so that they can relive their experiences together. Let them tell their stories to you over and over because they enjoy it when we listen to them. Let them go on vacation with you because the year after that you will regret not letting them go if they’re gone. Let them age with loving-patience, in the same way you let your children grow up with loving-patience.  Let them die in the loving arms of their family because that’ll help them feel and realize God’s love all the more.

Since old age is the most unexpected thing that happens to humans, remember, dear reader that it is good that you let elderly people keep on learning. Don’t feel useless in your old age because many of us still need of your love, joy, warmth, and smile. Regardless of how old you are, it is important that you learn to love enough and to not live by your past errors; don’t repeat past errors.

Let us now pray so that the Lord Jesus Christ is always number one in our hearts and in our families. Let us now pray so that he fills us with much love toward everyone, elderly people especially. Let Him be the focus of your life so that you won’t fix your eyes on the things of this word, for they quickly fade, but rather on the things of Heaven.

With much love,

Maria Fanny Agudelo

10/20/2016