I love Lucy & Marriage

My parents watched the old shows while us kids were growing up like "I Love Lucy" & "The Walton's". Shows that are classics and have great values and good family messages. This is unlike most of the shows that I see on TV today. The shows are now filled with divorce, scandal, & sex. You may be wondering where I am going with all of this. Well, some of you may know that I got married just 1 month and 7 days ago. And to be honest I was expecting a tough transition. Having someone around all the time, sharing a bed, & bathroom! I was expecting the lies the world feeds us to start entering into my marriage. I couldn't have been more wrong. Marriage is awesome, and it is awesome because my wife and I prepared for it, and took the tougher road to get to it. It would have been easy to test it out and live together, it would have been easy to be mediocre in the time leading up before marriage. But easy does not translate to holiness.

I think we can learn a lot from the old time shows. We can see marriages that work and families that stay together because they were centered on love. I know that you may be thinking that I am a fool! Or once I get a few years of marriage under my belt I will be changing my mind......wrong! Yes there will be struggles, yes there will good days and bad days, but the love of Christ is the center of our lives and that will never change. I pray that one day I have a family like the Walton's that is centered on God & family. Actually I pray that we all have that in our lives. And hopefully one day we will have shows worth watching again on television.


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A Mothers Love

I recently had the privilege of speaking for the organization Youth for Christ. They are an international Catholic charismatic organization.  The topic I was given to speak on was Mary the Mother of God and how having a relationship with her can help lead us closer to Christ. I loved giving the talk on Mary and the teens that attended the conference were amazing.

I know that this talk meant so much to me because my own mother means so much to me. She showed me God's love growing up by loving me unconditionally. I know that not everyone had a great mother growing up, and I know that some people do not even know who their mother is, but that is the great thing about Mary the Mother of God she is everyones mom. And she is not going to keep us to herself, she is going to bring us to her Son Jesus. She wants the best for us!

I watched the most recent Harry Potter movie with my wife the other night and one scene that struck me was when they focused on the love of Harry's mom, and that her love is what saved him. I think if we apply this to a Catholic setting the same can be true. She can bring us to the foot of the cross a place that she was at, and she can show us her son. Her love can show his love and his loving act on the cross is what saved us.

Maybe we can all show our moms a little more love this week.Maybe you haven't talked to your mom in a long time. Call her! It is never to late to develop a relationship with your mom. If you don't know your mom, maybe offer up a prayer for someone who has been a motherly figure to you. Mary always leads us to Jesus, we just have to be ok with letting her take us there.

Totus Tuus Maria