"Life is not about how hard we get hit, it is about hard we get hit and keep going."

Why does God allow failure, pain, misery, sadness in our goals in life? He makes all these obstacles in our life to help us.Would you just want to be the best of the best without even trying? Without putting in the work to succeed? No, when you put in the work and you try your hardest that is when you feel inexplicable  God wants us to follow our dreams, but our dreams can not be achieved overnight. You have to put in hours and hours and hours to get better at your goal.
"Life is not about how hard we get hit, it is about hard we get hit and keep going." This is my life moto. I was inspired to write this blog post of the inspirational video: "Why do we fall" on you tube. Life is not about who got the most troubles, it is about who had the most troubles and kept going and succeeded. In the video, it talks about how pain is will go away with time if you try your hardest, but if you do not try your hardest the pain will always be with you. The physical pain will go away with time, and if you try your hardest you will succeed the next time, but if you do not. Then the emotional pain will always be there, where you ask yourself if I had just tried harder could I of succeeded? This is why you should never give up, and always try your hardest. God puts these obstacles in your life to help you with your goals and your character. It is during the hard times, that show who we really are inside.
Failure can happen at any time and any place. I have failed myself a lot, and I have come back stronger from every failure. I do not like failure, but failure helps me strive for better. Good examples of people that have never given up and kept trying their hardest are professional athletes in any sport. Many of them have gone through extremely hard times, but have prevailed. They have used those hard times to help them succeed. All of us should do the same in our lives, whether it is to become a professional athlete or a doctor. Do your best always, and never give up. Those difficult times determine who you are, and who you will become.

Autistic Girl Expresses Unimaginable Intelligence

Lots of people will just look at people like Carly, an autistic girl, and judge them. They will give them the term as mentally retarded. Then one day, Carly changed many people's views on autism. One that day, she rushed to the laptop and wrote two words, "Hurt, Help." In those two words, we realize she is smarter than we take her to be. Later on she writes all the time on the computer, and these two sentences took me by surprise, "I am autistic, but that is not who I am. Take time to know me, before you judge me." She is just like us in every way except by the way her brain functions. This is one thing I will take away from this video: Do not judge people even if they seem mentally retarded. I try not to judge people, but at times like when I see a person like Carly I feel bad and place the title on her as Mentally Ill. She might seem like that, but she is just like everyone else. I may have judged her not in a mean way, but no one should be judged. I do feel sorry for her, that she has to deal with this problem in her life but she is proving not only to me and her parents but to everyone in the world that she is a normal kid inside a different body. The catholic church does not want anyone to be judged meanly or wrongly and this video shows how people's interpretations of people might not always be right. So I have one message to Carly and that is: Keep doing what you are doing, and showing people that disabilities do not change who you are.

Ronald Davis

In society today, we constantly tell eachother to follow the golden rule or to think about "WWJD" (What Would Jesus Do), but do we really follow these things? This man above, Ronald Davis, would probably say that many people today do not treat others rightly. Davis is a homeless man who has to constantly beg people for money in order for him to eat and who has to constantly sleep outside in the cold. Davis told cameras how he is treated like scum and trash because he doesnt have a job. After this, Davis said something that made a lot of sense to me: people always tell me to get a job, but how can I get a job when I'm homeless. I can not dressed nicely, I dont have an address for employers to reach me, and I dont have a phone to talk to people. I think society today is cruel and treats humans wrong. "2258: Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves the creative action of God and it remains for ever in a special relationship with the Creator, who is its sole end. God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can under any circumstance claim for himself the right directly to destroy an innocent human being." Here, the catechism tells everyone that all human life is sacred because God created each and everyone of us in HIS image; we must treat eachother with respect because God created us all equal and with equal dignity. We must support our fellow man rather than demean and hurt him; looking at Davis's story, we can see that we must help the homeless. I can understand not giving money because of the fear of drugs or alcohol but maybe we can all give a little food, water, or snacks to the homeless. We must look out for eachother and love eachother like we love God and like we love ourselves.

The Church loves, welcomes, and respects the person but not their actions

The Catholic Church does not hate on people who are gay or go against them as a person, the Church only does not like the act that they do. As the quote says, "Be yourself and the right people will love the real you." Be yourself, the Catholic Church will always love you no matter what you do, they may not like your actions but the Church will always love you. If someone is gay or lesbian, the Church will love them, welcome them, and respect them but they may ask for them to change to the way God wanted but they do not hate you for being that way.
Another example of this is that if you have sex before marriage. The Church will never stop loving, welcoming, and respecting you but they will ask for you to repent and to change your ways. Even if you were Catholic and then changed your religion, the Catholic Church will be sad you left but they will never stop loving, welcoming, and respecting you. When you finally come back to the Catholic Church, they will be overjoyed but they will not think of you any differently than before. Therefore, the Church will always love, welcome, and respect you and they will never stop but they will want you to change your actions.

Homeless Man, Ronald Davis' Emotional Story Called a Bum

Homeless men are more common each and everyday. Most people think that homeless men choose to be homeless on their own, and feel as if they get lots of money for doing nothing. These homeless men are in fact dirty and smelly, and actually are begging to stay alive not to just beg. These men work from sun up to sun down to try and get enough money to get something to sleep and somewhere nice to stay. The common person think that these people are gross and bad for their own lives, and they feel as if they should get jobs. But can they really?

Homeless men are on the streets getting money to stay alive but can they really get another job? In this video, Ronald Davis shows that they can not get another job because of how they look and smell. When they go to apply for a job, they gross the person out and they do not give them the job that they need. These homeless men are stuck on the streets til one person will give them a chance to get their life back, where they can eat and sleep whatever and wherever they want. Homeless men are not their by choice but by force, therefore we should do more to help them in our lives.

Why do we need the sacraments? Didn't Jesus die for us already?

Jesus died on the cross to save mankind, but he also instituted the sacraments to save mankind. Why did he do both?? Well, when Jesus died on the cross he opened to mankind the opportunity to save ourselves. His one death is worth infinitely; this means that every time we sin, Jesus's one death still keeps that door open to redemption whereas whenever Adam and Eve sinned, they were completely shut out until Jesus died for our sins. Now because his death does not completely redeem us, we need the sacraments. The sacraments rebuild our bond with God through the reception of graces: actual and sanctifying grace. Jesus's death allows us to be redeemed while the sacraments actually rebuild our relationship with God.

Basic Church Rules

Many Catholics don not know the basic rules the Church has given them to follow. These are the basic rules that you should follow to be in a state of grace with God, although it is much more beneficial to do way more than these basic expectations. First you must attend Mass every Sunday and holy day of obligation. Secondly, go to confession at least once a year but once a month would be the better thing to do. Receive Holy Communion during Easter but receiving weekly or even daily is more encouraged. Fourth, observe laws on fasting and abstinence: one full meal on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday while not eating meat on Fridays during Lent. Finally, support the Church financially and otherwise every Sunday and holy day of obligation. So give money to your church. These are the basic rules to follow in the church, but being lukewarm gets you nowhere in life. You must be persistent and constantly strive to become closer to God.