Why are we sick?

Why is there so much sickness in our churches? Why do people who are close to us, like relatives and friends get cancer, leukemia and have heart problems? When we do get sick why do we run to the doctors and start taking medications right away, and many times the medication does not help and we get more sick, more weak, more depressed, and more alone in our struggle. Why?

I was listening to some sermon the other day, where the preacher was saying that most sickness is from a sin in our life. That if our heart and soul is lovely, pure and clean, then we don't get sick. But if we have unforgiving, anger, jealousy, or strive in our heart, we are open to any kind of sickness.

There could be a small truth to it, but I believe that also our health is determined in what we eat. If we eat a lot of junk food, lots of sweets, with corn syrup in it, and our foods are full of chemicals and pesticides, then our health declines. Our immune system fails us, and we get sick.

I guess if you are sick, try to change the way you eat but also check out your soul and heart. Do you have someone who you cant forgive? Don't let them make you sick. Stay healthy -forgive them.

The why, the when, the who...

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Jules Renard


Why is that when I watch the ocean on TV, it doesn't affect me or touch me as it would if I was walking down the sandy beach, with salty spray in my face?

Why is it that that when I drive down a lovely street I don't feel it as if I was walking down it enjoying the wind, the trees, the sunshine?

Why is that when I see someones child, I miss my own? When I work full time it still breaks my heart to see little kids enjoy time with their moms, when I have to work, and not see them until evenings?

Why is that when I hear the Gods book being read in church, it doesn't fill me as much as if I was reading it myself?

Why is that I need the love, the hugs, the kisses from my loved ones, to survive the struggles I am going through?

Why is that a child's little hands can erase the stress from a whole day?

So many why's... to know the truth, I open my eyes and see You.... my answer to all my questions.

Oregon coast.

I like the ocean, there is just something majestic about it, something awesome. It is mesmerizing. I would be happy just to sit and stare at it all day long.







Isnt it just beautiful.... the amazing thing is that the ocean looks diferent in each state...

My trip to Oregon

I am back from my little family vacation. I went to see my sister in Oregon, and then we took a little drive with all my 3 girls down to the ocean, where the kids played in the sand, I took pictures, amazed by the awesome beauty of water, rocks, sand, waves, seagulls, and seashells. The kids played with their beach balls, filled buckets with sand, built slouching sand castles, and run scared from the crushing waves. The drive to Oregon where green forest-filled mountains rise. Where everything is green and wet. Where the sky is always changing with clouds, and sunshine is a rare gift. It was so beautiful. I always knew I loved the mountains, but this trip really installed it in me.

It was nice to see all my relatives and friends. My cousin got married to a beautiful bride. The wedding was lovely, my aunt cried giving her firstborn son away to marriage. Even I got emotional imagining my little girl growing up and being a bride. How scary!

Driving back home to California was exhausting, the kids were tired and cranky. At first California looked yellow and flat compared to Oregon, but then the orchards of olive trees, orange trees, and cherry trees made everything lovely again. We passed through vineyards, through fields of sunflowers, and fields of corn.
I am glad to be home now. To rest and sleep in my own comfy bed. Glad not to be sharring my bedroom with my kids, except the baby who is still a nursing infant. :))