When things are going badly, as sometimes happens,
When the path appears uphill,
When you resources are weakened and doubts emerge,
When, smiling, you have to choke back the tears,
When worries weigh you down,
Rest, if you need to, but don't give up.
Life is strange with its comings and goings,
Where contradictions are our daily bread.
So if defeat comes knocking on your door
and invites you to be backwardlooking, do not let it in,
Fight it off. Keep looking to the future, don't give in..
Triumph may be just around the corner.
Triumph is defeat in reverse.
It is the silver lining in every cloud
Which never lets you see just how near it is,
Even when you have it a hands grasp away.
That's why you must decide to fight without respite,
Because in truth, when the going gets tough the tough get going.
In the hope that the journey of life and Santiago not be a burden to you, but rather a meeting with Jesus the pilgrim and with Jesus of Nazareth, to see what we can contribute to making this world a better place spiritually and humanly. You have the world in your hands. Your fellow man's happiness depends on you. Take courage! Don't give up...life is for the courageous.
May the peace and love of Jesus be with you!
LOVE JESUS OF NAZARETH. HE LOVES YOU AS YOU ARE
You, young or old, who have an infinite number of things going on in your life, some good, some not so good. I would like you to understand Jesus as He understands you. With your virtues and your meanness, your successes and your mistakes... But do not be alarmed... He came to help the sick... If you feel sick... Discouraged... If you do not understand yourself he understands you! Do not doubt it... He begs you to be yourself... He wants you to feel whole and at peace with yourself. He did not come to complicate anyone's life but rather to spread light and hope. He needs you to work with him. You have to feel happy with yourself and with your neighbors. From a position of maturity based on the ideal of Christian love, you must take steps to identify with his message. You must be a bearer of his message.
Come unto me all of you who are tired... And overburdened...
Adults: never feel useless in your lives as Christians. The young have much to learn from you, just as we can all learn from the young. Hope does not depend on age. Hope is found in the spirit. Being an adult is not a sign of old-age... Some are young in old-age, others are old in their youth... Many adults have hope and many young are disenchanted... You have a great responsibility... Being a witness and bearing witness in this secularized and secularizing world. Nowadays human-Christian values take last place in the scale of values of our society. In this we are all to blame as are those who focus human needs on a depersonalizing and anti-evangelic materiausm.
Young people, Christ needs you to change this society we criticize so much and with which we don't get involved... can't be a continual orgy of thoughtlessness. If not today then tomorrow, but one day we will have to face up to ourselves ...you have values...put them at the disposal of the world around you. Don't waste your time on superfluous things and empty causes.
Life is not for sleeping through ...or sleepwalking. Wake up! The world needs you. If you have something that needs correcting, it.s never too late! Jesus is always waiting for you! He understands you better than you understand yourself. Don't feel marginauzed by use... You can take part... For sure! Get up! Go for it! Revive your hopes! Hit the accelerator of use and let go... Don't walk use a dead person through use.
You have everything you hope from use inside you...don't look for it on the outside ...don't bury yourself in ideology...fight for using and giving-giving ideals.
Take heart I urge you in the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
THERE'S ALWAYS TIME. IT'S NEVER TOO LATE
If one morning you wake up
with no desire for life.
If you cannot find the will
to open a single window.
Do not let your soul dry up.
Recover your former hope.
If on any given evening
you find yourself on the slippery slope.
If, breathing deeply,
you cannot smell that is around you.
Stop a second, heave a sigh.
Your blood will recover its life.
Because there is always time to be born again.
There.s always time to live again
There.s always time to start again
those things you never finished.
If your heart is not filled with joy
the twinkling of the moon,
nor by memories of loves gone by
and better days now past.
Claps your hand to your breast
and let the bad moments wash away.
Because there.s always time.
There is always time to be born again.
There is always time to live again.
There is always time to start again
those things you never finished.