Yet another Sunday in Alaska

    Well school time has come around again so days are full of work, soccer practice, homework and still an attempt at a balanced life.  But I was sitting in mass today with my father with the sun on my face and began to think on things that I had heard and other things that I have read. 
    Well the first thought that came to my mind was the point of mass and ultimately the reason for why we are alive.  Please note that I am only 15 years old and this reason is only from what I have learned and gathered in my short time on this earth.  The point is not for our sake but for God's.  Millions of my brothers and sisters in Christ joined together today to celebrate this most amazing thing which we call the Eucharist.  Every week or so I hear how people either go to mass because they feel better about themselves afterwords, or those that don't go to mass because it never seems to pertain to them.  The WHOLE point of this most blessed and life giving sacrament is for God.  He is ultimately the one who is supposed to be getting something out of it not us.  We are there so that He can gain more souls to be eternally happy with Him heaven.  It has been said many times before that our God is a jealous God. (I personally do not agree with this terminology because it is impossible to put human characteristics to God unless we are talking about the person of Christ. Which I am not.)  But He wants us. All of us.
     Secondly, since God wants us and nothing more we should want Him and nothing more.  The search for the faith and truly loving God is what we must do before we can find happiness in anything else.  It's really just that simple.  Love God above all else. Enough said.
    Well like many others, I'm on this journey to find the ways to love God.  I don't have the answers. I don't expect many of you to have answers to how to get there either.  But I did hear one thing that helps in the search.  When starting at square one, don't just simply ask God to show himself to you, ask God for ways that you may find Him. The paths will be wearisome and hard. That just needs to be accepted but hey He's got to have a little fun with us on earth doesn't He? I have seen man as a being capable of such compassion and love for each other now we must find that love in God, with God and we must believe that He loves us dearly each and every single one of us.
                                                                                                                                May God bless us all.
                                                                                                                                      Marisa Ramos

Jesus, I trust in you.