Justin's Blog

  On blogger I have a bunch of draft posts that I have pending or I just forgot about. This was one of them. I have a good relationship with my mom but we never really say things like that. When she messaged me this I screenshot it and saved it. I want to post it now so I could come back and read it every now and again. 

As we approach lent we must think of three things: in Spanish it is oración, limosna y ayuno. In English it’s prayer, almsgiving, and fasting.  We, especially I, will think of these things to have a more joyful Easter. For weeks I have been pondering on what to do for each.  My prayer life could use some work. I have never really formed the habit of daily prayer or praying the Rosary, so I decided for Lent I want to PRAY the Rosary daily .  I was not too sure what almsgiving was so I searched for the definition.             Giving alms is about donating your time, money, services, or resources to others. Even though I strive to live as a volunteer, I feel I struggled the most with thinking of how to do this one. At the time I am writing this I still do not know what to do for this.  I thought fasting was going to be the hard one but through homilies, videos and prayer I came to a pretty quick decision that I shall be FASTING f...

Last year I had set a couple goals, here is the post:  https://verajm.blogspot.com/2023/01/my-100th-post-this-years-goals.html This year I had intended to:  Sleep earlier and wake up earlier.  I didn't  I sleep sometimes at Midnight and wake up around 5 or 6 Lose weight.  I didn't  Find a job.   I did!  Read more about it here:  https://verajm.blogspot.com/2023/05/i-found-job.html Keep studying. I didn't  But I am learning editing, grant writing and videography at my new job. Fly on a plane. I did!  Read more about it here:  https://verajm.blogspot.com/2023/06/i-rode-airplane-fifth-goal-for-year-has.html

Today was day one of my vacation. For the three weeks I want to post something different I did each day. Today I went to Atarah's Birthday party she is four years old!  The food as you can tell from the pic was great!  I did not follow up on posting daily so I did not post this last year but I do want to post this still.

If you are new to this website... Welcome If you frequent here and are feeling like something is different about it, then you are right! Not only did I change the look of this blog,  I also renamed it using the link below: Blog Name Generator   Why?  Because I can.  Also, because I wanted the blog to have a name and not just be mine (J.M.VERA)