Genuine Love - here and now!

Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good. Rom 12: 9

Genuine love is a love that transforms oneself and others. Such an emotion is not motivated by selfish interest. It is motivated by what is best within us towards the best in the other. Genuine love does not have terms and conditions. Anyone who is capable of loving other this way is loving oneself the way God created him or her to be. Therefore such moment of genuine love is also a moment of spiritual enlightenment and transformation.

A person who loves oneself as God created him or her, will soon recognize that sometimes in his or her life there are things he or she does that are  bad, sad, painful and shameful. This is what I call the moment of "Paul-ization" meaning, this is a moment of recognition human sinfullness and divine forgiveness. Instead of falling into depressing guilt they learn quickly that without holding on to what is true and eternal, good and genuine in others, they won't be holding on to God in this world. Life is not any more focused on bad, sad, painful and shameful things and acts, but truth, goodness, beauty that are real here and now.

Fr. Jos

New Virus - Trojan.Peacomm

Dear Reflections Blogger

I usually do not send these kinds of emails. But I thought this will be very
useful since I was informed of this directly by Norton Anti-Virus company.
Here is the latest threat to computers as informed by Norton Anti-Virus
company.
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In order to ensure you are informed of the latest online threats, we wanted
to alert you that Symantec Security Response raised the risk level of
Trojan.Peacomm from a category 2 out of 5, to a
<http://nortonmail.symantec.com/ct/ct.php?t=443178&c=713361894&m=m&type=1&h=
E373ECED4D1F1A1F6268381336EC60D9> category 3 threat, due to the speed and
volume in which it is being aggressively spammed across the Internet. The
Trojan, which was first spotted January 17, 2007 has been raised to a higher
category following a sustained increase in new versions of the attack which
appeared over the weekend as the malware author responded to improvements in
protection made by security companies by adjusting his tactics.

Trojan.Peacomm is one of a number of spamming Trojan horse programs Symantec
has seen lately that appear to originate from Russia and are clearly aimed
at making money for the author by pumping up penny stocks. The victim is
enticed through social engineering techniques to open an attachment, which
typically appears to be a video clip on a recent, newsworthy event.

The trojan horse arrives as an attachment to an email purporting to contain
a video of one of several different recent news stories. The email itself
will have no message body, but will have one of several subject lines such
as "A killer at 11, he's free at 21 and kill again!," "Fidel Castro Dead,"
"Re: Your Text." For a complete list of subject lines, please
<http://nortonmail.symantec.com/ct/ct.php?t=443179&c=713361894&m=m&type=1&h=
E373ECED4D1F1A1F6268381336EC60D9> click here.

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Well. So the simple thing to do. DO NOT OPEN ANY ATTACHMENT REGARDLESS OF
WHO IT COMES FROM unless you really really trust the person who sent that to
you.

Sincerely

Jos Tharakan

TEst

Test

Bright Stars

Do all that has to be done without complaining or arguing and then you will be innocent and genuine, perfect children of God among a deceitful and underhand brood and you will shine in the world like bright stars because you are offering it the word of life. Phil 2:15

People wonder at stars. They look at stars all the time. No one understands the mystery of stars. It is absolutely fascinating to look at stars every night and if we can we might do so during the day. If we look for them we can see them.

Bright stars are always in our midst, here on earth sometimes and not up in the sky. Who are they or what are they? They are those who do what they are supposed to do in life without a whole of noise around them. People who care for others, love others, forgive others, and those who do the small things for the sake of others. Word of Life is simple and incarnate. It is real, here and now through me and you.

Blessing your daughter

God of love and compassion, today I pray for (name of your neighbor). Bless their efforts this day. Let no evil fall on them. Watch over their children. Give them a love for God. Bless them with the best of things in life if that would enable their spiritual well being and redemption. We ask this in the name of Jesus our Lord. Amen.