For some years, I was fortunate that I was invited to preach in some meetings of the Sunday service Hispanic Crystal Cathedral in Los Angeles. There he met his host, the genial Pastor Juan Carlos Ortiz. Perhaps the best preacher who has given much time in Latin America. His wisdom is intact, the gift of people remains the main adjective. His messages are so profound and devastating as they were in the tumultuous seventies, whose tapes were wanted as gold and copied in bulk rope, despite being proscribed by the traditional church of the time.
But their messages were not able to subjugate, but those who succeed in having intimate talks during my visits to his church, in the late nineties. Many were not, three to be exact. One in his office, another at a dinner at a seafood restaurant and the latest in a roast that the Juan Carlos I prepared for retirement at his home in the mountains of California. Everything an honor.
It would be impossible to transcribe the wisdom that this man comes in conversations that seem to arise as to neglect. But remember the three most valuable and important advice he could give me. In fact, I turned in my code of honor, my standard of integrity.
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Do not try to be as perfect, I relajaría more. It would be foolish for what I have in fact been very few take things seriously. It would be less hygienic.
Run more risks, make more trips, contemplate more sunsets, rising over mountains, rivers Nadari more.
Would go to more places where I have never gone away, eat more ice cream and less beans, would have more real problems and less imaginary.
I was one of those people who lived sensibly and prolifically every minute of his life; clear that I had moments of joy.
But if I could go back would try to have only good times.
In case you do not know, that life is made only of moments, do not miss the now.
I was one of those who never went anywhere without a thermometer, a hot-water bottle, an umbrella and a parachute. If I could go back to live, travel lighter. Read the rest of this entry »
Mike Murdock said that the concept we have about the same time, will determine whether our path through life will be productive. “The biggest difference between the poor and the powerful, the unemployed and employed, the successful and failed, the poor and the rich, is the view they have about the time.” Time is the only natural gift that comes from birth. And about that, I think that most precious gift that worn in small imbecility and what others think of us.
Our passage through the earth is very short and we do not have the chance of a second shot. If you ask the apostle Peter if it would be able to walk on water again, even knowing that it would sink, we would say:
-Yes, just to feel his strong arms again, in the midst of the sea.
In these years, I have debts several times and I have committed so many mistakes. Risked, I lost and I won. I have also spoken of more and less. I’ve had successes and failures. But if it could be twenty again, would do everything exactly the same, without omitting a single detail, just to get back to feeling the providence of God at every turn. Read the rest of this entry »
