Sunday, April 28, 2019

Peace

Yesterday I had a fight with my sister.
We contracted a lawyer to a very simple task: put me in charge of all responsibilities of my mother with Alzheimer, inclusive, financial responsibilities. Unfortunately, she is very irresponsible. I had to generate documents based on the financial information that I provided to the lawyer because she seemed incompetent or lazy to read it. It made furious because I was paying to someone just because, by law, I need to contract a lawyer. After that, she lost a deadline and she was blaming me. It made me more furious. The lawyer was a colleague of my sister in some church; so she was supposed to be a responsible christian. I told the lawyer that she should be responsible in following up a process, taking care of deadlines. I also told her that as we were exchanging emails, everything was registered; so for me, it was very easy to prove that it was her fault. She became very angry and replied that from that moment on, all communication would be in her office, personally.   I replied by email questioning her conduct, as she was paid to a very simple task. Would she accomplish it? She didn' t answer.
Yesterday, my sister was very angry with me  because, in her opinion, I was very rude with the lawyer. She contacted other lawyer that made some suggestions to her what implied in some burden to me; but she wasn' t clear, open to me about what she was doing, she was just demanding more things. As she reaveald what was happening, I became very upset with my sister; so we had a fight. However, I tried to make my sister understand that, despite the arguing, the Lord has been providing everything and the most important thing was to show love to my mother. I think that I failed in my communication because she left the house without any word.
In this week, we, my family, watched some tapes from the beginning of our marriage when our children were babies. I was the one who recorded most ot the films, interacting with our babies.
Even though I was not talking about the Lord, I could see, clearly, that the Lord was with me, even though I had Arminian views at that moment. I am more and more convinced that the Lord has been guiding my life. This knowledge brings me peace; and yesterday, despite all problems with my sister, I am certain that the Lord has been with me, sustaining me.

Sunday, April 7, 2019

Work and Sunday

I am taking Sunday as a sacred day, spared to the Lord.
I would really like to study companies, real estate, trends, etc. i.e, money related things; but Sunday must be a different day.
However, the Bible itself talks a lot about money; so on Sunday, I think it is possible to think about money but asking questions such as:
- Am I being greed, trusting on money as some provider to me?
- The Lord set me free from slavery; am I living as a free man?
- I would like very much to have a company where my children work with me. Is it only a dream? I don't have any idea what to do... but would the Lord help me in such enterprise?

The Lord wants that his children work in order to eat.
The first job assigned to man was gardening.
Gardening is very interesting: it is necessary to choose a proper location to the plant, to fight against fungos, insects, birds; etc. It is necessary to participate in God's creation.
I would like to make a familiar enterprise related to some aspect of creation.
Some ideas:
- have a vineyard in Portugal.
- create lambs in Uruguay.
but these ideas are very distant from what I am used to; so let me think some closer ideas:
- English school - Do I know English to myself? Not the greatest idea...
- security - some company that deals with security; cameras installation, image processing, etc.
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