Author: Jay Ileto

As I manage and create this blog, I’m working on incorporating more personal stories and struggles. This has many purposes but one is to establish a sense of us and not me vs you, or instilling views of superiority. While I am blessed in many ways, I have many crosses,…

These past few weeks I have noticed myself becoming more cynical and angry with work. I wanted to share because I feel many folks out there struggle with cynicism. It’s easy to justify the wrongs, focus on the negative, and be angry. This isn’t the first time I have felt…

Happy Easter to everyone! This week’s post will be short and sweet. I have mentioned before some devotionals that I read and a reoccurring theme throughout them is giving God thanksgiving and praise. This is how we keep our eyes fixed on Him, when the world around us spins with…

With Lent drawing to a close and in my last post surrounding a strong spiritual foundation, I think it’s fitting to talk about God’s love for us. Specifically, the personal and unconditional relationship He desires to have with us. This also ties in nicely with other posts about how our…

This last week has been rough, on a number of different levels. It resulted in me losing my cool late on Friday evening. Luckily, I’m blessed to have a partner that understands and while it wasn’t directed at her, she could see the frustration. Towards the end of the day,…

One of the main objectives I want to accomplish with this website it giving people the tools to improve their lives. Ultimately though, it is up to each person to do this. This begs the question: who wouldn’t want a better life? We all want less stress, more time with…

I’m taking this opportunity to change gears and talk about the basics of human existence that set us up for success. I went to a seminar when I was just out of grad school and this was the focus of the seminar. There were these ideas that were boiled down…

I work in home health and the past few weeks I’ve noticed this unfortunate trend in many of the patients I see. There seems to be an excessive amount of unchanneled and unresolved anger. I have a few theories on this but first, I’d like to explain further. There are…

We have the first week of Lent underway and the difficulties are present but manageable. My wife and I are somewhat working together, both fasting for spiritual health. An old patient of mine had told me he was fasting every other day for 40 days. So we decided to do…

I was at mass the this past week and the gospel was preaching about belief. Jesus was beckoned by a man to help his son, driving out a demon that possessed him. “Jesus asked the boy’s father, ‘How long has he been like this?’ ‘From childhood,’ he answered. ‘It has often thrown…