2013 Mensaje para terminar el año. By Cesar Reyes Torres

2013 está casi desaparecido, y el 2014 está a sólo unas pocas horas de distancia. Toma un segundo para recordar a todos y cada uno de los seres queridos que hemos perdido este año en el 2013, y hay que llevar esperanza de que Dios dejara que ellos continúan su camino, celebrando el 2014 en el cielo. Nuestro camino en la tierra es muy breve, pero cada vida que pasa por aquí por lo corto que sea o por lo largo tiempo que sea, deja un impacto muy fuerte a través de los corazones de muchos, y ese impactó que dejan puede durar por generaciones. Vamos a poner nuestra fe en Dios, que un día con su bendición. Vamos a ver a los que se nos fueron otra vez, vamos a sonreír con ellos de nuevo, los vamos a abrazar de nuevo, vamos a reír de nuevo, y nos uniremos a ellos, en su viaje en una celebración en el cielo que Dios bendice para los fieles a su nombre. Esta noche vamos a elevar una oración al Señor y vamos a decir gracias por un año más de vida ...

2013 End of the year message. By Cesar Reyes Torres

2013 is just about gone, and 2014 is just a few hours away. Take a second to remember everyone and anyone that we’ve lost this year in 2013, and hope that God is letting them continue their journey and celebrating 2014 from up in heaven. Our journey on earth is very brief, but each life that passes through here regardless of how short or how long, leaves a shock wave across the hearts of many that can last through generations. Lets put our faith in God, that one day with his blessing. We will see them again, we will smile with them again, we will hug them again, we will laugh again, and we will join them on their journey in a celebration up in heaven that God provides for the faithful. Tonight let’s raise a prayer to the Lord and let’s just say thank you for one more year of life…

 

Why God put us here. By Cesar Reyes Torres

Life is more than just working, paying bills, and buying stuff with whatever is left. The older you get, you realize this more and more, but the sooner you realize it the better off you'll be.

God put us here to love one another as he loved us. He sent his one and only son to die for our sins. And it is my opinion and belief that maybe God did so as a way of saying to humanity "I will give up my only son, so that you all may have a chance at eternal life here in heaven, but this is your one and only shot to get into heaven, only through my son will you be able to enjoy eternal life". And so his son came, walked amongst men, he taught us the word of his father, which is to love one another, and help one another, and that service to our holy father was the greatest honor that you could ever have, and that in doing so, you would not only be helping yourself but you'd be helping others. That it does not matter the size of your faith, so long as it is true and real.

Out of the Furnace (film critique) By Cesar Reyes Torres

"Out of the furnace" (film) is the kind of film that comes across as all too real to the audience. Imagine putting a lens around a certain period of time of a group of characters who are tied together by family bonds, love, and old debts. The main character Russell Baze (Christian Bale) comes across as a man who is bound by honoring those ties. I enjoyed the film because family bonds, love , and old debts are concepts that I think everybody can appreciate and relate to. The film is very honest in portraying the flaws of its characters, which makes the movie all the more believable and plausible. But I do think that because of how real the film was, it does cone across as gloomy. I reccomend that you go see it once. Probably not worth being given as a gift, or watching again though, unless you feel like getting bummed out. You will enjoy having watched this film because it makes you relate to the characters and it reminds you that their is real people out there that go through real life problems just like you do. Some people say that this movie is some what in the Oscar category, but given the films that are out, and that are coming out this Oscar season. I would have to disagree. It was a good movie...but best picture worthy or best actor worthy...I don't think so.

Quiet and Still with God on my Mind. By Cesar Reyes Torres

Sometimes when it's quiet and I sit and I find my self frustrated with certain challenges that I face I ask God to please let me know he's there...then I am reminded that somewhere in the world there is someone who is praying on his knees with tears in his eyes that he could be where I am now, in a comfortable chair, in a warm room, eating a plate of food with their mother...and it is in this thought process that I immediately turn from being in a state of vulnerability to being in a state of appreciation for all of the blessings God gives me everyday, and I then ask and prey for all those Men, Women and Children who do not have nearly the same, may they find refuge in your arms my lord, and may their suffering end soon. While I know God will never forget about me or any of us, the challenges I face will be overcome as I feel God in my life and for him nothing is impossible.

Dallas Buyers Club (film critique) By Cesar Reyes Torres

This film is a story that is layered in three different dimentions. On one side it's about AIDS in the 1980s and finding a way to help treat those infected with the virus and the discrimination they faced in every  aspect of there lives. The other side of this story is about a healthcare system that is not setup with common sence laws that will allow people to find treatment for themselves when there sick, by any means possible. But who instead must crawl through a maze, and wait to be called on to possibly receive some sort of relief. The last side of this story is my favorite, and that is that this is a story about our humanity's resolve to simply not roll over and accept the circumstances we are facing. The main character in this movie Ron Woodroof ( Matthew McConaughey) comes across as a guy who is so stubborn that he literally smiles back at the grim reaper and says "not yet, so keep walking". Despite whatever opinions or beliefs you may have or where they originate from, Dallas Buyers Club is a movie that is worth seeing if you like great acting and really want to see Matthew McConaughey like you've never seen him before.

All Is Lost (film critique) By. Cesar Reyes Torres

For a movie whose entire spoken script consists of less than a paragraph. This movie is heartbreaking, inspiring , and intense all at the same time. Stories that tell a persons fight for survival are always interesting, but the way this film (All is Lost) captures every last effort that the films only character (Robert Redford) put up was heartbreaking and motivating. Heartbreaking because you see him struggle and fight with every bit of whit and strength that he has and he still comes up short, and motivating because it really makes you reflect on your self and ask your self, "Have I done everything possible to succeed before I call it quits?" This movie is for those who can relate to  the kind of person in a circumstance where all they have is their will to not fail.

Captain Phillips (film critique ) By: Cesar Reyes Torres

Captain Phillips (film) comes off as more of a documentary than a regular action movie based on real events. The Director (Paul Greengrass) chose to shoot the the entire movie using handheld cinematography, with the intention of giving the film a real life live action feel to the movie. But instead it made me dizzy and gave me a headache and gave me temporary motion sickness. After the film was over, many in the audience complained of the same affect because of the film. The camera is constantly shaking ALOT. So viewers beware if you easily get dizzy. Tom Hanks portrays Captain Phillips, but he is the only mainstream actor in the movie. Every other actor in the movie are all low key actors/extras. I didn't really take away anything from the film. It was all based on actual events, and the best acting happens at the end, and you get to see very raw and real emotion out of people. Everything prior to that just feels like a guy who got kidnapped and is reacting to being kidnapped. There is no in depth storyline, there is no character development . Over all it was an ok movie, but I probably wish I would have waited for it on Red Box or Netflix .

Gravity (film critique) By Cesar Reyes Torres

If you think Gravitys just about some Astronaut (Sandra Bullock) floating up in Space, then your thinking exactly what I thought before I saw the movie. And we were both WRONG!! This film was about a lot more. It was about what it means to be human. It was about not giving up when we have every reason to give up. It was about the beauty of this tiny planet we call home. Sandra Bullock did an amazing job, and she made you wanna cheer for her the whole movie. George Clooney was as cool as he always is and played an amazing supporting role in the film. I saw the movie in 3D, and to me it was worth it, but if you see it as a regular movie I still think you will enjoy it. This is probably the best movie out right now. Go see Gravity...

Jazzmize Walsh Investigation. LBPD Crime Stories

This the most jacked up betrayal I have ever heard of... The following is straight from the Long Beach Police Dep. News Feed... On a July 25, 2013 a woman was murdered while going to grab her 3 year old sons diaper bag....

Jazzmize Walsh Investigation

On Thursday, July 25, 2013, at approximately 6:20 a.m., Long Beach Police responded to a shots fired call in the 500 block of Walnut Avenue.  When officers arrived, they discovered Jazzmine, who had sustained multiple gunshot wounds to the upper body, lying in the courtyard of an apartment complex.  Long Beach Fire Department paramedics responded and pronounced her deceased at the scene.

The preliminary investigation indicated that Jazzmine had arrived at the home of relatives to drop off her 3-year-old son.  She had walked back out of the residence and it was during that time that she was shot. 

Through further investigation, detectives learned that Jazzmine had been the victim of a crime in Los Angeles earlier that morning when someone unknown, pulled up to her in a vehicle while she was seated on a bus bench, and pointed a gun at her.  No shots were fired and the suspect fled the location.  The L.A.P.D. concluded their report, and took Jazzmine and her child to a police station where she could safely wait for a ride home. A 16-year-old female friend went to the police station to pick-up Jazzmine and her son.  After arriving in Long Beach about one hour later, Jazzmine was shot and killed in front of her grandparents’ home after she had gone back out to the car the 16-year-old was driving to retrieve her son’s diaper bag.

Long Beach Police homicide detectives learned that 30-year-old Jason Haggerty of Los Angeles, had conspired with the 16-year-old female friend to pick-up Jazzmine and take her to her grandparents’ house, where he was lying in wait to commit the murder. Through the course of their investigation, detectives learned that Haggerty was facing a probation violation that he blamed on Jazzmine, and this was the motive for the murder. It was determined that Haggerty and the female juvenile were friends of Jazzmine.

On Friday, September 6, Jason Haggerty, who was already in-custody on an unrelated matter, was transferred to L.B.P.D. custody and booked.  The 16-year-old was also taken into custody on Friday, September 6, 2013, at her home in Los Angeles. 

On Tuesday, September 10, 2013, the case were presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, who filed the following charges against both Jason Haggerty, and the 16-year-old female who is not being named due to her age:

-       Murder

-       Murder while lying in wait

-       Use of a firearm during murder

In addition, Haggerty is also facing the charge of:

-       Premeditated attempted murder

Haggerty has an extensive criminal history, which includes assaults, property crimes, narcotics violations, and fraud.  The female juvenile’s case, a resident of Los Angeles, was filed directly with the LA County District Attorney’s Office as an adult.

 

Who Am I? By Cesar Reyes Torres

      In life people will judge you, marginalize you, and downright think very little of you sometimes. Many people do this for many different reasons but the most common one is to simply hold some leverage over you and be able to look down on you and downgrade their opinion of you. If you show sentiment people can downgrade you as being weak and downgrade your strengths. Express emotion and people will downgrade you as unstable, or even go as far as to say that you need therapy. Unless you’re able to fuck every girl you see every other week, your manhood comes into question and you’re downgraded as a faggot. If a woman pursues a guy she’s downgraded as desperate.  If you are at peace with the station that you have found in life you can be labeled a coward, for lacking the courage to take on bigger challenges. If you take on bigger challenges people can call you ungrateful of what you have, and dismiss you as a greedy person. I can go on, but the overall point is that people will label and downgrade you. It’s not a matter of you letting them or not letting them, it’s a matter of whether or not you wear the label that they throw in front of you.

      Know who you are in the eyes of God and nobody will EVER EVER be able to downgrade you to anything less than what God created. You are the most beautiful of Gods creations. God provides the Sun and the rest of the stars, the ocean and the rain, the food that we grow and the flowers that bloom, but far more beautiful than any of those creations is the one that you see in the mirror.

      To say that God loves you is commonly heard and said. And although this is true, it is by no means an invitation or motivation to say to yourself or those around you, “Well I don’t give a shit what you think about me, or anybody thinks about me, because God loves me and that’s all that matters.” Yes, God does love you. But love cannot be used as a tool or privilege to marginalize or downgrade anybody’s thoughts. Because then you are doing the very thing that you didn’t want people doing to you.

 

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres “ 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

      It is in the realization that God loves you, and that he has never created anything as beautiful as you, will never duplicate you, will never forget you, will never abandon you, will never love you less, will never sideline you, will never downgrade you, that you will find purpose and perspective in life . And it is in that purpose and perspective that you will find confidence, Joy, and compassion for others. And it is in that confidence, Joy, and compassion that you will find strength. And it is in that strength that any negative labels that others may want to pin on you will not stick to you as far as you are concerned. And while any and all opinions of you can be respected as much as all of God’s creatures should be respected, nobody knows you as clearly and perfectly as God does, he knows your past in detail, as well as your future, he knows your past going back generations as well as your future, through the moments you take your last breath on earth. And it is in knowing this truth that nobody will ever make you feel less than what you know you are. And when you ask yourself that  question, "Who am I?" you will be able to answer your self, who you truly are. God most beautiful creation.

 

 

Blue Jasmine (film critique). By Cesar Reyes Torres

Blue Jasmine is more of a quirky film than a comedy. It portrays the wealthy in this country for what they truely are. When you strip away there mansions, jewelry and all of there toys, what you are left with is sad empty people. Cate Blanchet's character really embodies everything the wealthy and powerful value. Sally Hawkins who plays her sister in the movie portrays a simple woman from the Bay Area with everyday real world problems. But despite not having been exposed to the level of pomp and wealth that her sister (Cate Blanchet) has, she still comes out with with the ability to carry her self with her head held high and with most of her dignity intact. This movie was a fun quirky movie to watch. I would not go as far as to call it a funny comedy, but I would call it a fun movie that was worth money. 

Materialism in life. By Cesar Reyes Torres

              You know its funny the lessons you learn, and how God chooses to teach them to you. How he puts things in your life to not only learn but think about for years, at the end of which it all comes down to one single thing that he wanted you to realise. This business card represents 8 years of my life. For four years I struggled and worked and struggled to be a new accounts representative. I wanted my own desk, and my own space. Then out of nowhere, from one short dark time in life that seemed eternal, God simply gave me everything I asked for and more. I had my own office, a desk and a company blackberry, and these material things represented something for me. It represented success, trust, and stability. And even though I worked for four years to get to where I am at, from one day to another I simply handed all of it back to the people who gave it to me. I’m transferring to a different department in the company that I work for, and I don’t need any of it anymore. Some people can look at me and think that I’m reading too much into it, but I don’t expect many people to understand. The lessons that God teaches are meant for you, not your friends, or family, just you. His way of teaching things will never lead you astray; he may not provide quick answers as quickly as today’s society’s timetable commands all questions to be answered in. But the lessons he teaches you, are everlasting ones that will test not only your patience, resolve and strength, but ultimately your faith, and lessons that you will not be able to unlearn and that will come in handy when evil tries to lead you astray. 

“In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.  These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy,  for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your soul”-1 Peter 1:6-9

         

          To me being able to easily let go of those material things, says that they never really meant much to begin with. They are simply material things that are there, which is not to say that they were not useful. But as useful as a hammer is, it is still only just a hammer that can be destroyed. But your faith can be unbreakable, impenetrable; it can be the light that guides you through the darkest alleys, the fruit from where you eat and feel full and complete, and the only place where you can peacefully rest.

           

          To say that material things don’t mean much is a lesson that some people could easily tell me, “Well I could have told you that…” But why would you, and who really takes the time to teach you life lessons, aside from possibly your parents only when you are young and in need of basic guidance. But what happens when we are grown adults and basic guidance is no longer enough. It is in each of us a responsibility to seek out our holly father, and to learn the lessons of the day. For we are all God’s children and as his children we are all students in a lifelong class, so pay attention because there will be a test at some point in time. It is only through him that our faith will grow, and that our lives will be

enriched in ways that we may or may not see immediately. It is only through his teachings that our faith will be tested and be given the wisdom  to overcome anything. That continues to be my belief and part of the foundation of my faith. 

Top 10 sitcoms of all time .By Cesar Reyes Torres

Top 10 sitcoms of all time 

1.Friends

2.The Office

3.Seinfeld

4.Married with Children 

5.How I met your mother

6.Living Single

7.Martin

8.The Simpsons

9.Home Improvement 

10.Chespirito

Subway: Stories from behind the counter(Part 6)What goes around comesaround. By Cesar Reyes Torres

Repetition and routine can become hopeless after a while . But they do offer a certain safety net for you in regards to what you can expect for the day. At Subway repetition and routine are a constant guarantee. My routine at Subway consisted of opening the store, setting up the food, baking bread, and making sandwiches. But aside from the required tasks, I had developed a new sense of normalcy from the one that I had previously lost. 

I was dating Liz and I honestly thought I was making progress in that department, I was gonna ask her to be my girlfriend. Meanwhile Kay was making some very interesting friends in Long Beach. Kay was hanging around a lot with Moses, a new guy we hired. He was a pothead and had a real bad crystal meth addiction. But he knew how to make sandwiches and he did whatever we told him to do. If we needed someone to clean the toilet, or clean the trash cans, and sweep the sidewalk, we always asked him to do it. He and Kay started hanging out, probably because Moses smoked a lot of weed just like Kay. Kay introduced him to one of the tenants in the building that hooked him up with all of his weed. The guy that Kay knew was some big hippie guy who had been smoking since the 60s and only sold weed to a very specific clientele. And Kay was one of his clients. Moses in return introduced him to all of his friends, who for the most part were a bunch of Mexican gang members from the east side. At the time the gang members in question, who's official gang name I shall refrain from mentioning specifically, we're fighting with the asian gangs and the black gangs. So as long as Moses wasn't bringing any blacks or asians around they were cool with it. Kay now had friends that rolled in deep numbers, had guns and were not afraid to use them, and who respected Kay because they could tell he was street smart, he was down for what ever like they were, and he had some of the best weed they had ever smoke and he could get more of it. A guy like Kay is dangerous on his own, but when you add a group of other guys to him, that have no ambition in life and enjoy destroying everything around them because they live by the mentality, "I don't give a fuck", along with drugs and drug use. You create a very dangerous problem for someone. And unfortunately that someone became me to some extent.

In the fall of 2004, I was dating Liz and I was the assistant manager at Subway, I was dating a cute girl I had my own car, I didn't have to go to school since I dropped out of college and kept all the financial aid money in cash, and I felt like I was a big fish, even if it was in a small pond. But this new feeling of normalcy I had re-established  would not last.

Gossip is always a bad thing, but the most fucked up thing about it is that even if you don't believe what's being said sometimes, that shit lingers like a fucken fly you can't ever get rid of. Me and Kay ran the store on Ocean in downtown Long Beach, and he had his wife working in the Subway store on Broadway in downtown Long Beach. From time to time we would send them some of our staff to help cover their staff shortages. Everybody knew that I was going out with Liz a lot and that I was sweat on her, and that I would give her a lot of slack even when she made mistake after mistake, and showed up late and Kay wanted to fire her about 3 times. One day we sent over a girl by the name of Cecilia to the broadway store, and while she was there she went on a rant, complaining to one of the girls there, telling her that I let Liz do whatever she wanted. What Cecilia apparently didn't know was that she was actually talking to Kay's wife, and that I talked to Kay's wife almost every day whenever I would go to Kay's house to play play station. But that fact that she said that wasn't what bothered me, because it was all basically true. What pissed me off was when she said that she asked Liz if her and me were dating, and that apparently Liz said "Fuck no!!! If wants to take me out then that's fine, it's like whatever but I'm not going out with that ugly ass foo". When Kay's wife told me that. I felt about 2 inches tall. I felt embarrassed , sad, worthless, and at first I was in denial, but Cecilia had no reason to lie, and neither did Kay's wife. So I did what any immature impulsive 19 year old Subway assistant manager would do, I got angry and I got even. 

Liz called me the next day, and I had to be honest with myself and admit that I could no longer look or talk to her the same way I did before. So I put a plan in motion and crossed my fingers that it would work out as I was planning it. While we were talking on the phone she asked me for her new schedule, and I told her she had to come the next day from 4 to close, even though she really had to come in from 11 in the morning to 4. So when 12 o clock came and we had a huge lunch rush and were short 1 person, Kay was pissed off, and luckily for me our general manager Patty showed up. Patty brought over some girl who helped us cover her shift and finish the lunch rush. But there was still the question of what to do with Liz. Patty and Kay called me into the office and went over her four write ups, and Kay asked me, "So what do you want to do about your girl?" So I grabbed a sharpee and I crossed her name off the schedule in front of them, and said "fire her ass". They both looked at me and were kind of surprised that I said it the way I did. But nobody argued my recommendation, Kay didn't want to hire her in the first place, and Patty had heard staff complaints and customer complaints about her, and I was angry and bitter over what she had said about me. When I started these stories I stated that working in fast food is all about who you know, and who you can afford to piss off and who you can't. Unfortunately for her, she pissed off the wrong person. She came in at 4 and Kay fired her. I didn't have the guts to do it myself, so he did me a favor and took care of it. He handed her a check and that was it. To my knowledge she never found out that I was the one behind her getting fired, and whatever I was to her just kind of faded away into nothingness which only confirmed that I didn't really mean shit to her anyway. 

What I didn't see at the time was that my decision to fire Liz had many un intended consequences coming my way. After that day, Kay kind of looked at me differently. I guess he didn't think I could be as cold blooded and fire someone who trusted me so much. And to be honest neither did I. But that was the least of my worries at the time. I was going to be confronted with with one of the toughest...

To be continued      

World War Z (film critique). By Cesar Reyes Torres

I was not sure what to expect from this movie when I went to go see it. The previews looked interesting, but zombie movies aren't really my cup of tea. But then again it's, Brad Pitt. He would never sign up or put his name on anything that wasn't worth his time. With that said, I can say that his movie was totally worth my time and money. The story line was there from beginning to end. The action packed scenes were very well shot. The movie had me tense the hold time, some movies are predictable to a certain extent, but just when you kind of think you know what's going to happen, World War Z completely changes gears on you. At one point I was like, "ok so that's how that happend" and then I was like "oh shit, what the hell". If you've already scene most movies out right now and are looking for something new and interesting, Go see World War Z

A Way Forward. By Cesar Reyes Torres

 -The never ending wealth that comes from 

guns and funeral wakes.

-I can't help but think the world would be a better place 

if it had more hugs and handshakes.

-Treating people with respect in hopes they'll do the same.

-Trying to deal with life's tragedies 

without assigning any blame.

-Our prayers seem at odds with our actions, 

but still we pray for the Lord to understand.

-That the world is unforgiving, it's cold, full of hate, 

but there are those amongst it who do the best they can.

-How much is enough anyway, 

and at what point can a man claim a victory over sin.

-How far in life must we go, 

to be able to have the long-sought 

after piece that flows within?

-Sometimes I cry, even if the tears don't fall

-They keep telling me to pray, 

but I honestly wish Jesus just had a number I could call

-I still keep my faith in silence; 

I don't even bother asking for a sign 

-Because the Lord works in mysterious ways, 

and I know he's aware of the struggles I call mine

This is the End (Film Critique) By Cesar Reyes Torres

Laugh out loud hilarious, probably one of the funniest movies I have seen all year. It's the funniest movie I've seen since The Hangover. It's an the original story for once, and everything is completely unexpected. Seth Rogen did an amazing job, everybody in the theatre was dying of laughter. This will probably be the funniest movies of the summer. Go see "This is the End"

Subway: Stories from behind the counter(Part 5) The friends you don'texpect to make. By Cesar Reyes Torres

The white boys up in Boston are nothing like the white boys down here in Cali. Down here there’s mainly a bunch of fucken surfer dudes/ skaters in board shorts, who drive around in their daddy’s cars. But up there, the white boys are some serious fucken thugs. They don’t fuck around when it comes to their neighbourhood. They think of themselves as neighbourhood guys, and if you don’t belong there you better have a reason for being in their neighborhood. Kay was from Boston Massachusetts. He was a street smart guy who made some serious street moves up there. He wasn’t in the Irish mafia or anything, and they don’t do gangs out there like we do them here.  Over here everything has to have initials, and Colors, and a kick back spot, there has to be a hierarchy on whose running what and who’s in charge. But back east it’s a different story.  Kay had the mentality that this my hood, this is my shit, if you cross me the wrong way, then one way or another you weren’t walking out of there. I had to admit I was impressed with the guy. I had grown up around thugs my whole life, but never a white one. He talked like he was the fucken white scar face, with a Boston accent. He moved around a lot of drugs up there. And I don’t mean fucken little 8 ball ounces of chronic, I’m talking about some serious fucken amounts of merchandise. He was making a shit load of money, but at the same time he was smart, and he knew that shit wasn’t going to last. So when it came time that he felt that it wasn’t going to get any better than he had it, he hid most of the money he had made. I don’t know where he hid it, because Kay never told me, he never trusted me to that extent. Kay had a lengthy criminal record out there in Boston. So one day, he was up in front of the judge, and the judge essentially gave him the ultimatum to leave the state, if not he was going to lock him up for many years. This is exactly the way that Kay told me it happened, and I had no reason to doubt the man.  So Kay took his daughter Stacy, and his wife Lucy and moved out to California. He got a huge discount on his rent for managing the condominium he was living in, and so he was able to make a decent living on his Subway pay check, not to mention that he had his wife working at another Subway, and his mother lived in the same building as he did and she took care of his daughter. 

Me and Kay, got along instantly. We both liked the same Rap music, we both liked the same kind of girls, and since they had transferred me to the morning shift, all we did all day was check out girls, talk with a Tony Montana accent from Scarface, and the go kick it at his house, drinks beers, and play Smackdown vs Raw. I honestly thought of Kay as my best friend. I knew his family, he even trusted me to wait for him at his house one time when no one was there. I learned a lot from him. He taught me how to install a car stereo system, what the different wiring meant on car speakers, he taught me how to install amplifiers and about how subwoofers worked. He was the kind of friend that had your back. I grew up on my own, and all my friends were a bunch of girls growing up. I never really knew what it meant for a friend to have your back to the point where he’s willing to fight for you. I had heard that people had friends that way, but I never had one. 

It was the fall of 2004. I had dropped out of college and I was working two jobs at Subway. One was in the day at the Subway on Atlantic blvd, the second was in the night time and it was in the store on Anaheim and MLK. I was working with this girl and she had a boyfriend who didn’t like me. He was just looking for a reason to fuck me up. He was from some crew out in Whittier, and he was in the store talking shit with two of his friends. I got a call from Kay, and he said”

Kay: Hey you left your memory card in the PS2

Me: Alright ill pick it up laters

Kay: Yooze guys bizzy over there?

Me: It’s alright, I’m just a lil annoyed right now

Kay: whys that?

Me: this fucken girl here, has her bitch ass boyfriend here with his homie 

And there talkin shit

Kay: What ?? What the fuck they say to yooze???

Me: their just talkin shit you know..

Kay: Fuck that, i'm headed down there

Me: Nah its cool don’t trip. Hello , hellooo

FUCK….!!!!

I called him back but he had already left. Luckily for me, the girls boyfriend and his idiot friend ended up leaving shortly after me and Kay hung up. But true to his word Kay came down to the store with one of the guys that worked with us. His name was Moses. They walked in and we shook hands, and he asked. “So whose talkin?” Nobody had ever done anything like that for me. I had to admit I owed the guy for it. 

So with Kay running the show at the store, things developed into something different. And I became a part of something that I looked forward to again. Our morning shift consisted of 6 people. There was Kay, me, Moses, Celina, Hector, and Liz. I had to admit I had a little crush on Liz. She didn’t have any experience, she had dropped out of high school, she failed the 3 out of 3 math problems on the back of the Subway application, but I thought she was cute. So when Kay came to the back, I said

 “ you gotta hire that brod”

Kay: fuck that , your thinkin with your dick Ceeza 

Me: Like you weren’t thinkin with yours when you hired Celina

Kay: Ha ha ha, you got me there

Me: come on dog, 

Kay: fuck it, consider it your Christmas present 

So Kay went and grabbed a W2 form and hired Liz to work in our morning shift and in our Night Shift sometimes. So now I had something to look forward to everyday, and that was to find a way to hopefully ask Liz out. But while I was doing that, Kay was on the verge of….

To be continued…

Just Passing Thru. By Cesar Reyes Torres

Some moments in life, you can repeat over and over again in your mind and just pray that that one moment in time was different.... That if that single moment was different, your life would be better in so many ways. and you can think about it over and over again till the stars fade away, and the night gives way to day..but you must always remember that our time here is temporary, and we are only passing through. Life is but a bus stop and a classroom...God dropped us off as he saw fit, it is up to each of us to learn and make our holy father proud, and one day he will pick us up, and we can rejoice and behappy that hopefully we did right with the time he gave us here, and ask forgiveness for any wrongs that we commited..

Before Midnight (Film Critique) By Cesar Reyes Torres

It was a fitting end to the 18 year old story of Jesse and Celine. It hits you with a serious dose of reality and optimism, which makes the story much more relatable and believable. To truly appreciate this movie I do believe that you would have had to have seen the the two movies the preceded it, in order to appreciate where these two characters came from, where they are in there lives, and the decisions that they have chosen to make, and the path forward for both of them. These movies are not for everyone of course. But if you appreciate the kind of movie that makes you think and look inward while looking outward. I would definitely recommend this film.

God is that feeling inside. By Cesar Reyes Torres

The losses that we all take

We take them with a stride

We all walk with fear sometimes

But that doesn't mean we hide

At one time or another 

we all feel doubt but 

that doesn't mean we find the nearest exit 

and look for a different route

When life gets dark

And even hope starts to dim

It's not a map that will help you

It's a feeling that will come from you within

It's okay to make mistakes

Everyone does

Just as long as you know the difference

Between he or she who doubts, and he or she who loves

Faith. By Cesar Reyes Torres

When it comes to faith, I don't always have answers. In fact a lot of times I don't have them, and I have more questions myself sometimes. But I have faith that God knows what he's doing and why he does things. That just as I have questions, God has answers that come hand in hand with lessons that he wants me to learn. The world as it exists today is very fast paced and people want a 100% clear answer right now immediately or else. But faith in God has never been about quick solutions and easy answers. It has always been about the ability to endure when everyone around you tells you that you are wrong, it's about keeping your faith even when the easiest thing to do at the moment is to lose it. It's about choosing to believe in something that is powerful beyond measure, but also peaceful beyond earthly grasps. A love so overwhelming it towers human comprehension, and a bond so strong that you can almost see it if you gently close your eyes.

Facebook life is Wonderful? By Cesar Reyes Torres

Most of my friends lives look absolutely wonderful on Facebook. So if your scrolling through your newsfeed and it so happens that your having a bad day or bad week, you can get kind of bummed out. But just know that no ones life is perfect and their full story is yet to be told. few people will ever post their tears, or take pictures of their sad faces. Very few people will take pictures of their credit card bills and put them on Instagram. Just because you see a mother with her daughter and they are all smiles on Facebook, it doesn't make her the greatest mother. Just because you see a guy post bible quotes every day it doesn't make him a saint. Just because you see a couple posing together, it doesn't mean that either of them is loyal to each other. All I'm saying is "don't judge" either in a good way or bad way.

Viri (Photo). By Cesar Reyes Torres

A little Shade of Grey (Photo). By Cesar Reyes Torres

Beach Truck (Photo). By Cesar Reyes Torres

War Ships (Photo). By Cesar Reyes Torres

You don't need to have enemies .By Cesar Reyes Torres

I detest the saying “ I can be your best friend or your worst enemy”….Not everyone in the world is meant to be your friend, but that doesn't mean they should be your enemy.Why anybody would be comfortable having an enemy, doesn’t make sense. In life you will have people who you consider friends, and there may come a time when you don’t see eye to eye. If your fortunate enough, you can just get beyond those disagreements, and still be friends. But if not, your always better off just gently and slowly cutting that person out of your life and going your separate ways. And if it was someone who you were never friends with in the first place, your better off not wasting any energy on hating them. Hate can consume your heart, and it is not confined to one section of your life. Hate is a virus, and once you have it, it can and will do as viruses do and spread to other areas of your life. When someone is sick, you can tell, and people even ask them about it. And if hate consumes your heart, people can tell and it shows. As humans, we will get sick from time to time, and feel anger. But like with any disease, hate has a cure. In the matter of the disease called Hate, love is the cure. Its hard to love the people that piss you off. But just remember that you don’t know the details of their life, and you don’t know what kind of things they are going through in their mind, you don’t know their thoughts, and you can’t read their heart. Being able to forgive and letting go of any hate that you feel is a blessing if it comes from the heart. Hate is not a source of strength or a motivating factor to do anything positive in life. But a person whose heart is consumed by love will stand out.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.For we know in partand we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes,what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope & love. But the greatest of these is love.
-1 Corinthians 13:4-13


All I am simply stating is that if you cannot bring yourself to love someone,life is too short to waste your time hating them

Jesús in a Hot Air Ballon. By Cesar Reyes Torres

If you died and descended into heaven in a hot air baloon with 1 million threads of rope attached to it ...and for every sin you committed, God cut one length of rope, would you have enough rope left to float into heaven or would you fall down?

My answer: I don't know to be honest, but it continues to be my belief that if it comes down to the last string ,Jesus will be the one holding the scissors and he won't let me fall

Se habla español(cartoon short). By César Reyes Torres

Moonlight Glow (photo ) by Cesar Reyes Torres

Black and White Sunset (photo) by Cesar Reyes Torres

Ruby Sunset (photo) by Cesar Reyes Torres

Manhattan Beach (photo)by Cesar Reyes Torres

My Journey to God(Part 5 of 5) Walking with The Lord. By Cesar Reyes Torres

I’ve looked at all the other explanations, evaluations, hypothesis, and methods that people have for the universe. I am aware of evolution, cell theory, the big bang theory, galaxies, super nova’s, stars, moons, planets other than this one, fossils, dinosaurs, apes, homo habilis , homo erectus,
Australopithecus , and Neanderthals. I know about geology, erosion, the movement of tectonic plates and transformation of the continents over time. I know about the ice age, the Jurassic age, the Palaeozoic age. I am aware that there are different people all around the world, with different religions. I know that historically, humanity has worshiped a very large array of Gods. I know that Atheist think that people who believe in God are crazy, stupid, weak minded, or all three.

So now that you know what I am aware of I can say the following. I am a proud catholic man, and I walk with the lord. Now if you ask other people what that means, they may tell you a variation of different answers. Some may make sense to you, others may seem irrational, and some things people say about God may just make you wanna stay away from faith all together. For now I can only speak on my relationship with God and how I know he is always there.

I can easily go about telling you that since the day I have let Jesus in my life, that everything has been great and that the dark clouds that surrounded me have dissolved and that I am now surrounded by rainbows and flying doves around me. But that’s not necessarily an accurate interpretation of where my life is. Since the day I decided that I was gonna let God in my life and I was going to walk with lord, I have lost an uncle, which was my mother’s brother, a good friend of mine lost his daughter, and months ago my sister died in a car accident along with her husband who was my brother in law who also lost his life, they left behind two children. I went back to school but ended up flunking a  few classes, and I gave up all together on others, my car continues to have trouble, and there are days when I am just waiting for it to not start all together and that I’ll be left stranded somewhere. My cousin who I love like a brother lost his job. I have a sister who is sick and is battling for her life. I have a injured ankle that hurts, and there are days when I limp to my apartment really tired.

Before I accepted and opened up my heart to God. All of these things would have broken me in half. I would have reacted very stupidly, impulsively, impatiently, and I would have quivered up into a little ball in a corner somewhere. I would have resorted back to dependencies that I had on people, and on things that were not related to God. But my faith kept me strong, my faith let me say farewell to those that have left this world and trust that God is taking care of them now, and someday God willing we will all meet up again in heaven, and I will hug them again, we will laugh together again, we will smile again, and we will be reunited again. But until then I will do as God asks of me here on earth so that I can go to where I know they are now. I know that failure in life will only last as long as you stop trying, that I make mistakes, but I believe in the forgiveness of sins, and I believe God opened up a door for me to make things right in my life, and make amends for all of the things that I’ve done wrong. And just like my school transcript shows the classes that I failed at, and the lessons that I did not learn, but that I retook and passed those classes and learned those lessons.  My spiritual transcript will show my failings in life, the sins that I committed, but also what I did after that and where I took my life from. The material things in life will all be gone some day, and some day everything will become dust again, so those material possessions must never be allowed to be the primary concern in my life, cars do not have a soul, and phones do not have a soul. The woes of those people closest to you, are neither punishment nor judgment on their lives and more than anything are circumstances that befall all of Gods children, and even in the echo of silence when the wind whispers across your neck, God hears all of your prayers, and even when people think God has abandoned them he is always watching very closely and he works in mysterious ways, and you must have faith that he will provide what you need, no more and no less.

That it is always going to be in humanities nature to want to know everything at all times, immediately. But just like the little waves that surround a ship, eventually every little thing that you put between yourself and God can and will eventually become an ocean, until the point where you’re so far away that you feel like your drowning and the only thing you have around you are little waves that cannot save you, but the Lord can walk on water and if you put your trust and faith in him and take the hand that he has offered you, he can save you as long as you know that a walk with the Lord is not for a little while, it is for the rest of your life.

But even after you are saved and you can smile and celebrate your life because you walk with him. You must remember that your faith can and will be tested again and again and again. But during that test you may have a moment of doubt, but staying close to God can and will always renew you:

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort.. –Psalm 23:4

And even though there may be moments of pain when you feel like your life is suffering, you must remember that


In this you rejoice, although now for a little while you may have to suffer through various trials so that the genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable even though tested by fire, may prove to be for praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 1Peter 1:6-7

And that  there is no shortage of people who will want to provoke you,

But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. Matthew 5:39

And when people insult you because of your faith, remember that

Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. Matthew 5:11-12

I have learned that perfection is a thorn that will be a pain at your side if you choose to make it your neighbour

When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.- John 8:7


These are the lessons that I learned. God saw fit when and how I was going to learn these lessons. I have faith that he has more things he wants to teach me and tasks that he wants me to do in his name. I pray that I always walk with him, and that I always remain his humble, and loyal student. I pray that I never lose sight of the path that he laid forward for me, or that I forget the pit from where he pulled me out of. I give him thanks for truly letting me live again. For surrounding me with many of his kind and friendly students, and that even though there may come a time in our paths where God may take all of us in separate ways, our hearts will always stay united in our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ.

Thank you to everyone who took a minute to look at my Journey to God

Subway: Stories from behind the counter(part 2) The End of an Era .By Cesar Reyes Torres

Everything changed when in August of 2003, the owner who had owned the majority of the stores in Downtown Long Beach was forced to sell the stores. Although Subway is owned through a series of franchises, it is still a part of a corporation. As part of that corporation, if they feel that you are not running the stores to the best of their ability, then they can make you sell your stores to different management. The owner at the time was a class act. He was one of the nicest bosses you could ever ask for. He treated us all with respect, and his employees saw him like family. He had employees that had been with him 5 and 15 years. He paid better than most other franchise owners, and he always encouraged us to go to school and do something with our lives. He even gave us gift cards during Christmas, which is something that not a lot of bosses do. But corporations are cold blooded machines and they are not people. The bottom line was money, and how much they can get there hands on. The stores that he owned in Downtown Long Beach failed 3 consecutive Subway inspection reports. They failed the store for things like employees not having their shirt tucked in. Employees not following proper portion amounts on sandwiches, or not practicing the Subway 3 second rule, which says that every customer at all times must be greeted within the first 3 seconds of walking into a store by a Subway employee. When he announced the stores were being sold, many employees cried. Subway was more than a job to us; those stores were like a home away from home for us. We grew up there, our best friends were there, family members all worked there, and we felt safe there. Even when people left, they still came back and were greeted well by all of us.

The owner called a staff meeting of all 3 stores in the Downtown Long Beach area. He announced that we would be transitioning into new ownership. That's when we were first introduced to the new owners, Ritu and Rahul Marwah. A brother and sister that were educated in business, and who were being groomed by there parents to take over their existing 10 Subway franchises that they already currently owned. As part of that process they bought the 3 Downtown Long Beach stores to try to squeeze the most money that they could out of them.

To me the take over by new ownership represented the death of something I use to believe in. Which was the idea that you could run a business, and treat your employees with respect and dignity, and you could still make a profit because your employees would work hard because they appreciated the care that you show them. But the mentality of the new owners was basically the opposite. There mentality was fuck the employees! It's a fucken sandwich, and if you won't be here to make it, I'll find someone else to do it. And they'll do it for a lot less.

They tried to be polite and nice about everything, but from day 1 we knew we were not going to get along. They kept all of the hourly employees at the same pay rate, but the managers all got there pay cut from where they were to what the new owners called the industry standard of 9.00 an hour. All of the managers were making between 11 and 12 dollars an hour which was above the industry standard in 2003. In 2003 gas was still below 2.00 an hour. So making 11 to 12 an hour meant you were not doing badly at all. The thing that affected the regular employees the most was that we were no longer going to be receiving a free foot long sub. We could get a 50 % discount on a 6inch if we chose to eat inside. And on 3 to 6 foot party subs we would get a 10 % discount if we wanted it. Police officers were no longer going to be eating for free either. Upon learning that the stores would be sold, the regional manager immediately resigned. We were introduced to our new regional manager Patty. She was a puppet for the owners parents, and was being lent out to there kids.

The problem with Patty being a regional manager was that Patty didn't know how to manage shit. Her primary job as regional manager was to hire people who could make a sandwich and who would complain the least about the circumstances that they had to work under. But she had a semi friendly face, and the employees kind of liked her to a certain extent. The thing was that she was a snitch and anything you told her eventually got to the owners. She was bought and sold for many years ago. She had been with them for 15 years, and she was someone who they trusted. Never mind that she had crappy English speaking skills, poor people skills, and was a bad judge of character. She was their loyal snitch, and she was now in charge of all three Downtown Long Beach stores.

Four days later every single one of the downtown store managers quit. And two days after that all three stores had new managers already. That just goes to show you the care that they took in there manager search, and the quality of people that they found. The new managers name was Jolene. She had green teeth, and no I'm not trying to insult her or make fun of her teeth. She literally had teeth that were the green and black with yellow and white spots around them. She was a tall, pale, skinny white girl, who probably weighed no more than a 100 pounds. I found out that she was what people called a tweeker. I didn't know what the term meant at the time, but I later found out that it essentially was someone who had a really bad crystal meth addiction, along with others drugs.

It only took a month, but eventually all but three of the employees that worked for the previous owner had left. One of the ones that were left was promoted to manager, the other was just a regular employee, and the third one was me. It's a trip how much life can change in a month and how you adjust to all of it. It went from working with my best friends, to working with....

To be continued

Open up you heart to God. By Cesar Reyes Torres

To love god is to open up your heart to him. How do you open up your heart though? You probably won't be able to You Tube it. But there is a way. Science won't be able to show you how to do it either. In fact, go up to any scientist and ask them how you can open up your heart and see what they tell you....Go up to any follower and believer of Jesus Christ and see what they tell you

Desert Boat (Photo). By Cesar Reyes Torres

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Long Beach Bay (Photo) .By Cesar Reyes Torres

Nikon Coolpix L810 16MP 26X Optical Zoom Black Digital Camera (Google Affiliate Ad)

Subway: Stories from behind the counter.By Cesar Reyes Torres

To start off, there is a politics to working at a fast food chain. There is certain people you can't afford to piss off, and others who will try to use you to get information about others. It's a two faced game people play with each other. Fast food is the bottom of the income barrel in this country, and you do what you have to do to collect the most money on payday. Customers are a big part of business, without them the stores make no money, and the people who you make food for can make things interesting for you depending on how you treat them. At the Subway that I worked at, cops got one free foot long sandwich per day for free. It was the policy of the owner that was supposed to keep bums and low lives out of the store because cops would always be inside eating lunch everyday. It was amazing to see the little things they would tend to look the other way on, just because they new they were eating free. Parking tickets and traffic tickets were no longer a problem for us. If a girl got in a fight with her boyfriend and the police were called and it just so happened that that girl made them lunch that day, and she was going to make him lunch the next day, it kind of made them write the report slightly tilted in that's girls favour. And it also helped out the manager a lot when she's delivering eight balls or entire ounces of chronic marijuana to other subway stores in the area, the cops knew her car, and knew who she was, and saw her with her subway uniform on, and just waived hello when they saw her driving around downtown Long Beach. This really helps out distribution of the drugs that your delivering to the pot heads that work at different stores during a time before the widespread use of the Internet everywhere, that they didn't have a security cameras in the back behind the counter. So you can operate your side business without anyone knowing or suspecting anything.

If anyone ever said anything, it was pretty much your words against there's. nothing would probably become of the problem, and you would essentially be branded as a snitch. Nobody would be able to trust you, nobody would eat with you, you would probably have your request for days off denied, your hours would get cut, people started complaining you didn't work hard enough, and any friend you thought you had, had to essentially choose between loyalties. The question was very simple, Can I afford to piss off the person who is writing my schedule for the week? The answer was, no they couldn't. Eventually anybody who ever thought of opening there mouth about anything the manager was doing wrong just ended up quitting.

These were what I liked to call the Golden years of subway in downtown Long Beach. That sounds weird to say, but at the time my job was pretty good. I worked with good friends every day, I ate for free, we were close to the theatre so we could all go to the movies after wards. I got along with everyone in the store, the stores were making money, everybody who worked there was either related to someone, or was a close friend, the cops were on our side, and to top it all off I thought I was making good money, a whole 7.50 an hour.

The only downside was that a lot of the girls were dating hardcore gang members, who were not good people to say the least. And I base that off of the bruises that some if these girls showed up with on there face and body, the fact that in the coming years many if not all of them got locked up for 30 years to life. But at the time I only looked at the silver lining which was that I didn't have to fear any gang member in my neighbourhood, because their gang member boyfriends never saw me as a threat to them or their girlfriends, and I got the feeling that they trusted me and they generally left me alone in the gang infested neighbourhood that I lived on. I also didn't have to worry too much about the cops that were patrolling either. Not that I had a reason to fear the police, but generally speaking, I knew they would never harass me or ever probably question me on anything. This was the place that I grew up in since I was 14, so it became a second home for me. But that would change when...

To be continued

Palmdale Sunlight (Photo) .By Cesar Reyes Torres

Canon PowerShot SX50 12.1MP 50x Optical Zoom Black Digital Camera (Google Affiliate Ad)

Rocky Water (Photo). By Cesar Reyes Torres

Moonrise Over Long Beach(Photo). By Cesar Reyes Torres

Dodger Spring Training(Photo 2) By. Cesar Reyes Torres

Dodger Spring Training(Photo) By. Cesar Reyes Torres

Religulous Movie (film critique) By. Cesar Reyes Torres

He puts the most extremist religious people on screen , and then surrounds them with stereotypes of seemingly mentally lll Christians. The experts he puts on are rudely and constantly interrupted by him, and if he's not interrupting them he's editing there comments and replacing with movie clips to make them look stupid. He had a scientist there who studied people who speak in tongues and the total amount of there long conversation was edited to no more than 30 seconds at best. Bill Maher is full of him self, and he left out one religion , "Athiesm". They may not consider it a religion, but they do harm people. Maybe not in there eyes, but in the eyes of billions, they do. Atheist like Bill Maher often like saying that just because they are not the majority, that it doesn't mean they are wrong. But it doesn't mean they are right either.  They point to fossils, and hold up the poster of the walking monkeys, but they weren't there, so they don't know for a 100 % certainty. They may be 99.99% sure, but people of faith such as myself, are basing our eternal life on the 0.01% chance that they are wrong. Because that's what hope is based on,  a slim chance that defies what logic will tell you will happen. If you have hope then you have faith, and if you have faith then nothing else matters. 

You say you love me but...By Cesar Reyes Torres

You say you love me but you make excuses for not coming to visit the house thats built in my name

You say you’ve never been able to find me but you’ve never tried looking in the most obvious places

You say you’d do anything for me, but you refuse to simply walk with me

You say you want me to give you patience, but refuse to be patient in its arrival

You say you follow me, but you don’t do any of the work that I lay in front of you

You say you honor me in your own way, and then you wonder why you feel lost

You say you have faith, then why is prayer always the last place you turn to

You say you want me close but you have other things that are closer to you

You say you want me to guide you but the you choose not to follow me

You say you trust me but then you question my intentions for you

Do what God asks of you. By Cesar Reyes Torres

The people who have God in their lives who accomplish things that seem impossible, Accomplish them with such grace and such a smile that it leaves others around them in awe of them and they are among the most cherished by the Lord. But not for the reasons you might think. What is good is not the size of the accomplishment but more so that they did as God asked them to do. Whether it was to help heal the sick, feed the homeless, or build an Ark. People who always do as God asks of them will always be blessed. Do what people ask of you and at best they may remember you for a little while, Do as God asks of you and you will be blessed for it and he will never forget any task that you accomplished in his name.

Trying to make it without God. By Cesar Reyes Torres

Sometimes you come across people who always seem to be struggling and you say to yourself, “How come that person cant ever do simple things, like hold down a job, not do drugs, not hurt or harm others, why why why ?”.Now they may struggle and fight and inch there way into overcoming there obstacles, but imagine how less painful there struggles would have been if they would have put their faith in God as apposed to misleading paths with false broken promises that have always been used to make fortunes for dishonest men.

Your Relationship with God. By Cesar Reyes Torres

Your relationship with God has to come before everything. Its has to be stronger than any building material , stronger than stone and steel, or wind and fire. If you keep a strong relationship with God than everything else will follow, love will surround you. Compassion will penetrate your soul and nothing will be able to keep you down. Your focus in life should not be based on the things that you want to do in life, they should be based on the things that God wants you to do in life.

How to let go. By Cesar Reyes Torres

 You start by realising all of the amazing people you have in your life. How much they care about you, and how much you impact each others lives, and how how much you make each other smile. Then you compare them to the people who would hurt you and keep you down. Those people are not worth holding onto. And even though there may be a part of you that says, if they could only see how happy I am now, they'd feel stupid about the friend they threw away. But those thoughts are only attachments to people who don't matter anymore. And one day as easily as something on your shirt that you can pick up with two fingers, you will be able to pick every memory of those people up and simply tell your self "let go"...and they will be gone from your life. 

Tratare de cambiar. By Cesar Reyes Torres

Tratare de ser mejor amigo
Tratare de ser mejor hermano
Tratare de ser mejor hijo
Y cuando otros necesiten ayuda
tratare de echarles una mano

Tratare de ser mejor mensajero de Dios
Tratare de ser mejor seguidor de Cristo
Tratare de hablar con mas cariño en mi voz
Y cuando mire a almas perdidas les diré
que no hay problema que tengan que Dios no visto

Tratare de ser el primero para perdonar
Tratare de tener mas fe
Tratare mas y mas de no ofender ni pecar
Y cuando mi alma este en necesidad de agua
tratare que Cristo sea la fuente que quite mi sed.

10 Annoying People or Things that should go away

1. Urinal talkers
2. Guys who walk around completely naked in the locker room
3. Anybody who still has spinners on there car
4. Freeloaders
5. People who still think Tupac is alive
6. Door Greeters at retail stores
7. Places that don't take debit cards
8. People who text other people while your talking to them
9. Stop signs on the sides of school buses
10. Places where the parking is almost as much as admission

Faith is like Lifting Weights. By Cesar Reyes Torres

Faith is a lot like lifting weights. In order to lift weights, you must keep working at it, its difficult in the beginning to make it routine; but the more you lift the stronger your muscles will get and you can take on more. Many times in our lives, we will have to lift some very heavy things that seem impossible to move. But faith in God gives you a strength that defies logic; science, or whatever anybody tells you you can't do. Every prayer you make, every church mass you attend, every moment that you choose to focus on God and all things related to him is a way of strengthening your spiritual muscle. God will never give you more than what you can handle. But I do believe that the strength of your faith will determine how you handle the heavy things that land on your chest sometimes. Some people lift them and keep going, others fall and even though they keep going, they often end up going in the wrong direction, which is away from God.

Good Advice. By Cesar Reyes Torres

Good Advice

I think it helps to wake up every day and see life like a journey
Instead of something you gotta get through
To look forward to breathing in that days first breath of fresh air
Instead of worrying so much about the next place you gotta get to

I find it hepful if you smile at least once a day
or if your fortunate enough to have somethin to laugh about
to have people around you to laugh with
or have someone whose smile you can smile without

I find it helpful if in tough times you have a friend
Just a shoulder to lean on, who takes your secrets and hides them
They dont need to be your best friend
As long as there someone you can trust and can confide in

I find it helpful if you do things with pride
and when you look back i think youll be happier with your life
i think youllbe happier with your accomplishments
and there wont be anything you want to hide

Para Los que se nos fueron by Cesar Reyes Torres

Pues ya no estan aquí
Ya se fueron para ya
Aunque los queremos mas cerca
En mejor camino han de andar

Esta vida no es eterna
Ni Cristo sabe cuando todo se valla terminar
Pero el que mantenga su fe en dios
En su reino eterno va poder entrar

Duele mucho la despedida
Y sabe Dios cuando los vuelvamos a ver
Para Cristo cada lagrima es entendida
Pero la reunión con ellos esta en nuestro poder

Hay un camino para llegar a ver aquellos
Que tan grande parte en nuestras vidas tuvieron
Hay que seguir el camino de dios
Para ver a esos seres queridos que se nos fueron